Comparison

Close Encounters RPG vs The Fool's Steps

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Close Encounters RPG

Embark on a fantasy adventure that transforms your real-world surroundings into a game. Create a unique character, explore your local area to find players and creatures, and engage in strategic combat. Collect loot, learn spells, and develop your adventurer over time.

Highlights
  • Location-based exploration
  • Custom character creation
  • Strategic combat encounters
  • Character progression and loot
  • Dynamic weather and time-of-day
  • Fantasy creature battles
Features
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Close Encounters RPG is a location-based fantasy role-playing game that turns the world around you into an adventure. Create a custom character by choosing a kindred and class, assigning attributes, and learning spells. Explore nearby locations, discover players, creatures, and loot, then enter strategic encounters. Equip weapons and armor, collect gold, learn magic, improve your attributes, and develop a unique adventurer over time. Features include: • Location-based exploration and nearby encounters • Multiple character kindreds and classes • Combat against players and fantasy creatures • Weapons, armor, spells, loot, and progression • Dynamic weather and time-of-day atmosphere • Optional consumable gold purchases Location access is used while playing to provide nearby game activity and encounters.

About

The Fool's Steps

Embark on a text-based RPG adventure in a dark fantasy world inspired by tarot. Explore realms, battle enemies, collect loot, and craft equipment. Connect with other players through chat, clans, and parties, or face challenging community events.

Highlights
  • Text-based RPG gameplay
  • Dark fantasy tarot world
  • Explore 10 realms
  • Craft and collect equipment
  • Multiplayer chat and parties
  • Community events
  • Avatar customization
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The Fool's Steps is a text-based online RPG set in a dark fantasy world inspired by tarot. Take a step, discover a story, battle an enemy or find your next piece of equipment. Build your character and share the journey with other players. EXPLORE AND COLLECT Travel through ten realms, read 1,000 journey stories and hunt for rare loot. Gather resources with axes, pickaxes and shovels, craft equipment at the Workbench and combine item stats with set bonuses to shape your build. FIND YOUR PEOPLE Chat with other travelers, join a clan and form parties of up to four players. Trade equipment in player markets, challenge other players in PvP and choose your protection settings with Safe Mode. FACE THE ABYSSAL GATE When this rare community event appears, work together to seal the gate. Most other activities pause during the event. Success brings rewards; failure destroys half of every account's carried gold, including offline accounts. Bank gold and Nova are protected. Full rules are explained in the game. MAKE THE JOURNEY YOURS Customize your avatar, complete quests, fish and visit the Wishing Well. Marry another traveler and care for a shared animated pixel Home Spirit: feed it, wash it, sing to it and play together. Play in 13 languages, including English. An internet connection and an Apple or Google account are required. Optional in-app purchases are available.

Screenshots

Close Encounters RPG4 screens
The Fool's Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Fool's Steps at 5.0 against Close Encounters RPG's 4.7. Close Encounters RPG's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Close Encounters RPG sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and The Fool's Steps sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Fool's Steps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Close Encounters RPG ships an update every 2 days, The Fool's Steps every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Close Encounters RPG versus The Fool's Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClose Encounters RPGThe Fool's Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size690 MB277 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperEric NeumullerYunus Karen ALVER

Customer experience

Close Encounters RPG

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

The Fool's Steps

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Close Encounters RPG

One-time3
  • 250 Gold$0.99
  • 600 Gold$1.99
  • 1500 Gold$3.99
10 purchases

The Fool's Steps

One-time10
  • Coffee$1.49
  • Fool's First Step — 30 Days$6.99
  • 50 Nova — Personal Use$7.49
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  • 50 Nova — Gold Market$7.49
  • 100 Nova — Personal Use$14.49
  • Another one!$14.90
  • 250 Nova — Gold Market$35.00
  • 1000 Nova — Personal Use$129.99
  • 1000 Nova — Gold Market$129.99
  • Coffee Addict$149.00

Questions

Is Close Encounters RPG free?
Close Encounters RPG is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Fool's Steps free?
The Fool's Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Close Encounters RPG or The Fool's Steps?
The Fool's Steps is rated higher. Close Encounters RPG averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while The Fool's Steps averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Close Encounters RPG or The Fool's Steps have ads?
Neither Close Encounters RPG nor The Fool's Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Close Encounters RPG or The Fool's Steps?
Close Encounters RPG ships an update every 2 days, and The Fool's Steps every 3 days. Most recently, Close Encounters RPG was updated on November 5, 2026 and The Fool's Steps on November 6, 2026.

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