Comparison

Close Encounters RPG vs Rat's Roster

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 for encounters, and engage in strategic combat. Collect gear, learn spells, and develop your adventurer through a rich progression system.

Highlights
  • Location-based exploration
  • Custom character creation
  • Strategic combat encounters
  • Weapon and armor collection
  • Magic and spell learning
  • Dynamic weather and time-of-day
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

Rat's Roster

Easily create and manage your 5e characters for any campaign. Store all details, stats, abilities, and notes in one place. Perfect for players and Game Masters seeking a streamlined character sheet experience.

Highlights
  • Create and store 5e characters
  • Manage combat stats and abilities
  • Track equipment and spells
  • Organize campaign notes
  • Semi-automated calculations
  • Full homebrew compatibility
Features
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Welcome to Rat's Roster! This simple app allows you to create and store all of your characters across all of your 5e campaigns. Whether you're a Player or a Game Master, this app will make character management easier. In this app, you can store your characters' details, combat stats, abilities, skills, equipment, spells, feats, and even campaign notes! I created this app for me and my buddies. After a friend of mine continually forgot to bring his character sheet to our sessions, I decied enough was enough. It was time to build him a permanent character sheet on his phone that he couldn't forget. I've tried a varierty of these TTRPG Companion apps, and they never sat right with me. While this app will autocalculate certain things for you, such as your modifiers for skills and weapons, nothing is tied to your class or race. The end result is a beautiful, semi-automated character sheet in the best way. No gated content. No in-app purchases. Full homebrew compatibility. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have making it. Enjoy!

Screenshots

Close Encounters RPG4 screens
Rat's Roster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rat's Roster at none against Close Encounters RPG's 3. Rat's Roster also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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. Rat's Roster asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rat's Roster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Close Encounters RPG versus Rat's Roster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClose Encounters RPGRat's Roster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size690 MB75 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperEric NeumullerDANE ANTHONY DUSTHIMER

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Close Encounters RPG

One-time3
  • 250 Gold$0.99
  • 600 Gold$1.99
  • 1500 Gold$3.99
None

Rat's Roster

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Close Encounters RPG free?
Close Encounters RPG is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rat's Roster free?
Rat's Roster is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Close Encounters RPG or Rat's Roster?
Rat's Roster is rated higher. Close Encounters RPG averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Rat's Roster averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Close Encounters RPG or Rat's Roster have ads?
Neither Close Encounters RPG nor Rat's Roster shows ads.

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