Comparison

Relic Trail vs Dicebound Alchemy

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

Head to head
About

Relic Trail

Embark on an offline roguelite survival adventure with quick runs and long-term growth. Dodge enemies, collect experience, and evolve your combat style with powerful skills. Upgrade your camp, forge gear, and unlock heroes between expeditions.

Highlights
  • Offline single-player roguelite survival
  • Auto-targeting projectile combat
  • Multiple heroes with unique stats
  • Permanent account growth upgrades
  • Gear forging and upgrading system
  • Relic collection and archive progression
  • Daily Trial and Endless challenge modes
Features
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Relic Trail is an offline roguelite survival adventure built for quick runs, long-term growth, and steady progression. Enter dangerous expedition routes, dodge enemy waves, collect experience, and choose powerful projectile skills as your build evolves during each run. Every level-up restores your health and gives you a chance to shape your combat style with homing bolts, piercing spears, explosive comets, lunar discs, prism shards, and more. Between expeditions, return to camp to strengthen your account, forge gear, unlock heroes, collect relics, claim achievements, and spend rewards earned through battle. Each route has its own pressure curve, enemy mix, hazards, rewards, and survival target. Features: - Offline single-player roguelite survival gameplay - Auto-targeting projectile combat - Multiple heroes with unique stats and roles - Permanent Growth upgrades - Gear forge with equip, upgrade, and salvage systems - Relic collection and archive progression - Gold Market and resource management - Daily Trial and Endless challenge modes - 3x3 Relic Matrix reward activity - Achievements, bestiary, route archive, and local progression - No account required and no internet required to play Relic Trail is designed for players who enjoy building stronger after every attempt. Survive longer, earn better rewards, return to camp, upgrade your power, and push deeper into the trail.

About

Dicebound Alchemy

Engage in a single-player strategy roguelite where elemental dice rolls dictate your path. Discover powerful formulas by combining dice elements, navigate a shifting tower, and brew various effects to overcome creatures. Unlock new recipes and alchemists as you experiment with imperfect outcomes.

Highlights
  • Elemental dice rolling
  • Recipe discovery and crafting
  • Shifting tower exploration
  • Creature encounters with readable intents
  • Brewing attacks, barriers, and healing
  • Recruiting distinct Alchemists
  • Unlocking recipes and catalysts
Features
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Enter a luminous tower where every roll becomes a new reaction. Dicebound Alchemy is a single-player strategy roguelite about elemental dice, clever recipes, and making the most of imperfect outcomes. Roll five elemental dice, hold the faces that matter, and reroll the rest before your next reaction. Combine Ember, Tide, Gale, Stone, Bloom, and Aether to discover powerful formulas. Special Prism and Echo dice add new layers of planning for experienced alchemists. Every ascent is a new experiment: • Choose your route through a shifting tower • Face creatures with readable intents and changing defenses • Brew attacks, barriers, healing drafts, and status reactions • Recruit distinct Alchemists with different starting strengths • Unlock recipes, catalysts, and collectible dice finishes • Complete Trials to earn Mastery and reveal new milestones • Review your discoveries in the Codex • Track victories, scores, floors, and past ascents • Challenge higher Ascension levels when you are ready Dicebound Alchemy is built around thoughtful decisions, short strategic turns, and long-term discovery. A poor roll is never the end of the experiment; it is simply another ingredient.

Screenshots

Relic Trail4 screens
Dicebound Alchemy4 screens

Verdict

The call

Relic Trail and Dicebound Alchemy are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for Relic Trail against 1.0 for Dicebound Alchemy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Relic Trail versus Dicebound Alchemy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRelic TrailDicebound Alchemy
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)1.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB17 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSICROMAL TECH SRLAll Thrive Collective

In-app purchases

None

Relic Trail

No in-app purchases

None

Dicebound Alchemy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Relic Trail free?
Relic Trail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dicebound Alchemy free?
Dicebound Alchemy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Relic Trail or Dicebound Alchemy?
Relic Trail and Dicebound Alchemy are both rated 1.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Relic Trail or Dicebound Alchemy have ads?
Neither Relic Trail nor Dicebound Alchemy shows ads.

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