Adventure Vault vs Journey Forge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adventure Vault
Embark on immersive journeys where your decisions shape the narrative. Explore diverse genres with beautiful illustrations and uncover multiple endings. Track your progress and revisit stories to discover new paths.
- Massive collection of unique interactive stories
- Meaningful choices with multiple endings
- Beautiful hand-painted illustrations
- Hidden paths and collectible discoveries
- Progress tracking for choices and completion
- Regularly released new story packs
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Every choice writes your story. Every mystery changes your journey. Adventure Vault is a modern take on the classic interactive adventure books you grew up loving, reimagined with beautiful illustrations, meaningful choices, and unforgettable mysteries. Become an explorer, detective, scientist, inventor, archaeologist, or adventurer as you uncover forgotten civilizations, haunted lighthouses, hidden kingdoms, distant colonies, mysterious signals from deep space, and long-lost secrets waiting to be discovered. No two adventures are exactly alike. Every decision changes your path. Every clue matters. Every ending is earned. FEATURES • A massive collection of 73 unique interactive stories • Immersive interactive stories with meaningful choices • Beautiful illustrations throughout every adventure • Multiple endings to discover in every story • Hidden paths, secret clues, and collectible discoveries • Track your choices, endings, and completion progress • Return anytime to explore new paths and alternate outcomes • Family-friendly mysteries focused on exploration and discovery • New Story Packs released regularly STORY COLLECTIONS Explore a growing library of adventures across multiple genres: Adventure Cozy Crime Fantasy Worlds Haunted Mystery Science Fiction Steampunk Every Story Pack is a complete adventure with unique characters, stunning artwork, and numerous branching paths leading to different endings. Whether you're uncovering the truth behind an abandoned lighthouse, searching for a forgotten jungle temple, decoding an ancient signal from the stars, exploring mysterious castles, or solving crimes alongside your faithful Papillon companion Patches, every story invites you to think, explore, and choose your own path. Adventure Vault is designed for readers who love mysteries, exploration, and immersive storytelling, without relying on graphic violence or horror. The greatest adventures aren't about defeating enemies. They're about discovering the truth. Where will your next choice lead?
Journey Forge
Embark on real-time missions across diverse sci-fi and historical settings. Build a hero, bond with a companion, collect artifacts, and conquer leaderboards in this adventure game.
- Hero and companion building
- Real-time missions
- Diverse sci-fi and historical settings
- Artifact collection
- Leaderboard competition
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Build a hero, bond a companion, and embark on real-time missions across sci-fi frontiers, wild west trails, pirate seas, sunken shipwrecks, gold-rush tundra, and neon-soaked cyberpunk streets. Collect rare artifacts. Conquer leaderboards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Journey Forge at none against Adventure Vault's 10. Journey Forge also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Adventure Vault's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Adventure Vault sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Journey Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Journey Forge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Adventure Vault has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Adventure Vault | Journey Forge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 191 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gary Cox | Ovilius Studios |
Customer experience
Adventure Vault
Journey Forge
In-app purchases
Adventure Vault
- The Culvert Visitor$0.99
- The Sunken Treasure$0.99
- The Death Hike$0.99
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- The Vanishing Witness$0.99
- The Last Deposit$0.99
- The Wandering City$0.99
- The Empty Neighborhood$0.99
- The Forgotten One$0.99
- The Other Side of Mile Marker 47$0.99
- Unlimited Library$19.99
Journey Forge
No in-app purchases
Questions
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