Arcane Trigger vs Cyphr City
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arcane Trigger
Defend your cottage from shadow creatures pouring from a dimensional rift. Utilize an arcane rifle, craft unique ammunition, and strategically combine buffs to survive increasingly difficult waves and challenging bosses in this roguelike shooter.
- Arcane rifle combat
- Bullet crafting with varied attributes
- Mix and match trajectory buffs
- Roguelike progression
- 7 distinct bosses
- 240 unique bullet types
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After years of diligent work, the young mage finally saved up enough to build a beautiful cottage in the woods—only to find it sits right at the convergence point between the Shadow Plane and the Material Plane. Every time night falls, entropic shadow creatures pour forth from the rift, laying waste to everything nearby. 200 sealing artifacts, 40 events, 15 difficulty tiers, and 7 wildly distinct bosses await you! Take up your arcane rifle! Squeeze the trigger and rain down fury on these ill-mannered pests! Mix and match to craft devastating high-damage trajectories. Some buffs rely on proper positioning, so think carefully before you pull the trigger. Don't forget to forge new bullets! Click the winged hammer in the bottom-left corner to craft new ammunition with varied attributes — choose from 240 unique bullet types! When the smoke clears, the roguelike spirit remains. At the end of each run, select the optimal build buffs based on your current setup.
Cyphr City
A cyberpunk card RPG where poker hands are used for combat on a 5x5 board. Build your reputation, upgrade your gear, and conquer 35 floors of a neon city.
- Poker-based combat on a 5x5 board
- Climb 35 floors across 5 districts
- Unique boss fights with altered rules
- RPG progression with REP, weapons, and Tricks
- Offline play
- Blackjack mini-game for stashes
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The city runs on cards. Time to make your name. Cyphr City is a cyberpunk card RPG where poker is combat and the whole city is up for grabs. Play cards onto a 5×5 board, build poker hands (pairs, straights, flushes, full houses, and the rare royal flush) and turn every hand into damage. Both hands are face-up, so every card is a chess move: read the board, block their line, and drop the 5th card to steal a hand right out from under them. The first 7 floors are free. One purchase opens the whole tower. No ads, no subscriptions, nothing else to buy. You're The Cyphr, a street-level hustler who reads the board like no one else. Climb 35 floors across five districts, from The Block to the corporate tables to the penthouse run by The Architect. Twenty rivals stand between you and the top, and you fight each one exactly once. Beaten is beaten. POKER IS THE COMBAT Not a card game with an RPG skin. The poker is the fight. Sure, the deck runs on luck. But luck deals the cards; skill runs the city. Reading the board, blocking a line, and knowing when to spend a Trick is what sets the players apart from the marks. EVERY BOSS PLAYS BY THEIR OWN RULES Five district bosses, five broken rules. One kills your diagonals. One won't let a hand score twice in a row. One makes your first card touch his. The rule is announced before the fight, never sprung on you, but knowing it and beating it are different games. BUILD YOUR REP Take floors to earn REP and hit harder every level. Spend CRED on weapons, shields, and HP, from a Gold Chain to a Neon Katana. Swap your loadout anywhere on the climb, so what you carry into a fight is always your call. RUN YOUR TRICKS Own all 12 street Tricks and carry three into a fight, or four once you've earned the Vault's fourth slot. Pick Pocket the exact card you want out of their hand, Run It Back for a second turn, drop a Loaded Deck before a boss, or Sweep The Block clean. CRACK THE SAFE Every district hides a stash. Take the CRED and walk, or crack it at the blackjack table: hit, stand, double or nothing. Naturals pay 3:2. The lock still works; your nerve is the question. THE DAILY THREE Once you own the tower and have taken it, the city deals you three fights a day, the same three for every player, one attempt. The rivals, the gear, and the deck come from the date, so your score means the same thing as everyone else's. Bank your HP, build a streak, and share the day with a tap, win or lose. THE CLIMB DOESN'T STOP Battles save themselves. Close the app mid-fight and pick it back up exactly where you stood. Beat the tower and the city opens up: Hustler difficulty, six challenge runs from No Armor to Undefeated, a ledger of your records, and a share card for the climb you just made. TAKE THE CLIMB 35 floors, 20 rivals, 5 neon districts, each rival fought once Whoever completes a line owns it. Position and timing decide fights Five boss fights that rewrite the board's rules Deep progression: REP, 10 weapons, 9 shields, and 12 Tricks Crack a stash at blackjack, double or nothing Safe houses to patch up, shops to gear up, in every district The Daily Three for full-game players: the same three fights for everyone, one attempt a day Six challenge runs and Hustler difficulty once you've taken the tower Share your climb and your daily as a card, straight from the game Fully playable with VoiceOver; built for Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion Plays offline. No ads, no tracking, no subscriptions. Play your hand. Run the city.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cyphr City at 100% against Arcane Trigger's 25%. Cyphr City also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Arcane Trigger's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Cyphr City sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Arcane Trigger asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cyphr City holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cyphr City has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Arcane Trigger's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cyphr City's.
Arcane Trigger ships an update every 2 weeks, Cyphr City every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arcane Trigger | Cyphr City |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 907 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MiniWhale | The Flaggship Group LLC |
Customer experience
Arcane Trigger
Cyphr City
In-app purchases
Arcane Trigger
No in-app purchases
Cyphr City
- Full Game Unlock$4.99
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