Comparison

Everburn vs Quietblade

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

Head to head
About

Everburn

Survive the cold by foraging, hunting, and crafting in this text-based incremental survival game. Each life is short, but every death makes you stronger, allowing you to push deeper into a procedurally generated world. Automate actions and return to a burning fire, even when offline.

Highlights
  • Incremental survival gameplay
  • Text-based world exploration
  • Procedurally generated environments
  • Action automation
  • Offline progression
  • Roguelike progression system
Features
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You wake with no name and no past. Just a dying fire in front of you, and the cold pressing in from every side. Feed it. Forage in the dark, hunt what you can, craft what you need, and hold the cold off for one more night. You won't last long. That's the point. Everburn is a survival incremental about starting over. Every life is short, and every death teaches you something. You come back a little stronger, a little sharper, your fire catching faster than the last time. The wall that killed you becomes the ground you stand on. Death by death, you push deeper into the world. And it's a real world. The whole game is text: words on a screen and a fire that spreads wider the longer you survive. You climb out of the woods into the valley, feel your way through the crystal caves, and reach colder, stranger places the deeper you go. Line up your actions and watch a life run itself. Automate what you've mastered. Close the app and the time is banked, so you always come back with something to spend. And it ends. There is a last chapter, a real one, and then you're done. The first chapters are free. One purchase opens the rest, and it's yours for good. No ads, no subscriptions, ever. How far can one life take you, when you've got as many as it takes?

About

Quietblade

This is a calm, offline-first idle RPG where your character automatically explores and collects resources. Return to manage your character's health, equip new weapons, and make permanent upgrades to progress through challenging areas.

Highlights
  • Automatic offline exploration
  • Resource collection and management
  • Weapon finding and improvement
  • Permanent character training
  • Home-screen widgets
  • Manual boss challenges
Features
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Quietblade is a calm, offline-first idle RPG built for short, satisfying check-ins. Rook keeps exploring while the app is closed. Return to see each encounter, collect gold and weapons, recover at camp, time a ration boost, and choose permanent upgrades. • Automatic offline exploration • Health, rest, potions, and six-hour food boosts • Weapons to find, equip, improve, and salvage • Permanent attack and vitality training • Small and medium home-screen widgets • Optional iCloud save mirror • Dark mode and Liquid Glass design • Area routes and manual boss challenges • No player account • Consent-gated ads with monthly and lifetime ad-free choices Difficulty rises by area. Prepare with equipment, training, food, or rest, then choose when to challenge each boss. Ordinary victories restore a little health, and an ordinary defeat begins recovery automatically. Game works without any payment. Optional supplies, voluntary reward videos, and monthly or lifetime ad-free access support continued development. Advertising is consent-gated and follows iOS tracking choices. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Everburn4 screens
Quietblade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Everburn at none against Quietblade's shown. Everburn also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Quietblade's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 33%). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Everburn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Quietblade sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Everburn against 3.8 for Quietblade. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Everburn has 31 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Everburn's written reviews are positive against 67% of Quietblade's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Everburn ships an update every 11 days, Quietblade every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Everburn versus Quietblade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEverburnQuietblade
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (31 ratings) — better3.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB19 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSaif AlesawyMarios Pentelas

Customer experience

Everburn

All ratings31 ratings
Positive71.0%
Neutral3.2%
Negative25.8%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Quietblade

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Everburn

One-time1
  • Full Game$3.99
5 purchases

Quietblade

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Ad-Free$1.991 Month
One-time4
  • Full Heal$0.99
  • Field Supplies$1.99
  • Lifetime Ad-Free$2.99
Show 1 more
  • Lifetime Ad-Free$8.99

Questions

Is Everburn free?
Everburn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quietblade free?
Quietblade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Everburn or Quietblade?
Everburn is rated higher. Everburn averages 3.9 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Quietblade averages 3.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Everburn or Quietblade have ads?
Quietblade shows ads; Everburn does not.
Which is updated more often, Everburn or Quietblade?
Everburn ships an update every 11 days, and Quietblade every 3 weeks. Most recently, Everburn was updated on October 15, 2026 and Quietblade on October 11, 2026.

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