Comparison

Cage Path vs Aussie Rules Star

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

Head to head
About

Cage Path

Build and manage an MMA fighter's career from amateur to world champion. Experience tactical fights, contract negotiations, rivalries, and financial management in a dynamic, living fight world. Your career unfolds uniquely with no artificial manipulation.

Highlights
  • Create and customize fighters
  • Tactical, exchange-by-exchange fights
  • Dynamic ranked ladders and champions
  • Contract negotiation with promotions
  • Manage finances and endorsements
  • Build rivalries and gain fame
  • Offline single-player career mode
Features
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Cage Path is a deep MMA career simulator. Create a fighter, grind the amateur circuit, turn pro, and chase a world title in a living fight world that simulates every division, ranking, and champion around you. This isn't a button-masher. It's the CAREER behind the cage — the contracts, the rivalries, the training camps, the money, and the long climb from unknown to legend. BUILD A FIGHTER • Create your fighter's nationality, division, base style, and age — every legend starts 0-0. • Or import a wrestling background and start your MMA story from the mat. FIGHT YOUR WAY • Play fights exchange-by-exchange with a real tactical engine, or quick-sim them. • Pick your gameplan, read your opponent, and finish when you've hurt them — the skill gap is real, and a generational talent is very hard to put away. A LIVING FIGHT WORLD • Every division has a real ranked ladder that moves when fights happen — beat a ranked contender and you climb. • Champions are crowned in real title fights. Belts go vacant and get claimed. Rivals call you out. • The whole roster ages, wins, loses, and retires around you, deterministically — no two careers are the same. THE BUSINESS OF FIGHTING • Negotiate contracts term-by-term with promotions that each have their own personality — strict, greedy, desperate, loyal. • Promoters read your résumé: your proven pay, your drawing power, and how badly they need you at the table. • Land endorsement deals, manage a gym, invest your purse, and build wealth beyond the cage. FAME & RIVALRIES • Grow a real following across in-game social apps — every post grows your actual fanbase. • Trash talk sells fights. Start rivalries, settle scores, and watch the crowd buzz. RETENTION WITHOUT THE DARK PATTERNS • Layered goals at every horizon — this fight, this season, your career, your legacy. • No fake countdown timers. No streak punishment. No paid loot boxes. No manipulation. Just a game worth coming back to. Single-player. Plays fully offline. Your career is saved on your device.

About

Aussie Rules Star

Forge your own path from a promising young athlete to a club legend. Build your player's skills, negotiate contracts, and compete for individual and team honors across multiple seasons. Every career is unique, offering endless replayability as you shape your football legacy.

Highlights
  • Create your own football player
  • Build a career across multiple seasons
  • Develop player rating through performance
  • Negotiate contracts and move clubs
  • Compete for league awards and honours
  • Experience realistic season progression
  • Retire and view achievements in Hall of Fame
Features
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BUILD YOUR AUSSIE RULES CAREER Create your player and experience an entire Aussie rules football career where every season, decision and spin can shape your story. Aussie Rules Star is a career simulation built around progression, unpredictability and creating a different football journey every time you play. Start as a young player trying to establish yourself, develop your abilities across multiple seasons and see just how far your career can go. CREATE YOUR PLAYER Build your footballer with an extensive player creator. Customise your appearance with different faces, hairstyles, facial hair, body options, gear and kits, then choose the type of player you want to become. Choose your position and build a player whose attributes, development and career can evolve over time. PLAY YOUR CAREER Take your player through season after season of professional football. Your performances, form, selection, injuries, development and opportunities can change throughout your career. Strong seasons can propel you towards the top of the competition, while difficult seasons can test your ability to bounce back. No two careers need to follow the same path. SPIN YOUR STORY Interactive wheels help determine key moments throughout your career. Form, performances, development and other career events combine with your player's ability, position and circumstances to create an unpredictable career simulation where both great and difficult moments can happen. Optional rewarded advertisements are available at certain points to provide additional opportunities or spins. DEVELOP YOUR PLAYER Watch your player change throughout their career. Your overall ability and performance can rise or fall as seasons pass, with development influenced by your career, age, performances and player characteristics. Build towards your prime, maintain your place at the top and see how long you can make your career last. CHASE INDIVIDUAL HONOURS Great seasons can put your player in contention for individual recognition. Experience an end-of-season awards presentation and follow the competition's leading players as careers and seasons unfold. Awards and achievements are recorded as part of your career history, giving you more milestones to chase across every playthrough. EXPERIENCE FINALS FOOTBALL Help your club qualify for the finals and attempt to progress through the biggest matches of the season. Your path depends on where your club finishes and what happens throughout the finals series. Reach the biggest stage and try to finish the season as a champion. BECOME A LEADER As your career develops, new responsibilities and opportunities can emerge. Build your reputation, establish yourself within your club and pursue leadership and captaincy opportunities as your career progresses. TRACK YOUR ENTIRE CAREER Follow detailed season and career statistics as your story develops. Track performances, goals, games, achievements, awards and career milestones while comparing your accomplishments with players across the fictional football world. CHASE RECORDS Career, season and match records give you long-term targets beyond simply completing another season. Climb the rankings, challenge record holders and see where your player stands among the competition's best. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CAREERS Create and play careers across separate men's and women's competitions, each with its own generated players, records, rankings and career history. BUILD YOUR LEGACY Eventually every career comes to an end. Look back at the seasons, statistics, achievements and defining moments that created your player's story, then start again and try to build an entirely different career. Will you become a reliable club player, an individual star, a premiership player, a record breaker or something completely different? Aussie Rules Star takes place in a fictional Australian rules football universe and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any professional sporting league or club.

Screenshots

Cage Path4 screens
Aussie Rules Star4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Aussie Rules Star at 5.0 against Cage Path's 4.2. Aussie Rules Star also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Cage Path's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Cage Path sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Aussie Rules Star asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aussie Rules Star holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cage Path has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Cage Path's written reviews are positive against 50% of Aussie Rules Star's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cage Path ships an update every 2 weeks, Aussie Rules Star every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Cage Path versus Aussie Rules Star: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCage PathAussie Rules Star
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB84 MB
Age rating12+9+
Developercraig omozejeJOSHUA R DOW

Customer experience

Cage Path

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Aussie Rules Star

Written reviews12 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral41.7%
Negative8.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cage Path

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$6.99
  • Sandbox Mode$8.99
None

Aussie Rules Star

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cage Path free?
Cage Path is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aussie Rules Star free?
Aussie Rules Star is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cage Path or Aussie Rules Star?
Aussie Rules Star is rated higher. Cage Path averages 4.2 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Aussie Rules Star averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cage Path or Aussie Rules Star have ads?
Both Cage Path and Aussie Rules Star show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cage Path or Aussie Rules Star?
Cage Path ships an update every 2 weeks, and Aussie Rules Star every 6 weeks. Most recently, Cage Path was updated on October 25, 2026 and Aussie Rules Star on October 25, 2026.

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