Grim Hand vs Wickbound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grim Hand
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Your weapon is your deck. Carry a sword and your hand fills with sword cards. Switch to a bow and everything you can do changes with it. Grim Hand is a dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder for phones, made by one person over two years. A blacksmith loses his family. What follows is not a triumph — it is four acts of trying to live with it. EVERY CARD IS A DECISION Enemies strike after every single card you play, not once per round. There is no safe turn. Read the board, choose, and live with it. DEATH IS FINAL Every run deals a different deck across a different map. No checkpoints, no continues. You start again, and you start smarter. FOUR ACTS, HAND DRAWN Camps to rest at, a forge to upgrade at, curious events that can save a run or end it, and bosses that will end it more often. A bestiary fills in as you meet what lives down there. SOULS THAT CHANGE THE RUN Earn souls between runs and equip them to reshape the next one. None of them is a flat damage bonus. Each asks you to play differently. NOTHING TO GRIND No packs. No duplicates. No energy timers. No daily login. No loot boxes. No ads. No subscription. A complete single player game that works with no connection at all. TRY IT FIRST The demo is free up to the first mini-boss. One purchase unlocks everything after that — all four acts, every boss and legendary, every soul and forge upgrade. Bought once, yours permanently. If you like turn-based deckbuilders, tactical card games and dungeon crawlers where one misplayed card ends a two-hour run, this was built for you.
Wickbound
A premium roguelike deckbuilder designed for one-handed play and short sessions. Build your deck, outlast the storm, and keep the light burning. Offers a full game unlock with a single purchase and offline play.
- One-handed portrait mode gameplay
- Short 5-10 minute runs
- Kill-safe save system
- 76 cards across three types
- 40 unique relics
- Three acts with 18 enemies
- Daily seeded runs with leaderboards
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You are the last lighthouse keeper on a drowning coast. The storm has teeth, and the light is all that holds it back. Wickbound is a premium roguelike deckbuilder designed for one hand and one sitting. No ads. No subscriptions. No account. One purchase unlocks the full game forever — and it plays in airplane mode. BUILT FOR YOUR THUMB Portrait-only. Every card, every choice, every enemy sits in thumb reach. Runs take 5–10 minutes, and a kill-safe save system means you can force-quit mid-combat and resume exactly where you stood. BURN OR BULWARK • 76 cards across Flares, Wards, and Beacons • The Keeper stacks Kindle and watches enemies burn down • The Salvager (unlock by winning) turns armor into a weapon • 40 relics that bend the rules of every run THREE ACTS OF STORM Fight through the Harbor Storm and the Drowned Reach to face the Mother of Storms. 18 enemies with fully telegraphed intents — every death is your mistake, and every win is your plan working. CLIMB THE LADDER Ascension 1–5 per character. Each win unlocks a crueler storm. THE DAILY WATCH One seeded run per day — identical for every player on Earth. One attempt. Game Center leaderboard. Bragging rights until midnight UTC. Keep the light. Outlast the storm.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Grim Hand at 3 against Wickbound's 1. Grim Hand also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Grim Hand sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wickbound sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Grim Hand | Wickbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 249 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Andrey Rubshtein | Green Delta Technology LLC |
In-app purchases
Grim Hand
- Full Game Unlock$4.99
Wickbound
- Wickbound — Full Game$4.99









