Comparison

Crouching Dragon vs SoulStack

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

Head to head
About

Crouching Dragon

Features
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An ink-wash campaign through the Three Kingdoms. One deck, one rider, one climb through the warlords' gauntlet. Crouching Dragon is a single-player deckbuilding roguelike. Every run starts from nothing: draft your deck, weigh elites against shops, omens against rest, and fight your way to the summit. No energy timers, no gacha, no ads - pure offline strategy. SEVEN HEROES, SEVEN ARCHETYPES Guan Yu (Strength / Exhaust), Zhou Yu (Fire & Poison), Sima Yi (Stance & Feint), Zhuge Liang (Five-Phase Orbs), Cao Cao (Command & Might), Zhang Jiao (Wardens & Reaping), Sun Shangxiang (Repeating Crossbow). Each gets its own card pool and its own way to break the game. THE THIRTY-SIX STRATAGEMS Feign Injury. Empty Fort. Chain the Ships. Meet a stratagem's conditions mid-combat and it fires once, hard, and turns the fight. It's a whole second axis to build around - and it's unique to this game. BUILT TO BE REPLAYED Ascension-style difficulty tiers unlocked by winning, a Daily Challenge on a shared seed, Endless Ascent, plus a codex and a records wall. One more run, every time. HAND-PAINTED INK ART Hundreds of hand-painted cards and hero portraits, scored with an original soundtrack of war drums and plucked strings written for this game. FULLY OFFLINE Plays with no connection at all. 8 languages including English and Simplified Chinese.An ink-wash campaign through the Three Kingdoms. One deck, one rider, one climb through the warlords' gauntlet. Crouching Dragon is a single-player deckbuilding roguelike. Every run starts from nothing: draft your deck, weigh elites against shops, omens against rest, and fight your way to the summit. No energy timers, no gacha, no ads - pure offline strategy. SEVEN HEROES, SEVEN ARCHETYPES Guan Yu (Strength / Exhaust), Zhou Yu (Fire & Poison), Sima Yi (Stance & Feint), Zhuge Liang (Five-Phase Orbs), Cao Cao (Command & Might), Zhang Jiao (Wardens & Reaping), Sun Shangxiang (Repeating Crossbow). Each gets its own card pool and its own way to break the game. THE THIRTY-SIX STRATAGEMS Feign Injury. Empty Fort. Chain the Ships. Meet a stratagem's conditions mid-combat and it fires once, hard, and turns the fight. It's a whole second axis to build around - and it's unique to this game. BUILT TO BE REPLAYED Ascension-style difficulty tiers unlocked by winning, a Daily Challenge on a shared seed, Endless Ascent, plus a codex and a records wall. One more run, every time. HAND-PAINTED INK ART Hundreds of hand-painted cards and hero portraits, scored with an original soundtrack of war drums and plucked strings written for this game. FULLY OFFLINE Plays with no connection at all. 8 languages including English and Simplified Chinese. Guan Yu's full campaign is free. A single one-time unlock adds the other six heroes, Ascension tiers, the Daily Challenge and Endless Ascent - yours forever, never charged twice. Guan Yu's full campaign is free. A single one-time unlock adds the other six heroes, Ascension tiers, the Daily Challenge and Endless Ascent - yours forever, never charged twice.

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SoulStack

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SOULSTACK โ€” a necromancer auto-battler of stacked souls. You were a master of death, stripped of power and cast into the Pit: an endless tower of the dead. But every foe you slay rises to serve you. Recruit them. Fuse them. Weave a legion that multiplies โ€” and climb. โ—† A LEGION THAT COMPOUNDS Draft undead, beasts, mages, and rogues into your warband. The power isn't flat stats โ€” it's synergy. Line up the right tribes, roles, and Authorities and your army doesn't add up, it MULTIPLIES. Find the engine, break the wall. โ—† CLIMB THE ENDLESS PIT Every run is a fresh draft. Scout the floor ahead, counter it, and climb โ€” the dead grow without limit as you rise. Fall, and you return to Level 1โ€ฆ but the servants you raised carry into the next life. Rise again. โ—† COMPETE WITH FRIENDS โ€” ON YOUR TIME Conquer the Pit and set your army to guard your star. Then raid your friends' stars across a season of standings. It's all ASYNC โ€” no live matches, no waiting, no always-online. Take a turn whenever you like; the war continues without you. โ—† FAIR BY DESIGN Premium โ€” buy once. No ads. No gacha. No pay-to-win: the unlock sells the full climb and the collection, never power. Competition is normalized, so skill wins, not spending. โ—† THEORYCRAFT-DEEP Deterministic combat and simulation-tuned balance reward mastery over luck. Dozens of units, items, and Authorities to combine โ€” the deeper you read the synergies, the higher you climb. Raise the dead. Stack the souls. Climb.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

Crouching Dragon and SoulStack are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Crouching Dragon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SoulStack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Crouching Dragon versus SoulStack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrouching DragonSoulStack
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size146 MB49 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperLingsen MengXdge Technologies LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Crouching Dragon

One-time1
  • Full Unlock$2.99
1 purchases

SoulStack

One-time1
  • Soulstack: Full Game$6.99

Questions

Is Crouching Dragon free?
Crouching Dragon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SoulStack free?
SoulStack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Crouching Dragon or SoulStack have ads?
Neither Crouching Dragon nor SoulStack shows ads.

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