Comparison

lootstride vs Grindcrawl

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

Head to head
About

lootstride

Features
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春の嵐が、村を一晩で壊した。 建て直すには木も鉄も要る。けれど買う金はない。 だから、獣の島へ渡る。 ■ 指一本で戦う、45秒の遠征 画面をなぞって狙いを定めるだけ。 仲間が斧を振り、矢を撃ち、盾を構えます。 1回の遠征は45秒。持ち帰った資源で、次の遠征が少し楽になります。 ■ 盾は、向いた方向しか守らない 「おれが守れるのは、お前が向いている方向だけだ。背中までは無理だ」 守る向きを選ぶことは、他を捨てること。 ボスの予告が出たら、そちらへ向き直るか、攻め続けるか。 一瞬の判断が、勝敗を分けます。 ■ 島ごとに、一から組み直す強化ツリー 森の島では斧と実り。鉱山の島では削岩と発破。 島が変われば資源も仲間も変わり、強化の組み方も変わります。 ■ 二つの島、20のステージ、四人の仲間 森の島では、幼馴染のゲンとスイと。 鉱山の島では、坑道を潰した過去を持つロウと、発破師のトキと。 節目ごとに、短い物語があり、あとから読み返せます。

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Grindcrawl

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Your hero fights, levels up, and collects gear on their own. You just check in. Grindcrawl is a retro pixel-art idle hack-and-slash RPG. Dive floor by floor, chase Rare and Epic gear, and reincarnate to go even deeper. HANDS-OFF BATTLES • Your hero fights monsters automatically and earns EXP and gear. No tapping needed. • Your adventure keeps going while the app is closed. Collect your rewards the next time you open it (up to a time limit, which you can extend). • Assign level-up points by hand, or let them be assigned automatically at a ratio you choose. DIVE DEEPER • Defeat five monsters to reach the next floor. Each new floor band brings tougher monsters and stronger gear. • Rare and Epic monsters are tough. With too little Defense, they may get away. • Past floor 300, a second area opens up with new monsters and new gear. GEAR THAT ROLLS ITS OWN STATS • Weapons, armor, and accessories come in three rarities: Normal, Rare, and Epic. • Every drop rolls its own stats, and higher rarities get more bonus slots. • Switch to Auto equip mode, and Rare and Epic gear stronger than what you have is equipped as soon as it drops. Or stay in Manual mode and choose for yourself. • Polish Epic gear with Shards of Brilliance to reroll its slots. Lock the slots you want to keep. • Equip two or more pieces of the same rarity (Rare or Epic) from the same floor band for an all-stat set bonus. COLLECT IT ALL • Defeat the same monster again and again to earn its Monster Medals, from Bronze to Platinum. Medals raise the chance of a gear drop when that monster appears as a Rare or Epic. • Donate gear to the Equipment Museum to fill its displays. Complete a Species Set for a big all-stat bonus. REINCARNATE AND GO FURTHER • The deeper you reach, the more Reincarnation Points you earn. • Spend them on permanent Attack, Defense, and Luck, more inventory slots, and a longer offline reward limit. Your gear, medals, and museum stay with you. MORE • Available in English and Japanese. • Get a notification when your offline rewards reach their limit. A few minutes here and there is all it takes. Check in, see how far your hero got, and close the app.

Screenshots

lootstride3 screens
Grindcrawl4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
lootstride versus Grindcrawl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlootstrideGrindcrawl
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB12 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer7tomatoesArbor Lab. App

In-app purchases

None

lootstride

No in-app purchases

None

Grindcrawl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is lootstride free?
lootstride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grindcrawl free?
Grindcrawl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do lootstride or Grindcrawl have ads?
Both lootstride and Grindcrawl show ads.

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