Comparison

Exdrago Elements vs Balehop Carry

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

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About

Exdrago Elements

Features
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Exdrago Elements is an offline arcade roguelike. Your dragon walks on its own, one tile at a time, down through chambers it has never seen. You choose the turns, and you choose what it grows into. SIX ELEMENTS, ONE RING Ember, Frost, Storm, Stone, Venom, Arcane. Every limb you graft belongs to one of them, and so does every creature waiting in the dark. They answer each other in a circle. Ember melts Frost, Frost grounds Storm, Storm shatters Stone, Stone smothers Venom, Venom corrodes Arcane, Arcane snuffs Ember. Whichever element your coil leans on strikes 3 harder against the one it beats, and takes 1 more from the one that beats it. A mark on each creature shows where you stand, so you can walk around a fight you would lose. GROW THE COIL Reach the gate and it offers three limbs. Rime Talons add 3 strike and frost over on contact. An Ember Sac adds 4 and carries three points of vitality, so it burns out early. Basalt Plating adds 2 guard and nine points of scale. A Far Eye pushes the dark back one more tile. Seven links is the limit. After that, every graft replaces something you chose earlier. SWEEP OR RUN The gate takes you down whether you fight or not. Slip past every creature and you reach the next floor with your scales intact and your pockets empty. Kill the last one in a chamber and the sweep pays a bounty that climbs with depth. THE FORGE Embers outlive the run. Between descents you spend them on a tougher maw, a heavier strike, thicker hide, or a spare maw that relights once when the first one goes out. Rank up a single elemental limb and it arrives stronger the next time the gate offers it. SIGHT Your dragon sees one tile in every direction. The rest of the board is memory. Stack Far Eyes to push that boundary out, or walk into whatever the dark was holding. The exit lights up across the whole chamber once the last creature falls. Go down, and bring something back.

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Balehop Carry

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Run, jump, carry, and decide when to bank the load. Balehop Carry is a portrait runner where a hen races through barnyard courses while every egg collected rides on her back. The more she carries, the lower her jump becomes, changing which obstacles, gaps, beams, and routes are safe to take. Drop eggs into nests along the way, protect the load, and reach the coop with the right balance between risk and reward. Each board has one required objective and two optional challenges, from banking every egg to clearing the course without cracking one. New chapters introduce fresh course rules, including low beams, springboards, weigh gates, nests, gaps, crate stacks, and other obstacles that change how much you want to carry at once. Guided first boards introduce new mechanics directly inside the run. Play through a 42-board campaign, return for a different Daily Board, take on weekly rule-based challenges, or push farther in Long Run. Track your best results, streaks, campaign progress, recent attempts, and chapter completion in Stats. Quests and objectives also unlock cosmetic items and ability refills for your collection. Customize your hen with eggs, nests, coop doors, trails, hats, neckwear, and crates, then bring that loadout into every run. All progress is stored on your iPhone, with no account, ads, purchases, or notifications required.

Screenshots

Exdrago Elements4 screens
Balehop Carry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Exdrago Elements at none against Balehop Carry's shown. Exdrago Elements also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Exdrago Elements ships an update daily, Balehop Carry every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Exdrago Elements versus Balehop Carry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExdrago ElementsBalehop Carry
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily โ€” betterEvery 10 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size41 MB13 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAnastasiia HlyniukSVENA JOZIC

In-app purchases

None

Exdrago Elements

No in-app purchases

None

Balehop Carry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Exdrago Elements free?
Exdrago Elements is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Balehop Carry free?
Balehop Carry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Exdrago Elements or Balehop Carry have ads?
Balehop Carry shows ads; Exdrago Elements does not.
Which is updated more often, Exdrago Elements or Balehop Carry?
Exdrago Elements ships an update daily, and Balehop Carry every 10 days. Most recently, Exdrago Elements was updated on October 4, 2026 and Balehop Carry on October 9, 2026.

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