Comparison

Wickbound vs Spellweaver's Deck

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Spellweaver's Deck

Features
Currently charting
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A dark-fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where the story changes the cards in your hand. Built for one-thumb portrait play on iPhone. Pay once. No ads, no energy, no pay-to-win. The Hush is spreading through Vessany, taking voices, then names, then the people who owned them. You are a Spellweaver. You bind spells, oaths and memories into a grimoire of cards, and you set out from the Loom to learn what the silence wants. Every run is a new weave. Every choice leaves a thread behind. FOUR SPELLWEAVERS, FOUR WAYS TO FIGHT • Ashbinder – stoke Ember and let Burn do the killing. • Warden – raise Barriers, swear Oaths, and make every blow cost them. • Veilsinger – sow Dread, Echo your best spells, Exhaust what you no longer need. • Bonecaller – spend Bone Shards and your own blood, then hex the weakened. Almost 400 cards to collect and play, dozens of relics, dual-path upgrades, and Inscriptions that rewrite every card they touch. Read enemy intents, plan the turn, drag a card onto or tap and select its target. COMPANIONS WHO REMEMBER Recruit allies who bring their own gift cards and a once-per-fight intervention you trigger from the battle screen. Earn their devotion and they fight harder. Lose their trust and they leave, and the card they gave you curdles into a Regret curse in your deck. Every companion has a fate waiting on the ending screen. A WORLD THAT TALKS BACK More than a hundred story events across three acts. Bosses and elites speak when you meet them, when they turn, and when they die. Choices you made in Act I send their invoices in Act III. Multiple endings, and secrets past them. THE LOOM REMEMBERS Fall, and bind one earned card to the Loom for the next Weaver to carry. Spend Threads on new classes, cards, relics and boons. Climb ten levels of Weave Depth. Stack Trials for a higher score multiplier. Watch the tapestry gain a band with every victory, and the sky over the Loom remember how you ended. MORE WAYS TO WEAVE • Daily Weave – one seed for everyone, with rival ghosts showing where they fell. • Weekly Gauntlet – a named modifier stack, three attempts, a recurring leaderboard. • The Tolling – six bells, elite to boss, about twelve minutes. • Loomcast – draft your grimoire before you set out. • Seeded practice – any seed, any unlocked depth. MADE FOR IPHONE, WORKS ON IPAD Portrait, one-thumb, drag-to-target. Haptics, floating numbers, screen shake, and a full score with act, boss, shop and rest themes. Autosave and resume at any moment. Game Center leaderboards and achievements. iCloud backup of your progress. Plays offline. FAIR BY DESIGN Buy it once and the whole game is yours. The optional extras are cosmetic: card backs, card faces, tapestry themes, thread dyes. Nothing you can buy changes a card, a drop rate, or a difficulty. Money never buys balance. The world is falling silent. What will you weave?

Screenshots

Wickbound4 screens
Spellweaver's Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wickbound at Free against Spellweaver's Deck's $1.99. Spellweaver's Deck's advantage is chart position (#119 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support 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

Wickbound is free to download; Spellweaver's Deck costs $1.99 up front. Wickbound sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spellweaver's Deck sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Wickbound versus Spellweaver's Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWickboundSpellweaver's Deck
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank—#119 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB598 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperGreen Delta Technology LLCAngrySalami LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wickbound

One-time1
  • Wickbound — Full Game$4.99
10 purchases

Spellweaver's Deck

One-time10
  • The Card Faces$0.99
  • The Loom Weaves$0.99
  • The Dyer's Sampler$0.99
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  • Weaver Regalia$0.99
  • The Woodcut Folio$0.99
  • The Weaver's Cloths$0.99
  • The Pendant Sets$0.99
  • The Illuminated Folio$0.99
  • The Spoken Codex$0.99
  • Patron of the Loom$4.99

Questions

Is Wickbound free?
Wickbound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spellweaver's Deck free?
Spellweaver's Deck costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Wickbound or Spellweaver's Deck have ads?
Neither Wickbound nor Spellweaver's Deck shows ads.

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