Spellweaver's Deck vs Anthaul
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spellweaver's Deck
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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?
Anthaul
Build and manage an ant colony deckbuilder. Strategically tap ants into trails to forage for food, clear targets, and upgrade your colony. Unlock new queens, mutations, and face challenging bosses across five unique colonies.
- Ant colony deckbuilding gameplay
- Strategic ant placement and foraging
- Unlock and crown powerful queens
- Mutate ants for unique abilities
- Five distinct colonies with difficulty levels
- Daily runs and endless mode
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Your deck is an ant colony. Tap up to five ants into a trail and send it out to forage. Every ant adds its carry, patterns multiply it with pheromone, and the food pours into the round's target. Clear the target within four trails, spend your pay in the Nest, and keep your colony fed through a season of eight rounds. EVERY ANT IS A CARD Workers carry the most. Scouts add pheromone. Nurses recount the ant tapped just before them. Soldiers keep the Anteater, the Rival Colony and Pesticide at bay. Winged ants are wild. Line them up into Pairs, Squads, Convoys, Columns and three more patterns, then choose: FORAGE with the trail you have, or SWAP ants back for new ones. The COLONY screen shows exactly what's left to draw, so every swap is an informed choice. CROWN QUEENS, BREAK THE MATH The Nest is your shop between rounds. Crown up to four queens from the 21 who turn up on its shelf: some boost a caste, some grow stronger every round, and the good ones feed each other. After round two the Royal Cell opens, offering one of seven red queens at a time, and red queens multiply instead of add, in crown order. Line up the right ones and a single trail can haul ten times the target. That's an OVERHAUL! SHAPE YOUR COLONY Stamp Marks to level up a pattern. Send the Colony Doctor to retire the ants you don't need or clone the ones you do. Tear open an egg sac and pick a hatchling, hire Workers, or mutate a Worker at random: Gold ants bring food every time they haul, Armored ants can't be eaten, Glass ants carry double until they shatter, and Pheromone-soaked ants add pheromone every play. FIVE COLONIES, SIX DIFFICULTIES Garden, Leafcutter, Fire, Army and Honeypot each want a different trail, from Fire's Soldier-heavy ranks to Army's sixty ants. Start with Garden or Fire and open the rest as you clear rounds and win. Win with a colony to open its next difficulty, from Fair Weather to Long Winter, each one adding a new hardship. BOSSES The Anteater eats your highest-carry ant. Rain shrinks your hand. The Rival Colony halves your pheromone. Pesticide grounds your Winged and quiets your Scouts. The Flood raises the final target. A DAILY RUN Every day brings a new daily run: the same colony and the same opening hand for everyone who plays it. Come back tomorrow for another. KEEP HAULING Win the season and play on. Targets climb faster every round, a boss comes every third round, and the first miss ends it. How big can your biggest haul get? FEATURES - A roguelike deckbuilder where your deck is a living colony: 5 castes, 7 patterns, 4 mutations - 28 queens to crown, including 7 red queens that multiply - 5 colonies, each with 6 difficulty levels - 5 season bosses, plus the Mudslide in Keep Hauling - A new daily run every day, the same opening hand for everyone - Endless Keep Hauling after a won season - Cute chibi ants on cel-shaded foil trading cards - Every trail's math on screen, and a log of the run - Sound on every pick, pattern and total, and haptics on iPhone - Normal, Fast or Instant scoring; tap to skip - Saves after every move: quit anytime and continue later - Plays fully offline, in portrait, on iPhone and iPad - No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anthaul at none against Spellweaver's Deck's 10. Anthaul also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Spellweaver's Deck's advantage is chart position (#119 vs unranked) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On ads and device support 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
Spellweaver's Deck costs $1.99 and Anthaul $2.99 up front. Spellweaver's Deck sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Anthaul asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Spellweaver's Deck | Anthaul |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #119 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 598 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | AngrySalami LLC | Anthony Craig |
In-app purchases
Spellweaver's Deck
- 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
Anthaul
No in-app purchases





