Comparison

Ashen Road vs INKROLL

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

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About

Ashen Road

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They came at dusk, when the moon hung low and red. By dawn the caravan was ash, and Tarn's kin were gone east along the Ashen Road. Ashen Road is a side-scrolling sword fight across a dying bronze-age frontier. Follow the captives one link of the chain at a time: through raider camps and ruined watchtowers, a drowned river town, a salt market where people are weighed like grain, burning grassland, a forest of bone and a mountain pass, to the oldest ruin under the moon, and home again. BUILT FOR ONE THUMB AND A GLANCE You move and choose the target; Tarn swings the sword. Drag anywhere to move, tap an enemy to go after it, flick to dodge, and hold still to wind up a spinning heavy strike. Nothing to memorise, and every fight rewards reading the enemy rather than tapping faster. A STORY TOLD BETWEEN BLOWS An old storyteller's voice narrates as you go, in short lines that never stop the fight. Nine chapters, each with its own place, its own enemies and its own task: light the signal fires, break the slave cages, topple the pyres. - 9 hand-painted chapters - Fully voiced narration with subtitles - Original score - Progress saved at checkpoints; replay any chapter you have reached No account. No ads. No in-app purchases. No network: the game works entirely offline and nothing you do leaves the phone.

About

INKROLL

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Unroll the scroll. Walk the ink. Swipe up to step through a hand-painted Korean ink scroll while a flood of ink creeps down from above. Swipe too fast and you trip. Too slow and the ink swallows you. Find the rhythm. HOW TO PLAY • Swipe up to walk, swipe down to step back • Push too hard and you stumble, so keep an eye on the speed gauge • Graze hazards for "Close!" combos and big points • Grab coins to unlock new walkers and paper FOUR SEASONS The season changes every 500 ft, and so do the hazards: • Spring: seal stamps, brush strokes and ink snakes • Summer: ink rain and puddles • Autumn: gusts that shove you along • Winter: ice that will not let you stop FOUR FOLKLORE BOSSES Every 1,000 ft a legend blocks the road, each with its own rule: • Tiger, straight out of Korean magpie-and-tiger paintings: it is right behind you. Keep walking. • Totem (jangseung), the village guardian: freeze when it turns to look. Red light, green light! • Nine-Tail Fox (gumiho): back off when the foxfire flies • Imugi, the serpent that never became a dragon: slip through the gaps in its coils Every lap, they get meaner. DAILY SCROLL • The same map for every player in the world • One ranked attempt per day, unlimited practice after that • Earn coins for every daily ranked run, plus a bonus for a 7-day streak • A new scroll unrolls every day at 00:00 UTC LEADERBOARDS • Game Center all-time, weekly and daily boards • Sign-in is optional. Every mode is playable without it MAKE IT YOURS • 5 walkers: Wanderer, Scholar, Reaper, Haechi and Dokkaebi • 4 papers: Ink Wash, Blue & White, Folk Art and Gold Leaf SOUND An adaptive gugak chiptune built from janggu drums, gayageum and piri. The rhythm shifts with every season, and a heartbeat quickens as the ink closes in. Haptics included. FAIR PLAY • Free to play: every mode and every boss is included • Between-run ads appear at most once every 3 runs, at least 2 minutes apart, and never in your first session • Revive by watching an ad or spending coins you earned (once per run) • Double-coin ads are always optional • Remove Ads turns off between-run ads for good, and gives you revives and double coins with no ads • Coin Doubler permanently doubles the coins from every run • Every walker and paper except the Dokkaebi Pack can be bought with coins you earn in play • Your daily ranked attempt can never be bought Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Ashen Road4 screens
INKROLL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ashen Road at none against INKROLL's 5. Ashen Road also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. INKROLL sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Ashen Road asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 3 level
Ashen Road versus INKROLL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAshen RoadINKROLL
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size148 MB16 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperANDRAS TOTHDefine You

In-app purchases

None

Ashen Road

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

INKROLL

One-time5
  • 1,000 Coins$0.99
  • 5,000 Coins$2.99
  • Dokkaebi Pack$2.99
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  • Coin Doubler$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Ashen Road free?
Ashen Road is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is INKROLL free?
INKROLL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ashen Road or INKROLL have ads?
INKROLL shows ads; Ashen Road does not.

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