Comparison

Level Crawl 3D vs The Outer Darkness

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

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About

Level Crawl 3D

Experience a deadly 3D game show with turn-based combat across 18 floors of traps and monsters. Discover over 200 unique enemies, hundreds of items, and 23 explosive combos. Unlock new challenges and customize your character as you progress.

Highlights
  • Torchlit 3D environments
  • Turn-based grid combat
  • Boss battles on each floor
  • 23 unique combos
  • 26 playable species
  • 200+ monsters
  • Daily Dungeon and Endless Abyss modes
Features
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Level Crawl 3D is a reward for Level Crawl players. Play Level Crawl first and earn the 3D achievement to open this torchlit 3D version of the deadly game show. Good evening, contestants. Welcome to LEVEL CRAWL 3D, the only show where the contestants are the content and the content dies a lot. Same show, new cameras: every floor is a torchlit 3D set you can zoom into and swing around. Nobody's sure how you got here, and the producers aren't taking questions. But here you are, at the top of 18 floors of traps, monsters and sponsor-approved violence, with a very large audience watching. Please smile. Ratings are everything. WHAT YOU GET • Every floor is a torchlit 3D set with its own look and lighting, from the Sewers to the Studio itself. Zoom in, swing the camera around or play in first person. • Turn-based grid combat. You move, they move. Nobody's rushing you except the floor clock and the audience. • Headliners: a boss at the bottom of every floor. Get close and the show cuts to a turn-based battle screen. Running is not an option. • COMBO! Set fire to an oiled monster, zap a wet one, shatter a frozen one, splat one into a wall. 23 combos to find, and the crowd loses it every time. • 26 species, from Human to Gnoll, Treant, Robot and a root vegetable with a dream. Pick a class on floor 3 and specialize on floor 9. • 200+ monsters that don't play fair: thieves, exploding beetles, gelatinous cubes that eat your loot, ghosts of Delvers who didn't make it. • 30 spells, 35+ talents and 250+ items: rare and epic gear, enchantments, cursed items, gear sets and things that fell in from other worlds. • Odd floors that change the rules: conveyor belts and crushers, a frozen lake, a flooding sewer main, a haunted manor that moves its doors, a space station with cheap airlocks. • Every floor is a different episode: Blackout, Speed Round, the Arena, the Heist, the Game Show and more. • The host is your tutorial. He explains each thing once, when it matters, then replays your death on air with a tip for next time. • Easy mode from your first run. Win once and unlock 10 Ratings, each one stacking a new twist, all the way to Prime Time. • Earn outfits, name titles, entrances and starting pets by dying in style. • Whatever killed your last Delver comes back as your Nemesis. • 300+ achievements, many of them rude. 100 of them on Game Center. • A Daily Dungeon (the same run for everyone, once a day) and the Endless Abyss, a dungeon with no bottom and a world leaderboard. • Play with friends: up to 8 Delvers, one floor clock. • Colour-blind and high-contrast modes. • One life. Death restarts the whole run. The audience considers this a feature. HOW TO GET IN Level Crawl 3D is a secret bonus for Level Crawl players. It opens once you earn a hidden achievement in Level Crawl (free on the App Store) and sign in to Game Center. Nobody is telling you how to earn it. That's the fun part. Free. No ads. No purchases. Your run saves on your device. Contains swearing, crude humor and cartoon violence. 3D models by KayKit, Quaternius and Kenney, all CC0.

About

The Outer Darkness

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Dead ships drift in the outer dark. Their cargo is still aboard, and so is whatever killed the crew. The Outer Darkness is a turn-based sci-fi roguelike and dungeon crawler about salvaging derelict spaceships. Pick a wreck on your scanner, dock, and move through it room by room toward the extraction point. Get out alive and the loot is yours. Die, and you lose everything you carried aboard. PUSH YOUR LUCK Every room is a choice. Take the safer corridor or risk the cargo bay for better loot? You only keep what you carry out, so each step deeper raises the stakes. This is a roguelike extraction game where greed can kill you. AIMED TURN-BASED COMBAT Fights are tactical turn-based duels inspired by classic RPG aimed shots. Target the head, eyes, arms, legs or core, and each body part has its own hit chance and payoff. Blind a Stalker, cripple a Crawler's legs, crack a Warden's shell. Choosing where to shoot matters more than choosing the biggest gun. Spend your action points on shots, stims, shields and flares, and watch out for bleeding, acid and suit breaches. EVERY DERELICT IS DIFFERENT Each boarding builds a new seeded ship map from fight, loot, supply and event rooms. Ore haulers, passenger liners and research vessels each have their own rooms, loot and creatures. Ship conditions change the rules: • Low Oxygen: your air runs down with every move. • Darkness: you can't see the rooms ahead, and you aim worse. • Infested: more things in the dark, and they are hungry. SPACE HORROR, NOT GORE Near-black 1-bit pixel art, flickering CRT screens, terminal-style logs and an unreliable scanner. The tension comes from what you can't see. STRANGE EVENTS Find crew logs, survivors and signals that should not be there. Make choices with no right answer and live with what follows. UPGRADE YOUR SALVAGER Sell your loot back at your ship. Buy weapons and gear, pick your loadout and install suit mods such as armor plating, servos, a HUD and bio-mods. Every run makes you stronger, but a bad run can take your best gear with it. If you enjoy roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, survival horror, space exploration and tactical turn-based RPGs, the derelicts are waiting. Dock. Loot. Get out.

Screenshots

Level Crawl 3D4 screens
The Outer Darkness4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Outer Darkness at 5.0 against Level Crawl 3D's 1.0. Level Crawl 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Outer Darkness holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Level Crawl 3D ships an update every 2 days, The Outer Darkness daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Level Crawl 3D versus The Outer Darkness: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLevel Crawl 3DThe Outer Darkness
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB33 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperJAMES PETER SCHAYDanila Rassokhin

In-app purchases

None

Level Crawl 3D

No in-app purchases

None

The Outer Darkness

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Level Crawl 3D free?
Level Crawl 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Outer Darkness free?
The Outer Darkness is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Level Crawl 3D or The Outer Darkness?
The Outer Darkness is rated higher. Level Crawl 3D averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while The Outer Darkness averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Level Crawl 3D or The Outer Darkness have ads?
The Outer Darkness shows ads; Level Crawl 3D does not.
Which is updated more often, Level Crawl 3D or The Outer Darkness?
Level Crawl 3D ships an update every 2 days, and The Outer Darkness daily. Most recently, Level Crawl 3D was updated on November 12, 2026 and The Outer Darkness on November 10, 2026.

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