WumpusWorld vs Wumpus Cave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WumpusWorld
Navigate a treacherous cave filled with hidden gold, bottomless pits, and a hungry Wumpus. This game tests your intelligence as you guide a hero through increasingly challenging worlds to collect riches and survive.
- Cave navigation
- Gold collection
- Hazard avoidance
- Monster evasion
- Increasing difficulty
- Logic testing
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Legend tells of a dark cave with hidden gold. But beware! The hungry Wumpus lurks within the cave, as do bottomless pits cloaked in darkness. Can you guide our courageous hero safely through the cave and retrieve the gold? The Wumpus World game was originally designed to test the intelligence of computer players, but is challenging for humans as well. Test your skills against larger and larger worlds, avoid the perils within, and emerge victorious with riches galore.
Wumpus Cave
Navigate a dark maze filled with treasures, keys, and lurking dangers. This game offers a modern take on a classic text-based adventure, featuring updated controls, graphics, and sound effects.
- Modernized controls
- Graphics and sound effects
- Varied cave layouts
- Treasure and key collection
- Avoid bottomless pits
- Encounter multiple wumpus
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Inspired by a 1970's text-based creation, Wumpus Cave adds iPhone controls, graphics, sound effects, treasures, and varies the cave from game to game. Find your way through the pitch-dark maze of twisty passages to the treasure, the key, and back out again, while avoiding bottomless pits and letting your grimble deal with the multiple wumpus lurking in the cave. English only. Free. No ads. No wifi required. No tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wumpus Cave at 4.9 against WumpusWorld's 3.9. Wumpus Cave also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 27 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). WumpusWorld's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wumpus Cave holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of WumpusWorld's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wumpus Cave's.
WumpusWorld ships an update every 27 months, Wumpus Cave every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WumpusWorld | Wumpus Cave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (16 ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Adaptelligence LLC | Jeffrey Scott Watters |
Customer experience
WumpusWorld
Wumpus Cave
In-app purchases
WumpusWorld
No in-app purchases
Wumpus Cave
No in-app purchases
