Comparison

Lost Echo vs Desktop Dungeons

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

Head to head
About

Lost Echo

Embark on a sci-fi mystery adventure to find a missing girlfriend. Explore 3D environments, solve puzzles, and interact with characters to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. This story-driven experience captures the spirit of classic adventure games.

Highlights
  • Story-driven sci-fi mystery
  • Point-and-click adventure gameplay
  • Explore fully 3D environments
  • Solve puzzles
  • Interact with characters
  • Uncover the truth
Features
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"A richly defined, innovative experience [...] capturing the spirit of traditional adventure gaming with all the potential the platform has to offer." > 4.5/5 AdventureGamers.com In the near future Greg's girlfriend Chloe mysteriously disappears in front of him. He starts a desperate search for her. What happened? Why does no-one else remember her? Solve puzzles, explore fully 3d environments, interact with numerous characters, solve the mystery and find the truth. But will the truth be enough? Lost Echo is a story driven, visually ambitious, sci-fi mystery point and click adventure game.

About

Desktop Dungeons

Engage in a unique puzzle roguelike adventure across randomly generated dungeons. Collect loot, spells, and items to defeat bosses and upgrade your kingdom. Unlock new classes, races, and items for hundreds of hours of strategic gameplay.

Highlights
  • Randomly generated single-screen dungeons
  • 20 unlockable classes
  • 7 unique races
  • Kingdom upgrades for starting bonuses
  • Hundreds of hours of quests and puzzles
  • Daily Dungeon challenges
Features
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***Cross platform saves! Play the same Kingdom on any device!*** Desktop Dungeons, the award-winning unique puzzle roguelike makes its debut on iOS! Fight your way through randomly generated dungeons, collect spells, items, and loot to defeat the dungeon boss and earn gold to upgrade your Kingdom. Unlock new classes to play as, useful items to discover, capricious gods to worship, and enemies to fight. All in service of the almighty bottom line and saving your Kingdom from peril. Desktop Dungeons packs all the challenge and reward of a dungeon crawling roguelike game into bite sized chunks of puzzle goodness. Take an Elf Warlord through the Venture Cave, defeat Aequitas the Warlock and sell his beard to your Taxidermist to afford an upgrade to your Blacksmith. Or, spend time in the game's extensive puzzles trying to understand exactly what worshipping Taurog is all about. Key Features: -Randomly generated single-screen dungeons offer bite sized adventure. -Explore new terrain to regenerate your health and mana, INNOVATION! -20 Classes to play as and unlock, including the new Chemist and Rat Monarch! -7 Races that combine uniquely with the Classes, each playing differently. -Upgrade your Kingdom to unlock items and preparations to start your dungeon runs with. -Loads of quests and puzzles to keep you entertained for hundreds of hours. -Compete with your friends in the new Daily Dungeon. -Music by the power duo of Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac) and Grant Kirkhope (Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye 64) -The full Desktop Dungeons experience, optimized for touch screen. -Goats! "If you're looking for a roguelike with a cheeky swagger, and enough content to lose yourself in, then this should be at the top of your list." - PocketGamer (9/10) "Desktop Dungeons is brilliant. It is so incredibly simple, and so incredibly basic, and yet it is brilliant." - GameZebo (4.5/5) "Desktop Dungeons has made a pretty great effort to port their game to the iOS world, and it packs a lot of replay and problem solving into this app." - TouchArcade (4/5) Desktop Dungeons won the award for Excellence in Design at the 2011 Independent Games Festival, where it was also a Grand Prize nominee. Website: http://www.DesktopDungeons.net Forums: http://www.QCFdesign.com/forum Twitter: @QCFdesign

Screenshots

Lost Echo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lost Echo at 4.6 against Desktop Dungeons's 4.1. Lost Echo also leads on price ($4.49 vs $9.99) and review sentiment (76% vs 52%). Desktop Dungeons's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Lost Echo costs $4.49 and Desktop Dungeons $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lost Echo holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lost Echo has 93 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Lost Echo's written reviews are positive against 52% of Desktop Dungeons's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lost Echo ships an update fortnightly, Desktop Dungeons every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Lost Echo versus Desktop Dungeons: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLost EchoDesktop Dungeons
Price$4.49 — better$9.99
Rating4.6 (93 ratings) — better4.1 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews — better52.1% of reviews
Number of ratings93 — better16
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPad
Requires iOS13.06.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size444 MB289 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperKickBackQCF Design

Customer experience

Lost Echo

All ratings86 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews575 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative15.8%

Desktop Dungeons

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive52.1%
Neutral14.1%
Negative33.8%

User reviews

Lost Echo

From 93 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent story and plot
  • 🎨 Beautiful graphics and visuals
  • 🎶 Immersive soundtrack
  • 👍 Engaging and thought-provoking gameplay
  • 💡 Unique and innovative concept

Room to improve

  • 🐢 Slow pacing and excessive dialogue
  • 🤔 Confusing and unsatisfying ending
  • 👨‍💻 Awkward character animations and interactions
  • 🌐 Issues with translation and grammar

Desktop Dungeons

From 16 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Addictive gameplay
  • 💡 Deep strategy and puzzle elements
  • 👍 Hours of content
  • 👍 Worth the cost
  • 👍 Fun and not full of ads

Room to improve

  • 😞 Bad graphics
  • 😞 Difficult to master
  • 😞 Waste of money for some
  • 😞 Ugly text and low res
  • 😞 Poor value for cost initially

Bugs and requests

Lost Echo

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game progress getting deleted after updates
  • Inability to progress past certain points

Requested features

4 requests
  • More challenging puzzles
  • Multiple endings or branching storylines
  • Improved character development
  • Sequel or expansion to continue the story

Desktop Dungeons

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game freezes
  • Screen does not rotate
  • Game locked up after unlocking blacksmith
  • Save files corrupted or stuck
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  • Text unreadable
  • UI elements overlap
  • Game crashes after completing dungeons
  • Game crashes when opening codex
  • Game resets when minimized
  • Blacksmith feature broken
  • Tutorial step bugged

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add difficulty levels
  • Update graphics
  • Fix text formatting and readability
  • Add cloud saves
  • Improve UI for touch devices
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  • Fix screen rotation
  • Remove PC version leftovers
  • Add Retina support
  • Fix game freezes and crashes
  • Improve polish and user experience
  • Add dark mode

In-app purchases

None

Lost Echo

No in-app purchases

None

Desktop Dungeons

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lost Echo free?
Lost Echo costs $4.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is Desktop Dungeons free?
Desktop Dungeons costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lost Echo or Desktop Dungeons?
Lost Echo is rated higher. Lost Echo averages 4.6 out of 5 from 93 ratings, while Desktop Dungeons averages 4.1 from 16 ratings.
Do Lost Echo or Desktop Dungeons have ads?
Neither Lost Echo nor Desktop Dungeons shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lost Echo or Desktop Dungeons?
Lost Echo ships an update fortnightly, and Desktop Dungeons every 4 weeks. Most recently, Lost Echo was updated on October 29, 2026 and Desktop Dungeons on October 24, 2026.

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