Tin Star vs Heart's Choice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tin Star
Step into the boots of a U.S. marshal in the Old West. Investigate a sprawling conspiracy, confront outlaws, and forge your own legend across the country.
- Become a U.S. marshal
- Confront outlaws
- Uncover a conspiracy
- Explore the Old West
- Craft your legend
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Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal. Confront outlaws, find romance, challenge Native Americans, defy the elements and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
Heart's Choice
Immerse yourself in interactive romance novels where your choices shape the narrative and lead to your desired happily ever after. Explore diverse stories with fully developed characters and complex plots, catering to various preferences and orientations.
- Choose your own path
- Interactive romance novels
- Branching narratives
- Player-driven endings
- Diverse characters and orientations
- Multiple spice levels
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Become the main character of a romance novel! Choose your path to passion and find your Happily Ever After. Since 2009, the team behind Choice of Games has created high-quality interactive novels in all genres. Now, our new Heart’s Choice label puts romance at the center of the story, and you at the center of the romance. There are no graphics or sound effects, so we can focus on the story. Every game is filled with vivid, fully-developed characters and complex narratives that respond to your choices. Every path is always open to you: we never charge extra for the best options or most interesting storylines. Unlike other games where you have to work your way through "failure" endings to get to the "good endings," in Heart's Choice, you'll always be able to choose a Happily Ever After with the character (or characters) you desire. Whatever gender or orientation you want to play, there will be a Heart’s Choice game for you in our catalog! And whether you like your romance sweet or smoking hot, you’ll be able to find a story that you love. Let your heart choose!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Heart's Choice at Free against Tin Star's $11.99. Heart's Choice also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (303 vs 71). Tin Star's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 22) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On rating, 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
Heart's Choice is free to download; Tin Star costs $11.99 up front. Heart's Choice sells 22 one-off in-app purchases. Tin Star asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Tin Star against 4.7 for Heart's Choice. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 303 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Tin Star's written reviews are positive against 86% of Heart's Choice's.
Tin Star ships an update every 3 months, Heart's Choice every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tin Star | Heart's Choice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (71 ratings) — better | 4.7 (303 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 85.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71 | 303 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Hearts Choice LLC |
Customer experience
Tin Star
Heart's Choice
Bugs and requests
Tin Star
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Heart's Choice
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatibility issues with older devices
- Occasional loss of progress/save data
Requested features
5 requests- Add more gender and sexuality options across all stories
- Implement a 'back' or 'undo' feature for choices
- Increase the number of free or low-cost story options
- Improve app stability and reduce crashes
- Provide character bios and story descriptions to help users choose
In-app purchases
Tin Star
No in-app purchases
Heart's Choice
- Bonus Stories 3: AWPW$2.99
- Jazz Age$4.99
- Remove Advertising$4.99
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- Belle-de-Nuit$4.99
- Brimstone Manor$4.99
- Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure$4.99
- Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion$4.99
- Spellbound: Malachite Coven$4.99
- Haunted Hearts Hotel$4.99
- Dawnfall$5.99
- Their Majesties' Pleasure$5.99
- Vampire's Kiss$5.99
- Love Undying$5.99
- A Pirate's Pleasure$6.99
- Heart of Battle$6.99
- All-World Pro Wrestling$6.99
- Freshman Magic$6.99
- Devil on Your Shoulder$6.99
- Ink and Intrigue$6.99
- These Thieving Hearts$6.99
- Changeling Charade$7.99
- Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes$7.99
Questions
Is Tin Star free?
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Do Tin Star or Heart's Choice have ads?
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