A Dark Room vs Progress Knight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A Dark Room
Awaken in a mysterious world with a throbbing head and blurry vision. Follow the voices' instructions to survive and explore this text-based adventure. Experience a game free from ads, loot boxes, in-app purchases, and tracking, fully playable with VoiceOver.
- Text-based adventure
- Survival mechanics
- Exploration
- Resource management
- VoiceOver compatible
- No ads or IAP
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awake. head throbbing. vision blurry. the voices say to survive. - One of Apple's most downloaded apps of 2014. - Ranked in the top 10 games in 70 countries, #1 app overall in 7 countries. - No ads, no loot boxes, no IAP, no tracking. - 100% playable via VoiceOver. - Relive the glory days of gaming from the era of Zork.
Progress Knight
Embark on a fantasy life-simulation where you progress through careers, gain skills, and manage expenses. Choose your path from commoner to military or magic, and eventually prestige for faster progression in subsequent lives.
- Fantasy medieval life simulation
- Career progression
- Skill acquisition
- Expense management
- Multiple career paths (commoner, military, magic)
- Prestige system for multipliers
- Idle gameplay
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Progress Knight is a life-sim incremental based in a fantasy/medieval setting, where you must progress through the career ladder and acquire new skills to become the ultimate being. You first start off as a beggar, barely being able to feed yourself as the days go by. However, over the years you learn new skills and gain plenty of work experience to enter new high paying jobs while managing your living expenses... Will you decide to take the easy route of doing simple commoner work? Or will you go through harsh training to climb the ranks within the military? Or maybe will you decide to study hard and enrol in a magic academy, learning life-impacting spells? Your career path is open-ended, the decision is up to you. Eventually, your age will catch up to you. You will be given an option to prestige and gain xp multipliers (based on the performance of your current life) for your next life at the cost of losing all your levels and assets. Fear not though, as you will re-gain your levels much, much more quickly than in your previous life...
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Progress Knight at Free against A Dark Room's $1.99. Progress Knight also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). A Dark Room's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown).
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Progress Knight is free to download; A Dark Room costs $1.99 up front. Progress Knight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. A Dark Room asks for nothing beyond the download.
A Dark Room holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A Dark Room has 2.7K ratings behind it against 257, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of A Dark Room's written reviews are positive against 72% of Progress Knight's.
A Dark Room ships an update every 2 months, Progress Knight every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A Dark Room | Progress Knight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.7K ratings) — better | 4.4 (257 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.7% of reviews — better | 72.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 257 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #21 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amirali Rajan | Noe LE PHILIPPE |
Customer experience
A Dark Room
Progress Knight
Bugs and requests
A Dark Room
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Progress Knight
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progress and data loss issues
- Skill level resets after transcendence
- Autopause not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More content and updates
- Auto-purchase feature for the store
- Offline progress tracking
- Improved autopause functionality
In-app purchases
A Dark Room
No in-app purchases
Progress Knight
- Remove the ads$2.99








