Comparison

Reckless Space Pirates vs Hosted Games

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

Head to head
About

Reckless Space Pirates

Embark on a text-based sci-fi adventure where your decisions shape your destiny. Choose to join space pirates or aid an alien colony in a conflict that could spark an interstellar war. Your imagination is the only limit in this interactive narrative.

Highlights
  • Interactive text-based story
  • Multiple branching narratives
  • Choice-driven gameplay
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Character relationships
  • Multiple endings
Features
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You have a choice: join a crew of space pirates to steal priceless slime from a nest of mushroom-like aliens--or hoodwink the pirates and team up with the mushroom colony to prevent an interstellar war! "Reckless Space Pirates" is a thrilling interactive science-fiction novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Will you survive the infamous space-slime pits? Will you earn the respect of the crew, or even start a romance with a space pirate? Can you negotiate with the fungoid aliens, despite linguistic and cultural barriers? Or will you blast their rubbery guts, plunder the slime pits, and retire in luxury?

About

Hosted Games

Explore a vast library of text-based interactive novels where your choices shape the narrative. Engage in diverse genres from horror and fantasy to romance and sci-fi, all powered by your imagination. Create your own stories using a simple scripting language.

Highlights
  • Vast library of interactive novels
  • Text-based storytelling
  • Choice-driven narratives
  • Multiple genres available
  • Create your own games
  • ChoiceScript programming language
Features
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The choice is yours! Joust for love and glory, solve an eldritch murder, find romance, or battle aliens with Magitek? "Hosted Games" is a magnificent library of interactive novels, written by authors like you. Hosted Games are entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Try a few of these fan favorites: • Zombie Exodus — Fight your way out of a zombie-filled city in this interactive horror story! • Fallen Hero — Step into the shoes of a telepath turned villain and explore the dark side. • Wayhaven Chronicles — Something stalks the shadows, and it's up to you to find out what! • Sabres of Infinity — Step into the boots of a Royal Dragoon in this tale of war in a fantasy world. • Golden Rose — Explore a medieval Europe where history took a different turn! • Soul Stone War — Fight for the future—your own, and the world's! Your fate is yours. • I, the Forgotten One — Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you? • An Unexpectedly Green Journey — From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Are you destined for glory? • Fields of Asphodel — Join the ranks of the Underworld's misfit gods and make it your home! • Tin Star — Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal and craft a legend. Authors just like you have developed these games using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Learn more at https://hostedgames.org

Screenshots

Reckless Space Pirates4 screens
Hosted Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hosted Games at Free against Reckless Space Pirates's $4.99. Hosted Games also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 12 months). Reckless Space Pirates's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 35) and review sentiment (86% vs 77%). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hosted Games is free to download; Reckless Space Pirates costs $4.99 up front. Hosted Games sells 33 one-off in-app purchases. Reckless Space Pirates asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hosted Games holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hosted Games has 956 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Reckless Space Pirates's written reviews are positive against 77% of Hosted Games's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reckless Space Pirates ships an update every 12 months, Hosted Games every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Reckless Space Pirates versus Hosted Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReckless Space PiratesHosted Games
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (4 ratings)4.7 (956 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better77.5% of reviews
Number of ratings4956 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB94 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperChoice of Games LLCHosted Games LLC

Customer experience

Reckless Space Pirates

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Hosted Games

All ratings956 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral1.7%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews213 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.0%

In-app purchases

None

Reckless Space Pirates

No in-app purchases

33 purchases

Hosted Games

One-time33
  • Dragon of Steelthorne$2.99
  • Side Stories 21-30$2.99
  • First Bull Run$2.99
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  • Tokyo Wizard$2.99
  • It Takes Three to Tango$3.99
  • Divine Ascension$4.99
  • Samurai of Hyuga$4.99
  • Keeper's Vigil$5.99
  • World War II Armored Recon$5.99
  • Life as a Lich$5.99
  • Velocity: The Race Begins$6.99
  • Keeper of the Sun and Moon$6.99
  • Samurai of Hyuga Book 6$6.99
  • Fallen Hero: Rebirth$6.99
  • Hero or Villain: Genesis$6.99
  • A Kiss from Death$6.99
  • Kitsune$6.99
  • Whiskey-Four$6.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One$7.99
  • The Soul Stone War$7.99
  • Leas: City of the Sun$7.99
  • The People's House$7.99
  • Scales of Justice$7.99
  • Tale of Two Cranes$8.99
  • Breach: The Archangel Job$8.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two$8.99
  • Saturnine$8.99
  • The Golden Rose: Book One$11.99
  • Diaspora$11.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles Three$11.99
  • Fallen Hero: Retribution$11.99
  • An Unexpectedly Green Journey$11.99
  • Fields of Asphodel$11.99

Questions

Is Reckless Space Pirates free?
Reckless Space Pirates costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hosted Games free?
Hosted Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Reckless Space Pirates or Hosted Games?
Hosted Games is rated higher. Reckless Space Pirates averages 3.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Hosted Games averages 4.7 from 956 ratings.
Do Reckless Space Pirates or Hosted Games have ads?
Both Reckless Space Pirates and Hosted Games show ads.
Which is updated more often, Reckless Space Pirates or Hosted Games?
Reckless Space Pirates ships an update every 12 months, and Hosted Games every 10 days. Most recently, Reckless Space Pirates was updated on October 13, 2026 and Hosted Games on October 18, 2026.

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