Comparison

Burn(t) vs A Thousand Faces

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

Head to head
About

Burn(t)

Experience a gripping zombie apocalypse narrative where your choices shape the story. Decide who to save, who to trust, and whether to form alliances or resort to murder. Every decision has consequences, and survival depends on your choices.

Highlights
  • Interactive novel
  • Zombie apocalypse setting
  • Branching narrative
  • Choice-driven gameplay
  • Multiple endings
  • Moral dilemmas
Features
Read full description

What if you had to survive in a zombie apocalypse? In this riveting interactive novel, you make the story. Save your parents? Or let them die… Alliances or murder? Its your choice, choose carefully or it’ll be your last.

About

A Thousand Faces

Embark on a text-based RPG adventure where you wield cosmic powers and face nightmarish creatures. Navigate a dream world, uncover a society's dark secrets, and make choices with devastating consequences. This game offers a rich narrative experience for those seeking an alternative to passive entertainment.

Highlights
  • Choose-your-own-adventure gameplay
  • Wield cosmic and dream world powers
  • Battle unique mythical creatures
  • Explore five distinct dream realms
  • Uncover societal secrets
  • Engage in strategic combat
Features
Read full description

You are riding across a vast desert, but you don't remember why. You only know that if you look behind you, you will die. Your horse is a demon from some nightmare realm and charges across the sands as his red eyes illuminate the twilight. You do remember this: you were holding someone’s hand just now. His last act before he passed was to make you promise to not give up, to keep going. You don’t remember why he’s important to you, but you feel a keen grief. And you must ride north, towards the city of Panarch. In A Thousand Faces, you are a hero in all the most unexpected and twisted ways. You have the power to fearstrike reality into compliance. You can wield the First Fires of Creation, which ignited the Big Bang. And you can walk the five realms of the dream world: Reverie, Prophecy, Consensus, Jubilee, and Terror. But your enemies are fifteen-foot-tall wolves who wander the void between worlds, medusas whose gaze casts you in the stone of grief, and bleeding books whose passages can corrupt your mind. Most of all, you are in a society with so much outward beauty but with a festering secret worse than mere monsters. Take on the role of a warrior who loves the unloved things of the world, the feared things, the hated things. You are the horror barring the path when the peasants with pitchforks go to burn the witch. And you are on a mission with devastating consequences to all involved. There is no winning, only ensuring the enemy loses more than you do. A Thousand Faces is a choose-your-own adventure role-playing game that aspires to the storytelling richness of amazing titles like Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate, and Final Fantasy. It is from a solo indie dev who wrote the story, composed the music, designed the combat, and created the app. There is a growing community of players on Discord, fan art, and sharing of combat (and dating sim!) strategies. Stop doom scrolling. Read literature and solve puzzles instead. Join us. “We will all ride past death as one.”

Screenshots

Burn(t)4 screens
A Thousand Faces4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: A Thousand Faces at 100% against Burn(t)'s 22%. A Thousand Faces also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.4) and ads (none vs shown). Burn(t)'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

Both are free to download. Burn(t) sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and A Thousand Faces sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

A Thousand Faces holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Burn(t)'s written reviews are positive against 100% of A Thousand Faces's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Burn(t) ships an update every 12 months, A Thousand Faces every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Burn(t) versus A Thousand Faces: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBurn(t)A Thousand Faces
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.4 (24 ratings)4.7 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB158 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCHouse Lawlez LLC

Customer experience

Burn(t)

All ratings24 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative70.8%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive22.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative75.5%

A Thousand Faces

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Burn(t)

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Some responses redirect to incorrect pages

Requested features

11 requests
  • More drama
  • More games like this
  • More stories, endings, choices
  • Rewrite the story
  • Choices should influence plot
Show 6 more
  • Make it longer
  • More chapters please
  • Needs more storyline
  • More options without dying
  • Continue the story
  • More polished game

A Thousand Faces

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Burn(t)

One-time2
  • Restart the Game Once$0.99
  • Remove Advertising$4.99
1 purchases

A Thousand Faces

One-time1
  • Complete chapters$4.99

Questions

Is Burn(t) free?
Burn(t) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A Thousand Faces free?
A Thousand Faces is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Burn(t) or A Thousand Faces?
A Thousand Faces is rated higher. Burn(t) averages 2.4 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while A Thousand Faces averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do Burn(t) or A Thousand Faces have ads?
Burn(t) shows ads; A Thousand Faces does not.
Which is updated more often, Burn(t) or A Thousand Faces?
Burn(t) ships an update every 12 months, and A Thousand Faces every 10 days. Most recently, Burn(t) was updated on October 20, 2026 and A Thousand Faces on October 2, 2026.

Other comparisons