Comparison

Overlive vs Eldrum

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

Head to head
About

Overlive

Survive a zombie apocalypse in an interactive storybook RPG. Make tough decisions, train skills, explore a city, and battle infected to escape before time runs out. Hundreds of events and multiple endings offer high replayability.

Highlights
  • Zombie apocalypse survival
  • Choose your path interactive story
  • RPG character development
  • Real-time combat
  • Skill training and specialization
  • Exploration and decision making
  • Multiple endings
Features
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Your family is dead. The Government has dissolved. The city is overrun with the infected. Choose what to do each day and escape before your city is wiped out! Train skills, find gear, improve your home, explore the city, defeat your enemies, adopt pets, and make hundreds of tough life and death decisions with lots of consequence! Overlive is a highly rated game that plays like a “choose your path” interactive story, with heavy exploration and decision making elements, Role Playing Game (RPG) character development, and real-time combat. Check out the gameplay features below! * NOTE: This is the FULL version of Overlive. All content and features are available and there are no time limits or ads. Enjoy! * [FEATURES SUMMARY] + Survive the zombie apocalypse and escape your zombie infested city before time runs out! Overlive's core gameplay is exploring the city and uncovering the story in the style of a "choose your path" interactive story gamebook. Survive by exploring 18 locations and finding one of 8 possible endings! + There are 1000s of unique and professionally written events to encounter and even more tough decisions to make! All decisions have consequence; small decisions early in the game can have profound effects later! Meet other survivors and help or exploit them. Plenty of moral decisions will question how far you would go to survive and affect your final score... can you survive without losing yourself? + Grow your character as you see fit! Train 9 different skills (melee, firearms, explosives, grappling, stealth, lockpicking, engineering, perception, computers) to overcome obstacles during exploration. Specialize or generalize, fight or bypass bosses, and use your skills to achieve the best ending! Be a stealthy computer hacker or a guns blazing pyromaniac – you decide! + You have a limited amount of time to escape your city before the nuclear plant goes into meltdown and destroys what remains of the city (including you)! Each day choose between exploring the city, training your skills, or resting. Learn from your mistakes and improve your survivability and score in subsequent playthroughs - this is a game that is meant to be replayed! + Defeat zombies, bosses, and other threats in real-time combat with hand to hand weapons, firearms, and explosives! Enemies come in all sizes and can come at you fast, attack from a range, tank you, or mob you in numbers! Change up your tactics to maximize your combat effectiveness and minimize the time you spend resting at home! + Memorable and fearsome bosses will stand in your way to freedom! But don't worry if combat isn't your thing - you can weaken or bypass them entirely using non-combat skills! + Find dozens of items to boost your abilities including new weapons and survival gear! Even your home can be upgraded! + Achieve the best possible score grade based on your actions, accomplishments, and moral conduct! Everything you do to survive is recorded and is factored into a detailed final score report and grade! 24 diverse achievements are available to be unlocked in the Game Center! + This FULL version is 100% free of ads and IAP - you get everything unlocked upfront! It has features not found in the FREE version, including the ability to accelerate the early game (for repeat playthroughs) and choice of difficulty. See this game and more at: https://www.firerabbit.com/ Come talk with us on our page at: https://www.facebook.com/firerabbit.canada/ Hit us up on Twitter at: https://www.twitter.com/firerabbit_inc/ Or on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/firerabbit_inc/

About

Eldrum

Embark on a dark fantasy text-based RPG where your decisions forge your path. Explore a war-torn world, uncover secrets, and shape your character's destiny through branching narratives and multiple endings. This immersive experience offers deep gameplay reminiscent of tabletop RPGs.

Highlights
  • Text-based choices adventure RPG
  • Nostalgic table-top RPG style
  • Character building and equipment
  • Multiple endings based on choices
  • Secrets to discover
  • High replayability
Features
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Dive into a dark, immersive world where your choices shape your destiny. Eldrum: Red Tide is a gripping text-based RPG that combines the depth of D&D, the strategic gameplay of CRPGs, and the narrative freedom of CYOA gamebooks. Eldrum: Red Tide is a dark fantasy story about a former soldier who is searching for his family in a world ravaged by war. Your brother is gone without a trace. What happened to him? The answer to this question lies at the end of a long and dangerous journey. The world has changed. The place where you were born was burned to ash. People out there are struggling to survive. You are a shadow of your former self, having suffered grave injuries during the war. But the past is the past. What matters is the here and now. You have the freedom to shape your own destiny. There is always a choice. FEATURES - Nostalgic table-top RPG style - Many secrets to discover - Equip and build your character - Multiple endings that vary depending on your choices throughout the story - Replayability with different play styles opening up different locations, NPCs and gear - Text based choices adventure RPG - Supports both phones and tablets - Accessible to blind and low-vision players Eldrum: Red Tide is the second game in the Eldrum series. The games' stories are linked and there are references between the games, but they can be played in any order.

Screenshots

Overlive4 screens
Eldrum4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Eldrum at Free against Overlive's $2.99. Eldrum also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (434 vs 53). Overlive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Eldrum is free to download; Overlive costs $2.99 up front. Eldrum sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Overlive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Eldrum holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eldrum has 434 ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Overlive's written reviews are positive against 95% of Eldrum's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overlive ships an update every 5 months, Eldrum every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Overlive versus Eldrum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverliveEldrum
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (53 ratings)4.9 (434 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.8% of reviews94.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings53434 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB198 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperFireRabbit Inc.Act None

Customer experience

Overlive

All ratings53 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive89.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative4.6%

Eldrum

All ratings434 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive94.9%
Neutral1.0%
Negative4.0%

User reviews

Overlive

From 53 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Engaging choose-your-own-adventure gameplay
  • 📖 Well-written story with depth and mystery
  • 🔄 High replay value with multiple endings
  • 💰 Excellent value for price ($2.99)
  • 🧠 Strategic decision-making with consequences

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Engineering skill training is broken/inaccessible
  • ⚔️ Combat system feels clunky and difficult
  • ⏱️ Time limit feels restrictive and frustrating
  • 🗺️ Map resets when leaving locations
  • 🎮 Limited combat mechanics and animations

Eldrum

From 434 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great story
  • 👍 Immersive and engaging
  • 🎨 Excellent visuals and atmosphere
  • 📚 Detailed and well-written lore
  • 🎮 Compelling gameplay with meaningful choices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional combat balance issues
  • 🕹️ Challenging combat system for some players
  • 📱 Not optimized for larger screens (iPad)

Bugs and requests

Overlive

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Engineering skill cannot be trained despite finding repair kit
  • Melee combat not working correctly at police station
  • Melee swipes don't work on iPhone X and newer models
  • App name truncated on home screen
  • Training path locked out due to engineering bug
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  • Some events require inaccessible engineering skill

Requested features

20 requests
  • Sequel or expansion pack
  • Skip tutorial option
  • Novice/easier difficulty mode
  • More story content and endings
  • Character customization (clothes, appearance)
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  • Sandbox mode with unlimited supplies
  • Screen rotation support
  • More weapons and skill variety
  • Character classes (soldier, scavenger, medic)
  • Turn-based combat system
  • Rest anywhere feature
  • Gun silencers
  • Companion/survivor recruitment system
  • Computer/desktop version
  • Chinese language translation
  • Map location color coding for events
  • On-screen status and dice roll information
  • More graphical designs for events
  • Extended map boundaries
  • Longer gameplay duration

Eldrum

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent enemy shield/evasion chances
  • Difficulty spikes in certain encounters

Requested features

2 requests
  • Sound effects for combat
  • More content and story expansions

In-app purchases

None

Overlive

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Eldrum

One-time3
  • Upgrade from Basic to Premium$2.49
  • Basic$6.99
  • Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Overlive free?
Overlive costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eldrum free?
Eldrum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Overlive or Eldrum?
Eldrum is rated higher. Overlive averages 4.7 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Eldrum averages 4.9 from 434 ratings.
Do Overlive or Eldrum have ads?
Neither Overlive nor Eldrum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Overlive or Eldrum?
Overlive ships an update every 5 months, and Eldrum every 9 days. Most recently, Overlive was updated on November 6, 2026 and Eldrum on November 7, 2026.

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