Comparison

Skilltree Saga vs Marble Age

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

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About

Skilltree Saga

Embark on a rogue-like RPG adventure in a fantasy world. Choose your race, battle random monsters across 100 levels, and enhance your character with numerous skills and spells. Collect gear, manage resources, and strategize in turn-based combat to defeat dark forces.

Highlights
  • Rogue-like elements
  • Randomly generated opponents and treasures
  • Skill tree with numerous spells
  • Turn-based combat
  • Gear collection and management
  • Up to 100 deep stages
Features
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Skilltree Saga is the first casual RPG with Rogue-like Elements in Aventurien - the world of The Dark Eye. Choose your race as human, elf or dwarf and battle your random generated opponents in up to 100 deep stages with numerous skill, which you can advance and enhance. Story A sinister spawn of orks and goblins led by the Dark Ruler Sargul are besieging the city of Griffonford. To make matters worse, your beloved, the daughter of Baron Griffontrue, was abducted and you desperately try to take up pursuit. After being rescued from an ambush of a group of goblins by a master of the mysterious Elemental Knight you have the marvelous opportunity to become part of this alliance society. Following the intensive training it is up to you to defeat the sinister spawn that is about to mercilessly enlarge their numbers to occupy Aventuria. Motivating Rogue-like Elements Random generated monsters and treasures are waiting for the brave Elemental Knight in the margraviate of Griffonford. Pillage a multitude of gear, which you must equip to enhance your attributes like Strength, Cleverness or Constitutiton. On the market square you can buy or sell equipment. Use astral potions to replenish your Astral Energy or invest diamonds to purchase even more helpful potions. Round-based Duelling Well-thought approaches are mandatory to put up a fight against the sinister spawn! Choose from a variety of skills, damage your enemy with wind and water magic or bring them to their knees with powerful fire spells. You’ll be in need of those when you come across hordes of orks and goblins. Your opponents know how to fight back as well. They use skills to make them stronger, tougher. They enfeeble your attributes or let dangerous rain down on the adventurer. Skilltree with numerous spells of the Elemental Knights You start as a nobody adventurer and choose your race as human, elf or dwarf. In your conflicts against the sinister spawn you will acquire experience to get steadily more powerful. Through level ups you’ll collect Adventure Points to enhance your skills and learn new spells. Up to 100 level deep challenging dungeons, Rogue-style! Choose between various adventures that you’ll try to master. On plenty of stages you’ll encounter dangerous fiends and you can find twinkling treasure chests or bracing healing fountains. At times you’ll come across a shady goblin merchants, who will sell you items on your troublesome journey. Should you fail your quest you’ll have to start anew, but become more experienced. Only the most mighty ones will challenge the heavy end bosses and can immortalize their name as a hero in the hall of fame. ----------------------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: www.facebook.com/HeadupGames www.twitter.com/headupgames www.instagram.com/headupgames If you experience problems with the game or if you have feedback send us an email: support@headupgames.com

About

Marble Age

Lead a small Aegean village to become a powerful ancient Greek city. Manage resources, develop technologies, and engage in diplomacy or warfare to conquer the known world. This remastered version features updated graphics, music, and gameplay mechanics.

Highlights
  • Choose Athens, Corinth, or Sparta for unique strategies
  • Manage workers for resource production
  • Discover ancient technologies
  • Explore the world and establish colonies
  • Deep diplomacy system
  • Learn Ancient Greek history through gameplay
Features
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Your task is to lead a small village at the dawn of Aegean civilization to its glorious future as one of the most powerful cities - Athens, Corinth, or Sparta. Together with the citizens, you will have to fight against invasions, deal with domestic conflicts, survive natural cataclysms in order to unite the whole Ancient Greece under your rule, and conquer the entire known world from Northern Africa to North Europe. Key features: • Your choice of a city will determine the game's strategy: diplomatic style for Athens, trading style for Corinth, and military-style for Sparta. • Wisely distribute your workers to ensure a stable supply of food and materials. • Discover ancient technologies, wisely manage resources, and turn your settlement into a flourishing and influential Polis! • Explore the world, establish colonies, build relationships with neighbors through the game's deep diplomacy system. • Learn the history of Ancient Greece in a fun way! Remastered version changes: • Completely new graphics and music. • Updated technologies and buildings. • New events, trials, and achievements. • New game mechanics and improved balance.

Screenshots

Skilltree Saga4 screens
Marble Age4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Skilltree Saga at $0.99 against Marble Age's $3.99. Skilltree Saga also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 13.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Skilltree Saga costs $0.99 and Marble Age $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Skilltree Saga against 4.7 for Marble Age. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Skilltree Saga's written reviews are positive against 71% of Marble Age's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Skilltree Saga ships an update monthly, Marble Age every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Skilltree Saga versus Marble Age: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkilltree SagaMarble Age
Price$0.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (38 ratings)4.7 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.4% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better24
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.1 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size248 MB182 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperHeadup GmbHMIKHAIL VASILEV18619964037

Customer experience

Skilltree Saga

All ratings38 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative15.2%

Marble Age

All ratings24 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral8.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Skilltree Saga

No in-app purchases

None

Marble Age

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Skilltree Saga free?
Skilltree Saga costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Marble Age free?
Marble Age costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Skilltree Saga or Marble Age?
Marble Age is rated higher. Skilltree Saga averages 4.6 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Marble Age averages 4.7 from 24 ratings.
Do Skilltree Saga or Marble Age have ads?
Neither Skilltree Saga nor Marble Age shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Skilltree Saga or Marble Age?
Skilltree Saga ships an update monthly, and Marble Age every 5 weeks. Most recently, Skilltree Saga was updated on October 22, 2026 and Marble Age on October 15, 2026.

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