Skilltree Saga vs Gargoyles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Gargoyles
Command a strategic army of gargoyles to defend against attacking automatons and predators. Evolve your gargoyles through unique trees, harvest pixies, and follow a compelling story to uncover the source of the attacks. Features include diverse enemies, randomly assigned gargoyle perks, and in-game achievements.
- Strategic gargoyle army placement
- Pixie harvesting and resource management
- Gargoyle evolution with multiple trees
- Defeat diverse enemies and automatons
- Engaging story campaign
- Randomly assigned gargoyle perks
- 22 in-game achievements
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Lulu ported a gargoyle from the Between. She had last seen a gargoyle when she was ten. Her grandmother had brought her to the forest, and helped her feed a pixie to the strange unmoving creature. This gargoyle, too, ate a pixie from Lulu’s careful hand. It sang a pure note of pleasure. Then it spoke into Lulu’s mind. At that moment the automatons attacked. Place your gargoyle army strategically to harvest pixies and defeat the hordes of attacking automatons and predators. Level your gargoyles, evolving them into more-powerful forms in three different evolution trees. Try a tanky Boulder for defense and a Black Mage for ranged vapor-type damage—or maybe experiment with the Lure ability of the multirow Manticore. In the main campaign, follow Lulu and her companion gargoyle Poe to discover the source of the automatons and how to stop them. Your gargoyle army stays with you as you proceed through each battle of the campaign. With your favorite evolutions and best battle tactics, you might make it to victory. FEATURES • 24 distinct enemies including vaporwolves, tetrapods, and lightbats • every gargoyle pup is different because of its randomly assigned perks (some rare!) • 22 in-game achievements • pause the combat at any time • save and load the game at any time • tutorial, game tips, and an “easy” difficulty setting are available if wanted • optional story mode • original music by Joel Roston • no in-app purchases or ads
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Skilltree Saga at monthly against Gargoyles's every 8 months. Skilltree Saga also leads on ratings volume (38 vs 5) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Gargoyles's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Skilltree Saga costs $0.99 and Gargoyles $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gargoyles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skilltree Saga has 38 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Skilltree Saga's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gargoyles's.
Skilltree Saga ships an update monthly, Gargoyles every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skilltree Saga | Gargoyles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 248 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Headup GmbH | Karl Voskuil |
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In-app purchases
Skilltree Saga
No in-app purchases
Gargoyles
No in-app purchases









