Skilltree Saga vs Dawnmaker
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
Dawnmaker
A solo strategy game blending city building and deck building mechanics. Rebuild a world shrouded in toxic smog by constructing buildings, acquiring powerful cards, and upgrading your lighthouse to reclaim lost lands and technologies.
- City building mechanics
- Deck building gameplay
- Resource management
- Lighthouse upgrades
- Smog reclamation
- Technology recovery
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Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space. Optimize your deck - gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations! Build efficient cities - make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city. Manage your resources - grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium! Reclaim the lost continent - the continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region. Recover lost technologies - explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Skilltree Saga at $0.99 against Dawnmaker's $8.99. Skilltree Saga also leads on ratings volume (38 vs 2) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 13.0). Dawnmaker's advantage is update cadence (daily vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). 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 Dawnmaker $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dawnmaker 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 2, 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 Dawnmaker's.
Skilltree Saga ships an update monthly, Dawnmaker daily. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skilltree Saga | Dawnmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (38 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 248 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Headup GmbH | Acram Digital |
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Skilltree Saga
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In-app purchases
Skilltree Saga
No in-app purchases
Dawnmaker
No in-app purchases









