Simple Monster Hunter vs The Enchanted Cave 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Monster Hunter
Engage in thrilling battles against formidable monsters. Collect materials from defeated foes to forge powerful equipment. Explore over 100 unique items for crafting your ultimate gear.
- Defeat powerful monsters
- Collect materials
- Forge super equipment
- Explore over 100 items
- Step-by-step hunter progression
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Beat powerful monsters. Step by step to become a hunter. Beat monsters to get the materials, forging super equipment by materials. More than 100 items to explore and forging. NO IAP. support: ios@game4219.com twitter: https://twitter.com/gd4219
The Enchanted Cave 2
Explore a dangerous cave filled with treasure and monsters. Strategically battle foes, gather loot, and upgrade your character through a deep skill tree. Discover secret areas, craft items, and manage your risk to become a powerful adventurer.
- Randomly-generated floors
- Deep skill tree
- Crafting and enchanting
- Secret areas
- Mid-cave shops
- Multiple playable characters
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Delve into a strange cave with a seemingly endless supply of treasure, strategically choosing your battles to gather as much treasure as possible! Find rare artifacts, gold, and stat gems, and traverse the skill tree to become your choice of a mage, warrior, alchemist, or a mix of skills. Craft potions, enchant your equipment, and discover secret areas! But be careful because the cave has become quite dangerous lately with more explorers going missing every day… ---Gameplay--- The Enchanted Cave 2 is an RPG/roguelike with a heavy focus on risk vs reward. Strategically choosing your battles, building your character, enchanting your equipment and knowing when to escape the cave are crucial to succeed. ---Key Features--- - 9 playable characters - 100 randomly-generated floors of loot, monsters, and minibosses - Secret areas hidden in the walls - A thriving town of tourists and eager explorers to talk and trade their equipment - Over 300 items, equipment, spells, and crafting ingredients - Mid-cave shops to buy, sell, and enchant equipment - Sprawling skill tree featuring 3 unique play-styles, or any combination! - A beautiful soundtrack by Grant Kirkhope - Museum for the hardcore collectors - New Game+ mode to infinity
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Enchanted Cave 2 at fortnightly against Simple Monster Hunter's every 67 months. The Enchanted Cave 2 also leads on ratings volume (112 vs 9) and chart position (#188 vs unranked). Simple Monster Hunter's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $5.99). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Simple Monster Hunter costs $0.99 and The Enchanted Cave 2 $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Monster Hunter holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Enchanted Cave 2 has 112 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Simple Monster Hunter's written reviews are positive against 93% of The Enchanted Cave 2's.
Simple Monster Hunter ships an update every 67 months, The Enchanted Cave 2 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Monster Hunter | The Enchanted Cave 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | 4.7 (112 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 93.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 112 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 67 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #188 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 肖勇 汪 | Dustin Auxier |
Customer experience
Simple Monster Hunter
The Enchanted Cave 2
Bugs and requests
Simple Monster Hunter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
The Enchanted Cave 2
Reported bugs
17 issues- Crashes during potion crafting
- Crashes during enchanting items on level 0
- Progress reset after crashes
- White outline of secret room visible
- Music repeats in the middle of the track
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- Game crashes when landing killing blow to level 100 boss
- Sound on other programs stops when playing
- Save data is overwritten
- Transferring save data results in 'null'
- Game won't restart after boss battle death due to notifications
- Minor crashes on older devices
- Text is very small and hard to read on older devices
- Enchanting items is confusing at first
- Menus are hard to navigate on older iPhones
- Loses levels/skills acquired when you die
- Lagging is noticeable
- Music doesn't loop correctly
Requested features
13 requests- Add a third game in the series
- Improve gear beyond end-game
- Add customizable item sets
- Add a D-pad for smoother movement
- Add a help guide
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- Add more potion buff stats
- Allow restarting from scratch
- Add a joystick
- Add French translation
- Add turn-based fights
- Fix bug with infinity items in museum
- Add anti-death potion or spell
- Allow listening to other programs while playing
In-app purchases
Simple Monster Hunter
No in-app purchases
The Enchanted Cave 2
No in-app purchases
Questions
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