Spirited Heart vs Hosted Games
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spirited Heart
Engage in a fantasy life simulation where you create a unique character from human, elf, or demoness races. Explore diverse dialogue options, date six distinct male characters, and experience random events. Complete special missions to unlock unique endings.
- Create human, elf, or demoness characters
- Race-specific dialogue options
- Date six unique male characters
- Fantasy life simulation gameplay
- Optional dice minigame
- Complete race-specific missions
- Experience random events
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Spirited Heart is a fantasy life simulation game. Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness: they behave differently in the various dialogue choices you'll encounter during the game. - Three different races to play, each one with different dialog options - Six male characters to date, two for each race, each one with unique personality - Detailed fantasy life simulation with optional dice minigame - Complete a special "Goddess" mission for each race and get a special ending - Many random events hidden in the game
Hosted Games
Explore a vast library of text-based interactive novels where your choices shape the narrative. Engage in diverse genres from horror and fantasy to romance and sci-fi, all powered by your imagination. Create your own stories using a simple scripting language.
- Vast library of interactive novels
- Text-based storytelling
- Choice-driven narratives
- Multiple genres available
- Create your own games
- ChoiceScript programming language
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The choice is yours! Joust for love and glory, solve an eldritch murder, find romance, or battle aliens with Magitek? "Hosted Games" is a magnificent library of interactive novels, written by authors like you. Hosted Games are entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Try a few of these fan favorites: • Zombie Exodus — Fight your way out of a zombie-filled city in this interactive horror story! • Fallen Hero — Step into the shoes of a telepath turned villain and explore the dark side. • Wayhaven Chronicles — Something stalks the shadows, and it's up to you to find out what! • Sabres of Infinity — Step into the boots of a Royal Dragoon in this tale of war in a fantasy world. • Golden Rose — Explore a medieval Europe where history took a different turn! • Soul Stone War — Fight for the future—your own, and the world's! Your fate is yours. • I, the Forgotten One — Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you? • An Unexpectedly Green Journey — From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Are you destined for glory? • Fields of Asphodel — Join the ranks of the Underworld's misfit gods and make it your home! • Tin Star — Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal and craft a legend. Authors just like you have developed these games using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Learn more at https://hostedgames.org
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hosted Games at 77% against Spirited Heart's 18%. Hosted Games also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.7) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 10 months). Spirited Heart's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Spirited Heart sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Hosted Games sells 33 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hosted Games holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hosted Games has 956 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Spirited Heart's written reviews are positive against 77% of Hosted Games's.
Spirited Heart ships an update every 10 months, Hosted Games every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spirited Heart | Hosted Games |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (11 ratings) | 4.7 (956 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.2% of reviews | 77.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 956 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Celso Riva | Hosted Games LLC |
Customer experience
Spirited Heart
Hosted Games
In-app purchases
Spirited Heart
- Extra money$0.99
- Male romances$5.99
- Female romances$5.99
Hosted Games
- Dragon of Steelthorne$2.99
- Side Stories 21-30$2.99
- First Bull Run$2.99
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- Tokyo Wizard$2.99
- It Takes Three to Tango$3.99
- Divine Ascension$4.99
- Samurai of Hyuga$4.99
- Keeper's Vigil$5.99
- World War II Armored Recon$5.99
- Life as a Lich$5.99
- Velocity: The Race Begins$6.99
- Keeper of the Sun and Moon$6.99
- Samurai of Hyuga Book 6$6.99
- Fallen Hero: Rebirth$6.99
- Hero or Villain: Genesis$6.99
- A Kiss from Death$6.99
- Kitsune$6.99
- Whiskey-Four$6.99
- Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One$7.99
- The Soul Stone War$7.99
- Leas: City of the Sun$7.99
- The People's House$7.99
- Scales of Justice$7.99
- Tale of Two Cranes$8.99
- Breach: The Archangel Job$8.99
- Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two$8.99
- Saturnine$8.99
- The Golden Rose: Book One$11.99
- Diaspora$11.99
- Wayhaven Chronicles Three$11.99
- Fallen Hero: Retribution$11.99
- An Unexpectedly Green Journey$11.99
- Fields of Asphodel$11.99
Questions
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