Comparison

Guild Wars® Reforged vs BALL x PIT

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

Head to head
About

Guild Wars® Reforged

Embark on a fantasy adventure in this award-winning MMORPG, now enhanced for mobile. Experience a complete saga with hundreds of quests, customizable builds from ten professions, and tactical battles with allies or other players.

Highlights
  • Complete saga experience
  • Hundreds of quests
  • Ten professions with unique builds
  • Thousands of skills
  • Party up with players or NPCs
  • PvP and PvE challenges
  • Cross-play and cross-progression
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Live a fantasy adventure in Guild Wars Reforged, the award-winning MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE ROLE PLAYING GAME enjoyed by millions, now re-energized with system enhancements and enhanced for mobile play. Experience the complete saga: from the fall of Ascalon to the desperate stand against Nightfall, every campaign is an epic chapter of Tyria history. And with full cross-play and cross-progression, you'll play how you want, when you want. Choose your adventure: Incredible stories await across 3 massive parallel campaigns. Explore hundreds of quests, challenging missions, holiday event surprises, and more! Choose your build: Craft unique builds from ten professions and personalize your gameplay by combining armor sets, weapons, and thousands of skills. As you adventure, explore new lands, and conquer new foes, your arsenal of abilities will grow. Choose your allies: Party up with other players, create a team of reliable NPC henchmen, or recruit customizable heroes to join you in fun, tactical battles. Choose your challenge: Test your team's mettle against other players in PVP—or complete a PvE campaign to challenge yourself with hard-mode versions of maps and missions.

About

BALL x PIT

Engage in a brick-breaking, ball-fusing roguelite adventure. Battle enemies with ricocheting projectiles, gather resources, and build a new city. Recruit heroes and explore diverse realms in this fast-paced fantasy quest.

Highlights
  • Brick-breaking gameplay
  • Ball fusion system with 60+ randomized balls
  • Base building with 70+ unique structures
  • Hero recruitment and upgrades
  • Exploration of diverse realms
  • Roguelite progression
Features
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BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes. BALL x PIT is a fast-paced fantasy roguelite where heroes must find the balls to plunge deeper into a seemingly bottomless pit of monsters. Develop arcane ammunition and resources in pursuit of treasure, recruiting additional heroes to aid you in your perilous quest. Ballbylon has fallen. After a meteoric and completely unexpected event annihilated the great city, all that remains is an ominous, yawning pit. Treasure hunters from far and wide flock to the city’s tomb to seek their fortune, plumbing the depths in search of Ballbylon’s scattered riches. Few return. The pit plays host to armies of barbaric creatures, hellbent on ending your quest before it even begins. Armed with a growing arsenal of magic-infused projectiles, batter your way through multiple levels of increasingly challenging obstacles to claim the ultimate prizes and rebuild New Ballbylon. Fuse Your Balls The Ball Fusion system encourages explosive experimentation with over 60 randomized balls to equip and combine during your journey. Discover overpowered combinations and unexpected synergies from hundreds of possible outcomes. Build New Ballbylon Expand New Ballbylon with over 70 unique buildings that provide gameplay bonuses and unlock further power-ups, new characters, and more! As your community grows, task homebound heroes with automated tasks to keep the resources coming while you dive deeper into the pit. Discover New Realms Face legions of diverse enemies within the pit, battling through barren deserts, frozen caverns, savage forests and more. Each region offers its own unique set of hazards on top of hordes of increasingly challenging foes and mighty, screen-filling bosses. Recruit Fellow Hunters As you explore the pit you’ll encounter fellow treasure hunters eager to add their skills to your expedition. Each character has unique, upgradable mechanics that totally change the way you play the game. Experimentation and adaptation are crucial to the success of New Ballbylon!

Screenshots

Guild Wars® Reforged4 screens
BALL x PIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BALL x PIT at 4.9 against Guild Wars® Reforged's 4.2. BALL x PIT also leads on ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#186 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Guild Wars® Reforged sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and BALL x PIT sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BALL x PIT holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BALL x PIT has 4.3K ratings behind it against 542, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Guild Wars® Reforged's written reviews are positive against 70% of BALL x PIT's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guild Wars® Reforged ships an update every 9 days, BALL x PIT weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Guild Wars® Reforged versus BALL x PIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuild Wars® ReforgedBALL x PIT
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (542 ratings)4.9 (4.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews70.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5424.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#186 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.4 GB457 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperArenaNet, LLC.Devolver Digital, Inc.

Customer experience

Guild Wars® Reforged

All ratings541 ratings
Positive78.0%
Neutral2.2%
Negative19.8%
Written reviews312 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative31.4%

BALL x PIT

All ratings3,626 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews404 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative18.8%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Guild Wars® Reforged

One-time10
  • Xunlai Storage Pane$3.99
  • Xunlai Material Storage Expansion$3.99
  • Extra Character Slot$5.99
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  • Prophecies Skill Unlock Pack$5.99
  • Prophecies (Ad Free)$6.99
  • Guild Wars® Factions$6.99
  • Guild Wars® Nightfall$6.99
  • Purveyor's Bell$6.99
  • Guild Wars® Eye of the North™$9.99
  • Infinite Identification Kit$9.99
2 purchases

BALL x PIT

One-time2
  • Full Game$14.99
  • Full game$14.99

Questions

Is Guild Wars® Reforged free?
Guild Wars® Reforged is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BALL x PIT free?
BALL x PIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Guild Wars® Reforged or BALL x PIT?
BALL x PIT is rated higher. Guild Wars® Reforged averages 4.2 out of 5 from 542 ratings, while BALL x PIT averages 4.9 from 4.3K ratings.
Do Guild Wars® Reforged or BALL x PIT have ads?
Guild Wars® Reforged shows ads; BALL x PIT does not.
Which is updated more often, Guild Wars® Reforged or BALL x PIT?
Guild Wars® Reforged ships an update every 9 days, and BALL x PIT weekly. Most recently, Guild Wars® Reforged was updated on November 1, 2026 and BALL x PIT on November 5, 2026.

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