Comparison

Planetary Quarantine vs iAdventure

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

Head to head
About

Planetary Quarantine

Step into the role of a quarantine agent tasked with regulating departures from Earth. Uncover a conspiracy involving a mysterious society and a threat to interstellar civilization. Explore a detailed world, build your life, and make critical decisions to save humanity.

Highlights
  • Interactive narrative
  • Mystery solving
  • World exploration
  • Character development
  • Multiple choices
  • Replayable content
Features
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You're a quarantine agent—an extrajudicial representative of the law who lets only approved people and products leave Earth—and in a few days your starship will be arriving as your new home world. A dead passenger, a mysterious society, and a potential threat to interstellar civilization all await you. Solve the case and save the world. Build your life while building society. Explore this richly intricate game where new surprises await you each time you play!

About

iAdventure

Embark on a text-based role-playing adventure with a unique blend of gritty themes, playful humor, and philosophical undertones. Explore imaginative worlds and make your own choices in this pocket-sized RPG.

Highlights
  • Text-based role-playing
  • Player choice and branching narratives
  • Gritty themes
  • Playful humor
  • Philosophical elements
  • Colorful writing
Features
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Gritty themes, playful humor, philosophy, and colorful writing adorn this text-based RPG in the comfort of your pocket. You choose which pocket, you choose your adventure! Best of all, it's free! You find yourself reading an app description, strange, the voice in your head hurries and words become real. What would you like to do today? What distant lands beckon you, where does your mind wander when allowed to roam free? Does your imaginary world look much different from the real one? I suppose only time will tell as you take a step out on the ethereal plane, your toes tingling from its imaginable static, fluid, sharp, cold and everything. Prepare yourself. Or don't. Your choice.

Screenshots

Planetary Quarantine4 screens
iAdventure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iAdventure at Free against Planetary Quarantine's $3.99. iAdventure also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and review sentiment (84% vs 47%). Planetary Quarantine's advantage is update cadence (every 25 months vs every 59 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iAdventure is free to download; Planetary Quarantine costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iAdventure holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 87 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Planetary Quarantine's written reviews are positive against 84% of iAdventure's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planetary Quarantine ships an update every 25 months, iAdventure every 59 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Planetary Quarantine versus iAdventure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanetary QuarantineiAdventure
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.4 (19 ratings)4.7 (87 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews84.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1987 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 months — betterEvery 59 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB6 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCDale LaPlante

Customer experience

Planetary Quarantine

All ratings19 ratings
Positive47.4%
Neutral10.5%
Negative42.1%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative40.0%

iAdventure

All ratings86 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.2%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive84.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

None

Planetary Quarantine

No in-app purchases

None

iAdventure

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planetary Quarantine free?
Planetary Quarantine costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iAdventure free?
iAdventure is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planetary Quarantine or iAdventure?
iAdventure is rated higher. Planetary Quarantine averages 3.4 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while iAdventure averages 4.7 from 87 ratings.
Do Planetary Quarantine or iAdventure have ads?
Planetary Quarantine shows ads; iAdventure does not.
Which is updated more often, Planetary Quarantine or iAdventure?
Planetary Quarantine ships an update every 25 months, and iAdventure every 59 months. Most recently, Planetary Quarantine was updated on October 23, 2026 and iAdventure on October 22, 2026.

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