Comparison

QuestaGame vs Dungeon by SmartMonsters

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

Head to head
About

QuestaGame

Embark on outdoor adventures to discover and photograph local wildlife. Compete with others by completing quests, identifying species, and contributing to biodiversity research. Earn rewards, level up, and build your collection while helping scientists.

Highlights
  • Outdoor wildlife quests
  • Photograph animals and plants
  • Species identification
  • Clans and challenges
  • Leaderboard competition
  • Biodiversity contribution
  • In-game rewards and leveling
Features
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Experience the adventure of your local wildlife. QuestaGame takes you outdoors - to your backyard, a local park, a hiking trail, anywhere. Join quests and compete with other players to photograph animals and plants in the wild. Your mission: Saving life on Earth. The game includes all species in your country, using national and global databases. Submit sightings of animals and plants and receive identifications, expert feedback - plus gold reward and experience points. Join quests, buy equipment, gain levels, build your collection, join clans, conquer territories, move up the leaderboard and become one of the great adventurers of all time. All sightings are geo-tagged with location, date, time and submitted to your country's national database (with your permission) - so you can not only map your conquests, but also help scientists, researchers, planners and others record and protect you region's biodiversity while you play. Some important features: - Clans and Head-to-Head Challenges. - Comms featured allows you to see what the community is up to. - QuestaLab allows you to earn gold and gain expertise levels identifying other players' sightings. - Featured sightings...and more! For more information be sure to visit http://www.questagame.com

About

Dungeon by SmartMonsters

Experience a classic text adventure game inspired by Zork. Explore a world filled with quirky puzzles and limited combat. This free-to-play game offers a friendly and safe environment for players of all genders.

Highlights
  • Classic text adventure gameplay
  • Quirky puzzle solving
  • Retro gaming emulation
  • Exploration mechanics
  • Friendly community environment
  • Cross-world play
Features
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Did we mention extremely frustrating, arbitrary puzzles! Plus lotso quirky exploration, and exactly two opportunities for (unrealistic) violence! Retro gaming at its most retro! Dungeon is our emulation of a seminal milestone in computer gaming: the classic interactive text adventure "Zork" of 1977. Running on the TriadCity platform, it's our homage to one of the most influential computer games of all time. Most importantly, it's fun! It's completely FREE to play, and has more women players than men. Best of all, it's friendly! For twenty years SmartMonsters has been free of the flame wars, misogyny, and mean-spiritedness prominent in some other environments. Even our bulletin boards are safe! Visit us today - we can't wait to meet you! Dungeon is one World in the wider SmartMonsters Universe. From Dungeon your characters can enter the TriadCity or Midgaard Worlds, where the "laws of physics" are very different. With more to come!

Screenshots

QuestaGame4 screens
Dungeon by SmartMonsters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dungeon by SmartMonsters at 4.0 against QuestaGame's 3.0. QuestaGame's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dungeon by SmartMonsters holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuestaGame ships an update every 3 weeks, Dungeon by SmartMonsters monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
QuestaGame versus Dungeon by SmartMonsters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuestaGameDungeon by SmartMonsters
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (8 ratings)4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB2 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperEarth Guardians Pty LtdSmartMonsters, Inc.

Customer experience

QuestaGame

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral37.5%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral7.3%
Negative14.5%

Dungeon by SmartMonsters

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

QuestaGame

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes on opening after update
  • App crashes when submitting sightings
  • App crashes when selecting observations synced from inaturalist
  • Cannot create profile/account
  • App says offline when online
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  • Cannot delete offline sightings without photos
  • Species name display in QLab history is cut off
  • Search functionality is inconsistent
  • App crashes when adding field notes
  • Login issues
  • Syncing issues with inaturalist
  • Text not readable (dark on dark background)
  • Cannot upload photos if wrong one is selected

Requested features

15 requests
  • Allow editing submitted sightings
  • Improve photo upload process (batch, remove)
  • Make all text readable (contrast)
  • Add iPad version support
  • Allow using cameras other than phone
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  • More quests/challenges
  • Gallery of photos
  • Ability to use multiple clans
  • Fix species name display in QLab history
  • Increase daily sighting limit
  • Make app available on iPad
  • Allow offline sightings without photos to be deleted
  • Improve search functionality
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve app layout and navigation

Dungeon by SmartMonsters

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

QuestaGame

No in-app purchases

None

Dungeon by SmartMonsters

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuestaGame free?
QuestaGame is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dungeon by SmartMonsters free?
Dungeon by SmartMonsters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, QuestaGame or Dungeon by SmartMonsters?
Dungeon by SmartMonsters is rated higher. QuestaGame averages 3.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Dungeon by SmartMonsters averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do QuestaGame or Dungeon by SmartMonsters have ads?
Neither QuestaGame nor Dungeon by SmartMonsters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuestaGame or Dungeon by SmartMonsters?
QuestaGame ships an update every 3 weeks, and Dungeon by SmartMonsters monthly. Most recently, QuestaGame was updated on November 1, 2026 and Dungeon by SmartMonsters on November 3, 2026.

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