Comparison

Drancia vs Xeno Drift

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

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About

Drancia

Embark on an arcade-style action RPG adventure with a charming cast and retro pixel art. Chain combos to earn coins, level up your skills, and battle diverse monsters. Unravel the game's mysteries with a killer chiptune soundtrack.

Highlights
  • Arcade-style action RPG
  • Retro pixel art graphics
  • Combo chaining for coins
  • Skill tree progression
  • Diverse characters
  • Unique boss battles
  • Vintage chiptune soundtrack
Features
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This action RPG features an amusing cast of characters and has an arcade-like feel! Chain combos to rack up coins and level up through the skill tree! Defeat hordes of monsters and unravel the mystery of Drancia! ・Retro-style, cute pixel art graphics! ・Smooth controls and loads of extras to enjoy! ・Unique bosses in every stage! ・Over fifty different types of characters to play as! ・A killer soundtrack of over 20 vintage, Famicom-style chiptunes! *Drancia was originally released in 2008 by Skipmore as a web-based game entitled Drancia Survival. Now it’s been powered-up for smartphones!

About

Xeno Drift

Features
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KHEPRI SIX WENT DARK SEVENTEEN DAYS AGO. You are Employee #426223. Your assignment is artefact retrieval: three Anchors, from a research station orbiting the Nadir Black Hole. The facility was studying biological specimens recovered from around it. Command considers a xeno-specimen outbreak the most probable cause of the blackout. Expect hostile xenobiological contact. Failure to retrieve the Anchors will result in immediate termination. Xeno Drift is a survival horror roguelike built for short, tense runs. Ten to fifteen minutes to the bottom of the station, or to whatever finds you first. DESCEND Three sectors, twenty-five rooms in the first and fewer in each one after. The station lays itself out differently every run, and the only way to learn a room is to open it. CHOOSE Thirty-four events, each a decision with consequences you can read before you commit and cannot take back after. Supplies, corpses, rooms that should not exist. FIGHT Twenty-three creatures, each carrying a mutation that changes how the fight works. Bulletproof things that ignore your weapon. Kleptophilic things that take your equipment. Ravenous things that destroy your ammunition. Working out what a creature is doing to you is most of surviving it. BREAK DOWN Terror, Despair and Psychosis fill up separately from your health. Fill any one of them and the run ends, whatever your health says. There are two ways to survive Khepri Six and four ways to die on it. BUILT FOR PHONES This is a portrait game, rebuilt for a phone rather than squeezed onto one. No virtual stick, no reflexes, no rotating the device. It is turn-based, so it waits for you: put it down mid-run and pick it up later. NO STRINGS ATTACHED Free. No advertising. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No analytics. No network permission, because the game never makes a connection. Xeno Drift was created by Ion Klamp and released for desktop on itch.io. This is the mobile port, by Granata.

Screenshots

Drancia3 screens
Xeno Drift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Xeno Drift at none against Drancia's 3. Drancia's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Drancia sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Xeno Drift asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Drancia versus Xeno Drift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDranciaXeno Drift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (117 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings117 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB91 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMasakazu YoneharaGranata Labs LLC

Bugs and requests

Drancia

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Crashes after dying
  • Crashes when buying sold out items
  • Game crashes in bad spots
  • Game exits unexpectedly
  • Game resets when phone is closed
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  • Black screen after ads
  • Can't get out of skills menu

Requested features

20 requests
  • Boss rush mode
  • Adjustable controls
  • Co-op mode
  • Difficulty settings
  • Continue system with gems
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  • More story line
  • Full screen on iPhone X
  • More stuff to add
  • Make classes hit differently
  • Create own hero
  • Male/female gender option
  • Ninja/Kunoichi character class
  • Fancy control pad/buttons
  • Intro/opening sequence
  • Release on 3DS eShop
  • Mini games
  • Upward attack
  • Remove ads for a fee
  • Save progress during/at end of stage
  • Swap apps without restarting

Xeno Drift

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Drancia

One-time3
  • Treat us to coffee$0.99
  • Treat us to a beer$0.99
  • Treat us to dinner$2.99
None

Xeno Drift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drancia free?
Drancia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Xeno Drift free?
Xeno Drift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drancia or Xeno Drift have ads?
Neither Drancia nor Xeno Drift shows ads.

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