Silent Gear vs Universal Library
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Silent Gear
Immerse yourself in a text-based sci-fi thriller where your choices shape a grim military future. Navigate complex relationships, war, and betrayal as an elite soldier. Your decisions determine survival and multiple endings.
- Text-based interactive story
- Branching narrative with multiple endings
- Sci-fi military setting
- Romance, betrayal, and survival elements
- Four mini-games
- Randomized key items for replayability
- Squad survival mechanics
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Become an elite trained soldier in a grim military future world. You decide your friendship, love, war, betrayal, and above all, survival. "Silent Gear" is an interactive sci-fi thriller by Lee Yuan, where your choices control the story. It’s text-based–without graphics–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. With the constant economic downturn and conflicts, the United States had officially lost its superpower title in the year 2032. Russia and China have risen together and created the New Unified Communist Party (NUCP); they have dominated most of Asia and parts of Europe in terms of economy and political influence. They are the undisputed new super power. Without the support from the United States, the ISIS terrorists seized almost all of the middle east. The oil production in Saudi Arabia and other natural resources in the region are now all under ISIS control. They renamed themselves as Holy Islamic Liberation Organization (HILO). Their massive increase of wealth has a devastating effect on all democratic nations. In a desperate effort to maintain balance, NATO has created the Augmented Reconnaissance and Operations Corp (AROC) to counter the new threats. The story begins on your AROC academy graduation day. This is an interactive story with elements of romance, betrayal and survival, complete with a prologue, three Episodes and multiple endings. Your choices will determine the fate of your squad as well as your own. The game also contains 4 mini games: Greedy Banker Dice, Cho Han Bakuchi, Gunship boss battle and Mech Suit boss battle. • Immerse in a sci-fi military world based on real life political groups • Dozens of sounds effects • Different mini games throughout each Episodes • Key items randomized in different locations upon each play through for replayability • Two Boss battles that require some thinking and planning • Survival of squad members dependent on a combination of the decisions you previously made • Multiple endings
Universal Library
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This game is a simulation of the universal library described in a short story, "The Library of Babel", by Jorge Luis Borges. The story can be found in several published collections and websites. As described, the Library contains all books of a certain size whose text is any possible sequence of lower-case letters and simple punctuation, even if it is nonsense. This simulation is of an interesting corner of the Library, tiny compared to the Borges vision, but large enough to get lost in. The game is an explorable virtual environment with a few treasure-hunt-like activities leading to books with meaningful content. There is a book that players can erase and rewrite to make into their own "personal vindication", and a book with a practically infinite number of pages. Individual books are searchable. You can mark and return easily to any alcove with an interesting book.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Universal Library at none against Silent Gear's 2. Universal Library also leads on ads (none vs shown). Silent Gear's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 40 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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. Silent Gear sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Universal Library asks for nothing beyond the download.
Silent Gear ships an update every 5 months, Universal Library every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Silent Gear | Universal Library |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 40 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Jonathan Millen |
Bugs and requests
Silent Gear
Reported bugs
13 issues- Ling's BDS armor still deflects attacks after destruction
- Boss battles are rigged
- Player's systems can't be used if destroyed, but AI can still use theirs
- AI spams attacks that cannot be defended against
- Gender randomly changes to male
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- Game uses he/him pronouns and calls player 'sir' despite female character
- Bosses can still block with defense modules at 0%
- Boss AI cheats, can still use counter things at 0%
- Boss battles are buggy and unbalanced
- Stats and choices barely matter in boss fights
- Ship battle is impossible
- First boss is too hard
- Boss AI cheats
Requested features
9 requests- Make the story longer
- Add more content
- Create a sequel/part 2
- More variety in choices
- Improve character development
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- Add more romance options
- Fix gender glitch
- Make boss battles more strategic
- Add a dark mode option
Universal Library
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Silent Gear
- Restart the Game Once$0.99
- Remove Advertising$4.99
Universal Library
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Silent Gear free?
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Do Silent Gear or Universal Library have ads?
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