Comparison

Wunderverse vs Hosted Games

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

Head to head
About

Wunderverse

Explore and create unlimited interactive adventure tales in a fun, imaginative environment. Design your own stories with a rich rules system, share them with friends, and publish them for everyone to play. No programming skills are required to craft exciting quests.

Highlights
  • Create interactive adventure tales
  • Explore adventures by others
  • Rich rules system for storytelling
  • Open narrative environment
  • Share and publish adventures
  • No programming skills needed
Features
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"Wonderful for the imagination" - AppAdvice "If you haven't heard of Wunderverse, now is as good a time as ever to check it out." -- TouchArcade Wunderverse is a place for endless adventure. Out here you can explore and create unlimited interactive adventure tales in a fun, new environment made for your imagination. - A complete platform for interactive storytelling adventure on Mac and iOS. - Collect and explore adventures written and imagined by others - Create your own absorbing, interactive adventures through a new form of storytelling - Take advantage of a rich rules system with over 75 unique Events, Outcomes and Conditions, plus unlimited Skills, Abilities, and more for you to weave player chance and choice into every adventure you create. - Imagine untold places, characters, and objects for players to discover through an open storytelling environment - Share adventures with friends to explore - Publish your adventures for everyone in the Wunderverse to play! Wunderverse was designed as a way for anyone to play, create, and share exciting adventure tales with untold places to discover, characters to meet, mysteries to solve, and treasures to find. No programming skills are needed to create and enjoy your own adventures in Wunderverse. Through a fun and versatile rules system and an open narrative environment you can set up endless obstacles and challenges for players to overcome as they explore your stories — all based on the actions players take, what they are carrying, their current conditions, their skills and abilities, random chance, and a myriad of other possibilities that make going on quests so much fun. Currently, there are eight known worlds in the Wunderverse where exciting adventures can be created, shared and enjoyed. These include medieval times, ancient ruins, 40’s crime noir, a post-apocalyptic future, atomic space, a huge city, and more. And the Wunderverse is a big constellation! Diverse and interesting new worlds are bound to be discovered soon. What are you waiting for!? Come explore in the Wunderverse! Wunderverse includes lots of basic story editing tools for free. You can upgrade to the full set of story building tools with the Pro Tools upgrade subscription. Pro Tools subscriptions are for one year. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://durablebrand.software/wunderverse/ugc-terms-of-use

About

Hosted Games

Explore a vast library of text-based interactive novels where your choices shape the narrative. Engage in diverse genres from horror and fantasy to romance and sci-fi, all powered by your imagination. Create your own stories using a simple scripting language.

Highlights
  • Vast library of interactive novels
  • Text-based storytelling
  • Choice-driven narratives
  • Multiple genres available
  • Create your own games
  • ChoiceScript programming language
Features
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The choice is yours! Joust for love and glory, solve an eldritch murder, find romance, or battle aliens with Magitek? "Hosted Games" is a magnificent library of interactive novels, written by authors like you. Hosted Games are entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Try a few of these fan favorites: • Zombie Exodus — Fight your way out of a zombie-filled city in this interactive horror story! • Fallen Hero — Step into the shoes of a telepath turned villain and explore the dark side. • Wayhaven Chronicles — Something stalks the shadows, and it's up to you to find out what! • Sabres of Infinity — Step into the boots of a Royal Dragoon in this tale of war in a fantasy world. • Golden Rose — Explore a medieval Europe where history took a different turn! • Soul Stone War — Fight for the future—your own, and the world's! Your fate is yours. • I, the Forgotten One — Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you? • An Unexpectedly Green Journey — From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Are you destined for glory? • Fields of Asphodel — Join the ranks of the Underworld's misfit gods and make it your home! • Tin Star — Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal and craft a legend. Authors just like you have developed these games using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Learn more at https://hostedgames.org

Screenshots

Wunderverse4 screens
Hosted Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hosted Games at 4.7 against Wunderverse's 4.1. Hosted Games also leads on ratings volume (956 vs 63) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). Wunderverse's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Wunderverse sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year and Hosted Games sells 33 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hosted Games holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hosted Games has 956 ratings behind it against 63, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Wunderverse's written reviews are positive against 77% of Hosted Games's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wunderverse ships an update monthly, Hosted Games every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Wunderverse versus Hosted Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWunderverseHosted Games
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (63 ratings)4.7 (956 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.8% of reviews — better77.5% of reviews
Number of ratings63956 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB94 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDurable Brand Software LLCHosted Games LLC

Customer experience

Wunderverse

All ratings63 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral4.8%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral15.4%
Negative3.8%

Hosted Games

All ratings956 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral1.7%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews213 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Wunderverse

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Tools Upgrade$5.991 Year
One-time5
  • Hint Pack$0.99
  • Out of Gas$0.99
  • The Pley$0.99
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  • Play Session with Tracking$0.99
  • Play Session with Interaction$1.99
33 purchases

Hosted Games

One-time33
  • Dragon of Steelthorne$2.99
  • Side Stories 21-30$2.99
  • First Bull Run$2.99
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  • Tokyo Wizard$2.99
  • It Takes Three to Tango$3.99
  • Divine Ascension$4.99
  • Samurai of Hyuga$4.99
  • Keeper's Vigil$5.99
  • World War II Armored Recon$5.99
  • Life as a Lich$5.99
  • Velocity: The Race Begins$6.99
  • Keeper of the Sun and Moon$6.99
  • Samurai of Hyuga Book 6$6.99
  • Fallen Hero: Rebirth$6.99
  • Hero or Villain: Genesis$6.99
  • A Kiss from Death$6.99
  • Kitsune$6.99
  • Whiskey-Four$6.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One$7.99
  • The Soul Stone War$7.99
  • Leas: City of the Sun$7.99
  • The People's House$7.99
  • Scales of Justice$7.99
  • Tale of Two Cranes$8.99
  • Breach: The Archangel Job$8.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two$8.99
  • Saturnine$8.99
  • The Golden Rose: Book One$11.99
  • Diaspora$11.99
  • Wayhaven Chronicles Three$11.99
  • Fallen Hero: Retribution$11.99
  • An Unexpectedly Green Journey$11.99
  • Fields of Asphodel$11.99

Questions

Is Wunderverse free?
Wunderverse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hosted Games free?
Hosted Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wunderverse or Hosted Games?
Hosted Games is rated higher. Wunderverse averages 4.1 out of 5 from 63 ratings, while Hosted Games averages 4.7 from 956 ratings.
Do Wunderverse or Hosted Games have ads?
Hosted Games shows ads; Wunderverse does not.
Which is updated more often, Wunderverse or Hosted Games?
Wunderverse ships an update monthly, and Hosted Games every 10 days. Most recently, Wunderverse was updated on October 5, 2026 and Hosted Games on October 16, 2026.

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