Seven Bullets vs Diabolical
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seven Bullets
An assassin must use their deadly skills to rescue their kidnapped sister. Navigate a branching narrative with over 470 choices and 80 unique endings. Your decisions will determine the fate of your family and your own survival.
- Branching narrative with over 470 choices
- 80+ unique endings
- 260,000+ words of text
- 35 achievements
- Assassin storyline
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You’re a skilled assassin ready to retire, but before you can call it quits, the Boss kidnaps your little sister, and now you need to use your arsenal of deadly skills to get her back. Will you make the choices that bring her home safely? Or will you get caught in a web of intrigue, assassins, and deadly combat? Only you can decide how this story ends...Do you have what it takes to survive? • 260k words • 470+ unique choices • 80+ endings • 35 Achievements
Diabolical
Become the ultimate criminal mastermind in this text-based interactive novel. Make choices to build an evil empire, hire minions, and achieve world domination, or destruction. Explore different villain archetypes and romance options.
- Choose your villainous path
- Hire and manage minions
- Make impactful story choices
- Develop your evil empire
- Explore romance options
- Achieve world domination or destruction
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Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.) "Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you. Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical. • Play a villainous story of scheming, grandstanding, and laughing evilly. • Interview and hire the best possible (or best available) minion. • Decide when to use trickery, when to use force, and when to hide behind henchmen. • Choose the ultimate, guaranteed-to-be-infamous nickname. • Play as male or female, with straight, gay, and bisexual romance options. • Destroy the world!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Diabolical at Free against Seven Bullets's $6.99. Diabolical also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 45%) and ratings volume (45 vs 10). Seven Bullets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (4.3 vs 4.1). On update cadence, ads, device support 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
Diabolical is free to download; Seven Bullets costs $6.99 up front. Diabolical sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Seven Bullets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Seven Bullets holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 45 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 45% of Seven Bullets's written reviews are positive against 77% of Diabolical's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Seven Bullets ships an update every 10 months, Diabolical every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seven Bullets | Diabolical |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (10 ratings) — better | 4.1 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 77.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Seven Bullets
Diabolical
Bugs and requests
Seven Bullets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Diabolical
Reported bugs
1 issue- Bug fix???
Requested features
14 requests- Sequel needed
- More like this game
- Werewolf story
- More choices that affect story
- Choice of alien game
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- More vs hero interaction
- Longer battles
- More villain POV things
- Improved sequel
- More customization (lairs, sidekicks, stats)
- More interactive than other gamebooks
- More improvements to character development
- More content like this
- More interactive releases
In-app purchases
Seven Bullets
No in-app purchases
Diabolical
- Chapters 3 through 12$4.99
Questions
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