Comparison

Seven Bullets vs Diabolical

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Branching narrative with over 470 choices
  • 80+ unique endings
  • 260,000+ words of text
  • 35 achievements
  • Assassin storyline
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Choose your villainous path
  • Hire and manage minions
  • Make impactful story choices
  • Develop your evil empire
  • Explore romance options
  • Achieve world domination or destruction
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Seven Bullets4 screens
Diabolical4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Seven Bullets versus Diabolical: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeven BulletsDiabolical
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (10 ratings) — better4.1 (45 ratings)
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews77.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1045 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 months — betterEvery 13 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB30 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCChoice of Games LLC

Customer experience

Seven Bullets

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral9.1%
Negative45.5%

Diabolical

All ratings45 ratings
Positive75.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative17.8%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive77.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.4%

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

None

Seven Bullets

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Diabolical

One-time1
  • Chapters 3 through 12$4.99

Questions

Is Seven Bullets free?
Seven Bullets costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diabolical free?
Diabolical is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Seven Bullets or Diabolical?
Seven Bullets is rated higher. Seven Bullets averages 4.3 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Diabolical averages 4.1 from 45 ratings.
Do Seven Bullets or Diabolical have ads?
Both Seven Bullets and Diabolical show ads.
Which is updated more often, Seven Bullets or Diabolical?
Seven Bullets ships an update every 10 months, and Diabolical every 13 months. Most recently, Seven Bullets was updated on October 24, 2026 and Diabolical on October 22, 2026.

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