No Proper Thief vs Drag Star!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
No Proper Thief
Embark on a thrilling bank heist where your decisions shape your survival and fortune. Navigate complex relationships with your crew and a captivating bank manager, facing consequences for every choice. Can you escape the chaos and get rich?
- Branching narrative choices
- Team management
- Relationship building
- Consequence-driven gameplay
- Multiple endings
- Interactive fiction
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Attempt to survive your first bank heist! Befriend or betray your team of bank robbers, make difficult choices, survive, go insane, fall in love, and get rich if you can in No Proper Thief, where every choice you make has a consequence. You never wanted a life of crime, but it's all you know. That doesn't mean transitioning from a life as a cocky con artist to a greenhorn bank robber doesn't scare you. In No Proper Thief you are Clyde Lamm, the Rooster, and you have a choice to make. In fact, you have dozens of choices to make throughout your upcoming adventure. Everything has consequences, too. You and your team, consisting of the leader Zebra, the muscle Stag, and the heart Marlin, have many obstacles to overcome. Still, in the midst of all the dark chaos of the initial robbery, there is a flame of positivity: an attractive young bank manager. Sure you stole her gold heirloom ring a while back, but it's a fair trade because that fox is stealing your heart. Can you make the hard choices and survive your first bank heist?
Drag Star!
Step into the spotlight as a contestant on a reality TV drag competition. Make strategic choices to showcase your skills in singing, dancing, and comedy, while navigating rivalries and a potential saboteur to become the next drag icon.
- Play as diverse drag performers
- Compete in singing, dancing, and comedy
- Specialize your drag style
- Build relationships with castmates
- Solve a sabotage mystery
- Win fan favorite or other titles
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Get ready, honey! You're a contestant on Drag Star!, the reality TV drag competition. You better throw shade, serve looks, and slay each episode to become the next drag icon! "Drag Star!" is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Evan J. Peterson, 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 (and sass). As a contestant on the newest season of Drag Star! You’ll prove your skills on the S.H.A.D.E. scale: Smarts, Humor, Artistry, Daring, and Enchantment. Through celebrity impersonation, singing, dancing, costuming, and comedy, you’ll need to be sickening in every stunt to win it all. But how will you steal the show? Enter the Twerkshop with your own catchphrase, meet your new drag family, and try to maintain self-care and integrity while still playing to win. How will you balance competing and bonding with castmates like Lady Kali, Scandal Dupree, and Dorian Slay? Oh, but there’s more. Not everyone is playing by the same rules—there’s a saboteur on the cast, waiting for the right opportunities to cause even more drama. Will you emerge as a finalist and grab the crown? Will you own the catwalk and the title of Fan Favorite? Will your wig stay on while you whip it back and forth? And will you be able to save the show from a devilish saboteur? • Play as a drag queen, a drag king, or a nonbinary or genderfluid performer. • Throw shade, turn looks on the catwalk, dance the house down, and write original jokes and song lyrics. • Compete against a diverse cast of fierce drag performers—or are you here to make friends? • Specialize your style: villainous or sweet, campy or elegant, classic or avant garde • Build your drag family: win episodes together, be a mentor, stoke or resolve rivalries. • Solve the mystery of the sabotage—or ignore that drama entirely. • Win Fan Favorite or Most Congenial. • Join the Abbey of the Perpetually Fabulous, a new drag religion. • Maintain your self-care or push yourself and take risks for more fan attention. • Make it as a finalist in Season Eight of Drag Star! and win the crown. Don’t be a filler contestant—slay your way to legendary status!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drag Star! at 100% against No Proper Thief's 57%. Drag Star! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 22 months). No Proper Thief's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 8). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. No Proper Thief sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drag Star! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drag Star! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of No Proper Thief's written reviews are positive against 100% of Drag Star!'s.
No Proper Thief ships an update every 22 months, Drag Star! every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | No Proper Thief | Drag Star! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
No Proper Thief
Drag Star!
In-app purchases
No Proper Thief
- Rest of the Game$3.99
Drag Star!
- Drag Star!$4.99
Questions
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