Comparison

Desktop Dungeons vs The Enchanted Cave 2

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

Head to head
About

Desktop Dungeons

Engage in a unique puzzle roguelike adventure across randomly generated dungeons. Collect loot, spells, and items to defeat bosses and upgrade your kingdom. Unlock new classes, races, and items for hundreds of hours of strategic gameplay.

Highlights
  • Randomly generated single-screen dungeons
  • 20 unlockable classes
  • 7 unique races
  • Kingdom upgrades for starting bonuses
  • Hundreds of hours of quests and puzzles
  • Daily Dungeon challenges
Features
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***Cross platform saves! Play the same Kingdom on any device!*** Desktop Dungeons, the award-winning unique puzzle roguelike makes its debut on iOS! Fight your way through randomly generated dungeons, collect spells, items, and loot to defeat the dungeon boss and earn gold to upgrade your Kingdom. Unlock new classes to play as, useful items to discover, capricious gods to worship, and enemies to fight. All in service of the almighty bottom line and saving your Kingdom from peril. Desktop Dungeons packs all the challenge and reward of a dungeon crawling roguelike game into bite sized chunks of puzzle goodness. Take an Elf Warlord through the Venture Cave, defeat Aequitas the Warlock and sell his beard to your Taxidermist to afford an upgrade to your Blacksmith. Or, spend time in the game's extensive puzzles trying to understand exactly what worshipping Taurog is all about. Key Features: -Randomly generated single-screen dungeons offer bite sized adventure. -Explore new terrain to regenerate your health and mana, INNOVATION! -20 Classes to play as and unlock, including the new Chemist and Rat Monarch! -7 Races that combine uniquely with the Classes, each playing differently. -Upgrade your Kingdom to unlock items and preparations to start your dungeon runs with. -Loads of quests and puzzles to keep you entertained for hundreds of hours. -Compete with your friends in the new Daily Dungeon. -Music by the power duo of Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac) and Grant Kirkhope (Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye 64) -The full Desktop Dungeons experience, optimized for touch screen. -Goats! "If you're looking for a roguelike with a cheeky swagger, and enough content to lose yourself in, then this should be at the top of your list." - PocketGamer (9/10) "Desktop Dungeons is brilliant. It is so incredibly simple, and so incredibly basic, and yet it is brilliant." - GameZebo (4.5/5) "Desktop Dungeons has made a pretty great effort to port their game to the iOS world, and it packs a lot of replay and problem solving into this app." - TouchArcade (4/5) Desktop Dungeons won the award for Excellence in Design at the 2011 Independent Games Festival, where it was also a Grand Prize nominee. Website: http://www.DesktopDungeons.net Forums: http://www.QCFdesign.com/forum Twitter: @QCFdesign

About

The Enchanted Cave 2

Explore a dangerous cave filled with treasure and monsters. Strategically battle foes, gather loot, and upgrade your character through a deep skill tree. Discover secret areas, craft items, and manage your risk to become a powerful adventurer.

Highlights
  • Randomly-generated floors
  • Deep skill tree
  • Crafting and enchanting
  • Secret areas
  • Mid-cave shops
  • Multiple playable characters
Features
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Delve into a strange cave with a seemingly endless supply of treasure, strategically choosing your battles to gather as much treasure as possible! Find rare artifacts, gold, and stat gems, and traverse the skill tree to become your choice of a mage, warrior, alchemist, or a mix of skills. Craft potions, enchant your equipment, and discover secret areas! But be careful because the cave has become quite dangerous lately with more explorers going missing every day… ---Gameplay--- The Enchanted Cave 2 is an RPG/roguelike with a heavy focus on risk vs reward. Strategically choosing your battles, building your character, enchanting your equipment and knowing when to escape the cave are crucial to succeed. ---Key Features--- - 9 playable characters - 100 randomly-generated floors of loot, monsters, and minibosses - Secret areas hidden in the walls - A thriving town of tourists and eager explorers to talk and trade their equipment - Over 300 items, equipment, spells, and crafting ingredients - Mid-cave shops to buy, sell, and enchant equipment - Sprawling skill tree featuring 3 unique play-styles, or any combination! - A beautiful soundtrack by Grant Kirkhope - Museum for the hardcore collectors - New Game+ mode to infinity

Screenshots

The Enchanted Cave 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Enchanted Cave 2 at 4.7 against Desktop Dungeons's 4.1. The Enchanted Cave 2 also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 52%) and price ($5.99 vs $9.99). Desktop Dungeons's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.6). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Desktop Dungeons costs $9.99 and The Enchanted Cave 2 $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Enchanted Cave 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Enchanted Cave 2 has 112 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Desktop Dungeons's written reviews are positive against 93% of The Enchanted Cave 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Desktop Dungeons ships an update every 4 weeks, The Enchanted Cave 2 fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Desktop Dungeons versus The Enchanted Cave 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDesktop DungeonsThe Enchanted Cave 2
Price$9.99$5.99 — better
Rating4.1 (16 ratings)4.7 (112 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.1% of reviews93.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#188 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better13.6
Further details — not scored
Size289 MB65 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperQCF DesignDustin Auxier

Customer experience

Desktop Dungeons

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive52.1%
Neutral14.1%
Negative33.8%

The Enchanted Cave 2

All ratings112 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive93.0%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.8%

User reviews

Desktop Dungeons

From 16 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Addictive gameplay
  • 💡 Deep strategy and puzzle elements
  • 👍 Hours of content
  • 👍 Worth the cost
  • 👍 Fun and not full of ads

Room to improve

  • 😞 Bad graphics
  • 😞 Difficult to master
  • 😞 Waste of money for some
  • 😞 Ugly text and low res
  • 😞 Poor value for cost initially

The Enchanted Cave 2

From 112 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Addictive gameplay loop
  • 👍 High replayability
  • 👍 Nostalgic appeal
  • 👍 Good value for money
  • 👍 Satisfying progression

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🐛 Game lags
  • 🐛 Music bugs (repeats)
  • 🐛 Small text on older devices
  • 🐛 Confusing enchanting system

Bugs and requests

Desktop Dungeons

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game freezes
  • Screen does not rotate
  • Game locked up after unlocking blacksmith
  • Save files corrupted or stuck
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  • Text unreadable
  • UI elements overlap
  • Game crashes after completing dungeons
  • Game crashes when opening codex
  • Game resets when minimized
  • Blacksmith feature broken
  • Tutorial step bugged

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add difficulty levels
  • Update graphics
  • Fix text formatting and readability
  • Add cloud saves
  • Improve UI for touch devices
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  • Fix screen rotation
  • Remove PC version leftovers
  • Add Retina support
  • Fix game freezes and crashes
  • Improve polish and user experience
  • Add dark mode

The Enchanted Cave 2

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Crashes during potion crafting
  • Crashes during enchanting items on level 0
  • Progress reset after crashes
  • White outline of secret room visible
  • Music repeats in the middle of the track
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  • Game crashes when landing killing blow to level 100 boss
  • Sound on other programs stops when playing
  • Save data is overwritten
  • Transferring save data results in 'null'
  • Game won't restart after boss battle death due to notifications
  • Minor crashes on older devices
  • Text is very small and hard to read on older devices
  • Enchanting items is confusing at first
  • Menus are hard to navigate on older iPhones
  • Loses levels/skills acquired when you die
  • Lagging is noticeable
  • Music doesn't loop correctly

Requested features

13 requests
  • Add a third game in the series
  • Improve gear beyond end-game
  • Add customizable item sets
  • Add a D-pad for smoother movement
  • Add a help guide
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  • Add more potion buff stats
  • Allow restarting from scratch
  • Add a joystick
  • Add French translation
  • Add turn-based fights
  • Fix bug with infinity items in museum
  • Add anti-death potion or spell
  • Allow listening to other programs while playing

In-app purchases

None

Desktop Dungeons

No in-app purchases

None

The Enchanted Cave 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Desktop Dungeons free?
Desktop Dungeons costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Enchanted Cave 2 free?
The Enchanted Cave 2 costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Desktop Dungeons or The Enchanted Cave 2?
The Enchanted Cave 2 is rated higher. Desktop Dungeons averages 4.1 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while The Enchanted Cave 2 averages 4.7 from 112 ratings.
Do Desktop Dungeons or The Enchanted Cave 2 have ads?
Neither Desktop Dungeons nor The Enchanted Cave 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Desktop Dungeons or The Enchanted Cave 2?
Desktop Dungeons ships an update every 4 weeks, and The Enchanted Cave 2 fortnightly. Most recently, Desktop Dungeons was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Enchanted Cave 2 on October 29, 2026.

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