Comparison

The Enchanted Cave 2 vs Pixelot

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

Head to head
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

About

Pixelot

Embark on an epic adventure in a classic RPG. Create a custom hero, recruit allies, and explore dungeons to defend the land. Discover a world filled with items, monsters, and engaging storylines.

Highlights
  • Custom character creation with 6 classes
  • 30+ unique recruitable characters
  • Character class promotion at level 60
  • 15 dungeons to explore
  • Over 500 items to collect
  • Infinite tower dungeon with 50 floors
Features
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Pixelot is a classic RPG that combines the best parts of classic role-playing games. In Pixelot you create a custom hero and gather allies to defend against the darkness that has swept over the land of Pixelot. The game features numerous recruitable characters, playable classes, items, monsters, and dungeons alike. Promising an engaging story line, humorous dialogue, and a classic yet simple design, Pixelot is a game that is easy to pick up and hard to put down. The game includes: - Create your own custom character from 6 classes - 30+ unique recruitable characters and classes - Promote your characters to new classes at level 60 - Collect the 6 elemental crystals - 15 dungeons to explore - 500+ items, 250+ maps, and 200+ chests to collect - Infinite tower dungeon with 50 unique floors - 14 Boss challenge mode - Collect all 6 legendary weapons - Post-game labyrinth dungeon Music is developed by Kairi Sawler, Aaron Krogh, Nashlaga, Karstenholymoly, and Stefan Kartenberg. Please check the below link to learn more about them! https://pixelotrpg.fandom.com/wiki/Music

Screenshots

The Enchanted Cave 24 screens
Pixelot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pixelot at $2.99 against The Enchanted Cave 2's $5.99. Pixelot also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.6). The Enchanted Cave 2's advantage is chart position (#150 vs unranked) and ratings volume (112 vs 36). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

The Enchanted Cave 2 costs $5.99 and Pixelot $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for The Enchanted Cave 2 against 4.8 for Pixelot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 112 and 36 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of The Enchanted Cave 2's written reviews are positive against 95% of Pixelot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Enchanted Cave 2 ships an update fortnightly, Pixelot weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
The Enchanted Cave 2 versus Pixelot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Enchanted Cave 2Pixelot
Price$5.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.7 (112 ratings)4.8 (36 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews95.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings112 — better36
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#150 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB184 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperDustin AuxierKyle Berger

Customer experience

The Enchanted Cave 2

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

Pixelot

All ratings36 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

Bugs and requests

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

Pixelot

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

The Enchanted Cave 2

No in-app purchases

None

Pixelot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Enchanted Cave 2 free?
The Enchanted Cave 2 costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pixelot free?
Pixelot costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Enchanted Cave 2 or Pixelot?
Pixelot is rated higher. The Enchanted Cave 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 112 ratings, while Pixelot averages 4.8 from 36 ratings.
Do The Enchanted Cave 2 or Pixelot have ads?
Neither The Enchanted Cave 2 nor Pixelot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Enchanted Cave 2 or Pixelot?
The Enchanted Cave 2 ships an update fortnightly, and Pixelot weekly. Most recently, The Enchanted Cave 2 was updated on October 29, 2026 and Pixelot on October 24, 2026.

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