Comparison

The Enchanted Cave 2 vs bitDungeonIII

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

bitDungeonIII

Embark on a 2D action-adventure with rogue-lite elements. Explore randomly generated worlds and dungeons, forge alliances or engage in PvP for loot. Discover powerful items and enchants to enhance your character in a world facing inevitable doom.

Highlights
  • Randomly generated overworld and dungeons
  • Permadeath with soul retrieval
  • Online co-op and PvP
  • Unique weapon power attacks and stat scaling
  • Character augmentation via stat runes
  • Controller support
  • New Game Plus for replayability
Features
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bitDungeonIII is a 2d action adventure game with rogue-lite elements. Randomly generated overworld and dungeons. Make allies with other players or kill them for their precious inventory items. Discover random items that greatly enhance and affect your character. Save a world that can't be saved. Features: Permadeath. You get one soul and only one chance to retrieve it when you die. Killing Bosses also grant souls. Randomly pre-generated overworld, dungeons, secrets, items and humanoid npcs. Online play using P2P networking,co-op and pvp. Each weapon type has a unique power attack and stat scaling. Level up based on which weapon you use. Change weapons to start leveling up that weapon type going towards your general level. Powerful weapon enchants dropped from bosses. Augment your character through changeable stat runes collected throughout your adventure. Boss & quest weapons. Giant difficult dungeon bosses. Original soundtrack by Houzatosis & Stress_TN. Controller Support. New game plus for endless replay value.

Screenshots

The Enchanted Cave 24 screens
bitDungeonIII4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Enchanted Cave 2 at 4.7 against bitDungeonIII's 4.2. The Enchanted Cave 2 also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 81%) and chart position (#190 vs unranked). bitDungeonIII's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 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

The Enchanted Cave 2 costs $5.99 and bitDungeonIII $1.99 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 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Enchanted Cave 2 has 112 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of The Enchanted Cave 2's written reviews are positive against 81% of bitDungeonIII's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Enchanted Cave 2 ships an update fortnightly, bitDungeonIII every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
The Enchanted Cave 2 versus bitDungeonIII: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Enchanted Cave 2bitDungeonIII
Price$5.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.7 (112 ratings) — better4.2 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews — better80.8% of reviews
Number of ratings112 — better19
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#190 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB279 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperDustin AuxierKintoGames LLC

Customer experience

The Enchanted Cave 2

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

bitDungeonIII

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative11.5%

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

bitDungeonIII

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

The Enchanted Cave 2

No in-app purchases

None

bitDungeonIII

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Enchanted Cave 2 free?
The Enchanted Cave 2 costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is bitDungeonIII free?
bitDungeonIII costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Enchanted Cave 2 or bitDungeonIII?
The Enchanted Cave 2 is rated higher. The Enchanted Cave 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 112 ratings, while bitDungeonIII averages 4.2 from 19 ratings.
Do The Enchanted Cave 2 or bitDungeonIII have ads?
Neither The Enchanted Cave 2 nor bitDungeonIII shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Enchanted Cave 2 or bitDungeonIII?
The Enchanted Cave 2 ships an update fortnightly, and bitDungeonIII every 3 weeks. Most recently, The Enchanted Cave 2 was updated on November 1, 2026 and bitDungeonIII on November 3, 2026.

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