Episode - Choose Your Story vs Evony

How do Episode - Choose Your Story and Evony compare on difficulty, ad pressure, in-app-purchase pressure and what real reviewers say? A side-by-side look, grounded in App Store data.

	Episode - Choose Your Story	Evony
Genre	Role Playing	Role Playing
Price	Free	Free
Difficulty	medium	medium
Ad intensity	low	medium
In-app-purchase pressure	high	high
Typical session	variable	long
Rating	4.7 / 5	4.0 / 5
Ratings count	2,817,989	179,805
Reviews say	What players like Huge library of 150,000+ diverse stories Character customization and outfit design Community-driven with book clubs and reading challenges Common complaints All premium story choices and good outcomes locked behind gems Gems extremely expensive, often 19-35 per choice Free options disappointing and limit character appeal	What players like Global community with real-time translation and alliance features Deep strategic city-building and troop training mechanics Multiple civilization options for aesthetic customization Common complaints Severe app crashes on iPad and Apple devices, unresolved for months Heavily pay-to-win with non-paying players at severe disadvantage Deceptive advertising claims action/shooter gameplay that doesn't exist

Episode - Choose Your Story — Choose your own adventure through thousands of interactive romance and drama stories where your decisions shape the outcome. (rated medium difficulty, low ad pressure) Evony — A real-time strategy MMO where you build empires, train troops, and wage epic wars across seven kingdoms—if the app doesn't crash first. (rated medium difficulty, medium ad pressure)

Data: Apple App Store, as of 2026-09-25. Last updated 2026-09-25.