Vow of the Savage
Two dark choices per scene; tap left or right to tilt your karma toward savage or saint.
A pixel scene card appears with two morally gray options; tap left or right to choose; karma meter shifts, and subsequent cards branch based on accumulated karma; one run lasts ~60 seconds and unlocks one of several endings.
Tap left half of screen for option A, right half for option B; swipe up to skip flavor text; single thumb.
Ultima-inspired dark-fantasy vignettes with no clear right answers, lifted from Code of The Savage's 'burn the brothel or the church' framing.
Code of The Savage just relaunched its demo on itch.io with a 5.0 average rating, reviving interest in Ultima-style moral-choice RPGs.
Two-button moral-choice loop is the exact 'Would You Rather?' format already shipped by 4+ apps on the US App Store with provocative/dark framings; the savage/saint karma twist adds mild novelty but doesn't differentiate structurally.Direct competitor using dark/thought-provoking binary choices, already live on App Store ↗
The claimed 'Code of The Savage' revival is a niche single-dev Ultima-style RPG in closed testing with no chart traction — not a viral driver; binary-choice games get sporadic TikTok content but lack sustained share momentum.itch.io demo is a closed-test WIP for a small indie, not a market-reviving release ↗
Pure UI — two tap zones, a karma slider, branching card list; trivially buildable in days with no engine complexity.
Comparable 'Would You Rather?' apps monetize via ads + IAP for question packs; a 60-second run loop gives few natural ad break points and no progression sink for rewarded ads — weak LTV vs. typical hypercasual.Saturated competitor relying on IAP packs rather than ad-driven hypercasual monetization ↗
Binary moral-choice niche is crowded by Would You Rather apps, and the broader branching-narrative space is dominated by Reigns, Choices, Episodes; the savage/saint karma axis adds no real differentiation.Another direct competitor already occupying the dark-choice mobile slot ↗