Rust Bucket vs Alchemy Dungeon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rust Bucket
Embark on a turn-based dungeon crawl with simple swipe controls. Navigate treacherous environments, battle diverse monsters, and overcome deadly traps. This challenging game offers endless exploration and strategic combat, perfect for quick gaming sessions.
- Swipe to move and attack
- Fast-paced gameplay
- Puzzle traps
- Diverse monster types
- Endless dungeon exploration
- Strategic combat
- High score competition
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Rust Bucket is a turn based dungeon crawler that is built with mobile in mind. Swipe to take a step, swipe into enemies to attack. It’s as simple as that, but don’t be fooled into thinking this is a casual game! • Navigate using simple swipe to move controls. • Game play is fast and death is never far away so it’s perfect for your daily commute. • Puzzle your way past deadly traps or use them to catch enemies. • Many monster types, each with their own distinctive rules to overcome. • Make your way through the levels to become a fully qualified looter • Explore an endless dungeon, with more to discover the deeper you go. • Become a master of strategic combat and reach the top scoring dungeon rooms. • Compete against your friends high scores on Game Centre Important information! This game is funded by adverts but is completely free to play with no timers or boosters to ruin your experience. There is an option to remove popup ads for a one off In app purchase. *Please note that this does not remove Cross Promotion ads for other Nitrome games* We hope you enjoy our little game. If you do please consider giving us a nice review, tell your friends and maybe try some of our other games.
Alchemy Dungeon
Merge items to discover new recipes and explore procedurally generated dungeons. Battle monsters, collect treasures, and use your progress to unlock new characters and powers in this challenging roguelike puzzle game.
- Item merging and recipe discovery
- Endless dungeon exploration
- Monster slaying and treasure hunting
- Unlockable characters, powers, and levels
- Offline gameplay
- One-hand operation
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Alchemy Dungeon is a mix of puzzle and roguelike. Your goal is to merge items, discover new recipes, explore endless dungeons, slay monsters and find treasures. Your best scores are used to unlock unique characters, powers, and levels, and the loot you find is used for upgrades. The game is simple to learn but hard to master. It is offline and is designed for one-hand operation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Alchemy Dungeon at 4.2 against Rust Bucket's 4.0. Rust Bucket's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (179 vs 42). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Rust Bucket sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Alchemy Dungeon holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 179 and 42 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Rust Bucket's written reviews are positive against 69% of Alchemy Dungeon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Rust Bucket ships an update every 6 weeks, Alchemy Dungeon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rust Bucket | Alchemy Dungeon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (179 ratings) | 4.2 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.3% of reviews — better | 68.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 42 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Nitrome | Ivan Khokhlenkov |
Customer experience
Rust Bucket
Alchemy Dungeon
Bugs and requests
Rust Bucket
Reported bugs
4 issues- Progress reset when exiting levels
- Level select screen locking completed levels
- Compatibility issues on older devices
- Clipboard copying behavior
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and content updates
- Ability to save progress
- Weapon/item upgrades and customization
- Multiplayer or co-op mode
- Level editor
Alchemy Dungeon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rust Bucket
- Buy 50 Coins$0.99
- Buy 200 Coins$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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- Buy Coins 3$3.99
Alchemy Dungeon
- 1000 gold$1.99
- Turn off ads$2.99
- 5000 gold$7.99
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- 15000 gold$19.99








