Comparison

Grow Castle! vs Edo Trade

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

Head to head
About

Grow Castle!

Defend your castle from waves of enemies by strategically placing heroes and archers. Upgrade your defenses and recruit over 80 unique heroes, each with special skills, to create powerful combinations and climb the global rankings.

Highlights
  • Castle defense gameplay
  • Hero and archer placement
  • Hero skill system
  • Strategic hero mounting (up to 9)
  • Tower and archer upgrades
  • Global ranking system
Features
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It is a defense game to protect the castle from enemy attack. If growth can be placed in the castle tower and the hero on each floor. Archer of the town is becoming a lot more more powerful the more upgrades. More than 80 heroes can use their own skills. Some heroes are made to give a strong archers of the town, another hero is cursed enemy. This strategy is important because only a hero can be mounted up to nine. Clear up to a higher level and check out my rankings in the midst of the world.

About

Edo Trade

Features
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Stack the gold. Buy the town. Become the young heir of a merchant house in old Japan and buy out the shops of the town, one by one. Face each shop owner, stack chests of gold against theirs, and when you push them over the edge, their noren curtain changes to your colors. HOW TO PLAY 1. Pick a shop in town and launch a takeover 2. Each day, you and the owner stack gold chests. The balance shifts with every stack 3. Push the balance all the way to their side, and the shop is yours Your shops earn money every month to fund the next takeover. CALL YOUR ALLIES AND CRUSH THEM - Open a guild meeting and every allied shop puts up its gold at once - Win by dozens of times the market price, and a "×N the market" seal stamps the screen - Turn the tide with 13 bargaining tactics and by hitting the weak spots between shops CHOOSE YOUR HOME TOWN Start in Edo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Kanazawa, Nagasaki or Sendai. Each town has its own shop names, guilds and calls. Take all 8 shops in one town, then move on. 56 shops across Japan are waiting. A RIVAL AND A STORY - Nueya, a rival with three head stores, will try to take your shops - An alliance with a friend, a secret society of black tags, and a story told in parts from prologue to finale - Grow your fortune and climb the millionaires' ranking KAWARABAN TO SHARE Become a 10,000-ryo merchant, conquer a town, topple a head store. At each milestone you get a "kawaraban" broadsheet image of your business, ready to send to friends. EASY TO START Your head clerk points at the real buttons and teaches you one step at a time. ALSO - Play in 21 languages - The only purchase is a one-time "Remove Ads". No gacha

Screenshots

Grow Castle!3 screens
Edo Trade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Edo Trade at every 2 days against Grow Castle!'s every 5 days. Grow Castle!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Grow Castle! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Edo Trade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow Castle! ships an update every 5 days, Edo Trade every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Grow Castle! versus Edo Trade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrow Castle!Edo Trade
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB37 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperYONG OK PARKKyosuke Takahashi

Bugs and requests

Grow Castle!

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to save or load game progress
  • Frequent crashes when accessing the world map
  • Disappearing items and lost progress after updates
  • Unreliable auto-battle and offline earnings features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more heroes and towers
  • Implement a PvP mode for player-vs-player battles
  • Introduce more diverse enemy types and boss battles
  • Allow players to create and manage their own guilds
  • Improve offline earnings and afk progression

Edo Trade

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Grow Castle!

One-time10
  • Gold$2.99
  • Crystal$2.99
  • Gold$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Crystal$4.99
  • Golden Horn$4.99
  • Auto Battle$4.99
  • Item Box$4.99
  • Gold$9.99
  • Crystal$9.99
  • Hero Slot$9.99
1 purchases

Edo Trade

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Grow Castle! free?
Grow Castle! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Edo Trade free?
Edo Trade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grow Castle! or Edo Trade have ads?
Both Grow Castle! and Edo Trade show ads.
Which is updated more often, Grow Castle! or Edo Trade?
Grow Castle! ships an update every 5 days, and Edo Trade every 2 days. Most recently, Grow Castle! was updated on October 26, 2026 and Edo Trade on October 13, 2026.

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