Colony Setup vs Raven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colony Setup
This app helps board game players create randomized setups for variable cards. Customize card appearance frequency, from "Always On" to "Always Off", to tailor your game experience. It also includes options for card type balance and conditional defense card availability.
- Customizable randomized setups
- Adjust card appearance frequency
- Exclude disliked cards
- Ensure specific cards appear
- Balance card types
- Conditional defense card logic
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The Colony Setup app is designed to be used with the boardgame "Colony" from Bezier Games, Inc. It provides customizable randomized setups of all variable cards in the game. If there's a card you don't like, set it to "Unlikely" and it won't show up all that often. Despise a card? Set it to "Always Off" and it will never show up. Want to always see a card in your random setups? Set it to "Always On". There are a number of other options as well, including the ability to always have one of each type of card, and to ensure that defense cards are only present if there are attack cards available.
Raven
A single-player trick-taking card game inspired by ROOK®. Enjoy changing scenery and card colors as you play through rounds, with automatic dealing, sorting, and scoring to enhance the experience.
- Single-player trick-taking gameplay
- Dynamic scenery and card colors
- Automatic card dealing and sorting
- Bid-tracking and point counting
- Serene, atmospheric backgrounds
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Raven is similar to the ROOK® card game*. Raven is a scenic, single player card game where you work on a team to trump your opponents. As you play through the rounds, the scenery changes and so do the card colors. Play until the winning score is reached while looping through the serene, atmospheric backgrounds. Raven includes automatic card dealing, sorting, bid-tracking and point counting, so you never miss a beat. * Raven is not in any way endorsed by or affiliated with Hasbro, Inc. ROOK® is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Colony Setup at Free against Raven's $0.99. Colony Setup also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Raven's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (86% vs 50%). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Colony Setup is free to download; Raven costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Raven holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raven has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Colony Setup's written reviews are positive against 86% of Raven's.
Colony Setup ships an update every 113 months, Raven every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colony Setup | Raven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 113 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #128 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 244 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bezier Games, Inc. | John Davis |
Customer experience
Colony Setup
Raven
In-app purchases
Colony Setup
No in-app purchases
Raven
No in-app purchases
