Comparison

Dungeon Down vs Tetranea

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

Head to head
About

Dungeon Down

Engage in intense 3-match puzzle duels against other warriors. This game combines classic puzzle mechanics with rogue-like elements for strategic combat.

Highlights
  • 3-match puzzle gameplay
  • Rogue-like elements
  • Intense duel combat
  • Warrior battles
  • Strategic gameplay
Features
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3 match puzzle with rogue-like dungeon crawling. Match blocks to attack, guard, and heal your way down the dungeon. Every run is different - how deep can your warrior get?

About

Tetranea

This puzzle game combines roguelike deckbuilding with tile-placement mechanics on a 9x9 grid. Build a unique deck each run to alter gameplay, with over 200 cards to discover and modify. Enjoy short or long runs with increasing difficulty and multiple scoring methods.

Highlights
  • Roguelike deckbuilding
  • Tile placement on 9x9 grid
  • 200+ discoverable cards
  • Card modification
  • Boss battles
  • Row and column chaining
  • Multiple scoring methods
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I built this game to combine two of my great loves in gaming: simple abstract spatial strategy, and deep, complex card deck builders. You can play it for a few minutes at a time, or really get into it and go down the rabbit hole of nearly 100 special cards with special powers. It looks kind of like one of the gazillion tetromino-placing games — pretty simple, usually full of ads, and not much more than making sure you lose after some arbitrary amount of time so they can show you more ads. This one is different. There's tetromino (and pentomino) placement to score points, but the whole game rests on your own deck of cards: shape cards you play on the board, and special cards with special powers. You play runs - series of boards that get harder and harder. Each board needs more points to beat, and some boards have bosses that do all kinds of crazy things. You can play short runs, long runs, and even infinite runs. Each run you get to add new cards to your deck and modify (or delete) existing ones. I've been working on this game for two years now, and I keep adding to it and polishing it. It's become a labor of love. I play it myself often, and friends I've introduced it to generally get hooked. The full game is free to try. There's just one single purchase that unlocks some of the run types. Supported languages: 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, Français, Deutsch, Español

Screenshots

Dungeon Down3 screens
Tetranea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tetranea at 100% against Dungeon Down's 0%. Tetranea also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 58 months). Dungeon Down's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tetranea sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Dungeon Down asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tetranea holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tetranea has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Dungeon Down's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tetranea's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dungeon Down ships an update every 58 months, Tetranea every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Dungeon Down versus Tetranea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDungeon DownTetranea
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 58 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasaki TakuboNathanael Boxer

Customer experience

Dungeon Down

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Tetranea

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dungeon Down

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tetranea

One-time2
  • Tetranea Full Game$2.99
  • Tetranea Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Dungeon Down free?
Dungeon Down is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tetranea free?
Tetranea is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dungeon Down or Tetranea?
Tetranea is rated higher. Dungeon Down averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Tetranea averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Dungeon Down or Tetranea have ads?
Neither Dungeon Down nor Tetranea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dungeon Down or Tetranea?
Dungeon Down ships an update every 58 months, and Tetranea every 4 days. Most recently, Dungeon Down was updated on October 16, 2026 and Tetranea on October 14, 2026.

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