Drop Wizard Tower vs Mineblast!!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drop Wizard Tower
Embark on an arcade-style platforming adventure to rescue captured wizards and an ancient egg. Battle enemies across diverse environments, unlock new characters with unique abilities, and overcome challenging boss fights. Enjoy randomized levels and a captivating storyline.
- Over 50 floors with traps and enemies
- Unlockable wizards with unique abilities
- 8 epic boss fights
- Hazard-filled environments
- Randomized levels for replayability
- Collect almanac pages for lore
- Leaderboards and achievements
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The Shadow Order have captured all the Wizards in the land and they have the ancient egg too. What is a lone Wizard to do? Break free, defeat the evil Shadow Order and find that egg of course ...Hmmm I wonder what's inside? Bring back the joy of arcades and join Teo and his wizard friends in this action packed, fun fueled platformer. Features: • Ascend over 50 floors jam packed with traps and enemies! • Unlock new wizards with unique stats, magic and abilities. • 8 Epic Boss fights! full of nasty surprises. • Experience hazard filled environments - Water temple, Frozen larder, Wizards Lab and many more! • Easy one handed controls. Perfect for on the go play! • Randomised levels for replay! No two playthroughs are ever the same. • Collect the missing pages from your almanac and gain insight into monsters and lore. Can you find them all? • Catchy head bopping chip tunes. You will be humming these for hours! • Uncover the mystery of the 'ancient egg'... I wonder what's inside? • Leader boards and Achievements for replayability -Important information- This game contains third party advertising and cross promotion for other Nitrome games, both which can be removed via a one time In App Purchase.
Mineblast!!
Explore a dangerous mine and blast your way out using TNTs in this platformer destruction game. Utilize the fully destructible environments to create paths, uncover gems, and find hidden secrets. Enjoy hours of creative fun with pixel art graphics and chiptune music.
- Fully destructible environments and physics
- Pixel art graphics and chiptune music
- Hidden secrets and levels
- Creative pathfinding with TNT
- Gem collection
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Explore a dangerous mine and blast your way out using TNTs. Mineblast!! is a platformer destruction game with fully destructible environments. Blast walls to open your way, blast soil and crates to find precious gems, blast wooden platforms to use them as a bridge, there is no limit to your creativity. Features: • Fully destructible environments and physics. • Quality pixel art graphics and chiptune music. • Lots of hidden secrets and levels. • Super Cat Tales characters. • Hours and hours of fun!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Drop Wizard Tower at none against Mineblast!!'s shown. Drop Wizard Tower also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Drop Wizard Tower sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Mineblast!! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drop Wizard Tower holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 86 and 153 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Drop Wizard Tower's written reviews are positive against 56% of Mineblast!!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Drop Wizard Tower ships an update every 2 months, Mineblast!! every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drop Wizard Tower | Mineblast!! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (86 ratings) — better | 4.0 (153 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews | 55.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 86 | 153 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nitrome | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Drop Wizard Tower
Mineblast!!
User reviews
Drop Wizard Tower
From 86 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Charming pixel art and visual style
- 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay mechanics
- 🎵 Great 8-bit music and sound effects
- 📖 Interesting story and character progression
- 👾 Multiple playable characters to unlock
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 🎮 Unintuitive and difficult control scheme
- 🐛 Frequent game freezes and crashes
- ⚙️ Poor character movement responsiveness
- 🔄 Repetitive level design
Mineblast!!
From 153 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 👍 Cute and charming visuals
- 💡 Interesting story and background
- 🚀 Challenging and engaging levels
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 💰 Excessive and intrusive ads
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🕹️ Unresponsive and clunky controls
Bugs and requests
Drop Wizard Tower
Reported bugs
10 issues- Game freezes every 5 minutes during play
- Blank screen on launch preventing gameplay
- Achievement not unlocking for specific characters
- Progress restoration loop on level 51
- Game crashes when playing with secret character
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- Visual glitches after game pause
- Hitbox inconsistencies between platform types
- Ad close button too small and unresponsive
- Ads not available when needed for revival
- Character drifts in unintended direction
Requested features
10 requests- Landscape mode support
- Full-screen support option
- Save progress feature for longer sessions
- Endless arcade mode
- High score tracking and leaderboards
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- More playable characters between existing ones
- Ability to manually control shooting
- Drop-down level button for better control
- Game Center integration
- Sequel with expanded content
Mineblast!!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Levels freezing or not loading properly
- Inability to progress past certain stages
- Saved data being lost after updates
- Ads causing the game to crash or become unresponsive
Requested features
4 requests- Add checkpoint system to avoid restarting levels
- Introduce more playable characters and customization options
- Implement an option to remove ads for a one-time fee
- Improve level design to reduce frustrating dead ends
In-app purchases
Drop Wizard Tower
- Bunch of Gems$1.99
- Pot of Gems$2.99
- Premium$3.99
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- Chest of Gems$4.99
Mineblast!!
- Gate Ticket$0.99
- Premium$2.99
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