Drop Wizard Tower vs Picnic Penguin
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.
Picnic Penguin
Guide a penguin to push food items onto a picnic blanket by strategically moving blocks. Solve increasingly complex puzzles across multiple worlds, collect coins to unlock cosmetic skins, and enjoy a charming pixel art and low poly visual style with arcade-inspired music.
- Push multiple blocks simultaneously
- Rearrange blocks to clear paths
- Unlockable worlds and puzzles
- Coin collection for cosmetic skins
- Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics
- Arcade-inspired music
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It's picnic time! Help the penguin to push tasty treats onto the picnic blanket. In Picnic Penguin you can push multiple blocks at a time and rearrange them to open the path and complete the levels. Picnic Penguin is a real treat to enjoy in your spare time! Picnic Penguin features several worlds to unlock with a huge variation of puzzles to solve while finding coins to collect all the skins on the gashapon machine. Features: • Simple and addicting gameplay • Neat puzzles to solve • Multiple skins to unlock • Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics • Arcade inspired music!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Drop Wizard Tower at none against Picnic Penguin's shown. Drop Wizard Tower also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.0). Picnic Penguin's advantage is review sentiment (74% vs 51%). On price, rating, 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 Picnic Penguin sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Drop Wizard Tower against 4.4 for Picnic Penguin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 86 and 34 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 51% of Drop Wizard Tower's written reviews are positive against 74% of Picnic Penguin's.
Drop Wizard Tower ships an update every 2 months, Picnic Penguin every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Drop Wizard Tower | Picnic Penguin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (86 ratings) | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 86 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 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 | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nitrome | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Drop Wizard Tower
Picnic Penguin
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
Picnic Penguin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Picnic Penguin
- Ice Pop Ticket$0.99
- Cheesecake Ticket$1.99
- Premium$2.99
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- Chicken Ticket$2.99
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