Life vs Tricky Castle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Life
Create and explore Conway's Game of Life simulations. Save and reuse your custom patterns, with the ability to pause, play, and clear the simulation board. Future updates will bring even more features.
- Conway's Game of Life simulation
- Create reusable patterns
- Pause and play simulations
- Clear simulation board
- Persistent patterns
- User feedback for features
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Explore and create Game of Life simulations. This app follows the laws of Conway's Game of Life, while allowing you to create reusable patterns, pause and play, clear the board, and more coming soon. Patterns are persistent even if you remove the app from background, to keep you from having to re-input them. Please send me feedback for features!
Tricky Castle
Embark on an adventure to rescue a princess from a castle filled with challenging puzzles and traps. Navigate mysterious corridors, solve riddles, and overcome obstacles to find the key and escape.
- 120 unique escape puzzle levels
- Unusual room escape mechanics
- Hundreds of doors to open
- Logic puzzles and 2D platforming
- Light humor
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Escape from the castle, full of tricks and mysterious puzzles. This escape room game will challenge your ability to solve puzzles! The Terrible Villain grabbed the Princess and set traps on the way to her rescue. A brave knight can save the princess hidden in the tower of the castle! Forward to adventure! Wander the mysterious corridors of the castle, solve puzzles, and avoid traps to find the faraway tower. There'll be hundreds and hundreds of doors, spikes, platforms to jump on, and all this in order to find the treasured key. Take a close look at the room and read the clues (or riddles?) to figure out how to escape the room. - 120 unique levels, packed with escape puzzles - unusual ways to escape the room - hundreds of doors you'll have to open in your way to saving the princess - excellent combination of logic games and relaxing 2d platformer games - light humor will make you smile :) You won't want to stop solving puzzles! Explore the castle that holds more tricks and secrets than it appears on the surface, and enjoy this fun puzzle game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tricky Castle at 85% against Life's 33%. Tricky Castle also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 39 months). Life's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tricky Castle holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tricky Castle has 6.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Life's written reviews are positive against 85% of Tricky Castle's.
Life ships an update every 39 months, Tricky Castle every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life | Tricky Castle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (6.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jo Albright | AI Games FZ |
Customer experience
Life
Tricky Castle
Bugs and requests
Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tricky Castle
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels not loading properly
- Controls becoming unresponsive
- Progress or data being lost
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content updates
- Ability to skip or bypass the level unlock system
- Improved hint system with less direct solutions
- Proper ending or conclusion to the story
In-app purchases
Life
No in-app purchases
Tricky Castle
- Mysterious Premium$1.99
- Mysterious Premium$2.99
- Heroic Skins$2.99
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- Mysterious Premium$4.99
