Comparison

To Mars vs Tricky Castle

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

Head to head
About

To Mars

A retro puzzle and simulation game where players must strategically load a rocket with resources and crew to colonize Mars. Manage fuel, supplies, and mission timing to ensure a successful landing and establish a new home on the red planet.

Highlights
  • Retro puzzle and simulation gameplay
  • Resource management for colonization
  • Rocket loading and launch mechanics
  • Space travel and landing simulation
  • Building and survival elements
  • Timed challenges
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Are you smart enough to solve the puzzle and colonize Mars? To Mars is a unique retro puzzle / simulation of the soon-to-come real life colonization of Mars; it's fun to play, easy to learn, but very difficult to solve. You have 60 seconds to load all four stages of your rocket with the correct amounts of fuel components, food, and people to colonize Mars. Over the course of the next two minutes, your team of astronauts will lift off from Earth, travel to Mars, touchdown on Mars, and build a new home on the red planet! Calculate the Hydrogen / Oxygen fuel mixture to get from Earth into solar orbit. Determine when to start your deceleration burns from deep space into Mars orbit and for a perfect landing on Mars. Build greenhouses and water mines to generate life sustaining resources. All without running out of supplied resources along the way. If you choose wisely, listen carefully to hints from ground control and the ships captain, watch your resource levels, and learn from your mistakes, you can colonize Mars! Make a wrong decision, however, and leave your ship damaged, floating through space, or stranded, with your crew of astronauts left in cryo-sleep, waiting for rescue. Follow the Red Roadster and Occupy Mars!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 120 unique escape puzzle levels
  • Unusual room escape mechanics
  • Hundreds of doors to open
  • Logic puzzles and 2D platforming
  • Light humor
Features
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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!

Screenshots

To Mars4 screens
Tricky Castle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tricky Castle at 4.5 against To Mars's 3.0. Tricky Castle also leads on ratings volume (6.4K vs 6) and device support (3 vs 1). To Mars's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. To Mars asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tricky Castle holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tricky Castle has 6.4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of To Mars's written reviews are positive against 85% of Tricky Castle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

To Mars ships an update every 3 weeks, Tricky Castle every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
To Mars versus Tricky Castle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTo MarsTricky Castle
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (6 ratings)4.5 (6.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better84.5% of reviews
Number of ratings66.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.213.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB189 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTodd StuderAI Games FZ

Customer experience

To Mars

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tricky Castle

All ratings6,355 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral4.0%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews1,304 reviews
Positive84.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative10.6%

Bugs and requests

To Mars

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

None

To Mars

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Tricky Castle

One-time4
  • Mysterious Premium$1.99
  • Mysterious Premium$2.99
  • Heroic Skins$2.99
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  • Mysterious Premium$4.99

Questions

Is To Mars free?
To Mars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tricky Castle free?
Tricky Castle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, To Mars or Tricky Castle?
Tricky Castle is rated higher. To Mars averages 3.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Tricky Castle averages 4.5 from 6.4K ratings.
Do To Mars or Tricky Castle have ads?
Both To Mars and Tricky Castle show ads.
Which is updated more often, To Mars or Tricky Castle?
To Mars ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tricky Castle every 5 weeks. Most recently, To Mars was updated on October 6, 2026 and Tricky Castle on October 23, 2026.

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