To Mars vs Tricky Castle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
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 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
Both are free to download. Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. To Mars asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | To Mars | Tricky Castle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (6.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 6.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Todd Studer | AI Games FZ |
Customer experience
To Mars
Tricky Castle
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
To Mars
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









