Troll Patrol vs Permutopia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Troll Patrol
Defend your troll den from invading villagers and heroes in this unique puzzle RPG. Match tiles to attack enemies, heal yourself with potions, and strengthen your defenses. Protect your home and family from relentless waves of attackers.
- Tile-matching combat
- RPG progression
- Enemy and weapon variety
- Skill and powerup system
- Cave upgrades
- Quests and events
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"A Troll's Tale - Troll Patrol" is a puzzle game which combines the tile-matching and RPG genres by offering a unique experience: Play as the last defender of the threatened troll den where vicious village people and heroes from far away castles and kingdoms knock down your door. Stand firm, take whatever weapon is close and fight them off to get your family and friends to safety. Protect what is rightfully yours, your home, your heritage. They come for blood, for revenge, to still their blood thirst. But you won't allow it. More and more enemies pour through the broken door and by connecting them to sword tiles you can fight them off. Once you get hit you can connect potions to heal your wounds or connect shields to improve your armor. Connecting gold might lead to new treasures that help you defend what is yours and keep their filthy hands of your stuff. Features: - Over 50 unlockable types of enemies - 6 unlockable weapon types - 7 unlockable playable classes - Endless waves of enemies - Over 50 active and passive skills and powerups - Over 40 event cards with multiple choices and outcomes - Over 15 quests to choose from - Improve your cave for permanent bonuses - Leaderboard and Achievements
Permutopia
Engage your mind with a variety of unique permutation puzzles. Solve challenges by rearranging pieces to restore order, featuring diverse mechanics like sliding, twisting, and rotating. Enjoy logic, pattern, and spatial reasoning tasks designed for both short bursts and extended play.
- Variety of permutation puzzles
- Sliding, twisting, rotating mechanics
- Logic and pattern challenges
- Spatial reasoning tasks
- Puzzles for quick or long sessions
- Clean interface
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Permutopia is a collection of permutation puzzles built around one idea: rearrange the pieces until everything is back in place. Some puzzles are inspired by classic sliding-tile games. Others use twisting, rotating, shifting, and cycling moves, with each puzzle introducing its own rules and patterns. Features: • A wide variety of permutation-style puzzles • Sliding, twisting, rotating, shifting, and cycling mechanics • Logic, pattern, and spatial reasoning challenges • Puzzles for both quick sessions and longer solves • A clean, focused interface Turn disorder into order, one move at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Troll Patrol at none against Permutopia's shown. Troll Patrol also leads on ratings volume (48 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Permutopia's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Troll Patrol sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Permutopia sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Permutopia holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Troll Patrol has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Troll Patrol's written reviews are positive against 100% of Permutopia's.
Troll Patrol ships an update every 2 weeks, Permutopia every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Troll Patrol | Permutopia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 204 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philippe Schober | George Hauser |
Customer experience
Troll Patrol
Permutopia
In-app purchases
Troll Patrol
- Unlock Game$4.99
Permutopia
- Remove Ads$5.99









