Comparison

Sudoku Royale vs Dropcaps

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku Royale

This game offers endless Sudoku puzzles with adjustable difficulty levels. Enhance your skills with hints and mistake highlighting, and compete in daily challenges for rewards. Save your progress and resume games anytime.

Highlights
  • Endless generated puzzles
  • 3 difficulty levels
  • Hints and Auto-Fill powerups
  • Mistake highlighting
  • Daily challenges with rewards
  • Extensive statistics
  • Facebook integration
Features
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Sudoku Royale is great for users of every level from beginners to more advanced users! With 3 levels of difficulty, there is no end to the puzzles you can play. Sudoku Royale generates new puzzles on the fly so there is no limit to the number of games you can play! Each puzzle has a single, unique, solution and can be completed using logical deductions. Sudoku Royale also includes several features to help you improve your Sudoku solving skills, including Hints and Auto-Fill powerups. Additionally, the game highlights mistakes so that you never end up having to start a puzzle over. Your game is saved locally and can be resumed and completed at a later time. Every day, you can also complete the daily challenge. Compete with your friends to see who can complete the challenge the fastest or with the highest score. Everyone gets the same challenge every day! Complete the challenge to earn coins to spend towards powerups. Features: • Realistic gameplay and graphics • Intuitive single player gameplay • Daily Challenges! Come back every day for an additional chance to earn coins! • 3 difficulty options • Extensive Statistics, including games played breakdown. • Facebook integration - personalize your game and save your progress.

About

Dropcaps

A strategic word game where players arrange falling letter tiles to spell words starting with large letter tiles. Explore eight themed levels at your own pace while uncovering medieval facts. Relax, enhance strategic thinking, and improve vocabulary recall.

Highlights
  • Strategic word arrangement
  • Falling letter tiles
  • Eight thematic levels
  • Uncover medieval facts
  • Vocabulary recall enhancement
  • Strategic thinking development
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Wise worders welcome! Dropcaps is a strategy word game inspired by Medieval manuscripts. Arrange small, falling letter tiles on a game board to spell words that start with the large letter tiles. Play through eight, thematic levels at your own pace to uncover wild and wonderful Medieval facts. Relax, sharpen your strategic thinking, and hone your vocabulary recall! Make Words. Nerd Out. Dropcaps.

Screenshots

Sudoku Royale4 screens
Dropcaps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sudoku Royale at Free against Dropcaps's $1.99. Sudoku Royale also leads on ratings volume (62 vs 7). Dropcaps's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sudoku Royale is free to download; Dropcaps costs $1.99 up front. Sudoku Royale sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Dropcaps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Sudoku Royale against 4.4 for Dropcaps. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sudoku Royale has 62 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Sudoku Royale's written reviews are positive against 67% of Dropcaps's.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Sudoku Royale versus Dropcaps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku RoyaleDropcaps
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.5 (62 ratings) — better4.4 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings62 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#13 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size252 MB141 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNorth Sky GamesJessie Contour

Customer experience

Sudoku Royale

All ratings62 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.2%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

Dropcaps

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Sudoku Royale

One-time5
  • Tiny Coin Pack$4.99
  • Small Coin Pack$9.99
  • Medium Coin Pack$19.99
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  • Large Coin Pack$49.99
  • Jumbo Coin Pack$99.99
None

Dropcaps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sudoku Royale free?
Sudoku Royale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dropcaps free?
Dropcaps costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sudoku Royale or Dropcaps?
Sudoku Royale is rated higher. Sudoku Royale averages 4.5 out of 5 from 62 ratings, while Dropcaps averages 4.4 from 7 ratings.
Do Sudoku Royale or Dropcaps have ads?
Sudoku Royale shows ads; Dropcaps does not.

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