Fireboy & Watergirl vs Tricky Castle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fireboy & Watergirl
Guide Fireboy and Watergirl through challenging Elemental Temples. Solve intricate puzzles, race against the clock, and collect all the diamonds. Enjoy this adventure solo or team up with a friend.
- Elemental Temple exploration
- Cooperative puzzle solving
- Time-based challenges
- Diamond collection
- Single-player and multiplayer modes
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Fireboy and Watergirl need help to explore the Elemental Temples. Solve the puzzles, beat the times and collect all the diamonds! Play alone or with a friend to join Fireboy and Watergirl in this new adventure!
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 Fireboy & Watergirl's 39%. Tricky Castle also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (6.4K vs 257). Fireboy & Watergirl's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Fireboy & Watergirl sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tricky Castle holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tricky Castle has 6.4K ratings behind it against 257, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Fireboy & Watergirl's written reviews are positive against 85% of Tricky Castle's.
| Parameter | Fireboy & Watergirl | Tricky Castle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (257 ratings) | 4.5 (6.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 257 | 6.4K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Oslo Albet | AI Games FZ |
Customer experience
Fireboy & Watergirl
Tricky Castle
User reviews
Fireboy & Watergirl
From 257 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Nostalgic and fun gameplay
- 🚀 Great concept and mechanics
- 💡 Multiplayer support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent bugs and glitches
- 📺 Excessive and disruptive ads
- 🔍 Camera issues and zooming problems
- 🎮 Confusing and unresponsive controls
Tricky Castle
From 6.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Fun and creative puzzles
- 👍 Unique and interactive gameplay
- 🧠 Challenges the mind
- 🎨 Cute and polished graphics
- 💰 Reasonable one-time purchase option
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive ads between levels
- 🔒 Frustrating level unlock system
- 🤔 Unintuitive solutions to some puzzles
- 🐛 Occasional glitches and bugs
- 🏁 Disappointing or abrupt ending
Bugs and requests
Fireboy & Watergirl
Reported bugs
4 issues- Screen zooming in and out during gameplay
- Levels becoming unplayable due to camera issues
- Freezing and crashing on certain devices
- Inability to switch between Fireboy and Watergirl
Requested features
4 requests- Separate jump and movement buttons
- Keyboard support for tablets
- Reduced ad frequency or paid ad-free option
- More levels and content from the original game
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
Fireboy & Watergirl
- Unlock all levels$0.99
Tricky Castle
- Mysterious Premium$1.99
- Mysterious Premium$2.99
- Heroic Skins$2.99
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- Mysterious Premium$4.99
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