Tower Swap vs RPD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tower Swap
This match-3 puzzle game combines strategic tower defense with a medieval theme. Match three stones to create towers and defend your castle from incoming dragons. Enjoy instant play with no signup and offline capabilities.
- Match-3 puzzle mechanics
- Tower defense gameplay
- Castle defense against dragons
- Merge stones to build towers
- Offline play available
- Online high score competition
- Portrait mode for one-handed play
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The match-3 Tower Defense game! It's like a match-3 puzzle game but your matches turn into towers! Then dragons fly over the board and you have to defend the castle. Merge three stones to make a tower. - No signup required. Try playing it instantly. - Play offline without internet when logged out. - Play online to compete for high scores against friends. - Portrait mode game. Play one-handed. - Turn based game. Look away any time and you're fine. - A small download, and loads quickly. - Over one million plays! Featuring retro medieval pixel art by Kyle McArthur.
RPD
A pixel art tower defense game where you combine shapes to level up your defenses and defeat waves of enemies. Test your luck and strategy to survive and earn rewards.
- Combine shapes to level up
- Defeat enemies for gold
- Upgrade defense colors
- Receive round breakthrough rewards
- Strategic placement of defenses
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A mobile sequel from the creators of StarCraft's popular Use Map Random Pyramid Defense has been released! Test your luck and judgment! ▶ Combine 3 same shapes to level up! ▶ Defeat enemies and get gold. If there are more than 80 enemies, you are defeated! ▶ Choose one color, and Upgrade it! ▶ Change other colors to upgraded colors. Only 2-level shapes can be changed! ▶ Whenever you break through a certain round, you will receive a reward! ● How to play Level up shapes: touch and drag to overlap 3 identical shapes Defeat Enemies: Automatically attack by dragging a shape to place an enemy within the attack range Change Color: Touch a 2-level shape and press the Change button Developer site: https://tjdgusshdwkd.blogspot.com Developer email: tjdgusshdwkd@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RPD at 5.0 against Tower Swap's 4.6. RPD also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). Tower Swap's advantage is ratings volume (76 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tower Swap sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and RPD sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
RPD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tower Swap has 76 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Tower Swap's written reviews are positive against 80% of RPD's.
Tower Swap ships an update monthly, RPD every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tower Swap | RPD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (76 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.4% of reviews | 79.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curtis Robinson | Sunghyun Park |
Customer experience
Tower Swap
RPD
In-app purchases
Tower Swap
- Pile of Gold$0.99
- Pile of Gold$1.99
- Barrel of Gold$2.49
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- Barrel of Gold$4.99
- Five Barrels of Gold!$9.99
- Five Barrels Of Gold$19.99
RPD
- RPD 3x Speed$0.49
- RPD Remove Ads$0.49
- RPD Skip Button$0.99
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- RPD 100,000 kills6 variants$2.99
- RPD 100,000kills$2.99
- RPD 100,000 kills2 variants$3.99
