Tower Swap vs Alchemy Dungeon
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.
Alchemy Dungeon
Merge items to discover new recipes and explore procedurally generated dungeons. Battle monsters, collect treasures, and use your progress to unlock new characters and powers in this challenging roguelike puzzle game.
- Item merging and recipe discovery
- Endless dungeon exploration
- Monster slaying and treasure hunting
- Unlockable characters, powers, and levels
- Offline gameplay
- One-hand operation
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Alchemy Dungeon is a mix of puzzle and roguelike. Your goal is to merge items, discover new recipes, explore endless dungeons, slay monsters and find treasures. Your best scores are used to unlock unique characters, powers, and levels, and the loot you find is used for upgrades. The game is simple to learn but hard to master. It is offline and is designed for one-hand operation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tower Swap at every 3 weeks against Alchemy Dungeon's every 4 months. Tower Swap also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Tower Swap sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tower Swap holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 76 and 42 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Tower Swap's written reviews are positive against 69% of Alchemy Dungeon's.
Tower Swap ships an update every 3 weeks, Alchemy Dungeon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tower Swap | Alchemy Dungeon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (76 ratings) — better | 4.2 (42 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.4% of reviews — better | 68.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 42 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| 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 | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Curtis Robinson | Ivan Khokhlenkov |
Customer experience
Tower Swap
Alchemy Dungeon
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
Alchemy Dungeon
- 1000 gold$1.99
- Turn off ads$2.99
- 5000 gold$7.99
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- 15000 gold$19.99
