Tricky Castle vs Paint Sponges
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Paint Sponges
Engage your mind with a relaxing yet challenging color-mixing puzzle game. Solve intricate puzzles to achieve the correct hues and unwind with this brain-exercising experience.
- Color mixing puzzles
- Brain exercise
- Relaxing gameplay
- Challenging levels
- Fun and chill experience
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Challenging and relaxing puzzle game! Can you solve it to get the right color? Exercise your brain in this fun & chill game!
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Verdict
Tricky Castle and Paint Sponges both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Tricky Castle's written reviews are positive against 50% of Paint Sponges's. Tricky Castle also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Paint Sponges's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, 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. Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Paint Sponges sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Tricky Castle against 4.7 for Paint Sponges. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6.4K and 4.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Tricky Castle's written reviews are positive against 50% of Paint Sponges's.
Tricky Castle ships an update every 5 weeks, Paint Sponges fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tricky Castle | Paint Sponges |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6.4K ratings) | 4.7 (4.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.4K — better | 4.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | AI GAMES FZ LLC | App Swim LLC |
Customer experience
Tricky Castle
Paint Sponges
Bugs and requests
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
Paint Sponges
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tricky Castle
- Mysterious Premium$1.99
- Mysterious Premium$2.99
- Heroic Skins$2.99
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- Mysterious Premium$4.99
Paint Sponges
- Infinity Heart$0.99
- Coins Pack 1$1.99
- Coins Pack 2$7.99
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- Ad Free$7.99
- Coins Pack 3$14.99
- Coins Pack 4$24.99
- Coins Pack 5$54.99
- Coins Pack 6$99.99
Questions
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