Comparison

Tricky Castle vs Brain Workout

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 120 unique escape puzzle levels
  • Unusual room escape mechanics
  • Hundreds of doors to open
  • Logic puzzles and 2D platforming
  • Light humor
Features
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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!

About

Brain Workout

Features
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Give your brain a daily workout. Nine games, nine different mental skills, and a bold hand-drawn look with a signature color for each one. Five minutes is a real session, and the whole family can share one device without ever mixing up scores. NINE GAMES, NINE SKILLS Number Sequence — train your working memory recalling growing digit sequences Card Matching — sharpen visual memory finding hidden pairs Stroop Challenge — test focus and impulse control with the classic color-word test Schulte Table — build visual scanning speed and concentration Whack-a-Mole — sharpen reflexes and reaction speed, whacking moles while dodging decoy rabbits Rule Switch — train cognitive flexibility switching sorting rules on the fly Math Sprint — sharpen mental math comparing expressions against the clock Shape Rotation — build spatial reasoning spotting the same shape turned, not its mirror image Pattern Matrix — work out the hidden rule in a grid and fill the missing piece Shape Rotation and Pattern Matrix are new. Most of the collection is fast-twitch and against the clock; Pattern Matrix is the one you can sit and think in, with a timer that's there to end the round, not to rush you. MEET THE ANIMALS Neko the cat, Kitsune the fox, Mogura the mole and eighteen more are drawn by hand, not borrowed from a keyboard — so they look exactly the same on every iPhone and iPad, and they have actual personality. Mogura even looks dizzy when you get him. BUILT FOR ONE DEVICE AND A WHOLE FAMILY Add a quick profile for each player — up to 8 — with just a nickname, an avatar, and a color, and everyone gets their own high scores, their own daily streak, and their own difficulty setting. Kids and parents can hand the phone or iPad back and forth without ever mixing up scores or breaking each other's streak. No logins, no photos, no birthdays — profiles stay completely on your device. MADE TO BE PLAYED EVERY DAY Track your personal best in every game, watch your stats build up game by game, and keep a daily streak going. Games start the moment you tap one — no menus to wade through, no accounts to make. Making a habit of a little mental exercise each day is a simple, enjoyable way to keep your mind active and engaged. FITS THE SCREEN YOU'RE ON Every game now scales to the device it's playing on, so a Schulte board is comfortably thumb-sized on a phone and properly big on an iPad — right down to a narrow split-screen window. What never changes is the shape of the board: five by five is five by five everywhere, so a score set on a phone still means the same thing as one set on a tablet. PLAYS IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese — the whole app, not just the menus. Stroop Challenge translates its color words too, because reading the word is the entire point of that test. It follows your device's language automatically; there's nothing to set. THE DETAILS WE FUSSED OVER Gorgeous in both light and dark mode Every color checked for contrast, so nobody's squinting Artwork drawn as vectors — crisp on every screen, tiny on your storage

Screenshots

Tricky Castle4 screens
Brain Workout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brain Workout at none against Tricky Castle's 4. Brain Workout also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Tricky Castle's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Brain Workout asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tricky Castle ships an update every 5 weeks, Brain Workout weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tricky Castle versus Brain Workout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTricky CastleBrain Workout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (6.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB8 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAI Games FZAymhi

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

Brain Workout

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Tricky Castle

One-time4
  • Mysterious Premium$1.99
  • Mysterious Premium$2.99
  • Heroic Skins$2.99
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  • Mysterious Premium$4.99
None

Brain Workout

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tricky Castle free?
Tricky Castle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brain Workout free?
Brain Workout is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tricky Castle or Brain Workout have ads?
Both Tricky Castle and Brain Workout show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tricky Castle or Brain Workout?
Tricky Castle ships an update every 5 weeks, and Brain Workout weekly. Most recently, Tricky Castle was updated on October 23, 2026 and Brain Workout on October 8, 2026.

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