Comparison

Tricky Castle vs Space Pirates

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

Head to head
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

Space Pirates

Features
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Take command of a pirate galleon and battle your way across 100 space encounters built for Apple Watch. Aim your cannon with the Digital Crown, fire, and let gravity take over. Cannonballs curve around planets and moons, turning every shot into a miniature orbital puzzle. Face rival pirate ships, moving targets, orbiting moons, satellites, asteroids and increasingly complex gravitational systems. Missed shots can crash into obstacles—or even curve all the way back toward you. Features: • 100 handcrafted levels • Digital Crown cannon aiming • Gravity-driven projectile physics • Moving and orbiting targets • Planets, moons, satellites and asteroids • Destructible objects and explosive impacts • Replay previously completed levels • Designed specifically for Apple Watch Plot the trajectory. Fire the cannon. Hope your calculations were right.

Screenshots

Tricky Castle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tricky Castle at Free against Space Pirates's $1.99. Tricky Castle also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). Space Pirates's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Tricky Castle is free to download; Space Pirates costs $1.99 up front. Tricky Castle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Space Pirates asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tricky Castle ships an update every 5 weeks, Space Pirates weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tricky Castle versus Space Pirates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTricky CastleSpace Pirates
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.5 (6.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size189 MB5 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAI GAMES FZ LLCDaniel Beer

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

Space Pirates

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

Space Pirates

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tricky Castle free?
Tricky Castle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Space Pirates free?
Space Pirates costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tricky Castle or Space Pirates have ads?
Tricky Castle shows ads; Space Pirates does not.
Which is updated more often, Tricky Castle or Space Pirates?
Tricky Castle ships an update every 5 weeks, and Space Pirates weekly. Most recently, Tricky Castle was updated on November 2, 2026 and Space Pirates on October 30, 2026.

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