Castle Ramble vs Dead Rails
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Castle Ramble
Embark on an infinite roguelite platforming adventure to reclaim your castle from invading pigs. Train your king, upgrade weapons and armor, and battle diverse enemies across procedurally generated levels. Enjoy daily rewards, quests, and leaderboards for endless replayability.
- Infinite roguelite platformer
- King training and customization
- Weapon and armor upgrades
- Procedurally generated levels
- Diverse enemy types
- Daily rewards and quests
- Achievements and leaderboards
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Castle Ramble is an infinite Roguelite Platformer for your mobile devices from the developers of Unbroken Soul! Train your king, customize it, and recover your castle from the invader pigs! - Upgrade your armor, your ranged and your melee attacks! Those pigs and their gadgets are no joke, you better prepare yourself well if you want to get a high score! - 30 Weapons, 20 Crowns and special items to gear up your king in this quest! - Useful objects will help you along the way, from potions to recover health to Inferno’s Gem to increase damage and unlock special abilities. - Fight all kinds of pigs, from mutant bombs or bats to terrifying kings or slimes. Of course, regular pigs crate pigs and cannons will be ready to make this battle a real war! - Procedurally generated levels will customize your game experience every single time, get ready for a Royal Rumble! - Storm your enemies with a legendary hammer and it’s magical powers! Simply attack or use the magical powers the gods have granted you and burn or shock your enemies until you get your castle back! - Unlimited gameplay time plus regular updates and unparalleled support, ask for something, we guarantee you will get a response and we will do our best to implement your suggestions :) - Daily Rewards will surprise you every day to improve your experience ;) - Daily Quests will give you something to do every day and incredible rewards! - 43 achievements and 7 leaderboards to compete with your friends and other players worldwide! - Purchasing the premium version, you will help us improve our products and create new amazing games. Your purchase really makes a difference! About us We are a small indie studio from Spain! At Chorrus Games, we love retro-style games so we usually stick to this style, we are the developers of popular traditional platformer Super Oscar and more recently Unbroken Soul an amazing premium adventure our users have been loving so far! We love getting your feedback so please let us know your opinion or any further improvements you would like to see, we really listen to all our users! If you enjoy Castle Ramble don’t forget to rate or review us, that really makes us happy and helps us grow :D
Dead Rails
Experience the thrill of being a train conductor. Navigate complex rail networks, transport passengers, and test your skills across diverse landscapes, from modern cities to rugged mountains. Every journey demands precision and timing.
- Navigate intricate rail networks
- Transport passengers
- Modern city environments
- Rugged mountain tracks
- Test skill, timing, and precision
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All aboard! Ultimate Train Rails puts you in the conductor’s seat, where you’ll navigate intricate rail networks, transport passengers. Whether you’re speeding through modern cities or winding through rugged mountain tracks, every journey is a test of skill, timing, and precision. Are you ready to take control of the rails? Hop in and start your adventure in Ultimate Train Rails today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Castle Ramble at 73% against Dead Rails's 26%. Castle Ramble also leads on rating (4.1 vs 1.9) and ads (none vs shown). Dead Rails's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price 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
Both are free to download. Castle Ramble sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Dead Rails asks for nothing beyond the download.
Castle Ramble holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Castle Ramble has 100 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Castle Ramble's written reviews are positive against 26% of Dead Rails's.
Castle Ramble ships an update monthly, Dead Rails every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Castle Ramble | Dead Rails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (100 ratings) — better | 1.9 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews — better | 26.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 322 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHORRUS GAMES S.L. | Mohammad Sa'deh |
Customer experience
Castle Ramble
Dead Rails
User reviews
Castle Ramble
From 100 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 💡 Creative and innovative mechanics
- 🚀 Fast-paced action
- ✨ Good pixel art and design
- 🎮 Supports PS4 gamepad
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clunky/bad controls (for many)
- 🔄 Frustrating progress loss on death
- ⚠️ Limited revives
- 📈 Difficulty spikes without character progression
- monotonous gameplay
Dead Rails
From 18 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
- 💡 Interesting locations
Room to improve
- 🚫 Not the real Dead Rails game
- 💰 Overpriced and not worth the money
- 🤬 Misleading advertising and scam
- 🐛 Buggy and poor performance
Bugs and requests
Castle Ramble
Reported bugs
6 issues- Game crashes on iPad
- Cannot return to menu without shutting down
- Ads are problematic (Donald Trump ads)
- Date/time exploit for infinite gems
- No video available for revive sometimes
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- Game crashes
Requested features
35 requests- Add more enemies
- Add more weapons
- Add different characters with unique powers
- Add more texture to walls
- Add hidden secret rooms
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- Add items for buffs (damage, health)
- Add ability to shoot up or down
- Add power-ups to spawn
- Add character upgrades
- Add backstory and cutscenes
- Add multiplayer or versus friends mode
- Add more ways to heal
- Make enemies jump less
- Add more stuff (weapons, gear, shop, skills)
- Introduce new enemy types
- Introduce new color palettes
- Add more benefit to melee weapons
- Add more challenge
- Add Russian language support
- Fix date/time exploit for gems
- Clarify currency (diamonds vs. gold)
- Add power-ups (magnet, speed boost, invincibility)
- Fix controls
- Fix progress loss on death
- Fix limited revives
- Fix difficulty spikes
- Fix monotonous gameplay
- Fix boring backgrounds
- Fix unclear mechanics
- Fix crashing issues
- Fix ranged weapon outclassing melee
- Fix ads (Donald Trump ads mentioned)
- Update app icon
- Fix ability to return to menu
- Fix screen orientation saving
Dead Rails
Reported bugs
2 issues- Controls feel unresponsive
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Requested features
2 requests- Develop a real Dead Rails game
- Improve graphics and gameplay
In-app purchases
Castle Ramble
- 1000 Coins$0.99
- 2500 Coins$1.99
- Double Coins!$1.99
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- No Ads + Free Revive and Heal!$2.99
- Castle Ramble 5x Coins$2.99
- 10000 Coins$3.99
- 10x Coins!$4.99
- 25000 Coins!$8.99
- 75000 Coins$17.99
- 250000 Coins!$44.99
Dead Rails
No in-app purchases









