Comparison

Castle Ramble vs Retro Cloud Player

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Infinite roguelite platformer
  • King training and customization
  • Weapon and armor upgrades
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Diverse enemy types
  • Daily rewards and quests
  • Achievements and leaderboards
Features
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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

About

Retro Cloud Player

Play classic games on your Apple devices with this emulator. It utilizes iCloud for ROM storage and requires a companion app for collection management. A gamepad or keyboard is necessary for gameplay.

Highlights
  • Legacy gaming emulation
  • iCloud ROM storage
  • Libretro cores integration
  • Companion app for ROM management
  • Gamepad/keyboard support
Features
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The Retro Cloud Player is an emulator for legacy gaming systems. The ROMs are stored in iCloud. The Retro Cloud Companion app is needed in order to manage your collection of ROMs. A gamepad or keyboard is also required. This emulator include cores from the Libretro project.

Screenshots

Castle Ramble4 screens
Retro Cloud Player1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Retro Cloud Player at 5.0 against Castle Ramble's 4.1. Retro Cloud Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10). Castle Ramble's advantage is ratings volume (100 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). 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. Castle Ramble sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Retro Cloud Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Retro Cloud Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Castle Ramble has 100 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Castle Ramble versus Retro Cloud Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCastle RambleRetro Cloud Player
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (100 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings100 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB70 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperCHORRUS GAMES S.L.Julien Eyriès

Customer experience

Castle Ramble

All ratings100 ratings
Positive77.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative17.0%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative20.8%

Retro Cloud Player

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Retro Cloud Player

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Castle Ramble

One-time10
  • 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
None

Retro Cloud Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Castle Ramble free?
Castle Ramble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Retro Cloud Player free?
Retro Cloud Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Castle Ramble or Retro Cloud Player?
Retro Cloud Player is rated higher. Castle Ramble averages 4.1 out of 5 from 100 ratings, while Retro Cloud Player averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Castle Ramble or Retro Cloud Player have ads?
Neither Castle Ramble nor Retro Cloud Player shows ads.

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