Comparison

Queen Rules vs Kirjo

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

Head to head
About

Queen Rules

Engage in a unique puzzle game set in a charming clay art world. Solve logic challenges by strategically moving characters to defeat a dark curse. Enjoy a relaxing, family-friendly experience with no time pressure and unlimited retries.

Highlights
  • Handmade FIMO clay art visuals
  • Strategic puzzle gameplay
  • 156 unique levels
  • Family-friendly and relaxing
  • No time pressure or rush
  • Tournament modes (Movement & Time)
Features
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Explore this hypnotic world built of handmade modelling FIMO clay characters. What’s your vehicle? Logic and planning. It’s a puzzle experience that’s challenging but fun. Led by a benevolent King and Queen, you’ll visit enchanted lands and enjoy an atmosphere like no where else you know. Your job while here—defeat a dark curse set in play by an evil witch. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! The puzzles begin simply and slowly advance in challenge, level by level, kingdom by kingdom. We’re proud to say that this game is an entirely new and unique experience. After months addicted to it ourselves, we’re sharing it with you to let more people into this captivating world. If you like puzzle games this is a goldmine. So, how do you play? Use your finger to swipe soldiers across rows and up columns. When you get them all down to ones, you’re allowed to move on. It’s an effortless, magical feeling being inside this world—easy and satisfying to learn, but challenging to complete and win. As the game evolves, new game mechanics appear. Soldiers become more powerful and playful, and the game becomes pure strategy. Yes, things may get tricky. If you need input, go ask a friend to sit by your side, or even bring your kid over. This game is family friendly and fun to play in pairs. Incredible art sets it apart and makes it captivating for all ages. The game travels along at a pace that’s not rushed or timed, and it allows you to retry within levels as much as you want. This leads to more fun and less stress—what we always wanted in a game. You can think through your advances at a pace that everyone can enjoy. Features: • An Original Game Design • 156 Unique Levels • Clay Art by Larissa Honsek • Family Friendly • Solid Entertainment - Royal Announcement - Your majesty, the Queen of Hearts, cordially announces the opening of the Tournament Games. Her kingdom invites all valiant Knights to compete. The best Knights will earn the recognition of the Kings and a lifetime of honor and gifts. Are you brave enough to compete? If you believe you have what it takes your attendance and participation is, respectfully, required. Rules below: Only Knights with Game Center accounts will be able to proceed to the Tournament Games. From here, you can participate in two new tournament modalities, namely, the Movement Tournaments and the Time Tournaments: - The Movement Tournaments - the best Knight is he, she or they who completes a level in the fewest number of moves. - Time Tournaments - the best Knight is he, she or they who completes the designated level in the minimum amount of time. Your infinitely generous majesty is also bestowing honorable badges to those Knights who accomplish the most difficult achievements along the path. If you manage to collect each of these badges, you will become the most honorable of all Knights. To all interested Knight candidates with Game Center accounts, you are officially requested to commence your journey. In order to bring perfection to these Royal events, her highness’s engineering team has made several noteworthy improvements and a bug has been fixed. To your journey, we raise our goblets.

About

Kirjo

Features
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Pour a colour onto the same colour, or into an empty vial. A vial is finished when it's full of one colour. Finish them all. Three rules — but Kirjo plays a longer game than that. PAR IS THE TRUE MINIMUM Every level's par is proved by a complete search of its positions, not estimated. When you solve a level at par with no helpers, that's flawless — and flawless means something real: nobody on earth can do it in fewer pours. 610 MEASURED LEVELS Six chapters, and every level in them was dealt, measured and selected. Difficulty isn't guessed — the solver counts how many shortest routes a deal has and how often a careless line pours itself into a corner. A level with forty ways through is a warm-up. One with three is an evening. The pour budget tightens as you climb: four pours over par in the first chapter, one in the last three. The last two mix vial sizes, and the final one takes away the spare glass you had been leaning on. FAIR BY DESIGN All 610 levels are free, and nothing is withheld inside them. Helpers — hints, extra vials, skips, continues — are for the stuck, never the price of admission: a flawless solve hands a hint back, so the careful player never has to buy one. And a helper buys progress, never prestige — a solve that used one counts, but it is never flawless. BUILT AROUND THE POUR • Drag a run of colour and it follows your finger — or tap-tap, your choice. • When only the merging is left, the board finishes itself, at the count a careful player would have reached. • A dead end says so, the moment it happens, with a free restart. The game never sells you a way out of an unwinnable rack. • Undo is free and unlimited. The budget makes a finished line count; it doesn't tax thinking. • Every note is synthesised as you play — a note per unit poured, a chord when a vial completes. Your podcast keeps playing. • Every square carries a stamped symbol, so the game plays the same whatever your eyes make of the colours. YOURS, EVERYWHERE Progress and helpers sync through your own iCloud. Seven Game Center achievements, strictly opt-in. Twelve languages, all of it translated. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Kirjo collects nothing — your progress lives on your device and in your own iCloud, nowhere else.

Screenshots

Queen Rules4 screens
Kirjo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Queen Rules at none against Kirjo's 4. Queen Rules also leads on iOS requirement (12.2 vs 18.0). Kirjo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks). 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. Kirjo sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Queen Rules asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Queen Rules ships an update every 4 weeks, Kirjo every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Queen Rules versus Kirjo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQueen RulesKirjo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (137 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings137 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS12.2 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size850 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuan Gabriel Palomino GarciaDiogo Resende Rainho

In-app purchases

None

Queen Rules

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Kirjo

One-time4
  • 10 hints$0.99
  • 10 continues$1.99
  • 5 skips$1.99
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  • 10 extra vials$2.99

Questions

Is Queen Rules free?
Queen Rules is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kirjo free?
Kirjo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Queen Rules or Kirjo have ads?
Neither Queen Rules nor Kirjo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Queen Rules or Kirjo?
Queen Rules ships an update every 4 weeks, and Kirjo every 3 days. Most recently, Queen Rules was updated on November 3, 2026 and Kirjo on October 31, 2026.

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