TownTopia vs Design Show
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TownTopia
Restore and decorate your dream town by solving challenging match-3 puzzles. Remodel, design, and build a beautiful, bustling city, helping characters rebuild homes and discover heartwarming stories. Progress through levels to transform your town into a metropolis.
- Addictive match-3 gameplay with boosters
- Build and restore various town structures
- Help characters rebuild after disasters
- Meet charming characters and discover stories
- Renovate, design, and decorate town landscapes
- Progress to a bustling metropolis
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Welcome to Towntopia! Restore and decorate your own dream town and solve challenging puzzles by matching them with this new relaxing FREE match-3 blast game for the whole family! Be the hero of your very own town as you remodel, design and create a beautiful, bustling city. Help Sherif Taylor manage the disasters that keep occurring in the town and assist Ben, the architect in restoring and rebuilding brand new homes for its lovely citizens. Beat colorful match-3 levels to renovate and decorate homes in the town, unlocking ever more chapters in the exciting stories along the way! Are you ready to become and city-manager to build your dream? Let’s get started! ◾ Addictive unique gameplay: Swap and match throughout hundreds of exciting match-3 levels. Explore powerful boosters ◾ Build your own town: build and restore different areas in the town, each with unique structures: family homes, swimming pools, mansions, villas, gardens, farms and many more. You decide you choose. ◾ What would you fix first? Help Taylor and Ben fix the town after catastrophic events, such as fire, typhoon and many more ◾ Meet charming animal-like cartoon characters and discover their heartwarming stories and help them find their new home Relax and live a town story with funny and heartfelt dialogue! Show off your designer and architect skills by renovating, designing, building and decorating the landscape, garden, and the overall town. A variety of optional items will enable you to explore your creativity, change designs any time and eventually create your dream down! Give your town a complete makeover by building it from zero. As you progress throughout the levels, your little town will turn into a bustling metropolis with skyscrapers, restaurants, parks, landmarks. Every decision is yours as your city gets larger and more intricate. Make smart choices to keep your citizens happy and your skyline growing. Towntopia will be updated with more blast puzzles and storylines regularly! Additional information: Towntopia is a free match-3 adventure puzzle game with optional in-game purchases. Want to stay tuned to the latest information? Join our worldwide community on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PurpleCowStudios/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/purplecowstudio_cookapps/
Design Show
Embark on a global journey of home renovation in this match-3 puzzle game. Solve challenging levels to earn design upgrades, choose furniture and decor, and transform apartments. Uncover a compelling story as you help characters overcome design dilemmas and unlock new locations.
- Match-3 puzzle gameplay
- Home renovation and interior design
- Choose furniture and decor
- Renovate apartments worldwide
- Solve character design problems
- Unlock new locations and secret rooms
- Compelling game story
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Design Show is a new Match-3 game where you get to renovate homes all around the world! Choose unique furniture, styles, and decor! Change the appearance of apartments! Help the characters furnish their apartments! Travel and discover new locations! HELP the characters solve a variety of problems, from a flood in the kitchen to a fire in the living room! RENOVATE houses and apartments around the world! CLEAN UP and remove old junk and decorate interiors! PLAY Match-3 levels and get design upgrades! UNLOCK secret rooms and new locations! EXPLORE the game's compelling story and twists! WIN competitions and get rewards! Feel like a real interior designer! Start playing now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TownTopia at none against Design Show's shown. TownTopia also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Design Show's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and ratings volume (270 vs 60). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. TownTopia sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Design Show sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Design Show holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 270 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of TownTopia's written reviews are positive against 67% of Design Show's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TownTopia ships an update every 2 months, Design Show monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TownTopia | Design Show |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (60 ratings) | 4.9 (270 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 | 270 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 339 MB | 238 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | cookapps | RED BRIX WALL |
Customer experience
TownTopia
Design Show
Bugs and requests
TownTopia
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Design Show
Reported bugs
6 issues- No furniture options in Venice
- Flashing lines when skipping levels
- Lost all progress
- No furniture choices from Hawaii level onwards
- Game ends after 220 levels
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- No continuation of levels
Requested features
5 requests- More furniture choices
- New countries/levels
- Continuation of the game/new levels
- More customization options for furniture
- Updates with new countries
In-app purchases
TownTopia
- Starter Pack$1.99
- Jewels$2.99
- Piggy Bank$3.99
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- Stack of Jewels$5.99
- Piggy Bank$5.99
- Novice Furnisher$5.99
- Piggy Bank$9.99
- Aspiring Decorator$9.99
- 700 Jewels$14.99
- Talented Designer$19.99
Design Show
- 1000 coins$1.99
- Special offer$1.99
- Special Day Offer$1.99
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- Lucky offer$2.99
- Lucky offer$4.99
- Safe offer$4.99
- Basic set$4.99
- Special Day Offer$4.99
- 5000 coins$7.99
- Super set$9.99
- Golden Pass$9.99
- Special Day Offer$9.99
- 10000 coins$14.99
- Giant set$19.99
- 25000 coins$29.99
Questions
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