Pico Hero vs Alchemy Dungeon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pico Hero
Embark on an action-packed adventure to rescue kidnapped friends in this retro pixel puzzle-shooter. Master over 100 challenging levels, collect weapons, and even create and share your own levels.
- Puzzle-shooter gameplay
- Over 100 challenging levels
- Retro pixel graphics
- Weapon and item collection
- Level editor
- Share custom levels
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The friends of Pico has been kidnapped! Do you have what it takes to rescue them in this action packed Puzzle-Pixel-Shooter? Show your skills in adventure and training mode! Tackle exciting challenges, solve tricky puzzles, plant trees and master the boss battles! More than 100 challenging level cards with nice retro pixel graphics are waiting for you. Collect crucial weapons and items. Create your own level cards with the level editor and share them with your friends. Get more level cards by importing them from your gallery or scanning them with your camera.
Alchemy Dungeon
Merge items to discover new recipes and explore procedurally generated dungeons. Battle monsters, collect treasures, and use your progress to unlock new characters and powers in this challenging roguelike puzzle game.
- Item merging and recipe discovery
- Endless dungeon exploration
- Monster slaying and treasure hunting
- Unlockable characters, powers, and levels
- Offline gameplay
- One-hand operation
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Alchemy Dungeon is a mix of puzzle and roguelike. Your goal is to merge items, discover new recipes, explore endless dungeons, slay monsters and find treasures. Your best scores are used to unlock unique characters, powers, and levels, and the loot you find is used for upgrades. The game is simple to learn but hard to master. It is offline and is designed for one-hand operation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Alchemy Dungeon at Free against Pico Hero's $0.99. Pico Hero's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Alchemy Dungeon is free to download; Pico Hero costs $0.99 up front. Pico Hero sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pico Hero holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 42 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Pico Hero's written reviews are positive against 69% of Alchemy Dungeon's.
Pico Hero ships an update weekly, Alchemy Dungeon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pico Hero | Alchemy Dungeon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) — better | 4.2 (42 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 68.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 42 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 113 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jan Jaschke | Ivan Khokhlenkov |
Customer experience
Pico Hero
Alchemy Dungeon
In-app purchases
Pico Hero
- Unlimited lives$0.99
Alchemy Dungeon
- 1000 gold$1.99
- Turn off ads$2.99
- 5000 gold$7.99
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- 15000 gold$19.99
