Card Hog vs Luminosus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card Hog
Embark on a strategic dungeon crawl as a heroic pig, navigating a board filled with enemies, traps, and loot. Collect weapons and skills, discover card combinations, and outsmart your foes in this unique roguelike adventure.
- Card-based dungeon crawling
- Strategic combat and enemy manipulation
- Deck building with weapons and skills
- Permanent upgrades through trading
- Multiple game modes and board sizes
- Unique playable characters
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Move your hero pig around the board of Card Hog by defeating challenging foes, dodging dangerous traps, collecting shiny loot… and scrap! Discover weapons, magical skills, amusing card combinations and use them against enemies or trick them to fight against their own kind. During your journey you will meet friendly characters offering ways to improve your deck of cards with new weapons, skills, and upgrades. ⋆ Discover countless card interactions ⋆ Fight and outsmart an army of enemies ⋆ Trade beans for permanent upgrades ⋆ Unique Hogs for diverse playstyles ⋆ Multiple game modes and different board sizes Free content updates are coming soon. Expect more card interactions, enemies, boss fights, and game modes! ~ Got feedback or a feature request? Contact: bugs@snoutup.com
Luminosus
A unique puzzle game blending Tetris-style gameplay with color-matching mechanics. Plan your moves ahead to create white blocks for higher scores. Offers classic and marathon modes, leaderboards, and achievements for endless fun.
- Color-matching puzzle mechanics
- Strategic planning ahead
- Classic and Marathon modes
- Global leaderboards
- Achievements
- Controller support
- Color blind and night modes
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**Editors pick for “New games we love” in 135+ countries** **Editors pick for “New and noteworthy games” in 150+ countries** **Editors pick for “What we are playing this week”** **Editors choice "Indie corner"** Luminosus is a unique and challenging puzzle game that combines the fun of matching colors on a Tetris-esque board. Puzzle pieces can be changed back and forth as many times as you want, so a red block will change a yellow piece orange but another red piece will change it back to red. If a piece is influenced by all three colors it is turned white and scores significantly more when cleared. In this way the game requires planning more steps ahead than your standard piece-dropping puzzle game. With its simple but addictive gameplay, Luminosus offers hours of entertainment and a twist on the classic Tetris and Puyo experience. Features: • Classic mode for a relaxing experience • Marathon game mode for the ultimate challenge • Compete against the world on the leaderboard • Achievements • Controller support • Color blind and night modes • Unique and challenging gameplay that combines Tetris with color matching
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Luminosus at 4.9 against Card Hog's 4.6. Luminosus also leads on price ($0.29 vs $1.99). Card Hog's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 71%) and ratings volume (189 vs 17). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Card Hog costs $1.99 and Luminosus $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Luminosus holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Card Hog has 189 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Card Hog's written reviews are positive against 71% of Luminosus's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Card Hog ships an update weekly, Luminosus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card Hog | Luminosus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.29 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (189 ratings) | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 189 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #194 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aurimas Garuolis | Short Circuit Studio |
Customer experience
Card Hog
Luminosus
In-app purchases
Card Hog
No in-app purchases
Luminosus
No in-app purchases









