Alchemy Dungeon vs Vactics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Vactics
Engage in tactical, chess-like combat by building powerful mechs to battle robotic enemies. Face randomly generated challenges and fight for a better future in this strategic warfare game.
- Mech building
- Tactical chess-like combat
- Randomly generated challenges
- Mech and tech upgrades
- Extended campaign
- Leaderboard competition
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Build the mech to fight against robotic Vactics in tactical chess-like combat. The war is already over and the heroes of the city have fallen. Take on a new randomly generated challenge every time you play and join with the citizens to fight for a better future. Vactics is designed to let you play as much as you like and upgrade to the full version at any time. Unlocking the pro version of the game provides: • Access to all 18 mech types and dozens of additional tech modifiers. • Access to the full 24 colour palettes to choose from with custom app icons each. • An extended campaign with additional enemy types and areas to fight through. • An additional phase to the campaign with the true ending and all the co-pilots. • The daily district challenge where you can compete with others on the leaderboards. • Much more to discover.... -- Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Vactics at none against Alchemy Dungeon's shown. Vactics also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Alchemy Dungeon's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 4.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Vactics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Alchemy Dungeon holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 56 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Alchemy Dungeon's written reviews are positive against 71% of Vactics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Alchemy Dungeon ships an update every 4 months, Vactics every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Alchemy Dungeon | Vactics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (42 ratings) — better | 4.0 (56 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | 70.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 309 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ivan Khokhlenkov | Gerard Delaney |
Customer experience
Alchemy Dungeon
Vactics
Bugs and requests
Alchemy Dungeon
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Vactics
Reported bugs
6 issues- Combo attack bonus cancelled by heavy landing
- "Restore purchases" not working after update
- Cannot equip more than one ability
- Inconsistent combat: adjacent Vactic not hitting
- Cannot mount one tech in Chassis and one in Engine
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- Line-of-sight for ranged enemies unclear
Requested features
20 requests- Add more upgrades
- Add more game modes
- Add online co-op
- Add infinite wave competition
- Add diverging paths on map like FTL
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- Add small story elements at decisions
- Add new enemies and technologies
- Add a big boss
- Add Russian language support
- Improve tutorial clarity
- Faster restart function
- Option to confirm selection before moving
- More customization options for mechs
- Unlock more mechs for free
- Add wallpapers in the art style
- Support for lowercase game text
- Option to change palettes easily
- Save progress on runs
- Adjustable difficulty settings
- Add more content
In-app purchases
Alchemy Dungeon
- 1000 gold$1.99
- Turn off ads$2.99
- 5000 gold$7.99
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- 15000 gold$19.99
Vactics
- Subscribe to Vactics Pro$2.993 Months
- Vactics Pro$8.99
