Comparison

Alchemy Dungeon vs Nonogram Life

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Item merging and recipe discovery
  • Endless dungeon exploration
  • Monster slaying and treasure hunting
  • Unlockable characters, powers, and levels
  • Offline gameplay
  • One-hand operation
Features
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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.

About

Nonogram Life

Engage your mind with logic puzzles that reveal hidden pixel art. Solve by filling cells according to number clues, offering a relaxing and mindful experience with handcrafted designs and soothing music. Save your progress and enjoy various topics.

Highlights
  • Hand-crafted pixel art puzzles
  • Diverse topics and themes
  • Hint system for assistance
  • Intuitive drag or d-pad controls
  • Relaxing music and mindfulness
  • Automatic save/resume functionality
  • Marking (X) feature for easier solving
Features
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Nonograms, also known as Paint by Numbers, Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, and various other names, are picture Logic puzzle in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. *** Rule *** In this puzzle type, the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive sets. *** Features *** ● Hand crafted beautiful pixel arts ● There are various topics to have fun with ● Using hint can help you in difficult time ● Easy controls, either using drag or d-pad ● Mindfulness, relaxing music ● Playing session is saved/resumed automatically ● Don’t forget to using Mark (X) to solve the puzzle easier *** Strategy *** Simpler puzzles can usually be solved by a reasoning on a single row only (or a single column) at each given time, to determine as many boxes and spaces on that row as possible. Then trying another row (or column), until there are no rows that contain undetermined cells. Some more difficult puzzles may also require several types of "what if?" reasoning that include more than one row (or column). This works on searching for contradictions: When a cell cannot be a box, because some other cell would produce an error, it will definitely be a space. And vice versa. Advanced solvers are sometimes able to search even deeper than into the first "what if?" reasoning. It takes, however, a lot of time to get some progress.

Screenshots

Alchemy Dungeon4 screens
Nonogram Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nonogram Life at 4.8 against Alchemy Dungeon's 4.2. Nonogram Life also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (598 vs 42). On price, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Nonogram Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nonogram Life holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nonogram Life has 598 ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Alchemy Dungeon's written reviews are positive against 76% of Nonogram Life's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alchemy Dungeon ships an update every 4 months, Nonogram Life fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Alchemy Dungeon versus Nonogram Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlchemy DungeonNonogram Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (42 ratings)4.8 (598 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews76.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings42598 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB95 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperIvan KhokhlenkovNguyen Loc

Customer experience

Alchemy Dungeon

All ratings42 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral9.4%
Negative21.9%

Nonogram Life

All ratings546 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive76.4%
Neutral13.5%
Negative10.1%

Bugs and requests

Alchemy Dungeon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Nonogram Life

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Black screen on certain levels
  • Incorrect puzzle solutions
  • Progress reset/loss of progress
  • Crashes and freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and categories
  • Ability to disable lives/hints
  • Support for Apple Pencil
  • Improved performance optimization

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Alchemy Dungeon

One-time4
  • 1000 gold$1.99
  • Turn off ads$2.99
  • 5000 gold$7.99
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  • 15000 gold$19.99
1 purchases

Nonogram Life

One-time1
  • Remove Ads2 variants$2.99

Questions

Is Alchemy Dungeon free?
Alchemy Dungeon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nonogram Life free?
Nonogram Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alchemy Dungeon or Nonogram Life?
Nonogram Life is rated higher. Alchemy Dungeon averages 4.2 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Nonogram Life averages 4.8 from 598 ratings.
Do Alchemy Dungeon or Nonogram Life have ads?
Both Alchemy Dungeon and Nonogram Life show ads.
Which is updated more often, Alchemy Dungeon or Nonogram Life?
Alchemy Dungeon ships an update every 4 months, and Nonogram Life fortnightly. Most recently, Alchemy Dungeon was updated on October 29, 2026 and Nonogram Life on October 30, 2026.

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