Comparison

Alchemy Dungeon vs Pachoink! CE

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

Pachoink! CE

Bounce and smash targets on challenging game boards. Master precision, timing, and brute force across over 70 levels with unique hazards. Unlock new areas and elements in future updates.

Highlights
  • Intuitive one-touch controls
  • Campaign and Endless game modes
  • Multiple board hazards
  • 70+ skill-based levels
  • Unlockable board elements
Features
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Pachoink! The game boards provide the targets, but do you have the ball skills to take them all out? Some levels require precision, others good timing, some brute force, but more often than not it's a combination of all of these. Rise to the challenge and earn your stars! Features: -Intuitive one-touch controls: Simply tap, drag down and release! -Two game modes: Campaign and Endless (Tower). -Multiple board hazards: Teleports, catchers, spinners, movers and more can help or hinder you on your journey! -70+ Levels: A large base set of (skill based unlocking) levels and areas, with more board elements, traps and levels in future releases. Please note: In game text is minimal, in English. Contains banner ads at the end of the level.

Screenshots

Alchemy Dungeon4 screens
Pachoink! CE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pachoink! CE at 5.0 against Alchemy Dungeon's 4.2. Pachoink! CE also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Alchemy Dungeon's advantage is ratings volume (42 vs 3). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Pachoink! CE 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

Pachoink! CE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alchemy Dungeon has 42 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of Pachoink! CE's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Alchemy Dungeon versus Pachoink! CE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlchemy DungeonPachoink! CE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (42 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings42 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB92 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperIvan KhokhlenkovA To Play Ltd.

Customer experience

Alchemy Dungeon

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

Pachoink! CE

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Pachoink! CE

One-time1
  • No Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Alchemy Dungeon free?
Alchemy Dungeon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pachoink! CE free?
Pachoink! CE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alchemy Dungeon or Pachoink! CE?
Pachoink! CE is rated higher. Alchemy Dungeon averages 4.2 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Pachoink! CE averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Alchemy Dungeon or Pachoink! CE have ads?
Both Alchemy Dungeon and Pachoink! CE show ads.

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