Alchemy Dungeon vs Close Cities
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.
Close Cities
Build beautiful cities on diverse worlds by solving unique puzzles. This relaxing game guides you through 160 levels with a simple tap or drag interface, requiring no architectural knowledge. Conquer each world's challenges and travel through time with its calming soundtrack.
- Build cities on empty maps
- Solve 160 unique puzzle levels
- Intuitive tap and drag controls
- No architectural knowledge needed
- Travel through different worlds
- Relaxing music and pace
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Close Cities is a relaxing puzzle game in which you will have to build cities in different worlds over time. Find a road and start there. Solve all 160 levels and become a Close Cities legend! UNIQUE PUZZLES You will start each level with an empty map that you will have to fill with beautiful cities. Choose the right road, choose the area and tap or drag with your fingers! DOES NOT REQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF ARCHITECTURE Close Cities offers a fun experience even if you don't know the difference between a square and a bevel. The game's tutorial will show you everything you need to know at a relaxed pace. CONQUER ITS 160 LEVELS Each world has its king and 16 levels that you must solve to build his empire. TRAVEL THROUGH TIME During the course of the game you will discover different worlds over time with relaxed music to let you go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Close Cities at 4.8 against Alchemy Dungeon's 4.2. Close Cities also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (356 vs 42). Alchemy Dungeon's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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
Both are free to download. Alchemy Dungeon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Close Cities sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Close Cities holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Close Cities has 356 ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 69% and 69% positive.
Alchemy Dungeon ships an update every 4 months, Close Cities every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alchemy Dungeon | Close Cities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (42 ratings) | 4.8 (356 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | 69.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 | 356 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Khokhlenkov | Juan Manuel Altamirano Argudo |
Customer experience
Alchemy Dungeon
Close Cities
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
Close Cities
- Hints - Small Pack$0.99
- Hints - Medium Pack$2.99
- Remove Ads + Hints$2.99
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- Hints - Big Pack$5.99
