Alchemy Dungeon vs Riddle Zen
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.
Riddle Zen
Engage your mind with hundreds of unique riddles and brain teasers. Progress through different difficulty levels, unlock plants for your Zen garden, and enjoy a peaceful gameplay experience. Test your knowledge in a timed challenge mode.
- Hundreds of unique riddles
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Zen garden with plant collection
- Detailed riddle explanations
- Timed 'Quick Play' mode
- Peaceful and relaxing theme
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Ready to become the next riddle master? Join Neve in solving a game of riddles and brain teasers. There are hundreds of unique and challenging riddles. It is a good word guessing game for every age group. Features of Riddle Zen: One of nine: - Each riddle comes with 9 possible options with their respective image. - Only 1 of them is correct - After each riddle you get Zen necessary for upgrades Explanations: - Got an answer but unsure why it is that one? - An explanation for all the riddles is provided - At the end of a riddle you have an option to understand why! Modes for everyone: - If you are a veteran with riddles, then there are different options for you. - Each difficulty will affect the way the game is played (Easy, Medium, Hard). Zen garden: - As you progress you will unlock plants that will be required to complete various collections. - Rewards are granted as you get more plants and upgrade them with Zen. Peaceful theme: - The game focuses on peaceful and relaxing tasks like solving riddles and collecting plants. - There's no competition, it's all about savoring the process and finding your own state of Zen while keeping your brain active. Quick Play: - Answer as many riddles as you can within the time limit. - Each correct answer gets you extra time! - One wrong answer and you are done! - Unlocked after solving riddle 40! Additional information: - The game is free to play; however, in-app purchases are available for additional content and in-game currency. - Other than watching rewarded videos no internet or logins are necessary to play the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Riddle Zen at 5.0 against Alchemy Dungeon's 4.2. Riddle Zen also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Alchemy Dungeon's advantage is ratings volume (42 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Riddle Zen sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Riddle Zen 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 Riddle Zen's.
Alchemy Dungeon ships an update every 4 months, Riddle Zen weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alchemy Dungeon | Riddle Zen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — 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 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 249 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Khokhlenkov | Admurin Arts |
Customer experience
Alchemy Dungeon
Riddle Zen
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
Riddle Zen
- 10 Hearts$0.99
- Bamboo Plant$0.99
- Helpful Bundle$1.99
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- No ads$2.99
- Ario's Mushy$4.99
- Calming Bundle$4.99
- Focused Bundle$9.99
- Mindful Bundle$19.99
- Neve's Bundle$19.99
- Sensei Bundle$39.99
- Enlightened Bundle$49.99









