Comparison

Block Puzzle Gem vs Memory Castle

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

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About

Block Puzzle Gem

A classic strategy jewel block puzzle game designed to enhance visual enjoyment and improve spatial skills. Drag and drop colorful jewel blocks to fill rows and columns, clearing them to achieve high scores. Play anytime, anywhere, with no internet or time restrictions.

Highlights
  • Classic strategy jewel block gameplay
  • Enhances spatial skills and trains the brain
  • Colorful jewel blocks for visual enjoyment
  • No internet, time, or location restrictions
  • Easy to play, suitable for all families
  • Rotation treasure chest for high scores
Features
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Block Puzzle Gem is a new classic strategy jewel game. Designed by exquisite beautiful gems, its jewel blocks can maintain peace of mind while enhancing your visual enjoyment. It's a jewel board puzzle improving your spatial skills and training your brain. Play Block Puzzle Gem anytime and anywhere to relax to have a healthy life. Why choose this puzzle? - 100% free to play jewel tile block game. - A grid to place a temporarily unwanted block. - Colorful jewel blocks beauty enjoyment. - Without any internet/time/location restrictions. - It's easy to play, suitable for all families. The beginner's guide. - Drag jewel blocks to any place you want into the grid. - Fill in horizontal and vertical rows and clear the gem cube. - Rotation treasure chest helps you break the high scores. Tips may help you. - Remove multiple lines at a time. - Use the excess grid wisely to create more possibilities. - Explode the spinning star blocks cleverly. Relieve stress and enjoy Block Puzzle Gem as long as you like. Or compete with your friends to see who will get the highest score.

About

Memory Castle

Features
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Memory Castle turns the oldest memory trick in the world into a game. Long before notebooks and phones, Greek and Roman speakers memorized whole speeches by imagining a building and placing each idea in a room. Memory champions still use it today. It's called the memory palace, or the method of loci, and it works because your brain is brilliant at remembering places. HOW IT WORKS • Step into a hand-painted room and study where each object sits. • Tap each one and picture it there. The more vivid and absurd, the better it sticks. • The room empties. Drag every object back to the exact spot where it belongs. • Get it perfect and the room grows by one more object. Master the room and climb on. 20 HAND-PAINTED ROOMS From a sleeping pod under star charts to a treehouse strung with lights, every room is its own little world, with objects you won't find anywhere else in the castle. THE GATEKEEPER Every three rooms, the Gatekeeper blocks the stairs. To pass, rebuild all three rooms from memory, back to back, with no hints. Pass and your climb is saved. Slip and you'll have to earn your way back up. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Story Mode: Climb the castle room by room. Miss once and you get one more try. Miss again and you head back to the start of that part of the castle. Pick up from any room you've reached on the castle map. • Timed Mode: Every room arrives fully set up, revealed object by object on a clock you set from 1 to 7 seconds. One slip ends the run. • Endless Mode: Rooms keep coming, and after each one you rebuild every room so far. The load keeps growing. How deep can you go? PLAY YOUR WAY • Easy, Medium or Hard: 4, 5 or 6 objects per room, chosen separately for each mode. • A calm original soundtrack. Pick your favorite song or let it play at random. • Made for iPhone and iPad, and for the foldable iPhone, folded or open, in any orientation. • Plays completely offline. No account and no sign-in. • Nine languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese, switchable any time. • A short walkthrough teaches each mode the first time you play it. TIPS FROM THE MEMORY PALACE • Make it strange. A thermometer dancing on the shelf is easier to recall than a thermometer sitting there. • Use your senses. Imagine the sound, the smell, the weight of each object. • Walk the room in order. Go left to right, the same way every time. • Rest, then review. The Gatekeeper rewards rooms you've revisited in your mind. FAIR AND SIMPLE Story rooms 1 to 3 are free to play. Unlock the rest with small one-time purchases: All Rooms, Endless Mode, Timed Mode, or All Access for everything. No subscriptions, no ads, no energy meters asking you to wait, and no personal data collected. WHO IT'S FOR • Students who want a better way to learn for exams. • Puzzle fans looking for a calm challenge that rewards focus, not speed. (Unless you pick Timed.) • Anyone who walks into a room and forgets why. Start here. • Families: no ads, no chat, nothing to sign up for. A SKILL THAT STAYS WITH YOU The memory palace isn't just for games. Once you've built a few rooms in Memory Castle, you'll have a technique you can use for shopping lists, names, speeches and study, long after you put your phone down. Twenty rooms. One Gatekeeper after another. How far can you go?

Screenshots

Block Puzzle Gem4 screens
Memory Castle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Memory Castle at none against Block Puzzle Gem's shown. Block Puzzle Gem's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Block Puzzle Gem sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Memory Castle sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Block Puzzle Gem versus Memory Castle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlock Puzzle GemMemory Castle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.9K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShanghai Freemind Software Co., Ltd.ALARIC CORBIN

Bugs and requests

Block Puzzle Gem

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Issues with level 29 of the Great Wall event
  • Calendar feature causing crashes

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to rotate/move blocks
  • More daily challenges and events
  • Clearer gameplay instructions

Memory Castle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Block Puzzle Gem

One-time8
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Spin Coin × 5$0.99
  • Spin Coin × 20$2.99
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  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • Spin Coin × 50$5.99
  • Superior Pack$7.99
  • Spin Coin × 120$9.99
  • Spin Coin × 300$19.99
5 purchases

Memory Castle

One-time5
  • Endless Mode$0.99
  • All Rooms$0.99
  • Timed Mode$0.99
Show 2 more
  • Complete the Castle$0.99
  • All Access$1.99

Questions

Is Block Puzzle Gem free?
Block Puzzle Gem is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memory Castle free?
Memory Castle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Block Puzzle Gem or Memory Castle have ads?
Block Puzzle Gem shows ads; Memory Castle does not.

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