cardinal. vs Match Attack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cardinal.
Engage in a minimalistic logic puzzle game where you deduce a secret solution using sixteen cards and clues. Enjoy procedurally generated boards for endless play and compete globally in daily challenges.
- Minimalistic logic puzzles
- Deduce secret solutions
- Procedurally generated boards
- Endless regular mode
- Daily global competitions
- 16 logic cards
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Minimalistic yet challenging, CARDINAL gives you sixteen different cards and clues in which you must figure out the secret solution! Begin with the cardinal rule you can then continue to creatively deduce the solution from there! An endless amount of procedurally generated boards waits for you in regular mode. And when you feel ready, test yourself in the daily competition alongside players from all over the globe.
Match Attack
Engage in roguelike match-3 combat where tile swaps trigger attacks, defense, and healing. Collect powerful relics and build game-breaking synergies across multiple chapters. Enjoy single-player, offline gameplay with no timers or energy systems.
- Match tiles to attack, defend, and heal
- Create powerful tile cascades
- Collect over 280 synergistic relics
- Progress through three distinct chapters
- Unlock permanent relics through runs
- Ascension tiers for increased difficulty
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Match Attack is a match-3 roguelike game where the board is your weapon! Swap tiles to make matches and watch satisfying cascades. Set up the perfect board, collect upgrades and create gamebreaking builds! - Match tiles to attack, defend, recharge and heal - Get rewarded for bigger matches with clears, empowered tiles, wildcards, and bombs - 280+ relics with synergizing mechanics - Three chapters, each with fights, elites, events, shops, rest sites, and a boss finale - Earn experience from every run to permanently unlock new relics - Ascension tiers add difficulty for uncapped replayability Single-player, fully offline. No timers, no energy. One optional in-app purchase to removes ads and support the solo developer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: cardinal. at none against Match Attack's 1. cardinal. also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Match Attack's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Match Attack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. cardinal. asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for cardinal. against 4.7 for Match Attack. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 19 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of cardinal.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Match Attack's.
cardinal. ships an update every 3 days, Match Attack every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | cardinal. | Match Attack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better | 4.7 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Perfect Hat Games LLC | Michael Ip |
Customer experience
cardinal.
Match Attack
In-app purchases
cardinal.
No in-app purchases
Match Attack
- Match Attack Remove Ads$1.99
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