Mysterious Castle vs WazHack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mysterious Castle
Embark on a turn-based tactical adventure in a procedurally generated world. Control a party of up to four characters, engaging in strategic combat against diverse monsters. Discover treasure and utilize a variety of skills and items to conquer dungeons.
- Turn-based tactical combat
- Procedurally generated world
- Party-based exploration
- Monster variety
- Item and spell system
- Dungeon crawling
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A minimal touch interface controls a party in a turn-based adventure set in a procedurally generated open world filled with monsters and treasure. Play in your browser at https://www.mysterious-castle.com - Control up to 4 characters as they explore and engage in tactical turn based combat with enemy parties of monsters in a labyrinthine open world. - Use combat techniques, spells, bows, wands, staffs, potions, sneak-attacks, and more to dispatch monsters - Pick locks, find hidden keys, and open secret doors as you make your way to the bottom of the network of dungeons that dot the forest. - Unique, procedurally generated open world with varied monsters and items makes for endless playability.
WazHack
Engage in strategic turn-based combat against a variety of monsters using a vast array of items. Explore procedurally generated dungeons with immense replayability, where every decision matters. Master your inventory and combat skills to survive.
- Turn-based combat
- Procedurally generated dungeons
- Over 350 item types
- Over 170 monster types
- Strategic item usage
- Character class upgrades
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Dungeon time stops when you do: smite monsters cleverly, not by mashing buttons! With over 350 different types of items to be found, you will keep finding novel solutions to battling over 170 different types of monsters that you will face on your journey! You have time to think, but this is no puzzler - you will have to fight your adrenaline and use your sword or staff as much as your inventory. The procedurally-generated dungeon and vast array of possible items gives immense replay value. Some games you'll find a good weapon early, other times you'll rely on wands or potions, or some combination. Sometimes in sheer desperation you'll read a random unidentified scroll... will it be a scroll of fire that incinerates your clothes? Will it be a blessed scroll of teleportation for the ultimate escape? If you have ever played NetHack, DCSS, etc, this game will show you a whole new form of the roguelike genre. When you get good enough to survive to 300 feet, you will be asked to upgrade your character to access the full dungeon. This is a one-off purchase for each type of character (for example, the sorcerer and sorceress are a single type - Evil Mages). The whole game can be played with any character - you only need to purchase your favourite character(s). This can also be seen/purchased in advance under Options/Store. Upgraded to a new device or iOS version? Just use the "Recover" button in Options/Store to get your character classes back.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: WazHack at Free against Mysterious Castle's $9.99. WazHack also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 63%) and ratings volume (116 vs 30). Mysterious Castle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
WazHack is free to download; Mysterious Castle costs $9.99 up front. WazHack sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Mysterious Castle asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Mysterious Castle against 4.5 for WazHack. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 116 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Mysterious Castle's written reviews are positive against 81% of WazHack's.
Mysterious Castle ships an update every 4 weeks, WazHack monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mysterious Castle | WazHack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (30 ratings) — better | 4.5 (116 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 80.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 116 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 245 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jeremy Jurksztowicz | Warwick Allison |
Customer experience
Mysterious Castle
WazHack
Bugs and requests
Mysterious Castle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
WazHack
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inventory UI issues on newer devices
- Crashes and performance problems after updates
- Inability to access purchased content
Requested features
4 requests- Difficulty settings
- Controller support
- Multiplayer mode
- Ability to reorganize spell/item lists
In-app purchases
Mysterious Castle
No in-app purchases
WazHack
- Fighters$0.99
- Good Mages$0.99
- Evil Sorcerers$0.99
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- Hunters$0.99
- Scoundrels$0.99
- Bards$0.99
- Barbarians$0.99
- Druids$0.99








