Comparison

Castle Builder vs Ludo's Quest

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

Head to head
About

Castle Builder

Design and construct intricate castles, keeps, and temples using a variety of building blocks and materials. Destroy your creations with fun physics-based tools or admire those built by others. Save your designs locally or online and share them with friends.

Highlights
  • Construct castles, keeps, and temples
  • Variety of building materials (bricks, tiles, marble)
  • Physics-based destruction (catapults, magic)
  • Save creations locally or online
  • Share screenshots on social media
  • Browse and admire other users' castles
Features
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Castle Builder let you construct castles, keeps and temples. You can bring down your castles with catapult stones, magic levitations and transmogrifying fun, you can even fire the cow'tapult and moo the castle down! Featuring standard blocks, arches and half-arches, triangles. cylinders and spheres. Four different kinds of bricks, four kinds of roof tiles, and four kinds of marble. Flags and people to give it that finished look. Castles can be saved locally on your device or on the Internet, and you can share screenshots of your creations on Facebook. You can look at other peoples castles by searching for them or just randomly get a castle to admire. Your castles will have the special toy builder look you are used to getting from Ettin Entertainment line of builder games.

About

Ludo's Quest

Embark on a side-scrolling platformer adventure inspired by classic games. Explore 16 levels, create your own with a built-in editor, and share them online. Save villagers from an evil sorcerer in a quest filled with bravery and resilience.

Highlights
  • Side-scrolling platformer gameplay
  • 16 challenging levels
  • Built-in level editor
  • Share custom levels online
  • Play community-created levels
  • Classic game inspiration
Features
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Ludo's Quest is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the arcade classics. Run, jump and swing your sword through 16 hand-crafted levels, from the village to the haunted forest, the graveyard and finally castle Monfort. Fun for young and old. • 16 levels across four worlds, each with its own music • 8 Christmas levels with their own festive music • Level Editor: build your own levels, then play, edit or delete them anytime • Collect coins, keys, potions and power-ups • Defeat orcs, skeletons, spiders, bats and the evil Vandaft • Play with the on-screen pad, a keyboard or a game controller • Your progress syncs between your iPhone and iPad with iCloud • Free: no ads, no in-app purchases The Story A long time ago lived a small boy called Ludo. Ludo lived in Piedmont, a small village at the foot of mount Massif. The mountain was a scary place upon which was erected castle Monfort, a relic from the past. Legends speak of an evil man who lived in the castle and had the ability to bring back people from the dead and control them. One day, an army of living dead kidnapped all villagers. All but one. Ludo escaped unnoticed napping in a stack of hay. He fell asleep after an exhausting knight-training session with sword and armor. Only to be awakened by the screams of the villagers being herded away to castle Monfort. Ludo is brave, resilient and resourceful. So starts his quest to free the villagers of Piedmont, to free his friends and family.

Screenshots

Castle Builder3 screens
Ludo's Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ludo's Quest at 90% against Castle Builder's 38%. Ludo's Quest also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Castle Builder's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (79 vs 3). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Castle Builder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ludo's Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Castle Builder holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Castle Builder has 79 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Castle Builder's written reviews are positive against 90% of Ludo's Quest's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Castle Builder versus Ludo's Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCastle BuilderLudo's Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (79 ratings) — better3.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews38.1% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings79 — better3
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS3.1.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB71 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperEttin Entertainment I/SMartin Drapeau

Customer experience

Castle Builder

All ratings80 ratings
Positive67.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative26.3%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive38.1%
Neutral4.8%
Negative57.1%

Ludo's Quest

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Castle Builder

One-time1
  • Upgrade Castle Builder$2.99
None

Ludo's Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Castle Builder free?
Castle Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ludo's Quest free?
Ludo's Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Castle Builder or Ludo's Quest?
Castle Builder is rated higher. Castle Builder averages 3.7 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while Ludo's Quest averages 3.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Castle Builder or Ludo's Quest have ads?
Neither Castle Builder nor Ludo's Quest shows ads.

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