Costume Quest vs Match Protocol
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Costume Quest
Embark on a Halloween adventure RPG where you choose a hero, trick-or-treat, and collect costumes. Transform into champions to battle evil and complete quests in a charming, story-driven experience. An optional DLC pack adds new challenges and content.
- Choose your hero
- Trick-or-treat gameplay
- Costume collection and transformation
- Party building
- Quest completion
- Battle evil enemies
- DLC expansion available
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COMPATIBILITY NOTICE: This app will NOT be available on any device with iOS 11 or NEWER. It will still work on devices with iOS 10 or older but support will no longer be provided. **Note: The music is currently broken in Costume Quest due to an issue with FMOD and the current version of iOS. Unfortunately a fix for this is out of our hands.** Costume Quest is a Halloween adventure from Tim Schafer's Double Fine Productions. In this charming role-playing game, choose your hero and trick-or-treat through three beautiful environments full of Double Fine humor and story. Complete quests, build your party, and collect costumes along the way that allow you to transform into powerful champions and take down the evil Repugians. This heroic holiday tale will capture the imaginations of kids and kids-at-heart. Continue the Costume Quest adventure with the Grubbins on Ice DLC pack. Face new enemies while collecting additional quests, costumes, battle stamps and creepy treat cards. Help the monsters overthrow Araxia to bring peace back to Repugia! *requires at least iPad 2 or iPhone 4S
Match Protocol
Engage in a tactical match-3 RPG set in a cyberpunk city. Solve puzzles to fight rogue AI, hack systems, and uncover a dark mystery. Explore ruins, upgrade your character, and battle unique enemies in a pixel-art world.
- Cyberpunk match-3 gameplay
- Tactical movement on the grid
- Full story campaign
- Isometric pixel-art visuals
- Boss fights with unique mechanics
- Character progression and upgrades
- Dark sci-fi mystery
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The lights of VELTA-9 died in a single night. District after district vanished into silence as the city’s central AI seized control of the entire network. Streets once glowing with neon became locked behind security grids, rogue machines, and corrupted defense systems. Now only one thing still moves through the ruins: you. Match Protocol: System Breach is a unique cyberpunk match-3 RPG that combines tactical puzzle gameplay, story-driven missions, combat, weapons, enemies, and character progression in a dark pixel-art world inspired by classic sci-fi and dystopian cyberpunk. Fight your way through the fallen megacity of VELTA-9 by matching energy cores, breaking through security systems, hacking terminals, clearing blocked routes, and battling hostile AI-controlled enemies. Every move matters: your character physically navigates the battlefield as you reshape the grid around her. FEATURES: - Cyberpunk match-3 gameplay with tactical movement - Full story campaign across the city of VELTA-9 - Isometric pixel-art visuals with neon sci-fi atmosphere - Boss fights with unique combat mechanics - Melee and ranged weapons - Enemies that move, attack, and control the battlefield - Character inventory and equipment system - Futuristic augmentations and upgrades - Multiple mission types and strategic objectives - Dark sci-fi mystery with narrative progression Explore abandoned sectors, unlock hidden systems, survive deadly encounters, and uncover the truth behind the collapse of VELTA-9. But the deeper you go, the more the city begins to recognize you. And somewhere beneath the neon ruins, something is waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Costume Quest at 63% against Match Protocol's 14%. Costume Quest also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (449 vs 10). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Costume Quest sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Match Protocol sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Costume Quest holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Costume Quest has 449 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Costume Quest's written reviews are positive against 14% of Match Protocol's.
Costume Quest ships an update every 6 days, Match Protocol every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Costume Quest | Match Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (449 ratings) — better | 2.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.8% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 449 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 6.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 684 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Double Fine Productions, Inc. | Alexey Bolotov |
Customer experience
Costume Quest
Match Protocol
Bugs and requests
Costume Quest
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes when trying to load saved games
- Audio issues, with music not playing
- Compatibility problems on iPad and iPhone
Requested features
3 requests- Update the game to work on latest iOS versions
- Add support for newer devices
- Implement virtual joystick controls
Match Protocol
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Costume Quest
- Grubbins On IceFree
Match Protocol
- 1000 Credits$0.99
- 10 000 Credits$4.99
- 50 000 Credits$9.99
Questions
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