Comparison

Puzzle Colony vs Goblin's Caravan

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

Head to head
About

Puzzle Colony

Embark on a pirate adventure to defeat the undead and reclaim royal islands. Recruit allies, upgrade cities, and engage in tactical match-3 battles to become the greatest buccaneer. Earn the Queen's favor for a glorious future.

Highlights
  • Story of betrayal, adventure, and friendship
  • Over 100 exciting missions
  • Tactical match-3 fights
  • Recruit and upgrade officers
  • Improve cities with upgrades
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Multiple supported languages
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Welcome, mighty adventurer! Can you defeat the armies of the undead and drive them away from the royal islands? Set sail for a great pirate adventure, improve your crew and recruit powerful allies to liberate villages and settlements. Get powerful weapons and artifacts from pirate treasures and become the greatest buccaneer of the kingdom. Only if you earn the Queen's goodwill, a glorious future awaits you. Features: - a story of betrayal, adventure and friendship - more than 100 exciting missions - tactical match 3 fights to defeat the enemy and secure valuable resources - recruit mighty officers and upgrade their unique skills - improve your cities with powerful upgrades - enjoy match 3 without frustration by choosing the difficulty level you want - supported languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French and Russian Looking for help with the game or a nice conversation? Visit us on Discord: https://discord.gg/bffvAMg

About

Goblin's Caravan

Manage a traveling merchant fleet in a fantasy world. Explore villages, trade goods, and help monsters develop their towns. Upgrade your caravan and assign monsters for automatic combat to protect your cargo.

Highlights
  • Explore villages and trade goods
  • Develop and build villages
  • Optimize trading routes
  • Upgrade caravan capacity and defense
  • Assign monsters for automatic combat
Features
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Welcome to "Goblin's Caravan"! This is a game of running a traveling merchant fleet in the other world. You have to start as a small traveling merchant boss, explore villages and trade around the world, and try to expand your merchant fleet. Help the monsters to develop the town, make the other world become rejuvenated for the monsters to live. - Traveling around the world visiting villages and buying all kinds of goods. The more villages you visit, the more places your caravan can trade and buy their specialties. Each village produces different types of goods depending on the terrain around it. For example, villages near lakes or the sea have a higher chance of producing seafood. - Help villages to develop and build, and produce more high-grade goods. At first, the variety of goods that can be produced in the village is limited, but as trading becomes more popular, the village will develop and grow on its own. You can invest in the village and build more commercial buildings to produce more goods. You can also ship specific materials to villages to unlock the ability to produce more advanced types of goods to trade for profit. - Arranging trading routes to optimize the profitability of a caravan. The price of each type of goods will be different in different villages, so you have to find out the trading route which can get the best profit and arrange the caravan to go to trade automatically. This way you can earn more money faster! Once you have set up an automated trade route, the automated trade will continue even if you don't open the game to play. - Upgrade the caravan to improve cargo capacity and defense. Your caravan will gain experience as it travels around the world and trades goods, and will then be upgraded. You'll receive a modification point for each upgrade, which you can allocate to increase your caravan's storage space or loading capacity, or to add more guard monsters to protect it. - Assign monsters to guard merchant wagons, easy full-automatic combat! As your caravan moves around the map, it may be robbed by an army of humans. The higher the value of the goods you carry, the stronger the army will be. If your caravan is equipped with powerful monsters, you will be able to fight off the humans. On the other hand, if all your monsters are killed, some of your cargo will be looted and lost.

Screenshots

Puzzle Colony4 screens
Goblin's Caravan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Puzzle Colony at 4.9 against Goblin's Caravan's 3.8. Puzzle Colony also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 50%) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Puzzle Colony sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Goblin's Caravan sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Puzzle Colony holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Puzzle Colony has 55 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Puzzle Colony's written reviews are positive against 50% of Goblin's Caravan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Puzzle Colony ships an update weekly, Goblin's Caravan monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Puzzle Colony versus Goblin's Caravan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuzzle ColonyGoblin's Caravan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (55 ratings) — better3.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings55 — better5
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB187 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMartin DirksJUNG CHUN HUNG

Customer experience

Puzzle Colony

All ratings53 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Goblin's Caravan

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Puzzle Colony

One-time10
  • 100 diamonds$1.99
  • 300 diamonds$4.99
  • Early Special Offer$4.99
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  • Pirate Pass Premium$6.99
  • Treasury Upgrade Bundle$7.99
  • Princess Special Offer$7.99
  • 750 diamonds$9.99
  • Treasury Upgrade$9.99
  • Officer Bundle Diana$12.99
  • Remove Ads$14.99
10 purchases

Goblin's Caravan

One-time10
  • Fistful of gold bullions$0.99
  • Fistful of crystals$0.99
  • Pouch of gold bullions$2.99
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  • Pouch of crystals$2.99
  • Newbie Package$4.99
  • Chest of crystals$9.99
  • Barrel of gold bullions$29.99
  • Barrel of crystals$29.99
  • Wagon of gold bullions$99.99
  • Wagon of crystals$99.99

Questions

Is Puzzle Colony free?
Puzzle Colony is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Goblin's Caravan free?
Goblin's Caravan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Puzzle Colony or Goblin's Caravan?
Puzzle Colony is rated higher. Puzzle Colony averages 4.9 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Goblin's Caravan averages 3.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Puzzle Colony or Goblin's Caravan have ads?
Both Puzzle Colony and Goblin's Caravan show ads.
Which is updated more often, Puzzle Colony or Goblin's Caravan?
Puzzle Colony ships an update weekly, and Goblin's Caravan monthly. Most recently, Puzzle Colony was updated on November 3, 2026 and Goblin's Caravan on November 3, 2026.

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