Comparison

Royal Guardians vs Gridbage

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

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About

Royal Guardians

Assemble a team of five heroes with unique classes to battle monsters and powerful bosses. Summon, train, and evolve dozens of heroes to strengthen your team and protect a kingdom from a dark force. Test your limits in various challenge modes and earn rewards.

Highlights
  • Assemble a team of five heroes
  • Summon, train, and evolve heroes
  • Battle hordes of monsters
  • Face powerful bosses
  • Multiple challenge modes
  • Choose a team captain
Features
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Once upon a time, a prosperous and powerful kingdom was suddenly threatened by a dark force. The evil forces invaded the kingdom, destroying the land and endangering the people. The Royal Guard, a group of brave and skilled warriors, volunteered to fight the dark forces and protect the kingdom. In the battle, you will need to use a team of five heroes with different classes to defeat the hordes of monsters that the dark forces have unleashed. You will need to constantly strengthen your team in order to face the powerful bosses at the end of each stage. You can also choose a captain for your team based on the characteristics of your heroes. There are dozens of different heroes that you can summon, train, and evolve. By doing so, you can greatly increase your team's fighting power and easily defeat your enemies. There are also multiple challenge modes of varying difficulty to test your team's limits and earn generous rewards. Download the game and join in Royal Guardians now! Fight bravely to defeat the dark forces and protect the kingdom's honor!

About

Gridbage

This app reinvents the classic card game cribbage by blending its scoring traditions with the strategic depth of poker. Players place cards onto a grid, with each row and column scoring like a cribbage hand. It offers multiple AI difficulty levels and a unique mode to test pure skill.

Highlights
  • Grid-based cribbage scoring
  • Poker-like strategic decisions
  • Four AI difficulty levels
  • Duplicate Card mode for skill testing
  • Offline and online multiplayer
  • Traditional cribbage scoring elements
Features
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Gridbage is a bold reinvention of the classic card game cribbage — blending the deep strategy of hold'em poker with the beloved scoring traditions of cribbage. If you've ever loved cribbage but wanted more decisions, more skill, and more ways to outsmart your opponent, Gridbage was built for you. How It Works Each player is dealt eight (8) cards. You'll discard two (2) into the crib — then place five (5) cards one at a time onto a unique grid game board, keeping one (1) card as your hold card. Every row and column is a cribbage hand waiting to be scored. The center "turn" card is shared by everyone. When all cards are placed, the Cut card is revealed, and every line scores just like cribbage (3 Grid cards, 1 Hold card, 1 Cut card) — fifteens, pairs, runs, flushes, and nobs all count. Highest total wins. The strategy runs deep. Every card you place blocks a lane for your opponent while opening one for yourself. The grid rewards forward thinking, hand reading, and knowing exactly what your five (5) cards holds. Four Difficulty Levels • Beginner — "I know a little cribbage..." The AI makes mistakes and gifts you scoring cards in the crib. A great way to learn without getting crushed. • Intermediate — "I picked a bad week to...stop playing beginner." The AI plays smart half the time and gives you a fighting chance the other half. • Expert — "To the Pain..." The AI plans ahead, and plays to win. No gifts. No mercy. • Ludicrous Speed — "Surely you can't be serious." The AI learns as it goes along. Pure computational carnage. Duplicate Card Mode Play the same cards your AI opponent plays — and find out once and for all whether you're actually better, or just lucky. Duplicate Card mode deals identical hands to both players across multiple matched sets, then shows you a full comparison breakdown at the end. Pure skill. No excuses. Cribbage Board Scoring Track Watch your pegs race around a beautifully rendered oval cribbage board. Skunks and double skunks are tracked. Every point counts — right up to 121. Built for Cribbage Players Gridbage honors everything cribbage players love — the scoring, the language, the crib, the cut, the pegboard — while adding a layer of spatial strategy that makes every hand feel new. • U.S. Patent D976,328 (unique board game design) • No ads. No in-app purchases. • Full privacy — no data collected, no tracking, no analytics. • Works completely offline yourself or on-line vs. friends head-to-head. Visit us at www.gridbage.com

Screenshots

Royal Guardians4 screens
Gridbage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Royal Guardians at Free against Gridbage's $0.99. Royal Guardians also leads on ratings volume (518 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). Gridbage's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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

Royal Guardians is free to download; Gridbage costs $0.99 up front. Royal Guardians sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Gridbage asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gridbage holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Royal Guardians has 518 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Royal Guardians ships an update weekly, Gridbage every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on August 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Royal Guardians versus Gridbage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoyal GuardiansGridbage
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (518 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings518 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#180 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size415 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMofish, Inc.Andrew Glassman

Customer experience

Royal Guardians

All ratings518 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral1.0%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative52.0%

Gridbage

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Royal Guardians

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Rewards disappearing after purchases
  • Inability to proceed due to missing wing pieces
  • Disconnection issues after watching ads

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add Russian language support
  • Improve reward system for watching ads
  • Adjust difficulty and progression for F2P players

Gridbage

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

15 purchases

Royal Guardians

One-time15
  • Basic Newbie Gift$0.99
  • VIP Pack 0$0.99
  • Pack 1$0.99
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  • Special Pack 1$2.99
  • Pack 3$2.99
  • Pack 5$4.99
  • Pack 7$6.99
  • Super Monthly Card$9.99
  • Pack 10$9.99
  • Pack 12$11.99
  • Newbie Gift Discount$11.99
  • Pack 20$19.99
  • Pack 30$29.99
  • Pack 50$49.99
  • Pack 100$99.99
None

Gridbage

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Royal Guardians free?
Royal Guardians is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gridbage free?
Gridbage costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Royal Guardians or Gridbage?
Gridbage is rated higher. Royal Guardians averages 4.7 out of 5 from 518 ratings, while Gridbage averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Royal Guardians or Gridbage have ads?
Royal Guardians shows ads; Gridbage does not.
Which is updated more often, Royal Guardians or Gridbage?
Royal Guardians ships an update weekly, and Gridbage every 10 days. Most recently, Royal Guardians was updated on August 8, 2026 and Gridbage on September 15, 2026.

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