Exploding 7's vs Royal Merge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Exploding 7's
A straightforward card game designed for quick and enjoyable play. Test your luck and strategy in this simple yet engaging digital card experience.
- Simple card gameplay
- Quick play sessions
- Engaging card experience
- Digital card game
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A fun and simple card game app.
Royal Merge
Merge royal coins to earn money for the empire in this tricky puzzle game. Manage coin positions, space, and time to pay taxes and please the King. Build combos for bigger scores and avoid letting coins stack too high.
- Merge identical coins
- Earn money for the empire
- Manage coin positions and space
- Pay taxes and follow royal orders
- Build combos for higher scores
- Tricky suika puzzle mechanics
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Merge real British coins. Build a royal treasury. Outsmart a kingdom that keeps changing the rules. Royal Merge is a cozy physics puzzle with a strategic twist. Drop matching coins to combine them into higher denominations, trigger satisfying combos and keep the pile below the danger line. ROYAL ENCOUNTERS The Tax Man wants his share. The King issues decrees. The Queen seizes coins. The Jester causes chaos. Sir Mergelot and the Alchemist add reserves, potions and new choices to every run. FEATURES • Easy to learn, tricky to master • Real British coin denominations • Strategic placement, physics and chain combos • Dynamic royal encounters and challenges • Achievements and global cross-platform leaderboards • Save and continue whenever you like • Core game playable offline • No ads and no pay-to-win How large can you grow the kingdom’s treasury?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Royal Merge at 100% against Exploding 7's's 50%. Royal Merge also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Exploding 7's's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Exploding 7's sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Royal Merge asks for nothing beyond the download.
Royal Merge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exploding 7's has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Exploding 7's's written reviews are positive against 100% of Royal Merge's.
Exploding 7's ships an update every 4 days, Royal Merge every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Exploding 7's | Royal Merge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Gerber | Joshua Cotterell |
Customer experience
Exploding 7's
Royal Merge
In-app purchases
Exploding 7's
- Remove ads$1.99
Royal Merge
No in-app purchases
