Comparison

Crash Blocks vs Drop Duchy

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

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About

Crash Blocks

A strategic puzzle game with a chessboard-style design. Players navigate challenging levels by sliding a character, using tools and obstacles to plan optimal routes and eliminate enemies. It encourages creative problem-solving and thoughtful planning without time pressure.

Highlights
  • Chessboard-style puzzle design
  • Sliding character mechanics
  • Creative tool and obstacle usage
  • Enemy elimination objectives
  • Limited undo and restart options
  • Minimalist visual style
Features
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Crash Blocks is a highly creative and strategic puzzle game with a chessboard-style design. With its simple and intuitive interface, the game offers gameplay reminiscent of chess-like moves and thoughtful planning. Players control a character that slides in one of four directions—up, down, left, or right—continuing to move until hitting an obstacle or stopping at a specific point. Your mission is to navigate challenging levels by skillfully using tools and obstacles to plan the optimal route and achieve your objectives. Game Features • Creative Problem-Solving: The tools in the game are ingeniously designed without explicit instructions. Players must explore their functions within the levels. Use tools to move, attack, or even create entirely new paths, unlocking diverse ways to solve puzzles. • Strategy and Timing Challenges: Beyond route planning, the sequence of picking up tools, the timing of their use, and path selection are critical. Push or pull objects in the environment to alter terrain and gain strategic advantages. • Balancing Enemy Elimination and Objectives: Eliminating enemies is a required condition for completing a level. However, the key lies in choosing the right moment to attack. At times, you can temporarily leave enemies in place to assist with route planning or create advantageous positions, but they must all be defeated in the end to clear the stage. • Challenge and Experimentation: In Crash Blocks, encountering dead ends is part of the experience. The game provides a limited number of undo and restart options, allowing players to either take back their last move or retry the entire level. With no time pressure or forced “best routes,” players are encouraged to explore freely, unleash creativity, and find their own solutions. • Minimalist Chessboard-Style Design: The visual style is clean and focused, emphasizing the functionality of each tool and obstacle. This simplicity allows players to concentrate on strategic planning, creating an experience akin to an exciting chess match. Start the adventure now and experience this brainstorming experience!

About

Drop Duchy

Experience a unique blend of deckbuilding, puzzle, and rogue-lite gameplay. Build a realm by strategically placing tiles, gather resources, and lead your troops to reclaim enemy territory. Each run offers a fresh challenge with procedural generation and meta-progression.

Highlights
  • Deckbuilding, puzzle, and rogue-lite gameplay mix
  • Strategic tile placement for resource maximization
  • Real-time strategy combat and territory reclamation
  • Procedurally generated game experiences
  • Meta-progression with over 90 challenges
  • Over 110 unique cards for deck building
  • Three playable factions: The Duchy, The Order, The Republic
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[TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!] A beloved PC game, now coming to mobile. Metacritic: 83. Very Positive on STEAM - 90%. Drop Duchy takes the iconic geometric puzzle gameplay we all know and love and gives it a fresh perspective: instead of simply clearing lines, you build a realm. A mix of deckbuilding, puzzle and rogue-lite, designed to hone your appetite as a block-stacking tactician. Place tile pieces as you would in a block-dropping game, but align them to maximize their activation rules. Set the right structures next to lush forests, wild rivers and grassy plains to pull out maximum resources and units. Then gather your troops, reclaim the regions under enemy control, and storm the enemy fortress along branching, decision-filled paths. Let your castle take too much damage and the run ends - but defeat is not the end: jump straight back in with a new strategy, and use the experience gained to unlock even more content. Grow in power with over 110 unique cards, trade with markets and guilds, and climb a meta progression of over 90 missions tied to three playable factions: The Duchy, The Order and The Republic. Adapt, conquer, and keep the action moving! FEATURES * An original mix of puzzle gameplay and real-time strategy * A brand new game experience with each run thanks to procedural generation * Play with Factions: The Duchy, The Order, The Republic * Meta progression: over 90 challenges designed to help you through your journey * Build the perfect deck with over 110 unique cards * An elegant and charming art direction to please your eyes * An engaging and ever-evolving soundtrack to please your ears * Choose your path between lakes, glades, forests, villages, guilds… and more!

Screenshots

Crash Blocks4 screens
Drop Duchy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Drop Duchy at Free against Crash Blocks's $0.99. Drop Duchy also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Crash Blocks's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads 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

Drop Duchy is free to download; Crash Blocks costs $0.99 up front. Drop Duchy sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Crash Blocks asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Crash Blocks versus Drop Duchy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrash BlocksDrop Duchy
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.6 (36 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better60.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—36 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB1.1 GB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperYI HSIU HSIEHDoghowl Games Ltd.

Customer experience

Crash Blocks

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Drop Duchy

All ratings36 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral8.7%
Negative30.4%

In-app purchases

None

Crash Blocks

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Drop Duchy

One-time2
  • Base Game Offer$8.99
  • Base Game$9.99

Questions

Is Crash Blocks free?
Crash Blocks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drop Duchy free?
Drop Duchy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Crash Blocks or Drop Duchy have ads?
Neither Crash Blocks nor Drop Duchy shows ads.

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