Riddler vs The Castle Path
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Riddler
Engage your mind with hundreds of witty and funny riddles. Solve puzzles by guessing words, progressing through levels, and utilizing hints. Choose your challenge with easy, medium, and hard modes.
- Hundreds of riddles
- Word guessing gameplay
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Hint system
- Level progression
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Do you know which letter of the alphabet has the most water? Or what happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea? Can you guess the word? Enjoy this puzzle with hundreds of riddles. Some witty, some funny but all are fun. Solve the riddle to move to the next level. Tap a letter to form a solution. Tap a letter in the solution to clear it. Use a hints (at a cost) to either remove unused letters or suggest next letter. Use menu to switch between easy, medium and hard mode.
The Castle Path
Engage your mind with a puzzle game where strategic choices unlock paths through challenging levels. Navigate obstacles, manipulate the environment, and reach the treasure by selecting the correct route.
- Puzzle and anticipation gameplay
- Environmental state modification
- Obstacle-based level design
- Switch-activated path clearing
- Star collection for progression
- 60 unique levels
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« The Castle Path » is a puzzle and anticipation game, without chance or timing, based on mini puzzles to be solved by choosing the right ladder on each floor to reach the chest. Inspired by the concept of labyrinths, the originality of the game is to be able to modify the state of the active elements of the levels according to your choices. The levels are made up of numerous obstacles, such as spikes, doors, statues, moving guards, tunnels... They are also made up of switches allowing to invert the states of the obstacles in order to clear a path. Collect stars in order to unlock floors and play more levels. The game offers 60 levels to solve and 180 stars to collect.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Riddler at Free against The Castle Path's $4.99. Riddler also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). The Castle Path's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Riddler is free to download; The Castle Path costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Riddler holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Riddler | The Castle Path |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GASP Mobile Games Inc | Sylvain Seccia |
Customer experience
Riddler
The Castle Path
In-app purchases
Riddler
No in-app purchases
The Castle Path
No in-app purchases
