Comparison

Royal Realms vs Duskhold

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

Head to head
About

Royal Realms

Build a castle, upgrade troops, and defend your kingdom. Engage in strategic battles to protect your realm and rescue the princess. Make crucial decisions to achieve victory.

Highlights
  • Castle construction and upgrades
  • Troop training and enhancement
  • Strategic combat gameplay
  • Kingdom defense missions
  • Princess rescue objectives
Features
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“Royal Realms,” you build a castle that becomes the foundation of your strength and a gathering place for armies. Upgrade troops to be ready for battles with enemies. Your task is to protect the kingdom and rescue the princess, using strategic thinking and making decisions that will lead to victory. Privacy Policy: https://www.playcus.com/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.playcus.com/terms-of-service

About

Duskhold

Defend your kingdom by building defenses during the day and leading your champion in combat at night. Engage in strategic hex-based battles against raiders and warships, with options for single-player or co-op multiplayer. Customize your champion, buildings, and research to survive the onslaught.

Highlights
  • Hex map kingdom defense
  • Day/night cycle gameplay
  • Champion-led combat with abilities
  • Extensive building and research options
  • Co-op multiplayer for up to four players
  • Offline single-player mode
Features
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Ride out with your champion. The walls will not hold the night on their own. Duskhold is kingdom defense on hex maps where you lead from the front. By day you raise walls, towers, barracks and farms on the plots each map gives you. When night falls, raiders march down the roads and warships land raiding parties on your coast, and your champion rides out to meet them: dash in, use four abilities, hold a gate, and pull back before a wall breaks. WHAT IS IN IT - 43 maps across 6 chapters, each with its own layout - 6 champions, each with a mount, a shared dash and four abilities of their own - 26 buildings with four tiers each; four of them split into a choice of two upgrade paths - 108 enemy types, 9 of them bosses - 38 research nodes, 111 pieces of equipment, 32 boons to pick during a run and 12 relics - Up to four players in one realm: host it, hand out the six-letter code and hold the walls together - Allies: add a friend by their code, see when they are hosting, and join with one tap - Play in English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Indonesian, Russian, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese ALLIES AND ACCOUNTS No account is ever required. Play, co-op by code and the shop all work signed out. If you want your allies to find you, pick a player name; if you want to keep your allies when you change phones, Sign in with Apple links them to your Apple ID - no e-mail is asked for. Your campaign progress stays on your device. You can unlink or delete your account from the game at any time. Player names are filtered before they are saved, and every ally row carries BLOCK and REPORT. There is no chat: invites are fixed templates, never free text. Single player needs no connection. Only co-op and allies go online. CREDITS Most 3D models and animations are free CC0 packs by KayKit (Kay Lousberg), Quaternius and Kenney. All music and sound effects were generated with Stable Audio; the item, ability and research icons, portraits and banners were made with AI image tools. Credits are in Settings.

Screenshots

Royal Realms4 screens
Duskhold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Duskhold at 100% against Royal Realms's 0%. Duskhold also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 7 months). Royal Realms's advantage is ratings volume (125 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Royal Realms sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Duskhold asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Duskhold holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Royal Realms has 125 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Royal Realms's written reviews are positive against 100% of Duskhold's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Royal Realms ships an update every 7 months, Duskhold every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Royal Realms versus Duskhold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoyal RealmsDuskhold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (125 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings125 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size375 MB326 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPLAYCUS LIMITEDKaan Ipek

Customer experience

Royal Realms

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

Duskhold

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Royal Realms

One-time7
  • 2500 Gems$2.99
  • NoAds$3.99
  • 5000 Gems$4.99
Show 4 more
  • Super Deal$5.99
  • Battle Pass$7.99
  • 12.000 Gems$9.99
  • 40.000 Gems$25.99
None

Duskhold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Royal Realms free?
Royal Realms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duskhold free?
Duskhold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Royal Realms or Duskhold?
Duskhold is rated higher. Royal Realms averages 4.7 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while Duskhold averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Royal Realms or Duskhold have ads?
Both Royal Realms and Duskhold show ads.
Which is updated more often, Royal Realms or Duskhold?
Royal Realms ships an update every 7 months, and Duskhold every 3 days. Most recently, Royal Realms was updated on October 24, 2026 and Duskhold on October 16, 2026.

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