Comparison

Drop Duchy vs Sum Fall

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

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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
Features
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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!

About

Sum Fall

Features
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Sum Fall is the arithmetic puzzle game that plays by its own rules. Place numbered pieces on the grid. Watch them fall — up or down, you never know which way. When two pieces meet and their values add up to 0 or 10, they vanish. Clear them all before the grid overflows. Simple to learn. Fiendishly hard to master. HOW IT WORKS → Each turn, choose where to place a piece in the center row → Pieces fall toward the ceiling or floor — direction is a mystery → Adjacent pieces fuse: green (+) adds, red (−) subtracts → Result is 0 or 10? Both pieces vanish and you score → Chain vanishes for multiplier bonuses: ×1.5 → ×2 → ×3 → ×5 NEW — DAILY CHALLENGE One handcrafted puzzle a day — the same for every player. Clear the board, race the clock, earn up to 3 stars. Keep your streak alive, replay past days from the calendar, and complete a full month to earn a trophy. NEW — DEMOLITION An endless series of solvable puzzle levels. Destroy every golden cell with a limited piece budget. Bombs, armored cells, mystery values, cyclic counters… plan your chains, finish under par, claim all 3 stars. THREE ENDLESS MODES EASY — No pressure. Practice at your own pace. CLASSIC — From turn 10, a new row pushes in. Stay ahead of it. HARDCORE — Both sides push simultaneously. Every move counts. POWER-UPS • Reveal Directions — see where all pieces will fall before committing • Change Direction — flip a piece's trajectory • Change Value — set any piece to the number you need (1–9) • Change Operation — switch + and − to make the math work for you • Storage — hold a piece aside and use it later FEATURES • Daily challenge with streaks, calendar and monthly trophies • Global leaderboards via Game Center • Dark mode • Second chance to keep a great run alive • Offline play — no Wi-Fi needed • Auto-save — resume any game where you left off • Lives system — regenerate over time (infinite in Premium) • No account required • English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Remove ads, unlock infinite lives, and get an extra charge for every power-up. One purchase. No subscription. No tricks. Think you can top the leaderboard? Prove it.

Screenshots

Drop Duchy4 screens
Sum Fall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Drop Duchy at none against Sum Fall's shown. Sum Fall's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drop Duchy sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Sum Fall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drop Duchy ships an update weekly, Sum Fall every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Drop Duchy versus Sum Fall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrop DuchySum Fall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (53 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings53 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB26 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDoghowl Games Ltd.Adrien Buot

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drop Duchy

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

Sum Fall

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Drop Duchy free?
Drop Duchy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sum Fall free?
Sum Fall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drop Duchy or Sum Fall have ads?
Sum Fall shows ads; Drop Duchy does not.
Which is updated more often, Drop Duchy or Sum Fall?
Drop Duchy ships an update weekly, and Sum Fall every 8 days. Most recently, Drop Duchy was updated on October 30, 2026 and Sum Fall on October 28, 2026.

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