Drop Duchy vs Beach Siege
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
Beach Siege
Engage in classic grid-based tower defense, battling waves of enemies across four difficulty levels. Utilize dozens of abilities and effects from seven distinct factions to defeat bosses and earn loot boxes with helpful items or tower upgrades.
- Grid-based tower defense gameplay
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Seven unique factions
- Dozens of abilities and effects
- Boss battles with loot box rewards
- Tower upgrades and bombs
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Face down wave after wave in this classic grid based tower defense. Conquer 4 difficulties with 7 factions that let you play with dozens of abilities and effects to take down the 3 bosses per match. Each boss drops a loot box where you can choose from 3 items. They may be drag-and-drop bombs to help with challenging waves, or powerful upgrades for your towers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beach Siege at none against Drop Duchy's 2. Beach Siege also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Drop Duchy's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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. Drop Duchy sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Beach Siege asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beach Siege holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drop Duchy has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Drop Duchy | Beach Siege |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (36 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.1 GB | 333 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Doghowl Games Ltd. | David Duba |
In-app purchases
Drop Duchy
- Base Game Offer$8.99
- Base Game$9.99
Beach Siege
No in-app purchases
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