Comparison

Drop Duchy vs Spacetime Chronicles

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

Head to head
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

Spacetime Chronicles

Embark on a unique paper stop-motion adventure where you guide a boy through a collapsing timeline. Solve puzzles by observing your surroundings in handcrafted paper sets. The initial part of the journey is free, with a single purchase unlocking the full experience.

Highlights
  • Hand-cut paper stop-motion animation
  • Time-traveling narrative adventure
  • Observational puzzle-solving
  • Multiple diverse environments
  • Customizable touch controls
  • Offline play
Features
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Every room, every character, every frame: real paper, cut and animated by hand. Spacetime Chronicles is an animated feature film that turned into a game. Start for free: the first part of the adventure (about 25 minutes) is included. Unlock the full journey with a single in-app purchase, at any time from the pause menu or when the free part ends. Already bought the game? Everything stays unlocked. Fred was late for school. Then a cat walked past — and the century changed. Spacetime Chronicles is a paper stop-motion adventure about a boy, a cat, and the accidental collapse of time. Every room is a real paper set, every puzzle is solved by looking closely at the world, and nothing is explained twice. WHAT YOU DO Follow the cat through a school, an airport, a Tokyo street, a bus depot and places that should not exist. Climb, jump, push, hide, and work out what the world wants from you. Some rooms are quiet. Some are a maze with a clock running down. One is a tesseract. MADE BY HAND Every set, every character and every frame was cut from paper and animated in stop motion — this is an animated feature film that turned into a game, made by one person over several years. WHAT'S INSIDE - A full adventure, several hours long - English voices, subtitles in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German - Touch controls you can move, resize and place wherever you like - No internet, no account, no ads, no tracking - Play offline, anywhere Buy it once. It's yours.

Screenshots

Drop Duchy4 screens
Spacetime Chronicles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spacetime Chronicles at 100% against Drop Duchy's 61%. Spacetime Chronicles also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Drop Duchy's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, 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 Spacetime Chronicles 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, Spacetime Chronicles every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Drop Duchy versus Spacetime Chronicles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrop DuchySpacetime Chronicles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (76 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings76 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB3.7 GB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDoghowl Games Ltd.Seenfilm di Bertelli Stefano Sas & c.

Customer experience

Drop Duchy

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

Spacetime Chronicles

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drop Duchy

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

Spacetime Chronicles

One-time1
  • Full Game$3.99

Questions

Is Drop Duchy free?
Drop Duchy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spacetime Chronicles free?
Spacetime Chronicles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drop Duchy or Spacetime Chronicles have ads?
Neither Drop Duchy nor Spacetime Chronicles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drop Duchy or Spacetime Chronicles?
Drop Duchy ships an update weekly, and Spacetime Chronicles every 2 days. Most recently, Drop Duchy was updated on November 12, 2026 and Spacetime Chronicles on October 31, 2026.

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