Comparison

Drop Duchy vs Cohort Auto Battler

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

Cohort Auto Battler

Features
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Cohort is an auto battler for phones. Each round you draft champions from a shared pool, place them on a hexagonal board, and send them against a rival cohort. You never give an order mid-fight: the result is already contained in the board you set. WHAT YOU DO • Draft — the shop shows five champions a round. Buy the ones that fit, reroll for two gold, or hold your gold and earn interest on it. • Build — eighty champions across fourteen traits. Field enough champions that share a trait and it switches on for all of them; field more and it gets stronger. • Place — the board has a front and a back. Who stands where decides who takes the first hit and who gets to cast. • Merge — three copies of a champion merge into a stronger one, and three of those merge again. • Equip — items drop from the creep rounds; each gives one stat to the champion who wears it. WHAT DECIDES IT The fight resolves on its own, and it resolves the same way every time. The same board, from the same seed, produces the same battle on every phone. A loss is always something you can look at and learn from, never a roll you could not see. Eight seats in a match, one hundred health each. Survive the creep rounds, out-build seven opponents, be the last cohort standing. ONLINE AND RANKED Every match is online and ranked. The queue seats you with the players waiting at your rank, and when too few are waiting, bots and the recorded boards of other players fill the empty seats, so a match starts within about a minute. Play as a guest, or register to keep your progress across devices. No ads, nothing to buy. Needs an internet connection. Cohort is in open development by one person. It changes often, and the result screen asks how each match felt — that is how it gets better.

Screenshots

Drop Duchy4 screens
Cohort Auto Battler4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cohort Auto Battler at none against Drop Duchy's 2. Drop Duchy's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Cohort Auto Battler asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Drop Duchy versus Cohort Auto Battler: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrop DuchyCohort Auto Battler
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (53 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings53 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB140 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperDoghowl Games Ltd.Ran Arazi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drop Duchy

One-time2
  • Base Game Offer$8.99
  • Base Game$9.99
None

Cohort Auto Battler

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drop Duchy free?
Drop Duchy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cohort Auto Battler free?
Cohort Auto Battler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drop Duchy or Cohort Auto Battler have ads?
Neither Drop Duchy nor Cohort Auto Battler shows ads.

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