Comparison

Drop Duchy vs Composition

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

Composition

Engage in a unique puzzle game where drawing lines traps bouncing dots, transforming each completed board into a work of art. Compete daily, race friends, and collaborate on canvases. Unlock the full experience with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • Daily puzzle boards
  • Competitive leaderboards
  • Multiplayer collaboration
  • Gallery of completed paintings
  • Offline play
  • Siri integration
Features
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EVERY GAME BECOMES A PAINTING Draw lines to trap the bouncing dots, and every board you finish becomes a painting with its own title, like “Composition No. 2 with Yellow, Red, and Blue.” Every day the whole world gets the same board for free. You swipe and a line grows both ways from your finger. If a dot hits it before it’s finished, it breaks. Close off a space with no dots in it and it fills with paint. Paint three quarters of the open canvas and the painting is yours. You get three tries at each day’s board. Mondays are gentle, and the week builds to Saturday. If your friends have played, you race whoever is just ahead of you, and when you finish you can lay their lines over yours in pencil to see how they did it. Your first painting hangs in your gallery, and your fastest time is kept. You can also paint one canvas together, with up to three of you: passing one phone around, on your own phones in the same room, or taking turns from far away, a line at a time. The full edition is one purchase, shared with your family. It opens every board since No. 1, all sixty Solo levels, painting far away with two friends, and whatever we add later. Today’s board stays free either way. • A daily leaderboard, a daily challenge and ten achievements in Game Center. • Widgets for today’s board and your paintings. • Siri can start today’s board or tell you how you did. • Today’s board and Solo work offline. No ads, no account needed. Terms of Use: https://playcomposition.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://playcomposition.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Drop Duchy4 screens
Composition4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Composition at 5.0 against Drop Duchy's 4.6. Drop Duchy's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (50 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Composition sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Composition holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drop Duchy has 50 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drop Duchy ships an update weekly, Composition every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Drop Duchy versus Composition: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrop DuchyComposition
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (50 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings50 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB43 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDoghowl Games Ltd.Babs Technologies Inc.

Customer experience

Drop Duchy

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

Composition

All ratings1 ratings
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

Composition

One-time1
  • The full edition$15.00

Questions

Is Drop Duchy free?
Drop Duchy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Composition free?
Composition is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Drop Duchy or Composition?
Composition is rated higher. Drop Duchy averages 4.6 out of 5 from 50 ratings, while Composition averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Drop Duchy or Composition have ads?
Neither Drop Duchy nor Composition shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drop Duchy or Composition?
Drop Duchy ships an update weekly, and Composition every 4 days. Most recently, Drop Duchy was updated on October 28, 2026 and Composition on October 26, 2026.

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