Comparison

Queens vs Drawcracy

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

Head to head
About

Queens

Engage in challenging logic grid puzzles with a distraction-free interface. Solve hundreds of puzzles without unlocking, with unlimited hints and solution checking. Enjoy expansion packs for extended gameplay.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free puzzle experience
  • Hundreds of puzzles available
  • Unlimited hints
  • Solution checking
  • Expansion packs
Features
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Queens brings you the joy of pure puzzle-solving. Just you, the grid, and the challenge. No fuss, no frills. Solve these logic puzzles to challenge yourself, relax, train your brain, or simply pass the time. What the app offers: - A distraction-free puzzle magazine experience. - Hundreds of puzzles, all ready to play from the start, no unlocking required. - Unlimited hints that guide, not just give away the answer. - Option to check your solution at any time. - Play for free with ads, or remove them with a one-time purchase. - Expansion packs for even more brain-teasing fun. About the puzzle: Queens is a challenging logic grid puzzle, also known as Starstruck, Star Battle, or Two Not Touch. It is the same puzzle as the daily Queens puzzle published by LinkedIn and the daily Starstruck puzzle published by Netflix. The puzzle can be seen as an object placement puzzle, like Battleship or Trees and Tents, and as binary determination puzzle, like Hitori or Nurikabe. The puzzle is very similar to Star Battle, where you need to place 2 stars instead of 1 crown per region. Users often refer to this puzzle as an interesting cross between Sudoku and Minesweeper. The goal: Place a crown in every row, every column, and every region, but make sure that the crowns do not touch, even diagonally! Every puzzle has exactly one solution, which can be found through logic reasoning. No guessing required. Are you up for the challenge? Can you solve them all?

About

Drawcracy

A darkly humorous puzzle game where you manipulate electoral maps to ensure your party wins more seats than deserved. Learn the art of gerrymandering by drawing districts, packing opponents, and avoiding court scrutiny.

Highlights
  • Draw electoral districts
  • Manipulate precinct borders
  • Pack and crack opponent votes
  • Avoid court scrutiny
  • 12-map campaign mode
  • Endless mode with ranks
  • Unlockable tactics
Features
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You draw the districts. You decide who wins. Drawcracy is a darkly funny puzzle about gerrymandering — the real-world art of drawing electoral maps to rig who wins before a single vote is counted. Here, a fair map is a failure. The goal is to carve the districts so your side takes more seats than its share of the vote could ever deserve — and to do it without the courts noticing. The catch: the mechanic IS the abuse it's teaching. By the end you won't just know what gerrymandering is — you'll know how it's done, because you'll have done it. HOW IT PLAYS • Read the map — blue and red precincts, a target number of seats, and a vote share that says you shouldn't hit it. • Draw the lines — drag across precincts to carve contiguous districts. Pack your opponents into one throwaway seat, crack them across many, bend the borders. • Win ugly — claim a majority you never earned. • Don't get caught — a live scrutiny meter tracks how brazen your map is. Cross the line and the courts throw it out. WHAT'S INSIDE • A 12-map campaign that escalates from a quiet favour to an outright heist, each ending in a plain-spoken lesson on the real tactic you just pulled. • Endless mode — infinite, freshly generated maps and a climbing Operative Rank that never resets. • Game Center achievements and leaderboards. • A tactics tree of real-world manoeuvres to unlock and equip. THE DEAL • One price. No in-app purchases. No ads. No tracking. No accounts. Plays fully offline. Note: Drawcracy is satire. Its factions are abstract Blue and Red — no real parties, candidates, or people are depicted.

Screenshots

Queens4 screens
Drawcracy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Queens at Free against Drawcracy's $0.99. Queens also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 2). Drawcracy's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, update cadence, device support 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

Queens is free to download; Drawcracy costs $0.99 up front. Queens sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Drawcracy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Queens against 5.0 for Drawcracy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Queens has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
Queens versus Drawcracy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQueensDrawcracy
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (23 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings23 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB5 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperBas Adriaan van den BergGravityFish, LLC

Customer experience

Queens

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Drawcracy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Queens

One-time5
  • Expansion 1$1.99
  • Expansion 3$1.99
  • Expansion 2$1.99
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  • Expansion 4$1.99
  • Remove ads$3.99
None

Drawcracy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Queens free?
Queens is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drawcracy free?
Drawcracy costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Queens or Drawcracy?
Queens and Drawcracy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 23 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Queens or Drawcracy have ads?
Queens shows ads; Drawcracy does not.
Which is updated more often, Queens or Drawcracy?
Queens ships an update every 5 weeks, and Drawcracy every 5 weeks. Most recently, Queens was updated on October 30, 2026 and Drawcracy on October 13, 2026.

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