Comparison

Drawcracy vs Gerrymeandering

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

Head to head
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.

About

Gerrymeandering

A districting puzzle game where you draw electoral maps to achieve specific voting outcomes. Navigate hand-built maps and real US state geography to win elections by strategically carving districts. The game offers a clean, tactile drawing experience with provably winnable levels.

Highlights
  • Draw electoral districts on maps
  • Achieve specific voting targets
  • 100 hand-built maps
  • Campaign across 50 US states
  • Tactile touch controls
  • Provably winnable levels
Features
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Gerrymeandering is a districting puzzle about the most quietly powerful move in politics: drawing the lines. Every level hands you a map of colored voters and a target. Carve the map into districts so your side comes out ahead — or, in the trickier puzzles, so the outcome lands exactly where it has to. The votes never change. Only the borders do. Win by meandering. • A hundred hand-built maps — fifty grid puzzles and fifty invented countries — that ramp from "oh, I get it" to "…oh no." • A campaign across all 50 US states, built from real geography and election results — draw the districts, bank House seats, race to 218. • Clean, tactile map-drawing built for touch — drag to claim, two-finger pan, undo freely while you experiment. • Every level is provably winnable. No dead ends, no fake difficulty. • Play a quick puzzle in a minute or lose an afternoon to the campaign. A puzzle game about politics that never tells you how to vote — just shows you how the lines get drawn. Fair is a matter of perspective.

Screenshots

Drawcracy3 screens
Gerrymeandering4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gerrymeandering at Free against Drawcracy's $0.99. Gerrymeandering also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Drawcracy's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

Gerrymeandering is free to download; Drawcracy costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Drawcracy against 5.0 for Gerrymeandering. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawcracy ships an update every 5 weeks, Gerrymeandering every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drawcracy versus Gerrymeandering: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawcracyGerrymeandering
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGravityFish, LLCJames Prince

Customer experience

Drawcracy

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

Gerrymeandering

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drawcracy

No in-app purchases

None

Gerrymeandering

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawcracy free?
Drawcracy costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gerrymeandering free?
Gerrymeandering is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drawcracy or Gerrymeandering?
Drawcracy and Gerrymeandering are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Drawcracy or Gerrymeandering have ads?
Gerrymeandering shows ads; Drawcracy does not.
Which is updated more often, Drawcracy or Gerrymeandering?
Drawcracy ships an update every 5 weeks, and Gerrymeandering every 4 weeks. Most recently, Drawcracy was updated on November 2, 2026 and Gerrymeandering on October 31, 2026.

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