Astra Haven vs Wickgrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Astra Haven
Engage in a sci-fi match-3 strategy game where matching energy cores fuels your colony's survival. Build and upgrade your command center, deploy tactical boosters, and complete missions to defend humanity's outposts. Enjoy hundreds of levels with increasing strategic challenges.
- Tactical match-3 gameplay
- Colony base building and upgrades
- Sci-fi missions
- Tactical boosters
- Daily and Weekly Operations
- Hundreds of handcrafted levels
- Offline play
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Astra Haven: Colony Command is a sci-fi match-3 strategy game where every move powers your colony's survival. Match energy cores to unleash Plasma Burst, Gravity Trap, Mega Blast, and Star Surge abilities. Deploy powerful tactical boosters to overcome dangerous missions, rescue stranded colonists, secure valuable cargo, and defend humanity's final outposts. Build and upgrade your Colony Command Center, strengthen planetary defenses, collect Flux and resources, complete Daily and Weekly Operations, and unlock new technologies as you expand across the frontier. Features: -Tactical match-3 gameplay with explosive chain reactions -Sci-fi missions including Colony Defense, Cargo Recovery, and Derelict Expeditions -Colony Command base building and powerful upgrades -Tactical boosters including Plasma Burst, Gravity Trap, Mega Blast, and more -Daily and Weekly Operations with exclusive rewards -Collect Flux, resources, stars, and technology upgrades -Hundreds of handcrafted levels with increasing strategic challenges -Offline play with no internet required for gameplay Master every mission, protect your colony, and become humanity's last hope among the stars.
Wickgrid
Engage your mind with daily logic puzzles that require you to light up cells on a grid based on numeric clues. Form a single connected chain while avoiding any 2x2 blocks of lit cells. Offers a free tier with recent puzzles and an optional one-time purchase for full archive access and advanced features.
- Daily hand-verified puzzles
- Four difficulty tiers plus Extreme
- Blackout Mode for pure deduction
- Streak tracking with heatmap
- Fully offline gameplay
- No ads or data collection
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One new logic puzzle every day. Five minutes of pure deduction — no guessing, no ads, no account, works fully offline. Light the correct cells using the numeric clues. Keep every lantern connected in a single chain. Never let four lit cells form a square. Three rules you'll learn in a minute — puzzles that will still be testing you months from now. A DAILY RITUAL Every day brings one hand-verified puzzle, and everyone in the world gets the same one. Difficulty climbs through the week — gentle Monday, brutal Sunday "Extreme." Build a streak, protect it, and watch your month fill in on the heatmap. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Send any puzzle you've solved as a link. Your friend plays the exact same board and sees your time to beat. Same puzzle, head to head, bragging rights included. WHEN YOU WANT MORE Practice mode serves unlimited puzzles at any difficulty, whenever you want. Made a mess of the board? Undo one move at a time or clear it and start fresh. Stuck? Three free hints on every puzzle. Truly stuck? Reveal the solution and see how it comes together. MADE FOR PUZZLE PEOPLE - New to grid deduction? A guided tutorial teaches you the solving method one rule at a time, not just the rules - Veteran? Try Blackout Mode — zero feedback while you solve, pure deduction, verdict at the end - Spoiler-free result cards you can share without ruining the puzzle for anyone - Signed in to iCloud? Your streaks and history follow you across your devices WICKGRID PLUS — $4.99, once, forever - The complete archive: play every past daily, all the way back - Practice History: every practice solve saved — revisit any board, anytime - Unlimited hints - Streak Freeze: never lose a streak to one missed day - Advanced Stats: perfect-solve tracking, per-tier bests, long-term trends No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. Your progress syncs privately through your own iCloud — no account, no servers, nothing that reaches us. Just a good puzzle, every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Astra Haven at daily against Wickgrid's every 4 days. Wickgrid's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Astra Haven sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Wickgrid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Astra Haven against 5.0 for Wickgrid. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Astra Haven ships an update daily, Wickgrid every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Astra Haven | Wickgrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frau LLC | Daniel Grabowski |
Customer experience
Astra Haven
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In-app purchases
Astra Haven
- Flux Cache 400$0.99
- Flux Cache 2500$4.99
- Premium Pass$4.99
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- Flux Cache 5500$9.99
- Premium Bundle$9.99
- Flux Cache 12000$19.99
Wickgrid
- Wickgrid Plus$4.99
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