Comparison

Four Crowns vs Rift Deck

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

Head to head
About

Four Crowns

Features
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Turn a deck of cards into your royal court. Four Crowns is an offline deck-building roguelike where poker hands govern a kingdom. Spades, Diamonds, Hearts, and Clubs are more than suits: they sustain your Army, Treasury, Popular Support, and Granary. Every hand decides which pillar survives the next crisis. RULE WITH POKER HANDS Choose one to five cards to form pairs, straights, flushes, full houses, and stronger hands. Each suit restores its matching pillar. Concentrate on one urgent need or spread strength across the realm—every play is a political choice. FOUR ACTS, TWELVE CRISES Travel through the Verdant Fields, Gilded Reach, Crimson Court, and Iron March. Harvest failures, raids, deflation, rebellion, and sieges reshape each run, while four rival monarchs impose rules that force new strategies. BUILD YOUR COURT Choose from four monarchs, recruit 24 advisors, issue 13 edicts, and refine your deck. Defeat still earns lasting prestige, achievements, and new options for the next campaign. FROM UNIFICATION TO ASCENSION After uniting the four realms, challenge ten Ascension levels, daily expeditions, and an endless campaign. Progress stays on your device. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no internet connection required. Supports English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Landscape play. Card artwork: Pixel Plebes — greebles (Vinh JD).

About

Rift Deck

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A deckbuilding roguelike where you chain cards to end the fight in a single turn. In a world where the sky has cracked open, start with a small deck and grow it with every stage you clear. ■ 12 worlds, 120 stages 10 worlds and 100 stages, plus 2 expansion worlds (Blood Arena and Slumbering Archive, 20 stages). Each world has monsters and a boss found nowhere else. 105 monsters, including 12 Elites and 12 Bosses. ■ Battlefield Rules that change every stage 36 Battlefield Rules. Mist hides enemy intents, scorching heat burns away the cards you hold, and playing the same card twice in a row doubles its numbers. Rules don't just make enemies stronger — they change how you fight. ■ Front row and back row Enemies stand in a front row and a back row. While the front row holds, only cards that reach the back row can hit it. Each turn, decide whether to go after the healers and summoners in the back or break through the front. ■ See what's coming Enemy intents show their next action and damage above their heads. You win or lose on your decisions, not on luck. ■ 4 heroes · Bark — Riftbreaker Warrior. Every hit builds Rage; unleash it for one massive blow. · Elin — Backline-Piercing Hunter. Carve Marks and shoot from afar — slowly with Poison, or all at once on a Mark. · Sora — Element-Weaving Shaman. Fill 3 Element Slots with Fire, Frost and Storm, and each combination unleashes a different spell. · Dowin — Construct Engineer. Gather Parts to build Turrets and Drones. ■ 478 cards · 120 Relics · 54 events · 30 Potions Six card rarities from Common to Mythic. Engrave cards that grow stronger every time you play them, Sacrifice cards that cost you HP, Relics that reshape your whole build, and events that ask for choices you can't take back. ■ Game modes Standard · Short Run (15 stages) · Daily Challenge (same seed for everyone) · Endless, plus 20 Ascension levels. ■ Sign-in is optional All content is playable without signing in. Sign in with Apple or Google to sync your records and rankings to the cloud and continue on other devices. ■ No ads, no purchases No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Available in English, Japanese and Korean.

Screenshots

Four Crowns3 screens
Rift Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Rift Deck at fortnightly against Four Crowns's every 5 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Four Crowns ships an update every 5 weeks, Rift Deck fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Four Crowns versus Rift Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFour CrownsRift Deck
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size154 MB45 MB
Age rating9+12+
Developer尚勇 董sanghak bae

In-app purchases

None

Four Crowns

No in-app purchases

None

Rift Deck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Four Crowns free?
Four Crowns is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rift Deck free?
Rift Deck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Four Crowns or Rift Deck have ads?
Neither Four Crowns nor Rift Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Four Crowns or Rift Deck?
Four Crowns ships an update every 5 weeks, and Rift Deck fortnightly. Most recently, Four Crowns was updated on October 29, 2026 and Rift Deck on November 1, 2026.

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