Comparison

QuestaGame vs Castrum

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

Head to head
About

QuestaGame

Embark on outdoor adventures to discover and photograph local wildlife. Compete with others by completing quests, identifying species, and contributing to biodiversity research. Earn rewards, level up, and build your collection while helping scientists.

Highlights
  • Outdoor wildlife quests
  • Photograph animals and plants
  • Species identification
  • Clans and challenges
  • Leaderboard competition
  • Biodiversity contribution
  • In-game rewards and leveling
Features
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Experience the adventure of your local wildlife. QuestaGame takes you outdoors - to your backyard, a local park, a hiking trail, anywhere. Join quests and compete with other players to photograph animals and plants in the wild. Your mission: Saving life on Earth. The game includes all species in your country, using national and global databases. Submit sightings of animals and plants and receive identifications, expert feedback - plus gold reward and experience points. Join quests, buy equipment, gain levels, build your collection, join clans, conquer territories, move up the leaderboard and become one of the great adventurers of all time. All sightings are geo-tagged with location, date, time and submitted to your country's national database (with your permission) - so you can not only map your conquests, but also help scientists, researchers, planners and others record and protect you region's biodiversity while you play. Some important features: - Clans and Head-to-Head Challenges. - Comms featured allows you to see what the community is up to. - QuestaLab allows you to earn gold and gain expertise levels identifying other players' sightings. - Featured sightings...and more! For more information be sure to visit http://www.questagame.com

About

Castrum

Develop a fortified village in 13th-century Occitania to defend against crusaders and aid pursued Cathars. Explore Cathar Country, collect items, and craft resources to preserve local culture. Engage in mini-games at historical monuments for unique rewards.

Highlights
  • Develop a fortified village
  • Collect and craft items
  • Explore Cathar Country
  • Geotagged mini-games at monuments
  • Historical narrative
  • Unlock legendary tools
Features
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You are a faidit, a rebel Occitan lord from the 13th century. Develop your castrum - a fortified village - to face off the attacks of your adversaries, the crusaders and offer a refuge to the pursued Cathars. With the help of your faithful friends, cross Cathar Country in search of items that you will be able to combine in your WORKSHOP to save the Occitan culture from destruction. Castrum offers you: - A HISTORY mode, playable anywhere at any time, during which you collect items to develop your castrum. - A MONUMENT mode, playable only during your visit to the monuments of Aude, which lets you play geotagged mini games. You will need to visit 5 monuments to complete your quest. Over the course of the adventure, you will be able to: - Collect 54 items and craft close to 200 with them; - Go into your INVENTORY to discover the items to craft; - Win surprise rewards by visiting the 20 Cathar country monuments. During your visit, you must complete 5 mini games: if you succeed, you unlock a legendary tool which is added to your collection. Some examples of mini games: - Catapult game: destroy the fortresses by discovering their weak points - Flute Hero: play medieval melodies in time - Matching game: find the right combinations - Shooting game: eliminate your enemies via 360° immersion in the monuments - The source of sign language: learn to speak like the monks of the Middle Ages Castrum gives you the chance to immerse yourself in lavish settings by visiting the 20 Cathar country monuments off the beaten track, in the company of characters associated with the history of the Aude département. The 20 monuments of Cathar country: 10 CASTLES Aguilar castle Arques castle Montségur castle Peyrepertuse castle Puilaurens castle Quéribus castle Saissac castle Termes castle Villerouge-Termenès castle Lastours castle 7 ABBEYS Alet-les-Bains abbey Caunes-Minervois abbey Fontfroide abbey Lagrasse abbey Saint-Hilaire abbey Saint-Papoul abbey Villelongue abbey 2 MEDIEVAL SITES Castles and ramparts of the city of Carcassonne Medieval city of Fanjeaux 1 MUSEUM Quercorb museum Who are the Cathars? Appearing around the year 1000, Catharism was a dissident Christian religion, originating from the East, particularly influential around Toulouse, Carcassonne, Béziers and Albi. The region therefore became a refuge for the Cathars when the Church pursued them during the Albigensian crusade, all the way to the heights of Montségur. It is this saga that the castles of Cathar country recount.

Screenshots

QuestaGame4 screens
Castrum4 screens

Verdict

The call

QuestaGame and Castrum both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of QuestaGame's written reviews are positive against 41% of Castrum's. QuestaGame also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (8 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 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 — 3.0 for QuestaGame against 3.0 for Castrum. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuestaGame has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of QuestaGame's written reviews are positive against 41% of Castrum's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuestaGame ships an update every 3 weeks, Castrum every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
QuestaGame versus Castrum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuestaGameCastrum
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (8 ratings)3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews — better40.9% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB1.4 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEarth Guardians Pty LtdDEPARTEMENT DE L AUDE

Customer experience

QuestaGame

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral37.5%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral7.3%
Negative14.5%

Castrum

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive40.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

QuestaGame

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App crashes on opening after update
  • App crashes when submitting sightings
  • App crashes when selecting observations synced from inaturalist
  • Cannot create profile/account
  • App says offline when online
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  • Cannot delete offline sightings without photos
  • Species name display in QLab history is cut off
  • Search functionality is inconsistent
  • App crashes when adding field notes
  • Login issues
  • Syncing issues with inaturalist
  • Text not readable (dark on dark background)
  • Cannot upload photos if wrong one is selected

Requested features

15 requests
  • Allow editing submitted sightings
  • Improve photo upload process (batch, remove)
  • Make all text readable (contrast)
  • Add iPad version support
  • Allow using cameras other than phone
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  • More quests/challenges
  • Gallery of photos
  • Ability to use multiple clans
  • Fix species name display in QLab history
  • Increase daily sighting limit
  • Make app available on iPad
  • Allow offline sightings without photos to be deleted
  • Improve search functionality
  • Add dark mode
  • Improve app layout and navigation

Castrum

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

QuestaGame

No in-app purchases

None

Castrum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuestaGame free?
QuestaGame is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Castrum free?
Castrum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, QuestaGame or Castrum?
QuestaGame and Castrum are both rated 3.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do QuestaGame or Castrum have ads?
Neither QuestaGame nor Castrum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuestaGame or Castrum?
QuestaGame ships an update every 3 weeks, and Castrum every 2 months. Most recently, QuestaGame was updated on October 24, 2026 and Castrum on October 24, 2026.

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