Drancia vs Bricky Boy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drancia
Embark on an arcade-style action RPG adventure with a charming cast and retro pixel art. Chain combos to earn coins, level up your skills, and battle diverse monsters. Unravel the game's mysteries with a killer chiptune soundtrack.
- Arcade-style action RPG
- Retro pixel art graphics
- Combo chaining for coins
- Skill tree progression
- Diverse characters
- Unique boss battles
- Vintage chiptune soundtrack
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This action RPG features an amusing cast of characters and has an arcade-like feel! Chain combos to rack up coins and level up through the skill tree! Defeat hordes of monsters and unravel the mystery of Drancia! ・Retro-style, cute pixel art graphics! ・Smooth controls and loads of extras to enjoy! ・Unique bosses in every stage! ・Over fifty different types of characters to play as! ・A killer soundtrack of over 20 vintage, Famicom-style chiptunes! *Drancia was originally released in 2008 by Skipmore as a web-based game entitled Drancia Survival. Now it’s been powered-up for smartphones!
Bricky Boy
Experience a unique blend of brick-breaker and pinball gameplay with a nostalgic 90s handheld console aesthetic. Enjoy challenging boss fights, quests, and a unique power-up system with unlockable skins and semi-randomly generated levels.
- Brick-breaker and pinball genre fusion
- 90s handheld console aesthetic
- 8-bit soundtrack
- Boss fights
- Quests
- Unique power-up system
- Unlockable skins
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Bricky Boy is a combination of brick-breaker and pinball game genres, represented in a very original style of handheld gaming consoles from the '90s. Combined with a 8-bit soundtrack, this game will let you enjoy the genuine feel of the long-gone gaming computers. In Bricky Boy you will find lots of entertaining challenges like: Boss fights, Quests, Unique powerup system, Lots of unlockable skins, Semi-random generated levels Get your Bricky Boy and start the adventure!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Drancia at none against Bricky Boy's shown. Drancia also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 68%). Bricky Boy's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (823 vs 117). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Drancia sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Bricky Boy 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 — 4.6 for Drancia against 4.7 for Bricky Boy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bricky Boy has 823 ratings behind it against 117, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Drancia's written reviews are positive against 68% of Bricky Boy's.
Drancia ships an update every 6 months, Bricky Boy every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drancia | Bricky Boy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (117 ratings) | 4.7 (823 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 68.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 117 | 823 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masakazu Yonehara | MOORLAND GAMES MB |
Customer experience
Drancia
Bricky Boy
User reviews
Drancia
From 117 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Addicting gameplay
- 👍 Fun hack and slash
- 👍 Great art and music
- 👍 Retro pixel art style
- 👍 Free to play
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Game resets when closed
- 🐛 Non-widescreen support
- 🐛 Difficulty spikes
- 🐛 Controls too far left/right
Bricky Boy
From 823 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and simple gameplay
- 🎨 Cute retro-style graphics
- 🎶 Enjoyable chiptune music
- 🔓 Option to remove ads for free
- 🕹️ Nostalgic pinball/brick-breaking experience
Room to improve
- 🔍 Lack of difficulty progression
- 🔁 Repetitive boss battles
- 📢 Excessive and intrusive ads
- 🛑 Unresponsive controls at times
- 🔌 Ads disrupt gameplay flow
Bugs and requests
Drancia
Reported bugs
7 issues- Crashes after dying
- Crashes when buying sold out items
- Game crashes in bad spots
- Game exits unexpectedly
- Game resets when phone is closed
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- Black screen after ads
- Can't get out of skills menu
Requested features
20 requests- Boss rush mode
- Adjustable controls
- Co-op mode
- Difficulty settings
- Continue system with gems
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- More story line
- Full screen on iPhone X
- More stuff to add
- Make classes hit differently
- Create own hero
- Male/female gender option
- Ninja/Kunoichi character class
- Fancy control pad/buttons
- Intro/opening sequence
- Release on 3DS eShop
- Mini games
- Upward attack
- Remove ads for a fee
- Save progress during/at end of stage
- Swap apps without restarting
Bricky Boy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Left flipper occasionally unresponsive
- Game crashes when reaching certain levels
- Ads sometimes fail to load properly
Requested features
5 requests- Add more boss/enemy variety
- Implement a save/checkpoint system
- Provide more customization options
- Introduce new game modes or minigames
- Allow players to fully disable ads (paid)
In-app purchases
Drancia
- Treat us to coffee$0.99
- Treat us to a beer$0.99
- Treat us to dinner$2.99
Bricky Boy
- Remove ads$2.99
Questions
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