Comparison

Vector vs Castle Ramble

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

Head to head
About

Vector

Experience a retro space shooter with dazzling vector graphics and particle effects, reminiscent of unreleased 1980s arcade machines. Engage alien invaders with unique shield mechanics and collect power-ups in an asteroid bonus level.

Highlights
  • Advanced vector graphics and particle systems
  • Retro arcade-style gameplay
  • Alien shields requiring timed shots
  • Asteroid bonus level with power-ups
  • Analog synthesized sounds and retro soundtrack
  • iCade compatibility
Features
Currently charting
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Based on a mythical vector arcade machine of the late 1980s that was never released, Vector-Z is a space shooter with advanced vector graphics and particle systems designed to dazzle your senses… it's as if the 1980's arcades never went away and the games kept getting better. Vector-Z is a unique, retro-style arcade game with glowing multicolor vector-graphics, analog synthesized sounds, and a retro soundtrack with amazing spaced out tunes to zap extraterrestrial invaders to. Some of Vector-Z's aliens have shields you have to time your shots to break through. There’s also an asteroid bonus level where you can break up asteroids for points, and break up bigger asteroids for power-ups, including bonus shields, extra lives, score multiplier, and a faster fire rate. HINTS: • Vector-Z’s ship holds 2 missiles. One fires from each wing, so there’s a slight offset. There is also a brief reload time. • Aliens are worth more points when they are attacking you. Even more points when they are really close! • Go for the bonus points from accuracy: at 50% you get 100 pts per hit, 200 pts at 75%, 400 pts at 90%, and 800 bonus pts per hit with 100% accuracy! • Aim for the bigger asteroids to collect hexagonal power-ups Vector-Z is compatible with iCade, and requires iOS 7.1 or later.

About

Castle Ramble

Embark on an infinite roguelite platforming adventure to reclaim your castle from invading pigs. Train your king, upgrade weapons and armor, and battle diverse enemies across procedurally generated levels. Enjoy daily rewards, quests, and leaderboards for endless replayability.

Highlights
  • Infinite roguelite platformer
  • King training and customization
  • Weapon and armor upgrades
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Diverse enemy types
  • Daily rewards and quests
  • Achievements and leaderboards
Features
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Castle Ramble is an infinite Roguelite Platformer for your mobile devices from the developers of Unbroken Soul! Train your king, customize it, and recover your castle from the invader pigs! - Upgrade your armor, your ranged and your melee attacks! Those pigs and their gadgets are no joke, you better prepare yourself well if you want to get a high score! - 30 Weapons, 20 Crowns and special items to gear up your king in this quest! - Useful objects will help you along the way, from potions to recover health to Inferno’s Gem to increase damage and unlock special abilities. - Fight all kinds of pigs, from mutant bombs or bats to terrifying kings or slimes. Of course, regular pigs crate pigs and cannons will be ready to make this battle a real war! - Procedurally generated levels will customize your game experience every single time, get ready for a Royal Rumble! - Storm your enemies with a legendary hammer and it’s magical powers! Simply attack or use the magical powers the gods have granted you and burn or shock your enemies until you get your castle back! - Unlimited gameplay time plus regular updates and unparalleled support, ask for something, we guarantee you will get a response and we will do our best to implement your suggestions :) - Daily Rewards will surprise you every day to improve your experience ;) - Daily Quests will give you something to do every day and incredible rewards! - 43 achievements and 7 leaderboards to compete with your friends and other players worldwide! - Purchasing the premium version, you will help us improve our products and create new amazing games. Your purchase really makes a difference! About us We are a small indie studio from Spain! At Chorrus Games, we love retro-style games so we usually stick to this style, we are the developers of popular traditional platformer Super Oscar and more recently Unbroken Soul an amazing premium adventure our users have been loving so far! We love getting your feedback so please let us know your opinion or any further improvements you would like to see, we really listen to all our users! If you enjoy Castle Ramble don’t forget to rate or review us, that really makes us happy and helps us grow :D

Screenshots

Vector3 screens
Castle Ramble4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Castle Ramble at Free against Vector's $0.99. Castle Ramble also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 40%) and ratings volume (100 vs 10). Vector's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and chart position (#186 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, ads 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

Castle Ramble is free to download; Vector costs $0.99 up front. Castle Ramble sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Vector asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Vector against 4.1 for Castle Ramble. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Castle Ramble has 100 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 40% of Vector's written reviews are positive against 73% of Castle Ramble's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vector ships an update every 6 weeks, Castle Ramble monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Vector versus Castle Ramble: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVectorCastle Ramble
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better4.1 (100 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews72.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10100 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#186 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB18 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJuggleware, LLCCHORRUS GAMES S.L.

Customer experience

Vector

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%

Castle Ramble

All ratings100 ratings
Positive77.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative17.0%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative20.8%

Bugs and requests

Vector

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Castle Ramble

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Game crashes on iPad
  • Cannot return to menu without shutting down
  • Ads are problematic (Donald Trump ads)
  • Date/time exploit for infinite gems
  • No video available for revive sometimes
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  • Game crashes

Requested features

35 requests
  • Add more enemies
  • Add more weapons
  • Add different characters with unique powers
  • Add more texture to walls
  • Add hidden secret rooms
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  • Add items for buffs (damage, health)
  • Add ability to shoot up or down
  • Add power-ups to spawn
  • Add character upgrades
  • Add backstory and cutscenes
  • Add multiplayer or versus friends mode
  • Add more ways to heal
  • Make enemies jump less
  • Add more stuff (weapons, gear, shop, skills)
  • Introduce new enemy types
  • Introduce new color palettes
  • Add more benefit to melee weapons
  • Add more challenge
  • Add Russian language support
  • Fix date/time exploit for gems
  • Clarify currency (diamonds vs. gold)
  • Add power-ups (magnet, speed boost, invincibility)
  • Fix controls
  • Fix progress loss on death
  • Fix limited revives
  • Fix difficulty spikes
  • Fix monotonous gameplay
  • Fix boring backgrounds
  • Fix unclear mechanics
  • Fix crashing issues
  • Fix ranged weapon outclassing melee
  • Fix ads (Donald Trump ads mentioned)
  • Update app icon
  • Fix ability to return to menu
  • Fix screen orientation saving

In-app purchases

None

Vector

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Castle Ramble

One-time10
  • 1000 Coins$0.99
  • 2500 Coins$1.99
  • Double Coins!$1.99
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  • No Ads + Free Revive and Heal!$2.99
  • Castle Ramble 5x Coins$2.99
  • 10000 Coins$3.99
  • 10x Coins!$4.99
  • 25000 Coins!$8.99
  • 75000 Coins$17.99
  • 250000 Coins!$44.99

Questions

Is Vector free?
Vector costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Castle Ramble free?
Castle Ramble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vector or Castle Ramble?
Vector is rated higher. Vector averages 4.2 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Castle Ramble averages 4.1 from 100 ratings.
Do Vector or Castle Ramble have ads?
Neither Vector nor Castle Ramble shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vector or Castle Ramble?
Vector ships an update every 6 weeks, and Castle Ramble monthly. Most recently, Vector was updated on August 17, 2026 and Castle Ramble on September 22, 2026.

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