Comparison

Vacation Time Puzzles vs Space Pipes

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

Head to head
About

Vacation Time Puzzles

Engage your mind with charming puzzles set in beautiful, relaxing environments. Progress through increasingly challenging levels, with new areas and puzzle packs to explore. Enjoy a peaceful gaming experience designed to help you unwind.

Highlights
  • Charming puzzles
  • Lush environments
  • Progressive difficulty
  • New areas and challenges
  • Themed puzzle packs
  • 25 free levels
Features
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Welcome to Vacation Time! Lush and bright environments, accompanied with a happy tune, give you the opportunity to sit back and relax a bit. Sharpen your mind with charming puzzles - they start easy, but they get harder and harder with every one you complete. Can you solve them all? More polished than ever, enter the leisurely world of Vacation Time and discover new areas and challenges. You can grind your brain on one of the new puzzles, or, if you’re in that kind of mood, just chill by the pool. You can try 25 levels for free. If you just can't get enough, check out the puzzle packs. They contain a hundred puzzles each! CONTAINS - The world map - The windmill - The sunflower farm - The village - The pool - The lake - 25 free puzzles AVAILABLE - Summer Puzzle Pack - Fall Puzzle Pack - Winter Puzzle Pack

About

Space Pipes

Connect pipes to create a water flow path from source to destination in a space setting. Solve 120 challenging levels that increase in difficulty, requiring logic and ingenuity to help astronauts survive. Enjoy a relaxing puzzle experience with an epic space soundtrack.

Highlights
  • 120 new puzzle levels
  • Space setting
  • Connect pipes for water flow
  • Logic and ingenuity required
  • Increasing difficulty
  • Relaxing gameplay
  • Epic space soundtrack
Features
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Drifting somewhere between the stars, a broken station is waiting for its pipelines to be repaired. Tap a pipe, turn it, and keep turning until the whole route runs unbroken from the source to the goal. Space Pipes is a calm connect-the-pipes puzzle. No timer counts down. No move limit punishes you. Nothing flashes to hurry you along. You look at the board, think, and turn pipes until the path clicks into place and energy flows through it. SIMPLE TO PICK UP Tap any pipe to rotate it a quarter turn. Line up the segments so every piece joins into a single unbroken route. That's the whole rulebook — the puzzles do the rest. 120 HANDCRAFTED LEVELS Three level packs, 40 levels each, built to grow with you. The first boards teach you to read a route in seconds. The later ones will have you staring at a grid of fixed pipes and dead ends, quietly working out the one arrangement that actually connects. MADE TO BE RELAXING A deep-space backdrop, soft ambient music and a satisfying sound as each pipe snaps into position. Turn the sound off with one tap when you'd rather play in silence. It's a puzzle for a commute, a coffee break, or the last ten minutes before sleep. PLAYS ANYWHERE, OFFLINE No account, no sign-in, no internet needed. Flights, subways, the countryside, that one dead spot in your apartment — the puzzles work everywhere. Your progress is saved on your device automatically, level by level. NO PRESSURE Every level can be solved by thinking. There are no energy bars and no lives to wait for. Stuck on a tricky board? Tap the hint button and one pipe snaps into its right place. You start with free hints, can earn more by watching a short video, or pick up a hint pack. OPTIONAL VIP One single purchase — not a subscription — unlocks all level packs at once, removes ads for good and gives you unlimited hints. Entirely optional: the first pack is free and the rest unlock through play. Purchases restore on any device signed in to the same Apple Account. FEATURES 120 levels across 3 packs One-tap rotation, no tutorial needed No timer, no move limit, no lives Full offline play Automatic progress saving Ambient soundtrack with a sound toggle Hints when you get stuck One-time VIP purchase: everything unlocked, no ads, unlimited hints Turn the pipes. Connect the route. Breathe.

Screenshots

Vacation Time Puzzles4 screens
Space Pipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Vacation Time Puzzles at 5.0 against Space Pipes's 2.3. Vacation Time Puzzles also leads on ads (none vs shown). Space Pipes's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Vacation Time Puzzles sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Space Pipes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vacation Time Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vacation Time Puzzles ships an update every 7 months, Space Pipes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Vacation Time Puzzles versus Space Pipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVacation Time PuzzlesSpace Pipes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB262 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdwin VegerVitalii Chardymov

Customer experience

Vacation Time Puzzles

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Space Pipes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Vacation Time Puzzles

One-time3
  • Summer Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Fall Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Winter Puzzle Pack$1.99
1 purchases

Space Pipes

One-time1
  • VIP Access$1.99

Questions

Is Vacation Time Puzzles free?
Vacation Time Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Space Pipes free?
Space Pipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vacation Time Puzzles or Space Pipes?
Vacation Time Puzzles is rated higher. Vacation Time Puzzles averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Space Pipes averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Vacation Time Puzzles or Space Pipes have ads?
Space Pipes shows ads; Vacation Time Puzzles does not.
Which is updated more often, Vacation Time Puzzles or Space Pipes?
Vacation Time Puzzles ships an update every 7 months, and Space Pipes fortnightly. Most recently, Vacation Time Puzzles was updated on November 1, 2026 and Space Pipes on November 3, 2026.

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