Comparison

One Way vs Boxville

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

Head to head
About

One Way

Engage in a creative point-and-click puzzle adventure where you must find a blue orb on each floor to power an elevator and ascend. Carefully observe your surroundings and make strategic decisions to overcome unique challenges in diverse, hand-drawn worlds.

Highlights
  • Point-and-click puzzle gameplay
  • Find blue orbs to power elevator
  • Observe surroundings to solve puzzles
  • Diverse, unique floor environments
  • Hand-drawn art style
  • Discover secrets and challenges
Features
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One Way: The Elevator a creative point-and-click puzzle game.The player needs to find a blue orb in each scene to power the elevator and keep going up. To solve the puzzles, one has to carefully observe the surroundings and make decisions accordingly. Every floor is a world entirely different from others. The characters are made alive by the unique hand-drawing style. And everything you see is only the tip of an iceberg. More secrets and challenges are waiting for your arrival.

About

Boxville

This animated adventure puzzle game features speechless cans navigating a city of boxes. Solve logic puzzles and riddles, explore a charming world, and uncover the mystery behind earthquakes. Enjoy a unique audio-visual experience, playable solo or with a friend.

Highlights
  • Animated film and puzzle game hybrid
  • Hand-drawn graphics and custom animations
  • Environmental quests and logical puzzles
  • Unique music for each scene
  • Wordless communication via speech bubbles
  • Playable solo or co-op
Features
Currently charting
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Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle game. Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together. Design The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time. We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure. The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options. Story Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll... Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way. He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal. What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville: - Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists. - Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction. - Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game. - Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game. - There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.

Screenshots

One Way4 screens
Boxville4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Boxville at every 9 days against One Way's every 2 months. Boxville also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and chart position (#166 vs unranked). One Way's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On review sentiment, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

One Way costs $1.99 and Boxville $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boxville holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boxville has 772 ratings behind it against 101, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of One Way's written reviews are positive against 78% of Boxville's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

One Way ships an update every 2 months, Boxville every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
One Way versus Boxville: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOne WayBoxville
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (101 ratings)4.7 (772 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews — better78.3% of reviews
Number of ratings101772 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#166 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size495 MB1.2 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCOTTONGAME Network Technology Co., Ltd.Triomatica Games

Customer experience

One Way

All ratings101 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative12.0%

Boxville

All ratings755 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative13.7%

Bugs and requests

One Way

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Boxville

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Progress reset after updates
  • Inventory items disappearing
  • Puzzle mechanics not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer game with more content
  • Ability to use stylus/Apple Pencil
  • Improved save/load system
  • In-game hints or ability to skip puzzles

In-app purchases

None

One Way

No in-app purchases

None

Boxville

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is One Way free?
One Way costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boxville free?
Boxville costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, One Way or Boxville?
Boxville is rated higher. One Way averages 4.4 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while Boxville averages 4.7 from 772 ratings.
Do One Way or Boxville have ads?
Neither One Way nor Boxville shows ads.
Which is updated more often, One Way or Boxville?
One Way ships an update every 2 months, and Boxville every 9 days. Most recently, One Way was updated on October 19, 2026 and Boxville on October 20, 2026.

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