hocus. vs Kerflux
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hocus.
Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.
- 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
- Create and share custom levels
- Load levels from pictures
- Endless mode
- AI-assisted gameplay
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm
Kerflux
Engage your mind with a unique wave-based puzzle game. Slide and match intricate wave formations in a minimalist design. Enjoy retro music and unlock achievements as you progress through increasingly challenging levels.
- Original wave puzzle mechanics
- Increasingly challenging levels
- Retro style music
- Achievements
- Pay what you want pricing
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A puzzle game making waves. Diabolically simple and beautifully minimal, slide waves until they match. Features: - A completely original, never-before-seen wave puzzle. - Increasingly challenging wave formations and combinations. - Retro style music that hints at a solution. - Achievements, how far can you get? - Pay what YOU want! Free is totally an option. Go for it. Thank you for checking out our little game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Kerflux at Free against hocus.'s $1.99. Kerflux also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). hocus.'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#60 vs unranked). On ratings volume, 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
Kerflux is free to download; hocus. costs $1.99 up front. Kerflux sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. hocus. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kerflux holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 234 and 323 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of hocus.'s written reviews are positive against 96% of Kerflux's.
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Kerflux weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | hocus. | Kerflux |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (234 ratings) | 4.8 (323 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 96.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 234 | 323 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #60 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI | Punk Labs LLC |
Customer experience
hocus.
Kerflux
Bugs and requests
hocus.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Kerflux
Reported bugs
1 issue- Music not working for some users
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to choose number of waves
- Add more than 4 waves for increased challenge
- Implement customizable autoassist sensitivity
- Add level select/replay option
- Introduce new mechanics at higher levels
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- Add more music tracks
In-app purchases
hocus.
No in-app purchases
Kerflux
- Bronze Supporter$0.99
- Silver Supporter$1.99
- Gold Supporter$3.99
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- Platinum Supporter$7.99
