Comparison

hocus. vs Sprout Valley

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
  • Create and share custom levels
  • Load levels from pictures
  • Endless mode
  • AI-assisted gameplay
Features
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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

About

Sprout Valley

Step back from busy life in this charming farming simulator. Grow your dream garden, gather resources, and improve island life. Discover secrets, make friends, and enjoy a captivating story with endless island combinations.

Highlights
  • Grow crops and forage fruits
  • Gather resources from nature
  • Craft and furnish your island
  • Travel to other islands
  • Engage in dialogues and a cute story
  • Experience dynamic weather events
Features
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Sprout Valley is a charming farming simulator game where you can step back from the busy life and grow the garden of your dreams. Captivating story, hand-crafted experience. You play as the main character, cute cat Nico, who tries to find a peaceful place to live in. Nico will find friends along the way and discover interesting events. Help him to learn what secrets Ostara holds. The goal will be to gather resources and improve your island life. You can grow the plants and harvest the environment for additional resources. You can sell and buy resources you have gathered. Use your tools to accomplish your goal of living a peaceful life with harmony and nature. Levels are procedurally generated, so there are virtually endless combinations. Each level has a "seed" and in future can be shared with other players to recreate islands and share them across the player base. There is a dynamic weather system in place to bring some dynamics to the world environment. There will be some additional mechanics that are connected to the weather like the ground getting wet when it rains, etc. The game has many fantastic events that tie to weather or the daytime. Key Features — Turn your overgrown island into a lovely farm! Raise crops, forage fruits, gather resources from nature. — Craft and furnish your island. Make your island your own, personal hideout. — Travel to another islands. Sail to other unknown parts of the world. Who knows what adventures await you there! — Dialogues and cute story. Meet our cute characters and experience the story together. — Over 15 hours of story mode

Screenshots

hocus.4 screens
Sprout Valley4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sprout Valley at Free against hocus.'s $1.99. Sprout Valley also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). hocus.'s advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 44%) and rating (4.3 vs 3.2). On ads, 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

Sprout Valley is free to download; hocus. costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

hocus. holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 234 and 50 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of hocus.'s written reviews are positive against 44% of Sprout Valley's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Sprout Valley every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
hocus. versus Sprout Valley: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterhocus.Sprout Valley
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (234 ratings) — better3.2 (50 ratings)
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews — better44.1% of reviews
Number of ratings234 — better50
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#87 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB138 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETIVadzim Liakhovich

Customer experience

hocus.

All ratings234 ratings
Positive80.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative7.2%

Sprout Valley

All ratings50 ratings
Positive52.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative38.0%
Written reviews111 reviews
Positive44.1%
Neutral13.5%
Negative42.3%

In-app purchases

None

hocus.

No in-app purchases

None

Sprout Valley

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is hocus. free?
hocus. costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sprout Valley free?
Sprout Valley is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, hocus. or Sprout Valley?
hocus. is rated higher. hocus. averages 4.3 out of 5 from 234 ratings, while Sprout Valley averages 3.2 from 50 ratings.
Do hocus. or Sprout Valley have ads?
Neither hocus. nor Sprout Valley shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hocus. or Sprout Valley?
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, and Sprout Valley every 2 weeks. Most recently, hocus. was updated on September 24, 2026 and Sprout Valley on September 21, 2026.

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