Comparison

A Short Tale vs Sinisomnia

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

Head to head
About

A Short Tale

Embark on a first-person point-and-click adventure where you shrink to toy size and explore a brother's room. Solve puzzles, collect items, and uncover clues in a charming, nostalgia-inducing environment with trademark humor.

Highlights
  • First-person point and click adventure
  • Toy-sized room exploration
  • Charming and nostalgic environment
  • Humorous puzzles
  • Glitch Camera for clues
  • Item collection and usage
  • Auto-save feature
Features
Currently charting
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"For anyone who just wants to play a game chock-full of fun and unusual puzzles while exploring a charming and nostalgia-inducing environment, A Short Tale provides plenty of entertainment for a few hours." – AdventureGamers Shrink down and experience a childhood bedroom like never before in this heartwarming first-person point-and-click puzzle adventure. Years after losing his younger brother Ben, Jason returns to the place where everything changed forever. Drawn back by a mysterious presence, he makes one impossible wish—to be small again. Suddenly, an ordinary bedroom becomes a vast world filled with towering furniture, hidden secrets, clever puzzles, and unforgettable memories. Explore every corner, collect useful items, uncover hidden clues, and solve challenging escape room-style puzzles as you unravel an emotional story about family, loss, and growing up. If you enjoy point-and-click adventures, escape room games, hidden object puzzles, and story-rich mystery games, A Short Tale is for you. Features • Immersive first-person point-and-click adventure. • Explore a giant bedroom from a tiny perspective. • Solve clever puzzles and escape room-inspired challenges. • Collect items, discover hidden clues, and unlock new areas. • Use the unique Glitch Camera to reveal secrets and keep track of clues. • Emotional story filled with nostalgia, mystery, and discovery. • Beautiful atmospheric soundtrack. • Signature Glitch Games humour. • Auto-save ensures you never lose your progress. • No ads or in-app purchases. Can you uncover the memories hidden within a room that once felt like home? – Glitch Games is a small independent game studio from the UK, creating premium mystery, escape room, and puzzle adventure games that players around the world love. Follow us for updates, news, and behind-the-scenes content: Discord: discord.gg/glitchgames Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlitchGames/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/glitch.games Newsletter: https://glitch.games/newsletter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theglitchgames/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlitchGames

About

Sinisomnia

Navigate surreal, dreamlike environments where subtle shifts and altered layouts create growing unease. This psychological exploration game challenges players to unravel a fractured consciousness through eerie encounters, blurring the lines between reality and madness.

Highlights
  • Surreal, dreamlike environments
  • Shifting layouts and subtle details
  • Psychological exploration gameplay
  • Eerie encounters
  • Fractured consciousness narrative
Features
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Explore a series of surreal, dreamlike environments where repetition becomes a source of growing discomfort. You’ll revisit the same spaces again and again, yet something always feels... off. Subtle details shift. Layouts change when you’re not looking. What once felt safe and familiar begins to betray you, warping into something alien and wrong. Each interaction, no matter how small, chips away at the thin layer of reality holding everything together. You’re not solving puzzles in the traditional sense. Instead, you're unraveling a fractured consciousness, one eerie encounter at a time. With every step, the line between your mind and the madness you're exploring begins to blur. You are not alone in here. But you may be the only thing left that’s real.

Screenshots

A Short Tale4 screens
Sinisomnia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sinisomnia at 5.0 against A Short Tale's 4.6. Sinisomnia also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%). A Short Tale's advantage is ratings volume (246 vs 1) and price ($3.99 vs $6.99). 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

A Short Tale costs $3.99 and Sinisomnia $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sinisomnia holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A Short Tale has 246 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of A Short Tale's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sinisomnia's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
A Short Tale versus Sinisomnia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA Short TaleSinisomnia
Price$3.99 — better$6.99
Rating4.6 (246 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings246 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size290 MB2.8 GB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGlitch Games1000949727 ONTARIO INC

Customer experience

A Short Tale

All ratings245 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews128 reviews
Positive74.2%
Neutral11.7%
Negative14.1%

Sinisomnia

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

A Short Tale

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Camera/photo album icon overlap issue
  • Crossword puzzle glitch causing game to freeze
  • Missing puzzle elements preventing completion

Requested features

3 requests
  • Hint system or built-in walkthrough
  • Improved navigation and screen loading times
  • More logical and intuitive puzzle design

Sinisomnia

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

A Short Tale

No in-app purchases

None

Sinisomnia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is A Short Tale free?
A Short Tale costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sinisomnia free?
Sinisomnia costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, A Short Tale or Sinisomnia?
Sinisomnia is rated higher. A Short Tale averages 4.6 out of 5 from 246 ratings, while Sinisomnia averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do A Short Tale or Sinisomnia have ads?
Neither A Short Tale nor Sinisomnia shows ads.

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