Word Unknown vs stonefaces
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Unknown
A fun and simple word guessing game inspired by Hangman and Mastermind. Use logic to deduce a hidden word within a limited number of attempts, receiving feedback on correct letters and positions. Offers multiple difficulty levels and a daily challenge for competitive play.
- Word guessing gameplay
- Lexical and deductive logic
- Letter position feedback (X's and O's)
- Five difficulty levels
- Daily challenge mode
- Free and open source
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Word Unknown takes inspiration from both hangman and mastermind to create an incredibly fun and simple word game experience. Your objective is to guess a randomly generated word in as few moves as possible using both lexical and deductive logic. Once a legal guess is made, you'll get X's and O's in response. Each X represents a correct letter in the correct position, and each O represents a correct letter in the wrong position. There are five different difficulties (word lengths) to choose from and a daily challenge for each so you can compete with friends! Best of all, the game is 100% free and open source! Word Unknown is the second word game developed by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis. His first is Synonymy, narrated by Richard Dawkins, which received distinctions at GDC and E3.
stonefaces
A straightforward puzzle game focused on creating chains and transforming heads into stone. This pixel punk title offers a grid-free experience without strict pixel art rules.
- Chain making gameplay
- Turn heads to stone mechanic
- Pixel punk art style
- Grid-free puzzle solving
- No strict pixel art rules
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This is a simple puzzle game where you make chains, and turn heads to stone. Thats it. This is our first game using Godot, so, yeah, it's not terribly optimized, or elegant. Pixel punk. no grids, no stupid pixel art rules (they aren't actually stupid, I'm just angry).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: stonefaces at every 5 days against Word Unknown's every 16 months. Word Unknown's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 11.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Word Unknown holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively.
Word Unknown ships an update every 16 months, stonefaces every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Unknown | stonefaces |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cinq-Mars Media | Big Dada Inc |
Customer experience
Word Unknown
stonefaces
In-app purchases
Word Unknown
No in-app purchases
stonefaces
No in-app purchases
