Comparison

Number Pointers vs Shatterglass

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

Head to head
About

Number Pointers

A challenging pencil puzzle game that tests your logic and problem-solving skills. It offers a unique and difficult gameplay experience for those seeking a mental workout.

Highlights
  • Minor pencil puzzle gameplay
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Logic and problem-solving
  • Unique gameplay experience
Features
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Number pointers is a one of minor pencil puzzle game. I think that this game is the most difficult in pencil puzzle. Please challenge it.

About

Shatterglass

Features
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A pane of coloured glass drifts down a stained glass window. You choose where it lands, it settles into place, and the window fills a little more. That is the whole game. There is one twist, and it runs against everything other puzzle games have taught you. THREE IN A LINE IS THE COST, NOT THE REWARD Line up three of the same colour and they shatter. In most puzzle games that is the point. Here it is the mistake. Every window gives you a small shatter allowance, and most give you exactly one. Spend it and the window comes apart, and you begin it again. So you are not hunting for matches. You are placing glass carefully, watching the colours already down, and finding the spot that does not complete a line. It takes about thirty seconds to understand and considerably longer to stop doing it by reflex. WATCH WHAT IS ABOVE THE LINE When glass shatters, everything above falls into the gap, and if it lands three in a row it shatters too. One careless placement can run a chain several waves deep, and every wave spends another mark. Reading what sits above a line before you break it is where the skill lives. ONE HUNDRED WINDOWS, NINE CHAPTERS From The Nave to The Chancel, the windows grow from small and forgiving to genuinely demanding. They are not hand placed on a difficulty curve by guesswork; every one was generated and then verified solvable, and ordered so that a hard window is followed by an easier one. Each is a different silhouette, in its own colours, with its own allowance. Finish a window and it joins your collection, lit. Finish one without spending your whole allowance and it earns another facet. Finish one flawlessly and it earns them all. MADE TO BE QUIET Every column is a glass key you can play, tuned to a major scale, so aiming makes music rather than noise. There is no timer counting down at you, no lives to run out, no streak to protect, and nothing asking you to come back tomorrow. Sessions are a minute or two, one handed, and end when you want them to. Six glass palettes, all free from the start. No advertisements, no in app purchases, no account, and no internet connection required. Your progress is saved on your device and nowhere else. Fill the window. Mind the lines.

Screenshots

Number Pointers2 screens
Shatterglass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Number Pointers at 6.0 against Shatterglass's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Number Pointers versus Shatterglass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumber PointersShatterglass
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYuki FujimotoMSP AI, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Number Pointers

No in-app purchases

None

Shatterglass

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Number Pointers free?
Number Pointers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shatterglass free?
Shatterglass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Number Pointers or Shatterglass have ads?
Neither Number Pointers nor Shatterglass shows ads.

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