Comparison

Dont Tap the Red Button vs Tiny Machinery

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

Head to head
About

Dont Tap the Red Button

A challenging game requiring immense patience to master. Test your reflexes and aim to become the top player. Remember to stay calm and avoid frustration.

Highlights
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Requires patience
  • Test reflexes
  • Become the best player
  • Open source code
Features
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This is a pretty hard game. Patience is all you need to succeed. Can you become the best player? Anyway, promise me don't smash anything. *This is app is open source, click the Developer Website link below to view the source code.

About

Tiny Machinery

Immerse yourself in a virtual dimension to solve intricate puzzles and escape a mysterious experiment. Use your intellect to manipulate complex machinery and unlock the secrets of your confinement. Experience a unique escape room adventure with creative 3D graphics and atmospheric audio.

Highlights
  • Escape room-style puzzles
  • Creative 3D graphics
  • Intricate mechanisms
  • Atmospheric audio
  • Hint system
  • Unlockable story notes
Features
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You've been kidnapped by unknown scientists and your brain has been plugged into a sophisticated machine to run an experiment: travel into a virtual dimension to unlock weird machinery. Use your imagination and IQ to crack puzzles and complete all intricate levels to save your life. Can you make it? A CLEVER PUZZLE GAME Embark into an escape room-style adventure full of riddles! CREATIVE 3D GRAPHICS Explore weird machines that will impress you with their unique art style INTRICATE MECHANISMS Enjoy tons of original puzzles, interact with buttons, levers, and little wheels to complete each level ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO Play the game with your headphones to get immersed in the game at best TRY FOR FREE Play the first 4 levels for free, with the option to unlock all the levels with a small In-App purchase, which will make you experience the whole story and puzzles HINTS In case you get stuck on a level, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the riddles STORY NOTES You will unlock a new story paragraph for each level you will complete. Discover how your kidnappers have threatened you and how it ends! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent solo startup from Italy. Find out more at xsgames.co Follow me @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram

Screenshots

Dont Tap the Red Button2 screens
Tiny Machinery4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dont Tap the Red Button at none against Tiny Machinery's 3. Dont Tap the Red Button also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 54%). Tiny Machinery's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 7). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tiny Machinery sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Dont Tap the Red Button asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Dont Tap the Red Button against 4.2 for Tiny Machinery. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Machinery has 45 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Dont Tap the Red Button's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tiny Machinery's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dont Tap the Red Button ships an update every 8 days, Tiny Machinery every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Dont Tap the Red Button versus Tiny Machinery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDont Tap the Red ButtonTiny Machinery
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (7 ratings)4.2 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better54.1% of reviews
Number of ratings745 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB142 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChenglin LiuXSGames

Customer experience

Dont Tap the Red Button

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Tiny Machinery

All ratings45 ratings
Positive75.6%
Neutral13.3%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive54.1%
Neutral16.2%
Negative29.7%

In-app purchases

None

Dont Tap the Red Button

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tiny Machinery

One-time3
  • Full Game$3.99
  • Full Game + Coffee$4.99
  • Full Game + Love$7.99

Questions

Is Dont Tap the Red Button free?
Dont Tap the Red Button is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Machinery free?
Tiny Machinery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dont Tap the Red Button or Tiny Machinery?
Tiny Machinery is rated higher. Dont Tap the Red Button averages 4.1 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Tiny Machinery averages 4.2 from 45 ratings.
Do Dont Tap the Red Button or Tiny Machinery have ads?
Neither Dont Tap the Red Button nor Tiny Machinery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dont Tap the Red Button or Tiny Machinery?
Dont Tap the Red Button ships an update every 8 days, and Tiny Machinery every 3 months. Most recently, Dont Tap the Red Button was updated on October 14, 2026 and Tiny Machinery on October 13, 2026.

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