Puppet Bird vs Cubway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puppet Bird
Guide a puppet bird through challenging levels with unique wheel controls. Discover beautiful hand-drawn worlds, unlock new birds, and master dynamic obstacles. Compete with friends on leaderboards.
- Unique wheel control system
- Dynamic obstacles and handcrafted levels
- Beautiful hand-drawn worlds
- 21 unlockable puppet birds
- Challenging objective system
- Game Center Achievements & Leaderboard
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Not every bird can fly but there is nothing impossible! Do you want to know how to fly a puppet bird? Get on over and check it out now!! Puppet Bird features: - Unique wheel control! Easy to understand but it's extremely hard to master! - Dynamic obstacles with tons of hand-crafted level designs. - Beautiful hand-draw worlds in combination with super cool musics! - 21 lovingly puppet birds to unlock. - Challenging objective system to multiply your score. - Game Center's Achievements & Leaderboard. Thank you a lot for playing Puppet Bird! Ell Tee
Cubway
Navigate a cube through a challenging abstract world, experiencing a story of rebirth. Master diverse mechanics like timing, avoidance, and interaction with obstacles. Enjoy a visually stunning and atmospheric journey with unique animations and ambient music.
- Abstract story of rebirth
- Cube navigation through obstacles
- Diverse interaction mechanics
- 55 unique levels
- 3 alternative endings
- Minimalistic graphics and animations
- Atmospheric ambient soundtrack
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Cubway is a journey with an abstract story of lifecycle of rebirth, called Samsara. Guide the cube through the long way full of dangers and difficulties, visit many interesting and mysterious places. Mechanics of the game are concentrated around different types of interaction with the obstacles. Some of them are: finding correct spot to overcome the obstacles, blowing them, correct timing of your movement, avoiding dangers, changing your movement directions by the switchers and many more. All this is accompanied by beautiful background arts that tell an abstract story, unique animations, minimalistic graphics, different astonishing effects, and relaxing ambient. • 55 different levels • 3 Alternative Endings • Several game mechanics • Elegant and stylish design • A lot of obstacles and unique animations • Astonishing effects of rain, slow motion, change of day and night and many others • Atmospheric ambient by the Composer SiJ Follow us @armnomads Find us on Facebook
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Puppet Bird at every 9 days against Cubway's every 6 weeks. Cubway's advantage is ratings volume (121 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Puppet Bird sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cubway sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Puppet Bird against 4.6 for Cubway. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cubway has 121 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Puppet Bird's written reviews are positive against 80% of Cubway's.
Puppet Bird ships an update every 9 days, Cubway every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Puppet Bird | Cubway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (121 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 121 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 361 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Topebox Company Limited | Armnomads LLC |
Customer experience
Puppet Bird
Cubway
Bugs and requests
Puppet Bird
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cubway
Reported bugs
10 issues- Screen edges cut off on iPhone 11, 12, 13, 14, XR, XS, XS Max
- Game interface extends beyond screen boundaries
- Player character invisible or off-screen at edges
- Buttons and menu items not visible on screen
- Checkpoint save function not working properly
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- Achievement system not tracking completed levels
- App crashes on iPad Pro and older devices
- Controls become unresponsive or too sensitive
- Game freezes or lags during gameplay
- In-app purchase not restoring after reinstall
Requested features
10 requests- Fix screen resolution and optimization for iPhone 11, 12, 13, 14, XR, XS Max and newer devices
- Adjust game scaling to fit full screen properly
- Make checkpoint/save feature free or ad-supported instead of paid
- Add in-game tutorial or hints system
- Improve controls responsiveness on older devices
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- Add Japanese language support
- Create more levels and content
- Provide clearer explanation of game rules and mechanics
- Move ads to after levels instead of during gameplay
- Add dark mode option
In-app purchases
Puppet Bird
- Remove Ads!$0.99
Cubway
- No Ads$1.99
