Tick Box vs Polychoron Explorer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tick Box
A unique and addictive puzzle game where players must place boxes into empty squares before time runs out. It offers a simple yet engaging challenge for puzzle enthusiasts.
- Unique puzzle mechanics
- Timed gameplay
- Score points
- Addictive challenge
- Simple controls
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Are you ready for an addictive and unique puzzle game? Just put the boxes into empty squares before the timer runs out to score points! Tick Boxes is a simple and unique puzzle game for puzzle lovers! Enjoy this addictive unique puzzle game.
Polychoron Explorer
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Introducing Magic Manycell - a puzzle game inspired by Magic Cube but in 4D. Rotate 4D slices of a Tesseract or 16-Cell to match colors. Comprehend and feel 4D space by watching 4D objects projected into 3D by brand new 4D projection-based rendering engine. Magic Manycell puzzle can be played on 3 different 4D figures -- Tesseract with its Cells divided into 8 cubes 2*2*2, tesseract with cells divided into 3*3*3=27 smaller cubes each, and a 16-cell, which is a regular polychoron with 16 tetrahedral cells, where you have to match colors in 4 cells aligned together. If Magic Manycell puzzle seems too hard at first, you can adjust difficulty by selecting amount of moves (called shuffles) that game creates from the state with all colors perfectly aligned. So as you master elementary 1, 2 and 3 shuffles, you can move on to more challenging puzzles. In addition to starting with less shuffles, with Tesseract based figures players can select to utilize rotations that affects less cells that actual rotation would which makes this puzzle playable to even most casual players (this is the default mode - for only "realistic" rotations select "IRON AN" mode). In addition to Magic Manycell, this game contains Explorer mode without game goal where you can take your time to explore all 6 regular 4D polytopes (called polychorons). You can also customize how polychoron looks by selecting colors for each Cell of it. In Premium version, you can even create your own polychorons by scanning and splitting existing ones into 2 parts. Even though right now there're only 2 modes, more fun games on the same engine are planned to be added in the future into this same app. Game uses Freemium model where free (Demo) functionality is limited. Full functionality is unlockable with one-time purchases, only one for each mode. Demo mode is indicated by watermark so you know that there are some limitations to be expected. However in each mode there is a fully unlocked free functionality - for Magic Manycell, this is 2*2*2 tesseract board, for Explorer it's the 5-cell and Tesseract.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Polychoron Explorer at none against Tick Box's shown. Polychoron Explorer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 20 months). Tick Box's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Tick Box sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Polychoron Explorer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tick Box ships an update every 20 months, Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tick Box | Polychoron Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | jabir Ali | OLEG LESHCHEV |
In-app purchases
Tick Box
- Disable AD and work Offline$0.99
Polychoron Explorer
- Unlock Explorer$4.99
- Unlock Magic Manycell$4.99
- Full Lifetime Unlock$14.99
Questions
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