Comparison

Santa's Hat PRO vs Skarvik

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

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About

Santa's Hat PRO

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Currently charting
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About

Skarvik

Engage in a narrative-driven detective game focused on meticulous document analysis and deduction. Piece together clues from various sources to solve a mysterious death in a remote Norwegian town. Progress through daily challenges and present irrefutable evidence to advance the investigation.

Highlights
  • Document analysis
  • Deduction board
  • Timed investigation
  • Character interactions
  • Puzzle solving
  • Multiple endings
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Skarvik, northern Norway. Eighteen hundred people, a ferry five times a day, and a salmon farm that feeds them all. Saturday, six in the morning. A body at pile 14 in the harbor. Jonas Wik, fisherman. The one who swam across the fjord three times. The station chief will write "accident" before lunch, and the town will agree. You are in your first week on the job, with a case file, a board, and five days to read the papers more carefully than everyone else. A DETECTIVE GAME ABOUT READING No hidden-object hunts, no timers. You talk to people, collect reports, statements, receipts, logs, and notes into the case file, and read them as real documents: Norwegian police forms with the hero's handwritten translation, a bar's register tape, a tide table, the ferry terminal's camera log, pages from a notebook. The key line is never the first one. THE BOARD Highlight the lines that seem important, then set two documents against each other on the board. If the highlighted lines contradict each other, that's a deduction. Deductions can be shown to people, and conversations change. The board doesn't read for you: with nothing highlighted, it stays silent. FIVE DAYS, FIVE GATES Every day ends in a conversation with the station chief, and he has a real objection to every point you make. To close the day, you need deductions he can't argue away. Witnesses lie, but a lie is always caught by a document, never by pressure. PUZZLES Fifteen puzzles built from the documents: work out a blood alcohol level from a register tape and a memo, use the tide table to find where a man fell in, reconcile a farm's weekly reports, rebuild the night minute by minute from a camera log and a neighbor's statement. A hint after the first miss, a full explanation after the third. You can't skip them, and you can't get stuck. A TOWN THAT KNOWS EVERYTHING BY EVENING A station chief who has watched drunks fall off piers for thirty years. A sergeant married to the sister of the farm owner's wife. A bartender who takes keys away from drunks. An old fisherman with a tide table on his wall and a paper he'll only hand to the one who asks the right way. A neighbor who doesn't sleep at night. Forty-two jobs, and every one of them has a family. ALSO • Eleven locations, fifteen characters, forty-three documents. • A hiding place not everyone finds. • The accusation: with five deductions on the board, the chief asks "Who?", and a wrong name costs you composure. • A hundred-point rating and four ranks, from rookie fresh out of the academy to the one who asked the right way. A "what you missed" screen for a second playthrough. • English and Russian.

Screenshots

Santa's Hat PRO4 screens
Skarvik4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Skarvik at every 6 days against Santa's Hat PRO's every 24 months. Santa's Hat PRO's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and chart position 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

Santa's Hat PRO costs $0.39 and Skarvik $0.39 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Santa's Hat PRO ships an update every 24 months, Skarvik every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Santa's Hat PRO versus Skarvik: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSanta's Hat PROSkarvik
Price$0.39$0.39
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 24 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank#122#110 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB16 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRanz UrsalSunspear Software LLC

In-app purchases

None

Santa's Hat PRO

No in-app purchases

None

Skarvik

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Santa's Hat PRO free?
Santa's Hat PRO costs $0.39, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skarvik free?
Skarvik costs $0.39, with no in-app purchases.
Do Santa's Hat PRO or Skarvik have ads?
Neither Santa's Hat PRO nor Skarvik shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Santa's Hat PRO or Skarvik?
Santa's Hat PRO ships an update every 24 months, and Skarvik every 6 days. Most recently, Santa's Hat PRO was updated on October 29, 2026 and Skarvik on October 31, 2026.
Which is more popular, Santa's Hat PRO or Skarvik?
Santa's Hat PRO currently peaks at #122 in the App Store charts, and Skarvik at #110. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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