Gold Rush! 2 vs MISTICO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gold Rush! 2
Embark on an adventure set during the 1849 Gold Rush to find a lost brother and uncover a conspiracy. Travel by train and outwit a corrupt politician to return home safely.
- Full HD prerendered images and animated scenes
- New story and quests from the 80s developer
- High quality voices and new recorded music
- Subtitles in English or German
- Optimized Point&Click control
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Jerrod Wilson left his home in Brooklyn, New York during the legendary Gold Rush of 1849 to find his brother Jake, who was forced to leave 11 years earlier. After a long adventure, Jake and Jerrod found the richest vein of gold in California’s Mother Lode! Now it’s 1869. 20 years of hard work has made their mine very successful. Most of their mining profits were sent home to Mr. Quail, a banker and family friend, who has been investing them wisely. The brothers are as wealthy as Wall Street tycoons, and if they ever return to NY, they will be very influential gentlemen. Mr. Quail sends news from home and it’s not always good. William Tweed, who Jake and Jerrod personally knew to be the leader of a gang of thieves and extortionists (the man who forced Jake to leave Brooklyn), has become very powerful. He is now in the State Legislature and members of his gang have key positions in Brooklyn. Tweed’s political corruption has allowed his gang’s crime to go unchecked since the police are also on his payroll. Jake and Jerrod decide to sell their mine and travel home on the newly constructed Transcontinental Railroad. The brothers have evidence that should send Tweed to prison for the rest of his life, but Tweed has heard they are coming and plans to stop them from ever returning to Brooklyn. A contest of wits has begun with “Boss” Tweed, a man with political power, wealth and a gang of criminals at his command. Features: • Far more than 80 prerendered images and animated scenes in full HD • Complete new story and quests from the developer from the 80s • High quality voices and new recorded music • Subtitles in English or German • Optimized Point&Click control • This game is optimized for devices from 7", because the small details are better visible and better to control. But it runs also on smaller devices.
MISTICO
Embark on a mysterious adventure to a hidden island. Explore, collect items, and solve puzzles in a first-person point-and-click experience. Uncover the secrets of MISTICO using your wits and collected objects.
- First-person point and click gameplay
- Collect, combine, and use items
- Explore 3D environments
- Solve logical puzzles
- Automatic saving
- Touchscreen controls
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MISTICO - a small mysterious Spanish island hidden somewhere in the Balearics. You have often heard rumours of its existence, however, actually locating MISTICO has proven rather difficult. After a drunken warm evening in a local bar you overhear some sun weathered locals speaking in Spanish. Picking up some of the words you learnt exploring the local area you decide to eavesdrop in on the conversation. “¿Estás seguro?” “¡Sí !, tengo un mapa claro a la isla de mistico.” Another man suddenly appears at the entrance of the bar and beckons the men to leave everything and come quickly. I watched the group arguing outside and they hurriedly jump in a sun battered car and leave. I take one last drag from my bottle and decide it was time to head off myself. On the way out I notice the men had left a torn scrap of paper on the table they were seated at. I looked closer and noticed what was written on the paper. I quickly realised what I was looking at, longitude and latitude coordinates, scribbled in pencil. “Surely not” I thought. “The exact location of MISTICO?” Hiring a local boat, I set off on a journey on the high seas to where the coordinates pinpointed the location of the island. However, the journey didn’t go exactly to plan. Nearing the coordinates I quickly ran into trouble, all I remember was clear blue skies turning black and a strange humming sound. Opening my eyes, I looked up and saw strange old house in the middle of nowhere…. “Where am I?” ABOUT MISTCO is a first person point and click adventure, similar to games you may have played in the ’90’s. A simple gameplay interface consisting of the world that you explore and an inventory panel where you can collect, combine and use items you find along the way. Explore areas, collect hidden objects and take in your surroundings. You will need all of your puzzle solving skills to put together a plan to make your way through the island and down the many paths of escape. How you tackle the puzzles is down to you. Each puzzle has a logical solution, so take your time, there is no rush and enjoy the process of understanding what you have to do. FEATURES > Easy to play, touch the screen to move around. Use the arrow to move back > Use the inventory to collect, combine and use objects > Beautiful all original adventure 3D graphics, environments and atmosphere to explore > Immersive backing soundtrack and effects to pull you into the adventure > Automatic saving when you complete an area - Use the ‘Continue’ button on the main menu to pick up where you left off SMALL PRINT MISTICO was created from the imagination of a solo indie developer. “I am always excited to hear people playing my games and their experience along the way. Adventure gaming is my passion and your feedback helps my games get better.“ MISTICO is compatible will all devices and has been designed to be as resource efficient as possible to allow play on many different devices. With that said, if you do run into any difficulties please email so I can provide updates that help everyone enjoy the adventure.
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Verdict
Gold Rush! 2 and MISTICO both sit at 3.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 47% of MISTICO's written reviews are positive against 0% of Gold Rush! 2's. MISTICO also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 54 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Gold Rush! 2's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Gold Rush! 2 costs $1.99 and MISTICO $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gold Rush! 2 holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Gold Rush! 2's written reviews are positive against 47% of MISTICO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gold Rush! 2 ships an update every 54 months, MISTICO every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gold Rush! 2 | MISTICO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (7 ratings) — better | 3.1 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 46.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 54 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 784 MB | 251 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Marco Sowa-Israel | M9 Creative LTD |
Customer experience
Gold Rush! 2
MISTICO
In-app purchases
Gold Rush! 2
No in-app purchases
MISTICO
No in-app purchases









