Six Match vs Luminosus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Six Match
Engage in a unique Match-3 puzzle experience where you must achieve matches within a limited number of turns. This game blends sliding tile mechanics with strategic coin matching, introducing special coins and mechanics for enhanced gameplay. Enjoy bite-sized challenges and a premium, ad-free experience.
- Match-3 with limited turns
- Sliding tile puzzle mechanics
- Special wild-card coins
- Bomb creation
- Card collection for bonus score
- Un-matchable diamond collection
- Coin-cage mechanics
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Enter the Match-3 board as Mr Swap-With-Coins and try to make a match in 6 turns or less. It's like a sliding tile puzzle crossed with a Match-3 game. As the coins keep dropping, so do new mechanics: * Get wild-card-coins from matching 4 or junction-match to create a bomb. * Each match gives you a card, collect matching cards for bonus score. * Lucrative un-matchable diamonds you can only collect at the bottom of the board. * Wrap your mind around coin-cages that push whole lines of coins. * Yet more mechanics, but why spoil it all? Six Match also features: * A puzzle mode with bite sized challenges. * Gamepad support. * Auto-save. * No pay-to-win or timers. Six Match is now a self-contained paid app: Ads, in-app purchases, and social features have been removed to ensure the longevity of this game.
Luminosus
A unique puzzle game blending Tetris-style gameplay with color-matching mechanics. Plan your moves ahead to create white blocks for higher scores. Offers classic and marathon modes, leaderboards, and achievements for endless fun.
- Color-matching puzzle mechanics
- Strategic planning ahead
- Classic and Marathon modes
- Global leaderboards
- Achievements
- Controller support
- Color blind and night modes
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**Editors pick for “New games we love” in 135+ countries** **Editors pick for “New and noteworthy games” in 150+ countries** **Editors pick for “What we are playing this week”** **Editors choice "Indie corner"** Luminosus is a unique and challenging puzzle game that combines the fun of matching colors on a Tetris-esque board. Puzzle pieces can be changed back and forth as many times as you want, so a red block will change a yellow piece orange but another red piece will change it back to red. If a piece is influenced by all three colors it is turned white and scores significantly more when cleared. In this way the game requires planning more steps ahead than your standard piece-dropping puzzle game. With its simple but addictive gameplay, Luminosus offers hours of entertainment and a twist on the classic Tetris and Puyo experience. Features: • Classic mode for a relaxing experience • Marathon game mode for the ultimate challenge • Compete against the world on the leaderboard • Achievements • Controller support • Color blind and night modes • Unique and challenging gameplay that combines Tetris with color matching
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Luminosus at fortnightly against Six Match's every 3 months. Luminosus also leads on price ($0.29 vs $2.99). Six Match's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Six Match costs $2.99 and Luminosus $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Six Match against 4.9 for Luminosus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 17 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Six Match's written reviews are positive against 71% of Luminosus's.
Six Match ships an update every 3 months, Luminosus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Six Match | Luminosus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.29 — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (47 ratings) | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — 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 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Steed | Short Circuit Studio |
Customer experience
Six Match
Luminosus
In-app purchases
Six Match
No in-app purchases
Luminosus
No in-app purchases









