Puzzles from the Crypt vs Jame!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puzzles from the Crypt
An interactive word game that uses classic horror short stories as its narrative. Players fill in missing words within the story to progress, using contextual clues. It offers a simple yet engaging way to experience chilling tales.
- Interactive word puzzles
- Classic horror short stories
- Contextual clues for word finding
- Story progression gameplay
- Engaging narrative experience
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Story Puzzle is an interactive word game using classic horror short stories like "The Monkey's Paw" and "The Tell Tale Heart". You must fill in the missing words on each page of the story in order to progress, using the context of the story as clues. It's simple and fun, with absolutely brilliant stories to back it up!
Jame!
Engage in a pixel-art logic puzzle where you must place pieces correctly in rows, columns, and colored regions without any touching. Master increasingly complex grids with pure logic, earning new art pieces and competing in daily and seasonal challenges.
- Pixel-art logic puzzles
- Place pieces without touching
- Earn new art pieces
- Daily shared puzzles
- Seasonal leaderboards
- Optional in-app purchases for hints/pieces
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Jame is a pixel-art logic puzzle. Place one piece in every row, every column, and every colored region — and never let two pieces touch, not even at the corners. Every puzzle has exactly one solution, and every one can be solved with pure logic. No guessing, ever. HOW IT WORKS • Tap to mark a cell you've ruled out; swipe to mark a whole run of them. • Double tap (or hold) to place a piece. A wrong placement costs a heart — you get three — and a clean solve is FLAWLESS. • Puzzles grow from 4×4 to 10×10 and from EASY to HARD in waves — every ten levels ramp to a peak, then the next piece. WHAT YOU EARN • A new hand-drawn piece every 10 Classic levels through level 1,000. Play the board as any piece you own. • Your collection: every piece you've earned, and the day you earned it. • Earn 100 achievement playing pieces by completing their requirements. • Hints for the tough ones, and coins from the daily puzzle to spend on them. THE DAILY One shared 10×10 hard puzzle per day — the same board for everyone in the world. Race the clock (a wrong placement adds a minute), keep your streak alive, and see where you land on the daily leaderboard. Every 7-day streak pays a bonus. TREASURES & GOLDEN CRAFTING Spend rubies on mystery chests to discover over 500 treasures, with no duplicates. Collect Gold Fragments to craft golden versions of treasures you own, then equip your favorites on the board. SEASONS Each month is a season with its own leaderboard. Complete 20 levels in a season to earn its golden piece — the only way to get one. The shop stocks a few seasonal pieces for the coins you earn by playing. MADE WITH CARE • No energy limits. Watch an optional ad for one free Prize Wheel spin each day. • No purchase is required to earn pieces or play any puzzle. Coins and rubies can optionally be bought to get hints and cosmetic pieces sooner. • Progress syncs across your devices with iCloud; leaderboards run on Game Center. • Optional reminders for the daily and your streak. • Hand-made pixel art, haptics, and a built-in tutorial that teaches the rules in a minute. If you like Star Battle, nonograms, Sudoku, or any pure-logic puzzle, Jame is for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Puzzles from the Crypt at none against Jame!'s 12. Puzzles from the Crypt also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Jame!'s advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price 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. Jame! sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Puzzles from the Crypt asks for nothing beyond the download.
Jame! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jame! has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Puzzles from the Crypt ships an update every 2 weeks, Jame! every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puzzles from the Crypt | Jame! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 321 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Red Sprite Studios | Oscar Manxz |
Customer experience
Puzzles from the Crypt
Jame!
In-app purchases
Puzzles from the Crypt
No in-app purchases
Jame!
- 100 coins$0.99
- 20 Rubies$1.99
- 330 coins$2.99
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- 60 Rubies$4.99
- 600 coins$4.99
- 150 Rubies$9.99
- 1,300 coins$9.99
- 350 Rubies$19.99
- 2,800 coins$19.99
- 600 Rubies$29.99
- 1,100 Rubies$49.99
- 7,500 coins$49.99
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