Shadows vs Star Wars Unlock!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadows
Enhance your board game experience with an official companion app. It offers a unique soundtrack and a customizable timer to improve gameplay atmosphere. Enjoy beautiful artwork from the board game.
- Unique soundtrack
- Customizable timer
- Board game artwork
- Enhances game atmosphere
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If you love to play Libellud' Shadows - Amsterdam, you will love to improve your experience with the official companion app. Enhance the board game atmosphere with a great soundtrack and a customizable timer. It features: - An unique soundtrack - Fully customizable timer to play 2-3 players mode - Beautiful artworks from the board game Give it a try, it's made with love !
Star Wars Unlock!
This companion app enhances a physical escape room-style card game with interactive puzzles, clues, and a timed countdown. Experience three Star Wars adventures by searching scenes, combining objects, and solving riddles with friends.
- Interactive puzzles and riddles
- In-app clues and hints
- Timed countdown and penalties
- Atmospheric music for each adventure
- Score attribution based on performance
- Search scenes and combine objects
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THIS APP REQUIRES THE UNLOCK! Star Wars The Escape Game CARD GAME. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc. Experience 3 adventures in the Star Wars galaxy! As rebels, smugglers, or imperial agents, search locations, interact with ships, weapons, items and droids and solve the puzzles ! Experience the thrills of an escape room at home! The Unlock! Star Wars The Escape Game application is a free “companion app”: you need a copy of Unlock! Star Wars The Escape Game to enjoy it. This application will allow you to get valuable clues, enter secret codes and interact with a lot of different devices, machines, ships and droids. It will set the mood with a specific music for each adventure, penalties ... and the fatal countdown! At the end of the game, a score will be attributed to your team, based on the time spent to complete the adventure, the number of collected penalties, the number clues requested, etc. Unlock! is a game created by Cyril Demaegd, published by Space Cowboys and distributed by Asmodee (Game’s POS list available at www.asmodee.com) Try the Unlock! game for free: check and download the demo adventures, game rules and tutorial at www.spacecowboys.fr/unlock-demo. Unlock! STAR WARS The Escape Game. - (Release: August 2020) - 1 to 6 players - 60 minutes - Ages 10 and up
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shadows at 75% against Star Wars Unlock!'s 40%. Shadows also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Star Wars Unlock!'s advantage is rating (3.4 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (34 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Star Wars Unlock! holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Wars Unlock! has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Shadows's written reviews are positive against 40% of Star Wars Unlock!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Shadows ships an update every 2 months, Star Wars Unlock! every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shadows | Star Wars Unlock! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tempete Studio | JD Editions |
Customer experience
Shadows
Star Wars Unlock!
In-app purchases
Shadows
No in-app purchases
Star Wars Unlock!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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