Comparison

Shift Shaft vs Day Repeat Day

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

Head to head
About

Shift Shaft

This puzzle game challenges players to match three or more rocks by rotating the entire game board. Upgrade your character's stats and unlock items as you explore an underground world and battle unique enemies. Enjoy an uninterrupted gaming experience with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Rotate the game board
  • Match 3 or more rocks
  • Upgrade player stats
  • Unlock over 30 items
  • Battle 5 unique enemies
  • Explore underground world
Features
Currently charting
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“What really blew my mind with Shift Shaft and the main thing that makes it feel unlike any other game out there is your ability to rotate the entire board at will. It sounds simple but this changes everything… This is truly a thinking person’s matching game.” - Jared Nelson, TouchArcade.com A match & rotate puzzle Manipulate your player and the board by rotating it and clearing groups of 3 or more rocks. Build up your player Collect and spend gems to upgrade your stats and unlock over 30 different items during each run. Explore the underground world Go up against 5 unique enemies and the gem-eating spider to uncover the world beneath the mines. No ads & no in-app purchases Play for as long you'd like with no ads or pay walls.

About

Day Repeat Day

Experience a life simulation through engaging match-3 puzzles. Navigate relationships, career choices, and existential questions in a satirical, interactive narrative. Discover the meaning of the daily grind and life's mysteries.

Highlights
  • Interactive life story
  • Match-3 puzzle gameplay
  • Relationship management
  • Career progression
  • Satirical narrative
  • Existential themes
Features
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Day Repeat Day is an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through the years in a life of an average person. You're hired to do a job. You try to manage your relationships. But you're never really sure where it's all leading to. It's a story about living, the daily grind and what it all means in the end, topped with a sprinkle of satire and mysteries. After doing a lot of action games, I wanted to do something much more intimate and personal and Day Repeat Day is what came of it. Press: - It takes some serious ingenuity to subvert a genre as entrenched as the mobile match-3 game, but somehow developer Kimmo Factor, probably most well-known for the awesome hack ‘n slash game Barbearian, has done exactly that - Game of the Week / Touch Arcade - It turns out to be much, much more than this, than either genre, a whole, complicated and unique creation, that speaks truth about life, about work, about hierarchies and about mistakes. It’s stunning. - Kotaku

Screenshots

Shift Shaft4 screens
Day Repeat Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shift Shaft at 100% against Day Repeat Day's 70%. Shift Shaft also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and chart position (#199 vs unranked). Day Repeat Day's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Shift Shaft costs $2.99 and Day Repeat Day $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shift Shaft holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 143 and 55 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Shift Shaft's written reviews are positive against 70% of Day Repeat Day's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift Shaft ships an update fortnightly, Day Repeat Day weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Shift Shaft versus Day Repeat Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift ShaftDay Repeat Day
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.9 (143 ratings) — better4.5 (55 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings143 — better55
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB560 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperWilliam KatzKimmo Factor Oy

Customer experience

Shift Shaft

All ratings143 ratings
Positive98.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Day Repeat Day

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative23.3%

Bugs and requests

Shift Shaft

Requested features

2 requests
  • Non-pixelated graphics
  • Mid-run save option

Day Repeat Day

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Shift Shaft

No in-app purchases

None

Day Repeat Day

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shift Shaft free?
Shift Shaft costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Day Repeat Day free?
Day Repeat Day costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shift Shaft or Day Repeat Day?
Shift Shaft is rated higher. Shift Shaft averages 4.9 out of 5 from 143 ratings, while Day Repeat Day averages 4.5 from 55 ratings.
Do Shift Shaft or Day Repeat Day have ads?
Neither Shift Shaft nor Day Repeat Day shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shift Shaft or Day Repeat Day?
Shift Shaft ships an update fortnightly, and Day Repeat Day weekly. Most recently, Shift Shaft was updated on September 10, 2026 and Day Repeat Day on September 25, 2026.

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