Shift Shaft vs Day Repeat Day
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Rotate the game board
- Match 3 or more rocks
- Upgrade player stats
- Unlock over 30 items
- Battle 5 unique enemies
- Explore underground world
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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.
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.
- Interactive life story
- Match-3 puzzle gameplay
- Relationship management
- Career progression
- Satirical narrative
- Existential themes
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Shift Shaft ships an update fortnightly, Day Repeat Day weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift Shaft | Day Repeat Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (143 ratings) — better | 4.5 (55 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | 55 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 560 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | William Katz | Kimmo Factor Oy |
Customer experience
Shift Shaft
Day Repeat Day
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
Shift Shaft
No in-app purchases
Day Repeat Day
No in-app purchases
Questions
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