Comparison

Frequency Missing vs AWAKE

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

Head to head
About

Frequency Missing

Embark on a captivating audio-only adventure game where you play as a young radio reporter investigating a colleague's disappearance and mysterious tampering with recordings. Solve puzzles, explore environments, and interact with characters using sound alone.

Highlights
  • Audio-only gameplay
  • Point-and-click mechanics
  • Mystery investigation
  • Puzzle solving
  • Character interaction
  • Environmental exploration
Features
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Plays best with headphones. Young radio reporter Patricia has just started her first job at a radio station. But immediately strange things begin to happen. Where is Richard, her friend and colleague who got her the job? He's been missing for three days. And who is tampering with Patricia's recordings? Solve mysteries and puzzles, explore environments and talk to characters. A short adventure game in classic point-and-click style with a small twist: The game can be played by using sound only! This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

About

AWAKE

Solve a murder mystery by breaking a time loop. This point-and-click adventure game challenges you to prevent a brutal crime and bring a murderer to justice. Experience a story with high-quality visuals and voice acting.

Highlights
  • Time loop mechanic
  • Point-and-click gameplay
  • Murder mystery narrative
  • High-quality visuals
  • Voice acting
  • Multiple subtitle languages
Features
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It was supposed to be a romantic trip… but turned into a brutal murder scene. When Marc and Caroline planned their romantic getaway, they didn’t know that it would turn their lives into jeopardy. Can you find a way to prevent this terrible crime and put the murderer to justice? Or will you forever be stuck in this horrific time loop? AWAKE is an award-winning entry to Adventure Jam 2016 and has been majorly overhauled for its Definitive Edition. There’s a murderer out to get you, and it’s happening again and again. You’re stuck in a time loop – will you find a way to escape? We recommend finishing the game in one sitting. It takes about as long as a TV episode. “Awake immediately captures the player's attention with confident and stylish visuals, high quality voice acting and an elegant user interface, to the extent that you'd be forgiven for forgetting you were playing an entry to a game jam. But where it truly excels is in the “ah-ha” moment, when you realise that it's stepped beyond the bounds of a well-produced adventure, and into the realm of innovative game design.“ – Joseph Humphrey of inkle. Full English speech, with the option for subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian or Brazilian Portuguese.

Screenshots

Frequency Missing4 screens
AWAKE3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Frequency Missing at 4.5 against AWAKE's 3.2. Frequency Missing also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 54%) and ratings volume (92 vs 13). AWAKE's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Frequency Missing holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frequency Missing has 92 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Frequency Missing's written reviews are positive against 54% of AWAKE's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Frequency Missing versus AWAKE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrequency MissingAWAKE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (92 ratings) — better3.2 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews79.6% of reviews — better53.6% of reviews
Number of ratings92 — better13
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size317 MB637 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHogskolan i SkovdeOff The Beaten Track UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

Frequency Missing

All ratings92 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative14.8%

AWAKE

All ratings13 ratings
Positive53.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative46.2%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive53.6%
Neutral10.7%
Negative35.7%

Bugs and requests

Frequency Missing

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Clicking not registering properly
  • Stuck on puzzles (e.g., building with cat and fruit boxes)
  • Difficulty progressing in certain areas (e.g., newsroom)

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add new chapters
  • Add an audio unit plug-in
  • Speech settings (censor words, volume, pitch, speed, expression)
  • More choice options to change the story
  • Character backstory expansion
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  • Prequel or sequel
  • More directed action
  • Longer and more in-depth game
  • More games like this
  • Fire fighting, police work, medical, or dispatching game ideas
  • Ability to skip dialogue
  • More choice options that can change the story

AWAKE

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Frequency Missing

No in-app purchases

None

AWAKE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Frequency Missing free?
Frequency Missing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AWAKE free?
AWAKE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Frequency Missing or AWAKE?
Frequency Missing is rated higher. Frequency Missing averages 4.5 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while AWAKE averages 3.2 from 13 ratings.
Do Frequency Missing or AWAKE have ads?
Neither Frequency Missing nor AWAKE shows ads.

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