Frequency Missing vs AWAKE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Audio-only gameplay
- Point-and-click mechanics
- Mystery investigation
- Puzzle solving
- Character interaction
- Environmental exploration
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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.
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.
- Time loop mechanic
- Point-and-click gameplay
- Murder mystery narrative
- High-quality visuals
- Voice acting
- Multiple subtitle languages
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Frequency Missing | AWAKE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (92 ratings) — better | 3.2 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews — better | 53.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 637 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hogskolan i Skovde | Off The Beaten Track UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) |
Customer experience
Frequency Missing
AWAKE
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
Frequency Missing
No in-app purchases
AWAKE
No in-app purchases









