CRIMO vs Swatch This
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CRIMO
Engage in logical deduction to solve intricate murder cases. Analyze clues, cross-reference possibilities, and unmask criminals in this crime investigation puzzle game. Navigate challenging grids and uncover motives to bring justice to victims.
- Logical crime investigations
- Analyze clues and evidence
- Solve grid puzzles by deduction
- Investigate murder cases
- Hundreds of puzzles
- Dynamic investigation board
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Love deduction games? Use your logic to solve puzzles and investigate gruesome murder cases! Analyze clues and follow the trail to send those criminals to justice! Join the CRIMO special unit, specialized in logical crime investigations. After a short training at the Police Academy, you will be sent to lead gruesome murder cases in Miami and New York, by applying pure logic to solve puzzles. Collect clues, analyze them, confirm evidence or reject false leads: you will cross-off all possibilities until you can designate the murder weapon, find out the motive and unmask the criminal. Are you ready to use your wits and deduction skills to fight crime? Did the actress do it for revenge using a handgun as the powder on the pillow suggests? Or maybe it was the politician, but did he use the knife or the chainsaw? Was it out of sheer madness or was it for power? for love? Or simply money? The next clue might be decisive... CRIMO's puzzles offer a fascinating cross-over between games of logic like sudoku and minesweeper, crosswords and criminal investigation board games. You will decode which squares to touch in the grid by following hints giving the sizes of blocks in each row and column. It’s a real mind challenge wrapped in a fun experience where you need to think and use your brains to succeed. Avoid making mistakes or you will take a punch, suffer a scratch or even take a bullet! Thank god you can replenish your health by eating a burger, hot-dog or... how about a donut? You will learn easily, progress rapidly and quickly get hooked! It's ultra addictive! FEATURES: • Tens of criminal cases in two iconic cities: Miami and New York • Hundreds of grid puzzles to solve by logic and deduction • Dynamic investigation board where your searches spread out and interconnect like a spider web as in the most exciting detective flicks • Get acquainted with Jamie, police officer, Jim, forensic expert as well as the Chief of Police, Madam District Attorney, the firefighter... • Special challenges: burning crime scenes with clues going up in smoke, FBI-restricted access zones where your hands are tight… • Works on iPhone 5s and above and iPads Time to solve puzzling crimes by logic & deduction! PLAY NOW! Created by ooblada & CHQL Please note that CRIMO is completely free to play, but virtual currency can be purchased with real money to get some in-game items such as extra lives, health boosters or instant analyses. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. Terms of use: https://oobld.com/tos-apps-en
Swatch This
A fun multiplayer game where players invent creative names for real paint swatches. Compete with friends or strangers to guess the official color names and earn points for cleverness and deception. Offers various modes for different play styles.
- Invent creative color names
- Guess real paint swatch names
- Online turn-based multiplayer
- Pass & Play mode
- Pen & Paper mode
- Unlock additional color swatches
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Swatch This is a color naming game for 2-8 players, featuring real, outrageous paint swatches. Real-life paint colors aren’t just called yellow or pink or blue, they’re much more evocative and fun. So a yellow-gold might be “Sunny Side Up,” a bright pink “Sweet Sixteen,” or a blue “Fountain.” In Swatch This you’ll create your own color names, as serious or silly as you want. The other players in the match are making up names too, so at the end everyone will try to pick out the real name from the made-up ones. Guess the right name and you'll get points — fool another player and you’ll get more! Swatch This features multiple game modes. - Online turn-based multiplayer: play a Quick Match with a random opponent, or a private match with 1-7 friends - Pass & Play: play on a single device by taking turns - Pen & Paper: play on a single device by writing color names on paper, like a board game There are no consumable in-app purchases. Play unlimited matches in all game modes for free. If you enjoy the game, please consider buying the Palette Pack to permanently unlock many more color swatches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Swatch This at none against CRIMO's shown. Swatch This also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 40%). CRIMO's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, 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. CRIMO sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Swatch This sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CRIMO holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CRIMO has 2.9K ratings behind it against 69, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of CRIMO's written reviews are positive against 54% of Swatch This's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CRIMO ships an update every 9 days, Swatch This every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CRIMO | Swatch This |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.9K ratings) — better | 4.2 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 53.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.9K — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SMACH S.A.S. | Radio Silence |
Customer experience
CRIMO
Swatch This
Bugs and requests
CRIMO
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing during evidence analysis
- Progress loss after closing the app
- Vibration issues after updates
Requested features
4 requests- More customization options
- Ability to earn coins/resources through gameplay
- Improved crime-solving mechanics
- Cloud save functionality
Swatch This
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CRIMO
- Premium weekly subscription3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Small pack of cash$0.99
- Starter Pack2 variants$1.99
- Medium pack of cash$2.99
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- Remove ads$2.99
- Large pack of cash$4.99
- Remove ads$5.99
- Extra-large pack of cash$9.99
- Special Offer$9.99
Swatch This
- Palette Pack$1.99









