Sliding Seas vs Dotillism
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sliding Seas
Build and decorate your own tropical island paradise by matching and merging land. Collect VIP characters, complete puzzles, and enjoy a relaxing match-3 experience with daily missions and events. Escape to a world of fun with over 1000 levels.
- Match and merge land to create islands
- Decorate and grow your home island
- Collect cute VIP characters
- Multiple game modes
- Daily missions and weekend events
- Offline play support
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Be the mayor of your own tropical world! Pick cute buildings to decorate your island and hang out with cool VIP characters that you collect. Sliding Seas is the cutest and most relaxing match-3 puzzle game on mobile! SO MUCH FUN: • Easy to play, hard to master - endlessly fun and addictive! • Unique gameplay - match and merge land to make islands • Lots of game modes - ocean rescue, penguins, turtles, pirates and treasure • A world of your own - grow and decorate your home island • Earn rewards and prizes with daily missions and weekend events • Unlock cute VIP characters as you play • Awesome power-ups and spectacular combos • Supports offline play • Over 1000 levels, with more added all the time Sliding Seas is free to play, though some in-game items can be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this option, simply turn it off in your device settings. Need to get away and relax? Escape to paradise with Sliding Seas!
Dotillism
Restore color to a monochrome world in this relaxing puzzle game. Enjoy a handcrafted experience with satisfying animations, sounds, and haptic feedback as you solve increasingly challenging levels.
- Restore color to a gray world
- Relaxing and engaging gameplay
- Handcrafted experience
- Satisfying animations, sounds, and haptics
- 36 human-designed levels
- Progressing difficulty
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Bring back color to a sad gray world. Dotillism is a casual zen game, a handcrafted experienced carefully designed to be relaxing yet engaging. The curated game feel with animations, sounds and haptic feedback ensures that you will enjoy every moment of this experience, while solving puzzles that spans from easy to challenging. The experience now has 36 human-designed levels in progressing difficulty.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sliding Seas at 4.8 against Dotillism's 4.3. Sliding Seas also leads on ratings volume (3.6K vs 4). Dotillism's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sliding Seas sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Dotillism asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sliding Seas holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sliding Seas has 3.6K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Sliding Seas's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dotillism's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sliding Seas ships an update every 3 weeks, Dotillism every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sliding Seas | Dotillism |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.6K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 574 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mugshot Games Pty Ltd | Leonardo Bertinelli |
Customer experience
Sliding Seas
Dotillism
Bugs and requests
Sliding Seas
Reported bugs
2 issues- Some levels feel impossible without using boosters
- Occasional crashes or loss of progress after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add more levels and content updates
- Implement an endless/survival mode
- Allow replaying of completed levels
- Improve contrast between ocean tile colors
- Add option to skip survivor arrival animation
Dotillism
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sliding Seas
- Handful of Diamonds$1.99
- Beginner's Bundle$3.99
- Moonflower Bundle$3.99
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- Unlimited Event Tickets$3.99
- Pile of Diamonds$5.99
- Luxury Rescue Boat$5.99
- Rescuer's Bundle$6.99
- Diamond Trader Bundle$9.99
- Super Bundle$14.99
- Mega Bundle$29.99
Dotillism
No in-app purchases
