Love vs Second Best
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Love
Explore a tenement building and interact with its inhabitants to uncover their stories. Rotate apartments through time to solve puzzles and help characters resolve their pasts. This narrative puzzle game offers a unique blend of diorama exploration and point-and-click adventure mechanics.
- Explore a tenement building
- Meet and interact with inhabitants
- Uncover stories from the past
- Rotate apartments through time
- Solve puzzles to change the past
- Empathy and reflection opportunities
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Nominated in the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards for BEST VIDEO GAME! Every life has a story. Every story has regret. But what if you could change the past? LOVE is a puzzle game about finding the things we’ve lost in ourselves — and the people who help us find them. Through interactions in both the past and present, get to know the people that live in your apartment building and the moments that define their lives — and then change them. • EXPLORE the tenement building and meet the inhabitants that reside within • LEARN the stories of the past that continue to impact your neighbors in the present • ROTATE apartments to move them back and forth through time to solve puzzles • MAKE changes that help your friends resolve their pasts and live their best lives LOVE is an experiment in storytelling that combines the rich experience of a diorama with puzzles inspired by point-and-click adventures. LOVE creates opportunities for empathy and reflection, as well as moments of classic head-scratching puzzle goodness. Thanks for playing LOVE - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories!
Second Best
Continue an absurd mystery adventure filled with unexpected twists and whimsical humor. Solve clever puzzles and explore a world brought to life with charming hand-drawn visuals. Uncover the truth about your identity and escape a perilous journey.
- Absurd mystery adventure
- Interactive story with twists
- Classic point and click gameplay
- Solve zany puzzles
- Hand-drawn visuals
- Colorful characters
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The excitement CONTINUES. You're a LONGER way from home than you ever thought possible. And the more you learn about your IDENTITY, the less you seem to KNOW. It's not easy being BEST. Welcome back to the world of COLBIES and OPIES, where nothing is what you think, not even your OWN PAST … WHEN WE LAST LEFT OFF IN BESTED You had just been spirited away by a gang of SUPERHUMAN meanies. WHY are they doing this, and can you get a better stateroom for the JOURNEY? Find the answers to these questions and more, and try not to get tangled up in too many MURDERS along the way. FEATURES • Absurd Mystery Adventure – A comedy-filled interactive story with unexpected twists, whimsical humor, and a genuinely complex but curious plot. • Classic Point and Click Gameplay – Tap around, poke things, collect clues, and talk your way out of (and into) trouble. • Zany Puzzles – Solve clever puzzles that are unique and satisfying, the MysteryCaper way! • Hand-Drawn Visuals – Explore a world brought to life with charming art created by hand. Human hand. • Colorful Characters – From a puzzling ally to ship crew to tricky villains, everyone's got something to hide. – MysteryCaper. It's COMEDY SOLVED.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Second Best at 94% against Love's 0%. Second Best also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 21 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Love costs $9.99 and Second Best $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Second Best holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Second Best has 32 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Love's written reviews are positive against 94% of Second Best's.
Love ships an update every 21 months, Second Best every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Love | Second Best |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $5.99 — better |
| Rating | 1.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 475 MB | 340 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Thalamus Digital Publishing Ltd. | MysteryCaper, LLC |
Customer experience
Love
Second Best
In-app purchases
Love
No in-app purchases
Second Best
No in-app purchases









