Comparison

Love vs Second Best

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Absurd mystery adventure
  • Interactive story with twists
  • Classic point and click gameplay
  • Solve zany puzzles
  • Hand-drawn visuals
  • Colorful characters
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Love4 screens
Second Best4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Love costs $9.99 and Second Best $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Love versus Second Best: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoveSecond Best
Price$9.99$5.99 — better
Rating1.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews94.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings332 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size475 MB340 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperThalamus Digital Publishing Ltd.MysteryCaper, LLC

Customer experience

Love

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

Second Best

All ratings32 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%

In-app purchases

None

Love

No in-app purchases

None

Second Best

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Love free?
Love costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Second Best free?
Second Best costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Love or Second Best?
Second Best is rated higher. Love averages 1.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Second Best averages 5.0 from 32 ratings.
Do Love or Second Best have ads?
Neither Love nor Second Best shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Love or Second Best?
Love ships an update every 21 months, and Second Best every 3 months. Most recently, Love was updated on November 2, 2026 and Second Best on November 9, 2026.

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