Cube Cut vs Direction Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cube Cut
Test your 3D puzzle-solving skills by carving into cubes to match blueprints. Progress through increasing difficulty levels, customize your cube with unlockable colors, and discover potential career paths in manufacturing.
- 3D spatial reasoning puzzles
- Cube customization with colors
- Progressive difficulty levels
- 27 unique puzzles
- Career path discovery
- Skill-based gameplay
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Think you’re pretty good at solving 3D puzzles? Put that assumption to the test in Cube Cut, a 3D spatial reasoning puzzle game where you carve into cubes to try and match blueprints. Don’t mess up or else your cube gets scrapped and you have to start all over. Cube Cut starts out easy but gets more difficult as you rank up from trainee to apprentice and beyond. Customize your cube with crazy colors as you level up. Cube Cut features: -Challenging 3D spatial reasoning puzzles -Addicting gameplay -3 difficulty levels -27 unique puzzles -Customize your cube by unlocking crazy colors See if you have the spatial awareness needed to succeed in high demand jobs like machinist, CNC machine operator, welder, and technician. Play well enough in this game and you will be pointed to real life career opportunities in these fields. Cube Cut was developed by Catalyst Connection and Simcoach Games, thanks to generous funding from the Chevron Foundation and the Benedum Foundation, to build awareness of the career opportunities in manufacturing. Cube Cut is a Simcoach Skill Arcade game. Explore careers, practice basic job skills and earn badges to gain exposure to careers and training opportunities in your area. To learn more about the Skill Arcade check out www.simcoachgames.com. Privacy Policy: http://www.simcoachgames.com/privacy
Direction Trainer
Enhance your spatial awareness with a memory game focused on directional orientation. Practice remembering your facing direction after each turn to improve your navigation skills in everyday life.
- Directional orientation training
- Memory recall of facing direction
- Improves navigation skills
- Suitable for all ages
- Designed for mobile devices
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Orientation Skills Learn how to orient yourself immediately. If you are facing South or East, it should be immediately clearly where North or West are. This is a great skill that will make your life much easier. Directional Memory Start to remember which direction you are facing. After each turn, you need to instinctively remember where you are facing. That takes training.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Direction Trainer at 5.0 against Cube Cut's 4.6. Direction Trainer also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Cube Cut's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Direction Trainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cube Cut has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Cube Cut's written reviews are positive against 100% of Direction Trainer's.
Cube Cut ships an update every 5 months, Direction Trainer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cube Cut | Direction Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 277 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simcoach Games | TrainArc |
Customer experience
Cube Cut
Direction Trainer
In-app purchases
Cube Cut
No in-app purchases
Direction Trainer
No in-app purchases
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