Comparison

Sagrada vs Beacon Puzzle

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

Head to head
About

Sagrada

Experience a digital adaptation of a popular dice-drafting board game. Players select colorful dice to build a stained-glass window, facing challenges with color and number restrictions. Utilize tools and fulfill patron demands to create the most beautiful window and win.

Highlights
  • Dice drafting mechanics
  • Stained-glass window building
  • Color and number restrictions
  • In-game tools
  • Patron objectives
Features
Currently charting
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Bring your stained glass masterpiece to dazzling digital life in Sagrada, the dice-drafting board game from Floodgate Games. Take turns selecting colorful dice and placing them in your gorgeous stained-glass window. The artisan who creates the most beautiful window wins. Choose your dice carefully! Find the perfect fit for each piece of your window: restrictions on both the color and number showing on your die make for a puzzling challenge. Use your tools! As a master artisan, your tools-of-the-trade will help you shape the dice available. Please your admirers! Adapt to the fickle demands of your patrons -- while keeping your signature artistic flair -- for additional prestige. © 2020 Dire Wolf Digital, under license from Floodgate Games, LLC. Sagrada © 2018 Floodgate Games, LLC.

About

Beacon Puzzle

A daily logic puzzle game where you place lighthouses to illuminate every cell on a grid. Master pure deduction with hundreds of practice levels, a daily challenge, and an endless timed mode. Hints are available via optional purchases or rewarded ads.

Highlights
  • Daily logic puzzles
  • Hundreds of practice levels
  • Four difficulty tiers
  • Endless timed mode
  • Hint system
  • Streak building
Features
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A daily logic puzzle to lighten your day. Place lighthouses to light every cell on the grid. No two may share a row, share a column, or touch in adjacent spaces, not even diagonally. Simple to learn, surprisingly hard to master. A new 8x8 puzzle every day at midnight PST, hundreds of hand-rated practice levels across four difficulty tiers, and an endless Unlimited mode against the clock. Build your daily streak and share it with friends. GAME MODES Daily Challenge A brand-new puzzle every day at 12:00 AM PST, alternating between 8x8 and 9x9 grids. Solve it to grow your streak. Share your result. Practice Hundreds of puzzles across four difficulty tiers: 4x4 Noob warm-ups, 5x5 Pro grids, 6x6 Expert puzzles, and 7x7 Genius brain-burners. Every level is hand-rated by a constraint solver, so the difficulty curve is smooth and fair. Unlimited An endless run against a 60-second clock. Each puzzle you solve refills 20 seconds back on the timer, capped at 60. Puzzles get progressively tougher as your run climbs. How long can you keep the clock alive? HOW TO PLAY Every puzzle has the same four rules: - Place exactly one lighthouse in each colored region. - Beams shine the full length of the row and column from each lighthouse. - No two lighthouses may share a row, share a column, or touch in adjacent spaces, including diagonally. - Every cell must be lit by at least one beam. If you get stuck, spend a hint to place the hardest remaining lighthouse. Hints come from optional in-app purchase packs, or you can watch a short rewarded ad for a free one. WHY YOU WILL LIKE IT Pure logic. Every puzzle has exactly one solution, reachable through deduction alone. No guessing required. No ads in the way. Ads only appear when you actively tap to watch one in exchange for a free hint. Never interruptive. Respectful of your time. No account required. No daily-login slot-machine. Just puzzles. Beautiful and fast. A clean dark theme by default, with a light theme one tap away. Built to feel instant on any iPhone. Made by one person. Designed, coded, and play-tested by a solo developer who cares too much about puzzle quality. If you find a flaw or have an idea, the email below reaches them directly. Site: https://beaconpuzzle.com Made in Seattle.

Screenshots

Sagrada4 screens
Beacon Puzzle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beacon Puzzle at Free against Sagrada's $9.99. Beacon Puzzle also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Sagrada's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Beacon Puzzle is free to download; Sagrada costs $9.99 up front. Beacon Puzzle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Sagrada asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beacon Puzzle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sagrada has 1K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Sagrada's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beacon Puzzle's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sagrada ships an update every 3 weeks, Beacon Puzzle every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Sagrada versus Beacon Puzzle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSagradaBeacon Puzzle
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (1K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size257 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDire Wolf DigitalAARON SHAYNE JACOWITZ

Customer experience

Sagrada

All ratings969 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral3.3%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews194 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral18.6%
Negative18.0%

Beacon Puzzle

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sagrada

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Issues with dice drafting and tool cards not working as expected
  • Scoring bugs in solo mode
  • Multiplayer games not loading or syncing properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more private objectives and tool cards
  • Implement landscape mode for iPad
  • Add option to see opponents' completed boards
  • Improve solo mode scoring and difficulty
  • Implement offline play

Beacon Puzzle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sagrada

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Beacon Puzzle

One-time4
  • English (U.S.)$0.99
  • English (U.S.)$2.99
  • English (U.S.)$4.99
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  • English (U.S.)$9.99

Questions

Is Sagrada free?
Sagrada costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beacon Puzzle free?
Beacon Puzzle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sagrada or Beacon Puzzle?
Beacon Puzzle is rated higher. Sagrada averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Beacon Puzzle averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Sagrada or Beacon Puzzle have ads?
Beacon Puzzle shows ads; Sagrada does not.
Which is updated more often, Sagrada or Beacon Puzzle?
Sagrada ships an update every 3 weeks, and Beacon Puzzle every 5 days. Most recently, Sagrada was updated on October 26, 2026 and Beacon Puzzle on October 15, 2026.

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