Brain Crush! vs Brain Detective
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Crush!
Engage in a variety of challenging game modes designed to test your cognitive skills. Compete with friends and players worldwide to achieve top scores on multiple leaderboards. Enjoy endless fun and intuitive controls in this free-to-play experience.
- Multiple game modes
- Highscore comparison
- Global leaderboards
- Intuitive controls
- Endless gameplay
- Fun for free
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SEVERAL GAME MODES Play Brain Crush in four different game modes! BECOME THE BEST PLAYER Compare your Highscore with your friends! Get to the top of the leaderboard! And become the best player of Brain Crush! FEATURES • intuitive control • endless gaming • multiple leaderboards • and lots of fun for free
Brain Detective
Engage in a reasoning game that blends brain challenges with logic puzzles. Test your observation and deductive skills as you uncover hidden truths and make critical decisions to identify culprits or protect the innocent.
- Brain challenges
- Logic puzzles
- Deductive reasoning
- Observation skills
- Decision-making
- Mystery solving
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It is a reasoning game that combines brain challenges with logic puzzles, designed to test your observation, deductive reasoning, and decision-making skills. Initially, you play as a gifted detective apprentice, and your daily task is to discern who is an innocent good-hearted individual and who is hiding their malicious deeds. Some clues may appear insignificant on the surface, but through meticulous analysis and connections, they can reveal critical truths. Every choice you make influences the outcome, potentially allowing the culprit to escape or causing an innocent person to be wrongfully accused. Through relentless reasoning, you gradually grow into a master detective.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brain Crush! at 73% against Brain Detective's 18%. Brain Crush! also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). Brain Detective's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Brain Crush! sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Brain Detective asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brain Crush! holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Crush! has 278 ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Brain Crush!'s written reviews are positive against 18% of Brain Detective's.
Brain Crush! ships an update every 6 days, Brain Detective monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain Crush! | Brain Detective |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (278 ratings) — better | 3.2 (54 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.2% of reviews — better | 17.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 278 — better | 54 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mustafa Aden Omar | 志强 蔺 |
Customer experience
Brain Crush!
Brain Detective
User reviews
Brain Crush!
From 278 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 🚀 Easy to get started
- 💡 Variety of game modes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or glitches
- 🤔 Not as addictive as shown in Sam and Cat
- 👀 Visuals could be improved
Brain Detective
From 54 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Minimal non-video ads
- 👍 Fun concept
Room to improve
- 🐛 Clues have errors and are unclear
- 🔍 Difficult to read small text on mobile
- 🤯 Too many ads
- 🔌 Game stopped working and had to reinstall
Bugs and requests
Brain Crush!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game freezes or lags on some devices
- Compatibility issues with older operating systems
Requested features
3 requests- More challenging levels or difficulty modes
- Online multiplayer or leaderboards
- Instructions or tutorial for new players
Brain Detective
Reported bugs
4 issues- Clues mix up rows and columns
- Unrecognizable hair color descriptions
- Similar names cause confusion
- Game gets stuck in an ad loop
Requested features
3 requests- Improve translation and accuracy of clues
- Increase text size for better readability
- Reduce the number of ads
In-app purchases
Brain Crush!
- 10 Gold Coins$1.99
- 50 Gold Coins$7.99
- 100 Gold Coins$14.99
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- 250 Gold$29.99
- 500 Gold$54.99
- 1000 Gold$99.99
Brain Detective
No in-app purchases
Questions
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