Pipe Pathway vs Lampion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipe Pathway
Connect rotating pipe pieces to form a complete path. This brain-training puzzle game offers daily challenges and a hint system to guide you through its 400 levels. Enjoy smooth performance and a small file size.
- Daily unique puzzles
- 400 puzzles included
- Step-by-step hint guide
- Automatic connection recommendations
- Optimized performance
- Small file size
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Pipe Pathway is the pipe connection puzzle game for brain training The puzzle are any part of pipe. There had set to be not a mess on the board. We have a target to make all pipe to be connected for the complete path. *** How To Play *** We tap on the pipe. That pipe will rotate clockwise for 90 degrees. Rotate the other pipe to be connected for the correct path and colour. *** Features *** * Daily Puzzles - unique from other packs and updated every day. * 400 puzzles. * Hint guide - Step by Step and Play/Pause. * Automatic recommend system - highlight cells for the pipe connect not complete. * Best performance. * Small file size - good for download, update version and save space. Enjoy.
Lampion
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The shadow is solid ground. The soul walks only where your light does not reach. Lampion is a quiet shadow-theatre puzzle. The lantern hangs on stations around the scene. Tap one and it flies there, redrawing every shadow on the board — and your soul walks as far as the new darkness allows. Move the light, and the path appears. ONE RULE, TEN WORLDS Shadow is the only safe ground, but shadow needs light: in the open dark there is no path at all, and in bare light there is no cover. Your lantern has to make both at once, and keep making them while the soul moves. WHAT YOU GET • 60 handcrafted scenes across 10 chapters — a stone garden, a ruined wall, a lake, a pier, an ice field, a street of lanterns, a cellar, a mill yard, a hall of mirrors, a tower. • A new puzzle every night, from a bank of 400. Solve it and your lantern garland grows; miss a night and the garland stays — nothing is taken away. • Every scene has a machine-verified best solution, so a perfect run is always possible. The game tells you when a position can no longer be solved. • No timer. Unlimited undo. Thinking is free. • Sparks buy a nudge when you are stuck. You earn them by playing. • Play the puzzles offline; sign in only if you want cloud save. THE TONIGHT BOARD Solving tonight's puzzle can put your result on a shared daily board under a nickname you choose. It is optional, it asks before it posts anything, and you can play forever without it. The rules fit in one line: shadows are safe, bare light is not, and the dark outside the lantern's circle swallows what it touches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lampion at none against Pipe Pathway's 4. Lampion also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Pipe Pathway's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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. Pipe Pathway sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Lampion asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pipe Pathway ships an update every 2 weeks, Lampion weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipe Pathway | Lampion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (70 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jirapong | MJK APPS SRL |
In-app purchases
Pipe Pathway
- Remove Ads$0.99
- 10 Hints$0.99
- 30 Hints$1.99
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- 60 Hints$2.99
Lampion
No in-app purchases









