Comparison

A Long Time vs Herbarium Casebook

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

Head to head
About

A Long Time

An interactive picture book and puzzle game that tells a story of love and promises. Players move blocks to clear obstacles and guide a red line of memory through 60 years of a protagonist's life. Features unique artistic visuals and simple, engaging gameplay.

Highlights
  • Interactive picture book experience
  • Puzzle gameplay with block manipulation
  • Rich narrative about love and promises
  • Unique artistic visuals
  • Story spanning 60 years
Features
Currently charting
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This is our new franchise. It is a combination of a picture book and a game, featuring a warm and soothing mood and a rich story. A Long Time is a story about love and promises. To complete the story, you need to clear the obstacles to let the red line of memory flow through the pages by moving the blocks - which are actually fragments of emotions and flashbacks scattered over 60 years time of the protagonist's life. This is not only a game, but also an interactive picture book, which features unique artistic depiction, and a simple yet engaging way of interaction.

About

Herbarium Casebook

Features
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Herbarium Casebook is a cozy botanical deduction puzzle game. Open a quiet herbarium packet, inspect the pressed specimen, compare botanical plates, read the field note, and pin the evidence that proves which archive label is wrong. Each case teaches real observation skills: leaf shape, flower structure, habitat, season, stems, seed heads, and caution labels. The app is not a plant identifier, foraging guide, medical tool, or safety tool. It never asks you to photograph, taste, eat, smell, gather, or handle real-world plants. Every puzzle is solved from offline in-game evidence. Included free: Garden Gate chapter with 10 authored cases. Herbarium Drawer for solved free cases. Field Table comparison for free chapter plants. Full Herbarium Unlock: One-time non-consumable purchase. Unlocks all four launch chapters and 30 additional cases. Unlocks the complete Field Table comparison set. No subscription. No trial. No auto-renew. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

A Long Time4 screens
Herbarium Casebook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Herbarium Casebook at Free against A Long Time's $0.99. A Long Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Herbarium Casebook is free to download; A Long Time costs $0.99 up front. Herbarium Casebook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. A Long Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
A Long Time versus Herbarium Casebook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA Long TimeHerbarium Casebook
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#198 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size255 MB540 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCOTTONGAME Network Technology Co., Ltd.SPRING DATA LIMITED

In-app purchases

None

A Long Time

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Herbarium Casebook

One-time1
  • Full Herbarium Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is A Long Time free?
A Long Time costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Herbarium Casebook free?
Herbarium Casebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do A Long Time or Herbarium Casebook have ads?
Neither A Long Time nor Herbarium Casebook shows ads.

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