Squeeze Through a Hole vs Salt Pilgrim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Squeeze Through a Hole
Navigate a character through increasingly narrow openings, testing your reflexes and timing. Compete for the highest score against others in this visually appealing puzzle game.
- Navigate through holes
- Avoid wall collisions
- Simple and beautiful graphics
- Compete for best score
- Reaction-based gameplay
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Squeeze through the holes and avoid walls collision! • Simple & Beautiful graphics designed • Compete with other people for the best score
Salt Pilgrim
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Salt Pilgrim: The Water Returned is a 1-bit text RPG where the whole world is one folder tree. On a screen modeled on an old DOS file manager, you enter folders to travel, delete files to fight, and talk to the people who live in them. In Tuzkum, where the water came back after a thousand years, caravans, prices, factions and wars run on their own, with or without you. TUZKUM, THE LAND WHERE THE WATER CAME BACK A generation ago, water returned to a sea that had lain dry for a thousand years. The water runs clear, but the world is still unsettled. Tribes quarrel over new pastures and waterways, robbers haunt the roads, and monsters live in the old ruins and tunnels. You are a pilgrim who has just woken up in a yurt. PLACES ARE FOLDERS, PEOPLE AND THINGS ARE FILES • Enter a folder to go there. Delete a monster's file to fight it. • Permissions (rwx) are the rules. Files with an x attack first, and a boss without w is sealed. • Cast rm -f to shred and fsck to repair. Spells like chmod and grep reveal hidden folders and strip bosses of their permissions. • Talk, trade, steal. People remember what you did. A WORLD THAT KEEPS BUSY WITHOUT YOU • Caravans come and go and prices rise and fall. More raids mean shortages, and shortages mean unrest. • Factions feud, go to war and make truces, and every morning the newspaper reports it. • Settlements are founded, grow and fall into ruin, and you can raise the ruins again. • Buy a raft, a rowboat or a sailboat and follow the river to the islands and the Bitter Sea. No boat that sailed past the horizon has ever come back. CRAFTING, FORGING AND DEATH • Gather materials, process them at workshops, then craft and forge your gear. • When you die, the screen collapses into a core dump and rewinds you back to your feet. Your bag and half your kese stay behind in a Remains folder. MADE FOR TOUCH • Swipe or drag up and down to move the cursor. Swipe right to enter, left to go back. • Double-tap any empty spot to run the highlighted file. • Plays in portrait or landscape, with adjustable text size. • Fully playable in English and Korean. One purchase. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account, no tracking. Plays offline. Latin font: PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16 by VileR (int10h.org), CC BY-SA 4.0 Korean font: NeoDunggeunmo by Eunbin Jeong, SIL Open Font License 1.1 Tiles: Urizen OneBit by vurmux, CC0
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Squeeze Through a Hole at Free against Salt Pilgrim's $1.99. Salt Pilgrim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 months). 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
Squeeze Through a Hole is free to download; Salt Pilgrim costs $1.99 up front. Squeeze Through a Hole sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Salt Pilgrim asks for nothing beyond the download.
Squeeze Through a Hole ships an update every 9 months, Salt Pilgrim every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Squeeze Through a Hole | Salt Pilgrim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #16 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alexandr Peancovschi | YUNWOO NAM |
In-app purchases
Squeeze Through a Hole
- Remove Ads$0.99
Salt Pilgrim
No in-app purchases
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