Mystery Spot vs Skarvik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mystery Spot
Uncover the secrets of an abandoned Wax Museum after a storm forces you to seek shelter. Investigate unusual locations, find hidden objects, and piece together a gripping story to defeat an ancient evil. Enjoy colorful visuals and replayable quests with bonus rewards.
- Mystical story with secrets and puzzles
- Explore unusual 360-degree locations
- Find hidden objects and documents
- Collect bonuses for speed
- Replay quests for new rewards
- Colorful scenery and 3D effects
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Immerse yourself in a new mystical story full of secrets and puzzles! A severe storm and car accident force you to seek refuge in an abandoned Wax Museum. But an unknown force doesn’t let you leave it... The marks of time and vandalism don’t hide the beauty and extraordinariness of the exhibits, but where did the burning torches and other signs of life come from? It’s up to you to reveal the terrible secret of the Wax Museum and defeat an ancient Evil! Colorful scenery, animation, and 3D visual effects will make your adventure vivid and fun. Those with a competitive streak can collect bonuses for speed and repeat the quest with new puzzles. The game is TRULY FREE, the whole adventure is open to you without any additional purchases - it's entirely up to you to buy optional tools. Game features: - Unusual locations - at many of them you can view 360 degrees or investigate an important section in detail. - Find different documents and follow the gripping story of the Museum! - Build your collection. Go through scenes again to try new quests and get new rewards! We'll be happy to stay in touch with you at www.facebook.com/CrispApp - make comments, ask questions, get news about coming games!
Skarvik
Engage in a narrative-driven detective game focused on meticulous document analysis and deduction. Piece together clues from various sources to solve a mysterious death in a remote Norwegian town. Progress through daily challenges and present irrefutable evidence to advance the investigation.
- Document analysis
- Deduction board
- Timed investigation
- Character interactions
- Puzzle solving
- Multiple endings
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Skarvik, northern Norway. Eighteen hundred people, a ferry five times a day, and a salmon farm that feeds them all. Saturday, six in the morning. A body at pile 14 in the harbor. Jonas Wik, fisherman. The one who swam across the fjord three times. The station chief will write "accident" before lunch, and the town will agree. You are in your first week on the job, with a case file, a board, and five days to read the papers more carefully than everyone else. A DETECTIVE GAME ABOUT READING No hidden-object hunts, no timers. You talk to people, collect reports, statements, receipts, logs, and notes into the case file, and read them as real documents: Norwegian police forms with the hero's handwritten translation, a bar's register tape, a tide table, the ferry terminal's camera log, pages from a notebook. The key line is never the first one. THE BOARD Highlight the lines that seem important, then set two documents against each other on the board. If the highlighted lines contradict each other, that's a deduction. Deductions can be shown to people, and conversations change. The board doesn't read for you: with nothing highlighted, it stays silent. FIVE DAYS, FIVE GATES Every day ends in a conversation with the station chief, and he has a real objection to every point you make. To close the day, you need deductions he can't argue away. Witnesses lie, but a lie is always caught by a document, never by pressure. PUZZLES Fifteen puzzles built from the documents: work out a blood alcohol level from a register tape and a memo, use the tide table to find where a man fell in, reconcile a farm's weekly reports, rebuild the night minute by minute from a camera log and a neighbor's statement. A hint after the first miss, a full explanation after the third. You can't skip them, and you can't get stuck. A TOWN THAT KNOWS EVERYTHING BY EVENING A station chief who has watched drunks fall off piers for thirty years. A sergeant married to the sister of the farm owner's wife. A bartender who takes keys away from drunks. An old fisherman with a tide table on his wall and a paper he'll only hand to the one who asks the right way. A neighbor who doesn't sleep at night. Forty-two jobs, and every one of them has a family. ALSO • Eleven locations, fifteen characters, forty-three documents. • A hiding place not everyone finds. • The accusation: with five deductions on the board, the chief asks "Who?", and a wrong name costs you composure. • A hundred-point rating and four ranks, from rookie fresh out of the academy to the one who asked the right way. A "what you missed" screen for a second playthrough. • English and Russian.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Mystery Spot at Free against Skarvik's $0.39. Mystery Spot also leads on ratings volume (2.3K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Skarvik's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and in-app purchases (none vs 5).
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Mystery Spot is free to download; Skarvik costs $0.39 up front. Mystery Spot sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Skarvik asks for nothing beyond the download.
Skarvik holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mystery Spot has 2.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Mystery Spot's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skarvik's.
Mystery Spot ships an update every 7 months, Skarvik every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mystery Spot | Skarvik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.39 |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Crisp App Studio | Sunspear Software LLC |
Customer experience
Mystery Spot
Skarvik
Bugs and requests
Mystery Spot
Reported bugs
2 issues- Glitches and crashes reported
- Compatibility issues with some devices
Requested features
2 requests- More rooms and content to explore
- Increased gameplay speed
Skarvik
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mystery Spot
- Instant Hint$0.99
- Preview Hints$0.99
- Infinity Energy + No Ads$1.99
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- GoldMaster Special$2.99
- Master Pack: All-included$4.99
Skarvik
No in-app purchases









