Comparison

AlienRuins vs Tile Area Puzzle

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

Head to head
About

AlienRuins

Features
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"AlienRuins" is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer with a unique art style. No complex systems or pay-to-win statsโ€”just pure mechanics and a clash of wits. [Game Features] 10 Unique Levels: Explore 10 alien landscapes. Finish in ~30 mins for a quick, relaxing escape anytime. Clever Puzzles: Observe the terrain and trigger switches to solve interlocking puzzles with your wits. Cute Roadblocks: Monsters are cute and have no skills, but touching them is fatal! Test your micro-movements. Clean UI Customization: A unique opacity slider in the top left! Swipe left to hide buttons, right to show them. Fantastic scenery, cute monsters, ingenious mechanisms, and most importantly, the witty you.

About

Tile Area Puzzle

Fill a grid with uniquely colored tiles where adjacent tiles must match colors on their shared sides. Offers an unlimited number of puzzles with a single correct solution, progressing from simple to challenging grid sizes. Saved completed puzzles can be re-filled for creative fun.

Highlights
  • Fill grid with colored tiles
  • Adjacent tiles match colors
  • Unique solution per puzzle
  • Unlimited number of games
  • Progressive difficulty (2x2 to 4x4)
  • Save and re-fill completed images
Features
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Tile Area is a fun puzzle to play. The aim is to fill the area with the given tiles. Each tile has four different colors and adjacent tiles in the area must have the same color on the common side. There is only one possible solution for each game and an unlimited number of games for you to play. The areas can be of different dimensions. You can start with 2x2 areas and progress to the real challenging 4x4 areas. The tiles you placed in each game will be stored and can be used to fill images just for fun, without rules. The beautiful filled images can be saved to your photo library and be filled again with different tiles.

Screenshots

AlienRuins4 screens
Tile Area Puzzle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tile Area Puzzle at every 2 months against AlienRuins's every 25 months. Tile Area Puzzle also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

AlienRuins costs $4.99 and Tile Area Puzzle $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AlienRuins ships an update every 25 months, Tile Area Puzzle every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
AlienRuins versus Tile Area Puzzle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlienRuinsTile Area Puzzle
Price$4.99$0.99 โ€” better
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsEvery 2 months โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size160 MB3 MB
Age rating4++4
Developer้’Šๆ’ ้ƒ‘GLBW Consultoria de Engenharia e Inform?tica ltda

In-app purchases

None

AlienRuins

No in-app purchases

None

Tile Area Puzzle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AlienRuins free?
AlienRuins costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tile Area Puzzle free?
Tile Area Puzzle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do AlienRuins or Tile Area Puzzle have ads?
Neither AlienRuins nor Tile Area Puzzle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AlienRuins or Tile Area Puzzle?
AlienRuins ships an update every 25 months, and Tile Area Puzzle every 2 months. Most recently, AlienRuins was updated on November 6, 2026 and Tile Area Puzzle on November 3, 2026.

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