Comparison

TreeHole Adventure vs Boxville

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

Head to head
About

TreeHole Adventure

Embark on a magical adventure in a mysterious town where citizens have vanished. Uncover the secrets behind their disappearance and find your way back home. This engaging story-driven experience will challenge your curiosity.

Highlights
  • Explore a magical town
  • Uncover a mystery
  • Story-driven adventure
  • Solve puzzles
  • Find missing citizens
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While exploring a cave you come across a tree with a magical hole in it. The hole draws you in and everything goes black. Waking up confused about the past events you find out that you ended up in some sort of magical town in which some of its citizens mysteriously disappeared. What happened to the citizens, how can you find your way home and how is all this connected. Your adventure starts now. Developer's note: We are a small team of only 2 doing all the game development including design, development, QA, and promotion. We feel honored that our game can accompany you through a fantastic journey. If you like our game, please rate us 5 stars, share and retweet our game. Thank you! Connect us: Web:https://www.marhoo.com Email:marhoogames@gmail.com

About

Boxville

This animated adventure puzzle game features speechless cans navigating a city of boxes. Solve logic puzzles and riddles, explore a charming world, and uncover the mystery behind earthquakes. Enjoy a unique audio-visual experience, playable solo or with a friend.

Highlights
  • Animated film and puzzle game hybrid
  • Hand-drawn graphics and custom animations
  • Environmental quests and logical puzzles
  • Unique music for each scene
  • Wordless communication via speech bubbles
  • Playable solo or co-op
Features
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Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle game. Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together. Design The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time. We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure. The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options. Story Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll... Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way. He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal. What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville: - Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists. - Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction. - Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game. - Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game. - There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.

Screenshots

TreeHole Adventure4 screens
Boxville4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TreeHole Adventure at Free against Boxville's $3.99. Boxville's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On review sentiment, in-app purchases 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

TreeHole Adventure is free to download; Boxville costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boxville holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boxville has 777 ratings behind it against 144, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of TreeHole Adventure's written reviews are positive against 78% of Boxville's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TreeHole Adventure ships an update every 2 months, Boxville every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
TreeHole Adventure versus Boxville: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTreeHole AdventureBoxville
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.5 (144 ratings)4.7 (777 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.9% of reviews78.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings144777 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size371 MB1.2 GB
Age rating9+4+
Developer思纯 王Triomatica Games

Customer experience

TreeHole Adventure

All ratings143 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral6.3%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive72.9%
Neutral12.5%
Negative14.6%

Boxville

All ratings755 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative13.7%

User reviews

TreeHole Adventure

From 144 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Beautiful hand-drawn art style
  • 🧩 Clever and challenging puzzles
  • ✨ Engaging and cute storyline
  • 👍 Minimal ads, enjoyable gameplay
  • 💡 Innovative puzzle design

Room to improve

  • 🤔 Some puzzles are not intuitive
  • 😭 Sad or confusing ending
  • ⏳ Game is too short
  • 😵 Puzzles can be too hard/frustrating
  • 🤷‍♀️ Storyline feels incomplete or confusing

Boxville

From 777 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Enjoyable puzzles
  • 🎨 Beautiful art and animation
  • 🎶 Lovely music
  • 🧠 Challenging but logical puzzles
  • 🤗 Charming characters and story

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Short game length
  • 🔍 Tiny inventory items hard to see
  • 🤯 Some puzzles too obscure
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🤖 Lack of hint system or ability to skip puzzles

Bugs and requests

TreeHole Adventure

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Hints are gibberish or broken
  • Game glitches preventing progression
  • Missing secret eggs or items
  • Unclear what to do with certain items/actions

Requested features

6 requests
  • More games from the developer
  • Part two or sequel
  • Walkthroughs or better hint system
  • Developer feedback on unresolved issues
  • More interaction with surroundings
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  • Option to go ad-free (paid)

Boxville

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Progress reset after updates
  • Inventory items disappearing
  • Puzzle mechanics not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer game with more content
  • Ability to use stylus/Apple Pencil
  • Improved save/load system
  • In-game hints or ability to skip puzzles

In-app purchases

None

TreeHole Adventure

No in-app purchases

None

Boxville

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TreeHole Adventure free?
TreeHole Adventure is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boxville free?
Boxville costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TreeHole Adventure or Boxville?
Boxville is rated higher. TreeHole Adventure averages 4.5 out of 5 from 144 ratings, while Boxville averages 4.7 from 777 ratings.
Do TreeHole Adventure or Boxville have ads?
TreeHole Adventure shows ads; Boxville does not.
Which is updated more often, TreeHole Adventure or Boxville?
TreeHole Adventure ships an update every 2 months, and Boxville every 9 days. Most recently, TreeHole Adventure was updated on November 3, 2026 and Boxville on November 3, 2026.

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