The Linguist vs HexOnHex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Linguist
Engage your mind with a word game featuring cryptic puzzles and relaxing gameplay. Cultivate your vocabulary and cognitive skills with unique challenges, calming music, and rewarding plant growth. It's a uniquely engaging experience for mental stimulation.
- Cryptic word conundrums
- Chill-ass music
- Glowing plant rewards
- Guided box breathing
- Multiple game modes
- Hundreds of levels
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Is your word game the pinnacle of perspicacity? The ne plus ultra of know-how? Are you a lexicon flexer? A glossary vexer? If so, the Linguist is for you! Offering a veritable cornucopia of verbosity, the Linguist serves up a series of cryptic conundrums to illuminate and revive your most somniferous synapses! With unique features such as chill-ass music, glowing (and growing!) plant rewards, and guided box breathing to accompany your wordy journey, The Linguist is a singularly relaxing and engaging experience for cultivating your mind’s garden. -Multiple Game Modes -Hundreds Of Levels "Word games build Language skills, semantic nets, and your internal lexicon, and this one keeps challenging you." -Curt Becker Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology
HexOnHex
Engage in thrilling head-to-head word-based challenges with friends or AI. This app offers a unique blend of wordplay and strategic conquest, featuring multiple game modes with customizable options for endless replayability.
- Word Roulette gameplay
- Word Splicer game mode
- Head-to-head multiplayer
- Four challenging AI personalities
- Configurable game options
- Game Center integration
- 180,000 word dictionary
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There is something for everyone in this unique suite of word based games! A magical blend of wordplay and head to head conquest... HexOnHex is the ultimate two player challenge! You get the crown jewel of the HexOnHex suite, Word Roulette, totally for Free! Challenge your friends or family, anywhere around the globe, to a unique take on a familiar word-game experience. • Word Roulette: Guess all of the letters in two or more unrelated words. Spin the Roulette Wheel to get exciting actions such as: Extra Guess, Guess A Vowel or 100x Bonus multipliers. Continue until all letters have been guessed and the player with the highest score wins the game! When you're ready for even greater challenges, purchase one of the other games in the HexOnHex suite, and discover new a take on the core gameplay experiences from Word Roulette! • Word Roulette Royale: Word Roulette Royale provides all of the fun of Word Roulette, with No Ads or Interruptions, and includes features such as Options to adjust gameplay and Solo Play. • Word Splicer: Form new words from the letters in two or more unrelated words. Spin the Roulette Wheel to get exciting actions such as: Extra Guess or 100x Bonus multipliers. Continue until as many words as possible has been created and the player with the highest score wins the game! AMAZINGLY CONFIGURABLE: Using our unique option system, each of game inside of the HexOnHex suite is amazingly configurable! Adjust everything from the number of words being guessed to the smarts of the AI players, make it your HexOnHex, your way! Adjust the games for infinite replayability§! FOUR CHALLENGING AI PERSONALITIES: No one to play with? Compete against one or more challenging AI personalities: the Queen of Hearts, the Queen of Diamonds, the Queen of Clubs or the Queen of Spades! Adjust their smarts to fit your needs§. FEATURES: * Integrated with Game Center! Report your scores and shoot to the top of our leader boards. Win challenging Achievements. * Multi Player - Play against other people around the world via Game Center or one of our four AI personalities§ on a single device. * Learn to play each game with built in quick help. * Save each game type separately. * 180,000 word dictionary. * User defined options to modify game play for endless playability§. Step into a Magical world of Word Games and download HexOnHex today! * - HexOnHex includes a 180,000 plus word dictionary. § - Requires a one-time in-app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HexOnHex at none against The Linguist's shown. The Linguist's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. The Linguist sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and HexOnHex sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Linguist against 5.0 for HexOnHex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Linguist has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | The Linguist | HexOnHex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 350 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Player1games Inc. | Appracatappra, LLC |
Customer experience
The Linguist
HexOnHex
In-app purchases
The Linguist
- Skip Level$0.99
- Speed Up Seed$0.99
- Garden Page$0.99
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- Remove Ads$1.99
- 20 KEYS$1.99
- 50 KEYS$2.99
- 200 KEYS$9.99
- GARDEN PACK$39.99
- 1000 KEYS$39.99
- ZEN PACK$99.99
HexOnHex
- Word Roulette Royale$0.99
- Word Splicer$0.99









