Comparison

Case Closed vs Smero

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

Head to head
About

Case Closed

Engage in a spy-themed puzzle adventure without time limits or in-app purchases. Guide your hero through challenging missions to collect points and close dossiers, ensuring global safety. The game offers a progressive difficulty curve with tutorials for new elements.

Highlights
  • Addictive puzzle gameplay
  • No time stress or lives system
  • Completely free with no ads
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Tutorials for new items
  • Walkthrough videos accessible
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Case Closed is an addictive puzzle game from 2020, designed to play in waiting rooms and other places, without any time stress or 'out of lives' messages or having to spend money on power-ups. The game is completely free with no advertisements, no banners, nothing. Our hero Casey, having completed 'Spy School' (see Case Open) is now a spy on a mission. His objective is to solve puzzles and close each dossier to help the world stay safe. He will encounter many difficulties and sometime these seem impossible to solve. Whereas in 'Spy School' the problems were static (no moving objects), in real life there are all sorts of things to interact with, and the mission space is often larger than the classroom settings from before. Goal: Solve 20 dossiers with each a number of missions In each mission guide Casey to the exit by collecting all required points. The game starts with easy levels and builds up to much more difficult levels. Every time a new item is introduced you'll get some tutorial missions. If you register you get 5 skip options which allows you to skip 5 missions of your choice, when you solve a previously skipped mission, you regain the skip. There are several walkthrough videos available on our website, accessable directly from the app by using the pause screen (click on the exit button in the right top when playing a mission). Every mission has been fully tested and can be solved, we guarantee it. We hope you enjoy the game, Jake Solutions

About

Smero

Features
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"Smero" is a 3D maze game. The maze is built on a surface of planet like Sphere, Cylinder, Cube or Torus shape. The difficulty can be selected in five levels for each maze shape. If you succeed in the goal, the selectable level increases one. As a option, Star, Keyhole, Heart and Clover shape maze are added. And more, you can make free shape maze in a single stroke drawing after purchasing "Drawing Maze". The operation is so easy that children and senior citizens can enjoy it.

Screenshots

Case Closed3 screens
Smero4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Case Closed at none against Smero's 2. Case Closed also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smero sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Case Closed asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Case Closed versus Smero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCase ClosedSmero
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.6
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCornelis AertsNOBORU IMAI

In-app purchases

None

Case Closed

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Smero

One-time2
  • Option Maze$1.99
  • Drawing Maze$1.99

Questions

Is Case Closed free?
Case Closed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smero free?
Smero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Case Closed or Smero have ads?
Neither Case Closed nor Smero shows ads.

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