Bleentoro vs Recursive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bleentoro
Engage in a straightforward logic puzzle game focused on building simple factories. Enjoy a clean interface and smooth animations without any advertisements or in-app purchases.
- Simple logic puzzles
- Factory building gameplay
- Campaign mode
- Sandbox mode
- Easy to learn
- Simple UI
- Smooth animations
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Bleentoro is a simple logic game. It has no advertisements or microtransactions. Features: - Easy to learn - Campaign and sandbox modes - Simple UI - Smooth animations
Recursive
A challenging puzzle game where you guide robots to collect gems by creating simple programs. Master recursion and logic with a minimalistic, easy-to-learn language and diverse level elements.
- Learn a simple programming language
- Solve puzzles with robots and gems
- Master recursion concepts
- Explore diverse level elements
- Challenging, hard puzzles
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Recursive is a puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming. It is the perfect game for people who love hard puzzles. Your goal is to help little robots complete their mission and collect all gems by finding the correct pattern and translating it into a short program. # Programming language (no prior knowledge required) The programming language is minimalistic and easy to learn. It doesn't require any prior programming knowledge and consists of only four instructions. - Move forward: Move one cell forward. - Rotate left: Rotate 90° left in place. - Rotate right: Rotate 90° right in place. - Change color: Load a chip of a specified color and execute the instructions it contains. And even with this simple programming language, robots can follow complex patterns thanks to the power of recursion and to other tricks that you can discover along with your progression in the game. # Rich levels Recursive offers a large variety of levels thanks to supporting multiple types of elements. - Robots: They can have different colors that reflect the chip they have loaded. - Gems: Your goal is to collect all of them. - Bugs: They destroy robots and make them disappear. - Chips: They make robots load a different program. - Teleportation gates: They make robots teleport to a different location. - Inactive robots: They are activated when touched by another robot. # Mastering recursion Recursion is said to be hard to understand as a famous quote attributed to Stephen Hawking says: "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." However, we believe that playing Recursive is another fun way to understand it or even master it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bleentoro at Free against Recursive's $2.99. Bleentoro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (87% vs 71%). Recursive's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, 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
Bleentoro is free to download; Recursive costs $2.99 up front. Recursive sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Bleentoro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Recursive holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 28 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Bleentoro's written reviews are positive against 71% of Recursive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bleentoro ships an update every 3 months, Recursive every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bleentoro | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (79 ratings) | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.0% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Yakovliev | Kidori |
Customer experience
Bleentoro
Recursive
Bugs and requests
Bleentoro
Reported bugs
9 issues- Visual glitches when switching apps
- Game crashes when entering passcode with Screen Time enabled on iOS
- Cannot rotate buildings with two fingers, causing them to get stuck
- Materials stop moving for no reason
- Difficulty rotating objects, they move randomly
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- Conveyors not drawing correctly, not bending angles
- Objects disappear when trying to move them
- Arrows are hard to see
- Music stops when app is opened
Requested features
8 requests- Add 'OR' operator
- Allow custom recipes in sandbox
- Improve art style, especially conveyors and recipes
- Make pollution mechanic more impactful
- Add compatibility for iPad
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- Allow music to play while app is open
- Add more advanced levels
- Make tutorial less intrusive, perhaps with short clips or pop-ups
Recursive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bleentoro
No in-app purchases
Recursive
- 10 hint credits$0.99
- 20 hint credits$1.99
- 40 hint credits$2.99
