Hideaways vs Tiny Machinery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hideaways
Explore beautifully crafted worlds and discover human stories in this reimagined spot-the-difference game. Enjoy a calm challenge that exercises attention and memory while immersing yourself in atmospheric music and gentle narratives.
- Beautifully crafted worlds
- Handmade atmospheric music
- Untimed scavenger hunts
- 144 human stories
- Calming gameplay
- Attention and memory exercise
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Hideaways is an immaculate take on spot-the-difference games. It unfolds through beautifully crafted worlds, handmade atmospheric music, untimed scavengers, and 144 human stories — gently woven in, where places carry real feeling and stories are discovered, not told. Both a moment of calm and a quiet challenge, Hideaways invites you to slow your breathing, calm your mind, and wander through aesthetic and auditory pleasures — all while gently exercising attention and memory, and inviting reflection on real-life moments and stories.
Tiny Machinery
Immerse yourself in a virtual dimension to solve intricate puzzles and escape a mysterious experiment. Use your intellect to manipulate complex machinery and unlock the secrets of your confinement. Experience a unique escape room adventure with creative 3D graphics and atmospheric audio.
- Escape room-style puzzles
- Creative 3D graphics
- Intricate mechanisms
- Atmospheric audio
- Hint system
- Unlockable story notes
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You've been kidnapped by unknown scientists and your brain has been plugged into a sophisticated machine to run an experiment: travel into a virtual dimension to unlock weird machinery. Use your imagination and IQ to crack puzzles and complete all intricate levels to save your life. Can you make it? A CLEVER PUZZLE GAME Embark into an escape room-style adventure full of riddles! CREATIVE 3D GRAPHICS Explore weird machines that will impress you with their unique art style INTRICATE MECHANISMS Enjoy tons of original puzzles, interact with buttons, levers, and little wheels to complete each level ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO Play the game with your headphones to get immersed in the game at best TRY FOR FREE Play the first 4 levels for free, with the option to unlock all the levels with a small In-App purchase, which will make you experience the whole story and puzzles HINTS In case you get stuck on a level, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the riddles STORY NOTES You will unlock a new story paragraph for each level you will complete. Discover how your kidnappers have threatened you and how it ends! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent solo startup from Italy. Find out more at xsgames.co Follow me @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hideaways at 4.7 against Tiny Machinery's 4.2. Hideaways also leads on ratings volume (2.4K vs 45) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Tiny Machinery's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (54% vs 44%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Hideaways sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Tiny Machinery sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hideaways holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hideaways has 2.4K ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Hideaways's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tiny Machinery's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hideaways ships an update monthly, Tiny Machinery every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hideaways | Tiny Machinery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.4K ratings) — better | 4.2 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.2% of reviews | 54.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 794 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RoadRocks | XSGames |
Customer experience
Hideaways
Tiny Machinery
Bugs and requests
Hideaways
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes during tutorial
- Differences not registering correctly
- Levels not loading properly
- Issues with screen size and layout
Requested features
4 requests- Option to disable background music
- Ability to save progress within a level
- More level variety and increased difficulty
- Cross-device syncing of progress
Tiny Machinery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hideaways
- TRICKLE(5 hints)$0.99
- BREEZE(10 hints)$1.99
- DUET$1.99
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- FOUNT(20 hints)$2.99
- LUCID LENS$2.99
- DELUGE(50 hints)$4.99
- Grand W.$6.99
Tiny Machinery
- Full Game$3.99
- Full Game + Coffee$4.99
- Full Game + Love$7.99
