Comparison

Atomic Escape vs Yestertide

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

Head to head
About

Atomic Escape

Embark on a first-person point-and-click adventure set in a mid-century atomic age ranch. Uncover a secret space travel conspiracy by solving puzzles and cracking codes to access confidential files. Explore a retro-futuristic world with challenging yet accessible puzzles.

Highlights
  • Point and click gameplay
  • Explore atomic ranch and secret facility
  • Search for clues and solve puzzles
  • 3D real-time graphics
  • Retro-futuristic world
  • Challenging yet balanced puzzles
  • Conspiracy storyline
Features
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Uncover a profound secret conspiracy solving puzzles and cracking codes to access the confidential files from a secret space travel project in this first person point and click adventure game set in a beautiful mid century atomic age ranch. -Point and Click Gameplay- Classic Point and Click Fun with modern mechanics, Explore A Beautiful Atomic Ranch with an underground secret facility, Search for clues, Find Items and Solve Puzzles, no Hidden Objects or pixel hunting. -3D Fast Real Time Graphics- Discover a Beautiful Retro futuristic world rendered with colorful high-quality graphics, move fast between scenes with responsive controls, solve clever puzzles taking advantage of 3D puzzle Design. -Challenging Fun to Solve Puzzles- Well Designed and Balanced Puzzles that are fun to solve for the experimented puzzler and friendly for brand new players, All the Puzzles are designed to feel Challenging yet not frustrating. -Beyond this World Storyline- Solve an Atomic Space Travel Conundrum, Discover the amazing secret hidden under an apparently regular Mid Century Atomic Ranch, Crack the codes to Access the Confidential files to reveal the truth about a profound Conspiracy.

About

Yestertide

Embark on a mysterious adventure in a quaint, uncharted village. Solve puzzles, interact with cryptic characters, and uncover secrets involving time travel and aliens. Your choices are crucial to saving this strange place.

Highlights
  • Hand-drawn art
  • Puzzles and riddles
  • Cryptic character interaction
  • Time-travel elements
  • Alien encounters
  • Card tricks
Features
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Come in. Stay for AGES and AGES … Welcome to YESTERTIDE, another exciting mind-bender from the MysteryCaper team. Enjoy your visit. You're not going anywhere anytime soon. – You've been backpacking for days. You're tired; you're sore. You just want to SLEEP … You stumble upon a quaint old village. YESTERTIDE. Quiet, unassuming, cobblestoney. You'll rest here. It's funny, though. You've never heard of this place, and it's not on any maps. Oh well. It will do for now. But when is NOW exactly? And why do you feel like someone — or some-THING — is watching you? – FEATURES • a thrilling array of hand-drawn art • an endless supply of puzzles and riddles • the occasional cryptic character interaction • hilarious in-game comments • a pigeon • a cat • time-travel • aliens • card tricks • and YOU, the last hope for Yestertide — and beyond – MysteryCaper. It's COMEDY SOLVED.

Screenshots

Atomic Escape4 screens
Yestertide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Atomic Escape at every 10 days against Yestertide's every 5 months. Atomic Escape also leads on price ($3.99 vs $5.99). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Atomic Escape costs $3.99 and Yestertide $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Atomic Escape against 4.6 for Yestertide. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 76 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Atomic Escape's written reviews are positive against 77% of Yestertide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Atomic Escape ships an update every 10 days, Yestertide every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Atomic Escape versus Yestertide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAtomic EscapeYestertide
Price$3.99 — better$5.99
Rating4.6 (29 ratings)4.6 (76 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews76.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2976 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB396 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMediaCity GamesMysteryCaper, LLC

Customer experience

Atomic Escape

All ratings29 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral6.9%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

Yestertide

All ratings76 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive76.6%
Neutral10.6%
Negative12.8%

Bugs and requests

Atomic Escape

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Yestertide

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Fruits must be dragged twice to blend
  • Cafe safe code didn't work
  • Hot plate puzzle bug
  • Alien keypad issue
  • Safe combination in hints doesn't work

Requested features

3 requests
  • More games from the developer
  • In-game hints instead of website
  • Notebook to remind of tasks

In-app purchases

None

Atomic Escape

No in-app purchases

None

Yestertide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Atomic Escape free?
Atomic Escape costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yestertide free?
Yestertide costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Atomic Escape or Yestertide?
Atomic Escape and Yestertide are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 29 and 76 ratings respectively.
Do Atomic Escape or Yestertide have ads?
Neither Atomic Escape nor Yestertide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Atomic Escape or Yestertide?
Atomic Escape ships an update every 10 days, and Yestertide every 5 months. Most recently, Atomic Escape was updated on September 23, 2026 and Yestertide on September 19, 2026.

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