Machinika Museum vs Cipher Chase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Machinika Museum
Explore and repair intricate alien machines in this mystery puzzle game. Use logic and observation to unravel a galaxy-spanning story. If you enjoy brain teasers and narrative-driven experiences, this game offers a unique challenge.
- Mind-bending puzzles
- Mysterious atmosphere and story
- Cryptic alien machines
- Intuitive touch controls
- Multi-language support
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Come discover beautiful mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins and use your logic and sense of observation to fix them; and uncover a galaxy-spanning story. Machinika Museum is a puzzle game for people who like to have their brain teased and love a nice story to go along. Do you like The Room? Myst? The Witness? Machinarium? Escape games? Do you like finding out what is behind a locked door? So do we! Key features: • Mind bending Puzzles: use your sharp logic skills and your sense of observation • Mysterious atmosphere and story: there is so much you don't know about yet... • Wonderful visuals, cryptic alien machines have never looked better • Intuitive and enjoyable touch controls. Why make it complicated? • Available in English, French, Spanish, German and Italian What are these machines? Who sent them? And why won't anyone give you answers? You will have to find for yourself. In this far future, finding machines from alien civilizations is not unusual, especially in a museum dedicated to them. But this time it looks like something deeper is hidden from you... This app is a free-to-try demo including the first chapter. The purchase of an inapp is necessary to unlock all the content of the game.
Cipher Chase
Embark on an adventurous IQ game where you crack puzzles to catch a malicious attacker. This game challenges your problem-solving skills as you follow a group of encoders on their mission.
- IQ challenges
- Puzzle cracking
- Adventure storyline
- Encoder gameplay
- Catching attackers
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An adventurous IQ game that follows a group of encoders to catch a malicious attacker, by cracking puzzles that challenge the user.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cipher Chase at 100% against Machinika Museum's 57%. Cipher Chase also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Machinika Museum's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 2). On price 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. Machinika Museum sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cipher Chase asks for nothing beyond the download.
Machinika Museum holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Machinika Museum has 3.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Machinika Museum's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cipher Chase's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Machinika Museum ships an update weekly, Cipher Chase every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Machinika Museum | Cipher Chase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.8K ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.4 GB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plug In Digital | Lujain Alaydie |
Customer experience
Machinika Museum
Cipher Chase
Bugs and requests
Machinika Museum
Reported bugs
5 issues- Overlapping of inventory line to gameplay causing gamers to have to restart chapters
- Soft-locking issues requiring restart
- Inability to save progress within chapters
- Controls issues, especially with zooming
- Glitches causing loss of progress
Requested features
4 requests- Hint system
- More levels
- Ability to replay without paying again
- Option to remove curse words
Cipher Chase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Machinika Museum
- Full Game Machinika: Museum$4.99
Cipher Chase
No in-app purchases
Questions
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