Locked Up vs Ada's Study
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Locked Up
Guide your kidnapped best friend to safety by making critical choices in this virtual escape room game. Your decisions directly impact their fate, leading to multiple potentially deadly endings. Experience a thrilling puzzle-solving adventure that takes about 20-30 minutes to complete.
- Virtual escape room experience
- Choice-driven narrative
- Multiple endings
- Puzzle solving
- Thrilling adventure
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Locked Up is a thrilling virtual escape room experience. If you love the challenge of escape rooms and puzzle solving, like we do, we think you'll enjoy this little challenge. A mysterious message from your best friend arrives on your phone, something isn't right...They've been kidnapped and Locked Up! Can you help guide them to safety? It's up to you! Your choices will determine whether they live or die. In Locked Up, your choices will influence the path of the game and the ultimately your best friends fate. There are multiple ways to end the game and some are distinctly worse than others. Actually that's an understatement, some are deadly! Locked Up will take you around 20-30 minutes to complete. Look out for more games from us in the future!
Ada's Study
Explore Ada Lovelace's study to uncover a hidden mystery. Solve intricate mechanical puzzles and interact with objects using intuitive touch controls in a beautifully crafted 3D environment. Unravel secrets of epic proportions in this engaging puzzle adventure.
- Investigate Ada Lovelace's disappearance
- Solve intricate mechanical puzzles
- Intuitive touch interactions
- Beautifully crafted 3D visuals
- Uncover a secret narrative
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Investigate the disappearance of Ada Lovelace and uncover a secret of epic proportions. A short, high quality game packed with intricate mechanical puzzles and a fascinating mystery, developed by Sherlocked. Dust swirls through her study. Clearly, nobody has been in here for years. The room is filled with desks, cupboards, books, and notes on top of notes. This is the last workplace of Ada Lovelace, the brilliant pioneer of programming, and she has been hiding something. Work your way through every challenge she has left, but beware, you’re not the only person doing the investigating… If you’re a fan of games like “The Room” and “The House of Da Vinci” chances are high you’ll enjoy Ada’s Study. INVESTIGATE ADA LOVELACE Uncover a mystery around the historical figure of Ada Lovelace, the genius mathematician and computer programming pioneer. INTRICATE PUZZLES Solve challenging mechanical puzzles that connect to a larger narrative. INTUITIVE TOUCH INTERACTIONS Interact with objects in a tactile way using natural touch controls. BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED 3D VISUALS Explore a carefully crafted world set in Victorian London with visuals that push the boundary of mobile graphics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Locked Up at 100% against Ada's Study's 53%. Locked Up also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Ada's Study's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 4). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Locked Up is free to download; Ada's Study costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Locked Up holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ada's Study has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Locked Up's written reviews are positive against 53% of Ada's Study's.
| Parameter | Locked Up | Ada's Study |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.6 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 52.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 281 MB |
| Age rating | +9 | 9+ |
| Developer | Gaven Henry | Sherlocked |
Customer experience
Locked Up
Ada's Study
Bugs and requests
Locked Up
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ada's Study
Reported bugs
6 issues- Gold nub missing from mapping desk
- Scales string and key string not working
- Bugs requiring restarts
- Bookshelf puzzle unplayable
- Puzzles not working/broken
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- Weight puzzle broken
Requested features
4 requests- More content/longer game
- Sequels or more chapters
- More impactful choices
- Full-fledged multi-room game
In-app purchases
Locked Up
No in-app purchases
Ada's Study
No in-app purchases









