Comparison

Not Another Weekend vs The Centennial Case

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

Head to head
About

Not Another Weekend

Embark on a humorous point-and-click adventure set in the '80s. Play as a peculiar bellboy with a dark plan to clear out a high-class hotel over a single weekend. Experience a unique story filled with twists, strange characters, and challenging puzzles.

Highlights
  • Pixel art graphics
  • Unique story with twists
  • Strange characters and funny dialogues
  • Adult humor
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Original soundtrack
Features
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For all the fans of pixel art out there, get ready for one wacky adventure! You play as a bellboy, Mike Melkout, who works in a high-class hotel. Mike may seem crazy, or even peculiar, or he might as well be. However, he has only one plan. A dark plan! To kick everyone out in a single Weekend. A humorous point-and-click adventure game set in the ’80s as a tribute to the pop culture of that era. Key Features: - Beautiful pixel art graphics. - A unique story with lots of twists. - Strange characters, depicting some famous 80’s icons, and funny dialogues. - Adult humor and challenging puzzles. - Original soundtrack.

About

The Centennial Case

Engage in a unique mystery-adventure game where you unravel a century-long chain of murders across different time periods. Explore, gather clues, and use your deductive skills to solve complex cases. Experience immersive live-action footage intertwined with engaging puzzle-solving gameplay.

Highlights
  • Solve century-old murder mysteries
  • Explore three different time periods
  • Immersive live-action footage
  • Incident, Reasoning, and Solution phases
  • Collect clues and form hypotheses
  • Deductive reasoning gameplay
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The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story is a new unique mystery-adventure game. Directed by Koichiro Ito (Metal Gear Solid V), and with Yasuhito Tachibana, producer of Netflix's 'The Naked Director' serving as the Cinematographer and Scenario Director, beautiful yet thrilling live-action footage intertwines with mysteries to solve, creating highly immersive gameplay. The player follows a chain of murders which take place over the span of a century. Four murders have been committed in three different time periods - 1922, 1972, and 2022. Each episode is comprised of three parts, the Incident phase, the Reasoning phase, and the Solution phase, inviting the player to seamlessly enter into this world of mystery. Explore these time periods, collect multiple clues, and solve a 100-year mystery. ■Story The Shijima family have suffered a chain of inexplicable deaths over the past century. When Haruka Kagami, a mystery novelist, visits the Shiijmas, she finds herself taking on four different murder cases - occurring at different points in time. The red camellia and the Fruit of Youth, which invite only death. And the truth behind it all, waiting to be uncovered... ■ Gameplay Haruka Kagami, the main character, is an up-and-coming mystery writer. Play as Haruka Kagami and pit your wits against the murder cases. Each murder case comprises of three parts. The Incident phase: See the entire murder as it unfolds, from start to end. The keys needed to solve the mysteries surrounding the murder can always be found in the video itself. The Reasoning phase: Put together the [Clues] and [Mysteries] found during the Incident phase and create a hypothesis in your cognitive space. You can create multiple hypotheses, but not all of them will be correct. Some things you uncover may lead you down the wrong path. The Solution phase: Pin down the killer based on the hypothesis you created in the Reasoning phase. Select the correct hypothesis to determine the killer. When facing a trickier culprit, they may attempt to refute your claims, so strike back with your reasoning!

Screenshots

Not Another Weekend4 screens
The Centennial Case4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Not Another Weekend at $1.99 against The Centennial Case's $19.99. Not Another Weekend also leads on ratings volume (53 vs 16). The Centennial Case's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Not Another Weekend costs $1.99 and The Centennial Case $19.99 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 — 4.8 for Not Another Weekend against 4.8 for The Centennial Case. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Not Another Weekend's written reviews are positive against 74% of The Centennial Case's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Not Another Weekend ships an update every 10 months, The Centennial Case every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Not Another Weekend versus The Centennial Case: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNot Another WeekendThe Centennial Case
Price$1.99 — better$19.99
Rating4.8 (53 ratings)4.8 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews78.8% of reviews — better74.1% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size264 MB981 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDionous GamesSQUARE ENIX

Customer experience

Not Another Weekend

All ratings53 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive78.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative15.2%

The Centennial Case

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral3.7%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

None

Not Another Weekend

No in-app purchases

None

The Centennial Case

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Not Another Weekend free?
Not Another Weekend costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Centennial Case free?
The Centennial Case costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Not Another Weekend or The Centennial Case?
Not Another Weekend and The Centennial Case are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 53 and 16 ratings respectively.
Do Not Another Weekend or The Centennial Case have ads?
Neither Not Another Weekend nor The Centennial Case shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Not Another Weekend or The Centennial Case?
Not Another Weekend ships an update every 10 months, and The Centennial Case every 5 weeks. Most recently, Not Another Weekend was updated on October 19, 2026 and The Centennial Case on October 20, 2026.

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