Recursive vs Water Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recursive
A challenging puzzle game where you guide robots to collect gems by creating simple programs. Master recursion and logic with a minimalistic, easy-to-learn language and diverse level elements.
- Learn a simple programming language
- Solve puzzles with robots and gems
- Master recursion concepts
- Explore diverse level elements
- Challenging, hard puzzles
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Recursive is a puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming. It is the perfect game for people who love hard puzzles. Your goal is to help little robots complete their mission and collect all gems by finding the correct pattern and translating it into a short program. # Programming language (no prior knowledge required) The programming language is minimalistic and easy to learn. It doesn't require any prior programming knowledge and consists of only four instructions. - Move forward: Move one cell forward. - Rotate left: Rotate 90° left in place. - Rotate right: Rotate 90° right in place. - Change color: Load a chip of a specified color and execute the instructions it contains. And even with this simple programming language, robots can follow complex patterns thanks to the power of recursion and to other tricks that you can discover along with your progression in the game. # Rich levels Recursive offers a large variety of levels thanks to supporting multiple types of elements. - Robots: They can have different colors that reflect the chip they have loaded. - Gems: Your goal is to collect all of them. - Bugs: They destroy robots and make them disappear. - Chips: They make robots load a different program. - Teleportation gates: They make robots teleport to a different location. - Inactive robots: They are activated when touched by another robot. # Mastering recursion Recursion is said to be hard to understand as a famous quote attributed to Stephen Hawking says: "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." However, we believe that playing Recursive is another fun way to understand it or even master it.
Water Sort
Engage your mind with a colorful puzzle game. Pour and sort liquids by color into matching containers, exercising your brain while enjoying a relaxing experience. Add new bottles or undo moves to strategize your way through levels.
- Sort colored water
- Pour between glasses
- Add new bottles
- Undo moves
- Skip levels
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Water Sort Puzzle application is a puzzle game that allows you to have a fun and enjoyable time! Try to separate the colored water in the glasses until all the colors are in the same glass. It is designed for you to exercise your brain and have a pleasant time. THE WATER SORT PUZZLE: • Tap any glass to pour water into another glass. • The rule is that you can only pour water if it is of the same color and there is enough space in the glass. • You can also add bottles whenever you want. • It can also undo movement. • What's more, you can skip the chapter at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Water Sort at Free against Recursive's $2.99. Water Sort also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Recursive's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (28 vs 1). On rating 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
Water Sort is free to download; Recursive costs $2.99 up front. Recursive sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Water Sort asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Recursive against 5.0 for Water Sort. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recursive has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Recursive | Water Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kidori | Selcuk ASLANTAS |
Customer experience
Recursive
Water Sort
In-app purchases
Recursive
- 10 hint credits$0.99
- 20 hint credits$1.99
- 40 hint credits$2.99
Water Sort
No in-app purchases









