Yestertide vs Dexter Stardust
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Hand-drawn art
- Puzzles and riddles
- Cryptic character interaction
- Time-travel elements
- Alien encounters
- Card tricks
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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.
Dexter Stardust
Embark on an epic space adventure as Dexter Stardust to save Earth and the Vreesians from a robot invasion. Explore five unique planets, solve puzzles, and uncover a galactic mystery in this fully voice-acted graphic adventure.
- 5 Episodes in one game
- Fully voice-acted
- Classic point-and-click mechanics
- Frame-by-frame animation
- 4K artwork
- Explore 5 planets
- Solve puzzles
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Space! Dexter Stardust barely escaped when the Vreesians, inhabitants of the menacing Planet X, sent a fleet of robots to destroy all life on Earth. Now, twenty years later, a mechanical man from the 10th planet seeks to communicate with Dexter a very important message - he is the key to saving both humans and Vreesians! Play the taco-loving Dexter Stardust as he, and his good friend Aurora, go on the greatest adventure of their lives and discover the mystery of the Robot from the Planet X! Dexter Stardust was illustrated, animated, written, scored, SFX'd, and programmed by one person, Jeremy Fryc. Even so, the characters are voiced by his friends, Munk Alejandro, Lola Mendez, and Alec Corday - who helped create the characters way back in 2012 on a warm afternoon in the Dominican Republic. 10 years later, we finally have... Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space! • 5 Episodes all in one game! • Fully voice acted. • A true classic graphic adventure game with traditional point and click mechanics. This is a 100% pure graphic adventure! • All traditional - frame by frame - animation. No rigged characters! • Artwork created in 4K. • Visit 5 planets with well over 100 playable scenes. • Lots of puzzles. Learn to play the ukulele. • Tacos! • Exclamation points!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dexter Stardust at every 3 days against Yestertide's every 5 months. Dexter Stardust also leads on price ($4.99 vs $5.99). Yestertide's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). 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
Yestertide costs $5.99 and Dexter Stardust $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Yestertide against 4.7 for Dexter Stardust. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 138 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Yestertide's written reviews are positive against 83% of Dexter Stardust's.
Yestertide ships an update every 5 months, Dexter Stardust every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Yestertide | Dexter Stardust |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (77 ratings) | 4.7 (138 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.6% of reviews | 83.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 | 138 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 396 MB | 2.8 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | MysteryCaper, LLC | Snapbreak Games AB |
Customer experience
Yestertide
Dexter Stardust
User reviews
Yestertide
From 77 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Engaging story and humor
- 💡 Creative and challenging puzzles
- ⭐️ Excellent hint system available
- 🎨 Charming art style
- ⏳ Good game length
Room to improve
- 🤔 Puzzles lack logic
- 😵 Navigation is confusing
- 🤯 Puzzles are too obscure
- frustrating to navigate hints
- 🤷♀️ Some puzzles not solvable
Dexter Stardust
From 138 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great gameplay
- 👍 Engaging story
- 💡 Unique characters and humor
- 🎨 Excellent graphics and art style
- 🔊 Wonderful music and voice acting
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- ⏱️ Uneven pacing, some episodes too short
- 🔍 Difficulty finding interactive items
- 🗣️ Uneven voice acting quality
Bugs and 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
Dexter Stardust
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game crashes when using taco with picnic bench
- Unable to progress past certain points due to bugs
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save progress across devices
- Option to skip cutscenes
- Hint system for puzzles
- Improved controls for mobile devices
In-app purchases
Yestertide
No in-app purchases
Dexter Stardust
No in-app purchases
Questions
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