Yestertide vs How We Know We're Alive
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.
How We Know We're Alive
Explore a melancholic Swedish town as an aspiring writer investigating a friend's tragic fate. Your choices impact the narrative, revealing hidden truths and challenging perceptions. Piece together a mystery in a richly animated, atmospheric setting.
- Investigate a tragic fate
- Explore a melancholy town
- Richly animated atmosphere
- Interactive narrative choices
- Uncover hidden truths
- Piece together a mystery
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Welcome to Härunga – a small industrial town in the bible belt of the mid–north of Sweden. You play as Sara, an aspiring writer who, after having been away for 10 years, returns home in order to investigate the tragic fate of her estranged best friend. The days grow short quickly this far up north – and the rain never seems to let up... Lovingly crafted and richly animated, explore the melancholy atmosphere of a small town that time seemingly forgot. Meet old friends and enemies and piece together the mystery of what happened after your friendship tragically fell apart. As in life, what you say will impact things in hidden ways and not everything may be as it seems. Who is telling whose truth and can you know the difference?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Yestertide at 4.6 against How We Know We're Alive's 3.9. Yestertide also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 59%) and ratings volume (76 vs 14). How We Know We're Alive's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $5.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Yestertide costs $5.99 and How We Know We're Alive $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Yestertide holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yestertide has 76 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Yestertide's written reviews are positive against 59% of How We Know We're Alive's.
| Parameter | Yestertide | How We Know We're Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (76 ratings) — better | 3.9 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.6% of reviews — better | 58.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 76 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| 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 | 422 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MysteryCaper, LLC | Motvind Studios |
Customer experience
Yestertide
How We Know We're Alive
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
How We Know We're Alive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yestertide
No in-app purchases
How We Know We're Alive
No in-app purchases
Questions
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