Comparison

sugar (game) vs Syrious Squish

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

Head to head
About

sugar (game)

Draw lines on your screen to guide falling sugar into cups. Enjoy a calming puzzle experience with visually satisfying sugar particles. This game offers a fresh, free puzzle challenge.

Highlights
  • Draw to direct sugar
  • Soothing particle physics
  • Relaxing puzzle gameplay
  • Free puzzle experience
  • Creator of color puzzle series
Features
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Draw on the screen to direct sugar into the cups. Experience the soothing puzzling with sugar particles trickling across the screen. A relaxing puzzle game from the creator of the color puzzle series and the "sugar, sugar" games. It was time for a brand new free sugar puzzle experience so I hope you'll enjoy this! @BartBonte

About

Syrious Squish

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Ninety-six little monsters live at the bottom of the water. They watch your finger. They blink when they feel like it. When you close in on their group, their eyes go wide and their mouths fall open. Squish them anyway. GUS IS WATCHING Gus is the biggest of them, and he is not exactly on your side. He hangs over the board and talks you through your run in a voice that keeps sliding out of encouragement into something else. "They can see you, you know." Squish a monster that was all on its own and he goes cold and gray: "You took a lonely one. Rude." Pull off something enormous and he comes down off his perch to stomp the group flat himself. HOW IT PLAYS Tap a group of touching monsters of the same color. They pulse, a ring draws around them, and the score you would get floats above their heads. Tap again and they pop. Whatever is left falls into the hole, empty columns slide shut, and the board is a different board than it was a second ago. BIGGER IS BETTER. MUCH BETTER. Every monster you add to a group is worth more than the one before it. Ten together are worth 356 points. Split those same ten into two fives and you get 152. So this is not really a game about spotting a match. It is a game about how big you can grow something before it falls apart. You can squish a monster that is all on its own. It costs you 100 points. That one rule is what makes this a thinking game: tidying up has a price, and the last few moves of a round turn into a real decision. Clear the whole board without ever taking a lonely one and your score doubles. You always see what a group is worth before you take it. Nothing is hidden from you. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY Level - Hit the target score and go deeper. There is no last level, and you never lose your place. Put the game down for a week and you come back to the deepest level you ever reached. Timed - 120 seconds. The faster you move, the more each squish is worth, and every second you have left over pays out at the end. Endless - No clock, no target. Just you and the board. Versus - Two players, one phone. Take turns. Your own color is worth double to you. First to 2000 wins. SIX COLORS, SIX TEMPERAMENTS Blush, Sky, Yolk, Wisp, Mint and Berry. Each has its own eyes, its own way of blinking, and its own way of panicking when you come for it. The colors were chosen to stay easy to tell apart, including if you are color blind. Ten pieces of music, written for this game. None of them loop, so none of them wear out. And the squish itself gets deeper, longer and wetter the more monsters go at once. The rules are borrowed from a puzzle game from 1999, and they have not been watered down since. WHAT IS NOT IN IT No ads. No in-app purchases. No sign-in, no account, nothing to connect. Works with no internet at all. ALSO Close the game in the middle of a round and it comes back exactly where you left it, same board, still paused. Squish with one tap instead of two, if you would rather. Prefer things calmer? Turn off the screen shake and the bursts. Music and sound effects have their own volume sliders. "Nothing left down there but water."

Screenshots

sugar (game)4 screens
Syrious Squish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Syrious Squish at none against sugar (game)'s 1. Syrious Squish also leads on ads (none vs shown). sugar (game)'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. sugar (game) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Syrious Squish asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
sugar (game) versus Syrious Squish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametersugar (game)Syrious Squish
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (410 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings410 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB40 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperBart BONTEVisual Systems Corp.

Bugs and requests

sugar (game)

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Levels not progressing after completion
  • Sugar disappearing or not registering correctly
  • Restart button accidentally pressed instead of gravity switch

Requested features

6 requests
  • Undo/reset option per level
  • Ability to skip difficult levels
  • Colorblind mode or options
  • More levels and content updates
  • Landscape mode support on tablets
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  • Customization options

Syrious Squish

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

sugar (game)

One-time1
  • premium unlock$2.99
None

Syrious Squish

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is sugar (game) free?
sugar (game) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Syrious Squish free?
Syrious Squish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do sugar (game) or Syrious Squish have ads?
sugar (game) shows ads; Syrious Squish does not.

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