Mystery Files vs pimglins
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mystery Files
Explore a vast library of free-to-play puzzle games, brain teasers, and interactive stories. Solve mysteries, find hidden objects, and collect unique artifacts across various locations. Enjoy new releases and earn achievements as you play.
- Free-to-play puzzles and brain teasers
- Library of interactive stories
- Hidden object search and find gameplay
- Earn achievements
- Collect artifacts and trinkets
- New releases added regularly
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Free-to-play puzzles, brain teasers, and mini-games in Mystery Files: Hidden Objects, where you need to win mystery games and find hidden objects in every location! This is a library of Domini games and interactive stories that you can choose from. · Play your favorite puzzle games! Choose your own point-and-click adventure! In a single app, you can play any quest you like. An easy-to-read progress meter shows you which hidden object games you have already completed. Never choose between romance and detective genres—play both! · Never get bored! Are you worried about missing a brand-new release from Domini? Not anymore! All of our newest detective games are added to this wonderful collection. Any hidden object adventure quest you want—right at your fingertips! · Earn achievements! Play and replay your favorite puzzles to earn achievements! Be the quickest one to uncover cleverly hidden objects and show off your skills to your friends. Can you unlock them all? · Gather your own collection! Each of our thrilling adventures is full of secrets and mysteries. Be attentive as you travel through unknown worlds and beautiful locations while solving hide-and-seek interactive games! Find morphing artifacts, notes that expand the story, and fun trinkets to collect. Will you be able to complete the whole collection? Download Mystery Files: Hidden Objects—choose any quest you like and play for free! If you want bonus materials or need additional help, you can use the in-game store. ----- Questions? Email us at support@dominigames.com Visit our website to play more brain teasers and puzzles: http://dominigames.com Become our fan on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dominigames Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominigames
pimglins
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You are the Spade. Pimglins cannot dig. They walk — out of the portal, along whatever ground exists, until something stops them. The road ahead has to be cut by someone who stopped walking. That is you. Drag to carve a tunnel through solid pixel terrain. Build to plug a gap, dam a flood, or lay a floor over fire. Then let the march pour through and find out whether you read the ground correctly. THE GROUND NEVER HEALS Every cut is permanent. Dirt you remove is gone, and a little of it crumbles into spoil that falls, piles up, and can never be dug again. A clogged tunnel is not a mistake to undo — it is terrain now. Route around it, bury it, or build over it. The finished level is the record of how you solved it. MATERIALS THAT ARGUE WITH YOU Sand pours the moment you cut beneath it, and a buried pocket will flood the passage you just opened. Water finds its level, breaks a fatal fall, and drowns anyone whose head stays under. Lava kills on contact — until you steer water into it and it sets to stone you can walk on. Loose rock only ever falls straight down, so the question before every cut into a cavern wall is what is holding this up. THIRTEEN HANDCRAFTED LEVELS Each one asks a question the last one did not. What does a cut cost? Which road do you commit to, when your budget cannot open both? Where will the water be when it arrives? What answers a falcon, when the spade cannot reach the sky? How do you open stone you cannot cut, when the only tool left is the march itself? Tools are counted. Each level gives you a fixed number of cuts, shown as pips on the spade — and one greedy bore can cost you the THREE WAYS TO FINISH Cleared — enough of them reached the exit. Whole — nobody died and nobody was left behind. Light touch — you finished inside par. NO STRINGS No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts, no signction required — the game never goes online at all. Nothing is collected about you, ever. Buy it once and play it on a plane. Portrait, one thumb, one screen. No timers anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: pimglins at none against Mystery Files's 10. pimglins also leads on ads (none vs shown). Mystery Files's advantage is chart position (#165 vs unranked). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Mystery Files sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. pimglins asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Mystery Files | pimglins |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #165 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 433 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DO GAMES LIMITED | simon deshayes |
Bugs and requests
Mystery Files
Reported bugs
4 issues- Puzzles not working as intended
- Scenes/items disappearing or becoming uninteractable
- Game progress being reset or lost
- Crashes and freezes when using in-app purchases
Requested features
3 requests- More ways to earn hints/coins without paying
- Better instructions for mini-games
- Ability to skip difficult puzzles
pimglins
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mystery Files
- A Handful of Coins$1.99
- Pack of useful things$1.99
- A Handful of Crystals$2.99
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- A Pinch of Gems$3.99
- Handful of useful things$3.99
- Heap of Coins$4.99
- Heap of Gems$4.99
- Bandbox of Coins$9.99
- Bandbox of Gems$9.99
- Jewelry Box$14.99
pimglins
No in-app purchases
Questions
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