cardinal. vs HexSweep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cardinal.
Engage in a minimalistic logic puzzle game where you deduce a secret solution using sixteen cards and clues. Enjoy procedurally generated boards for endless play and compete globally in daily challenges.
- Minimalistic logic puzzles
- Deduce secret solutions
- Procedurally generated boards
- Endless regular mode
- Daily global competitions
- 16 logic cards
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Minimalistic yet challenging, CARDINAL gives you sixteen different cards and clues in which you must figure out the secret solution! Begin with the cardinal rule you can then continue to creatively deduce the solution from there! An endless amount of procedurally generated boards waits for you in regular mode. And when you feel ready, test yourself in the daily competition alongside players from all over the globe.
HexSweep
Experience a unique twist on Minesweeper played on a 3D globe. Navigate a rotatable sphere to reveal safe cells, mark mines, and solve puzzles. Enjoy daily challenges and save your progress with no ads or tracking.
- 3D globe gameplay
- Rotatable sphere interface
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Offline daily challenges
- Save and restore games
- Two visual themes
- No ads or tracking
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HexSweep reimagines classic Minesweeper on a rotatable geodesic sphere. Reveal safe cells, mark suspected mines, chord around solved clues, and rotate, roll, and zoom the globe to inspect every angle. Choose Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme, No Flags, or four Time Pressure difficulties. Take on a reproducible offline Daily Challenge, share replay codes, and return to an exact saved game. Features: • Solver-verified logical boards with protected openings • Offline Daily Challenges and local streaks • Deterministic replay and recipe codes • Exact save and restoration • Two visual themes and selectable backgrounds • Optional sound and haptics • No ads, accounts, tracking, or data collection
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Verdict
cardinal. and HexSweep both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of HexSweep's written reviews are positive against 80% of cardinal.'s. cardinal.'s advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for cardinal. against 5.0 for HexSweep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: cardinal. has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of cardinal.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of HexSweep's.
| Parameter | cardinal. | HexSweep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Perfect Hat Games LLC | DANIEL ANTHONY BASSIL |
Customer experience
cardinal.
HexSweep
In-app purchases
cardinal.
No in-app purchases
HexSweep
No in-app purchases
