Candlehead vs Strangers Here
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Candlehead
Explore a surreal, candle-lit horror world in this first-person game. Investigate a deserted village, solve environmental puzzles, and evade a mysterious pursuer to find your way home.
- First-person gameplay
- Non-linear open world
- Stealth and survival
- Item-based puzzles
- Environmental storytelling
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Enter a surreal world of candle lit horror. Who is Candlehead? Where has everybody in the village gone? How will you return home? Are you in danger? Explore a dark and eerie first person horror game where your doom flickers in the form of a candle barely visible through the dusky gloom. Solve the puzzles of the your surroundings to aid your escape and attempt to investigate what has befallen the village as well as who, or what, is chasing you. Features: • First person gameplay • Huge non-linear open world to explore • Stealth and survival elements • Item-based puzzles • Discoverable lore via environmental storytelling
Strangers Here
An atmospheric VHS horror game where you play as an FBI agent hunting creatures that mimic humans. Distinguish between real people and their copies, make critical decisions, and uncover the truth behind the "Strangers."
- VHS horror atmosphere
- Track human-imitating creatures
- Distinguish real people from copies
- Make life-altering decisions
- Six unique endings
- Customizable menu background
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Strangers Here — an atmospheric VHS horror about the "Strangers": unsettling creatures that mimic humans with terrifying precision. In the quiet family park of Willingstone, something has gone horribly wrong. People are vanishing, animals are falling ill, and inhuman screams echo from the forest at night. The special agency D.I.C. has been tracking incidents like these for a long time. Now it's your turn — learn to tell the real from the imitation, and uncover the true nature of these beings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Strangers Here at none against Candlehead's 1. Strangers Here also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Candlehead's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Candlehead sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Strangers Here asks for nothing beyond the download.
Candlehead holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 111 and 124 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Candlehead's written reviews are positive against 71% of Strangers Here's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Candlehead ships an update every 7 months, Strangers Here monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Candlehead | Strangers Here |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (111 ratings) — better | 4.1 (124 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 111 | 124 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.1 GB | 252 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ammonite Design Studios Ltd | Elmira Sevostyanova |
Customer experience
Candlehead
Strangers Here
In-app purchases
Candlehead
- No Ads$2.99
Strangers Here
No in-app purchases
Questions
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