Comparison

Special Squad vs Loopia

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

Head to head
About

Special Squad

Engage in a story-driven detective role-playing game where you assist a secret agent in solving complex murder cases. Solve tricky puzzles, find clues, and bring criminals to justice in this challenging escape room experience.

Highlights
  • Investigate murder cases
  • Point and click room escape gameplay
  • Story-driven narrative
  • Examine clues and analyze evidence
  • Solve logical puzzles
  • Mini-game puzzles and achievements
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This season, engage in mysteries of crime cases in the city, in one of the best role-playing point and click type room-escape game in a story-driven narrative and it's developed and released by HFG Hidden Fun Games. Are you ready to solve the criminal cases? GAME STORY Special Squad – Crime Mysteries is a detective story. Mr. Ervin is the lead secret agent in a special squad. The government appointed top five unidentifiable cases to Mr. Ervin. You are an assistant to him. The reason for the death of sprinter, rescuing the agent, murder of a female victim, untraceable case of Managing Director and reveal the reason for the death of your colleague. The game is totally in the latest form of room escape game and filled with tricky challenging puzzles. Lot's of thrilling twist throughout this full journey. During this journey, you have to find clues and suspect through your detective skills. Escape games are fully filled with crime and investigation stories and having many thrilling rooms waiting to escape. But they are easy to play and give more challenge to you. Various location waiting for your investigation. Try to find out the hidden clues, solve some puzzles, unlock a few rooms through your intelligence. If you are searching a best investigation based escape game then this one is the right choice. Are you ready to face the challenge of escape and solving the mysteries? GAME FEATURES *101 Brain Challenging Levels *More than 250 logical puzzles to challenge. *Gameplay consists of more than 30 Hours *Examine clues & analyze evidence *Bring the killer to justice. *Challenge yourself with mini-game puzzles and achievements to earn extra Hint.

About

Loopia

Features
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Loopia is a 2-D rules-based AI endless arcade game where you control a character running through an endless loop filled with challenges, power-ups, and surprises!

Screenshots

Special Squad4 screens
Loopia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loopia at none against Special Squad's 10. Loopia also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Special Squad sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Loopia asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Special Squad ships an update every 5 months, Loopia every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Special Squad versus Loopia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpecial SquadLoopia
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (39 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size778 MB44 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHFG ENTERTAINMENTSOsama Remlawi

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Special Squad

One-time10
  • Get 10 Hints$0.99
  • Double Your Reward Video$0.99
  • Get 22 Hints$1.99
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  • Remove All Ads$1.99
  • Get 33 Hints$2.99
  • Get 50 Hints from offer$3.99
  • Get 60 Hints$4.99
  • Get 130 Hints$9.99
  • Get 155 hints and adsfree$9.99
  • Get 300 Hints$19.99
None

Loopia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Special Squad free?
Special Squad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loopia free?
Loopia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Special Squad or Loopia have ads?
Special Squad shows ads; Loopia does not.
Which is updated more often, Special Squad or Loopia?
Special Squad ships an update every 5 months, and Loopia every 2 months. Most recently, Special Squad was updated on November 3, 2026 and Loopia on November 8, 2026.

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