Comparison

Special Squad vs NazoRaku

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

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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

NazoRaku

Features
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A puzzle game where you UNDERSTAND ciphers by solving them - not by reading about them. From the Caesar cipher to RSA and hashing, crack classic and modern ciphers one stage at a time, and the way each cipher works clicks into place. Slide to find the key, spot letters with frequency analysis, reverse-lookup a grid - relive that "aha" moment of decryption again and again. [ Classic ciphers - free, 40 puzzles ] - Caesar (10) - Shift letters; work out the shift from the crib and enter it - Vigenere (10) - Polyalphabetic with a keyword; guess the key - Substitution (8) - One-to-one swap; crack it with frequency analysis - Transposition (6) - See through the reordering - Polybius Square (6) - Letters to numbers via a 5x5 grid; reverse-look up [ Modern ciphers ] - XOR (6) - Exclusive OR; XOR with the key to recover the text (free) - Public-Key (RSA, simplified) - Lock with the public key, find the message - Hash Function - Feel one-wayness; find an input that collides to the same output - Block Cipher (AES-style) - Step through add-key, substitute, and permute rounds [ Features ] - Explanation right after you solve - history, real-world usage, weaknesses, and the bridge to modern tech - Staged hints - a free recap first, then gradual reveals when stuck (keeps the "I solved it" feeling) - No ads at all while you are solving a puzzle - designed to preserve focus - Achievement badges and stats for collection - Universal app for iPhone and iPad - Japanese and English (UI, puzzle text, and hints; follows the device language) - Ciphertext shown beautifully in a monospaced font [ Who is this for ] - Anyone who loves puzzles and riddles - Students and engineers curious about cryptography and security - People who want quick brain-training in spare moments [ Part of the Raku Series ] The third information-systems title of the Raku Series. Knowledge from ARURAKU (algorithms) and DATARAKU (data structures) pays off in NazoRaku's decryption - hashing and modular exponentiation tie ciphers back to the fundamentals. [ Note on pricing ] Free to play. All classic-cipher stages and the modern-cipher intro are free. Hints, ad removal, the Modern Cipher Pack, and an all-in-one Premium are available as in-app purchases. No ads are ever shown while you are solving a puzzle.

Screenshots

Special Squad4 screens
NazoRaku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Special Squad at 12.0 against NazoRaku's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Special Squad sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and NazoRaku sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Special Squad versus NazoRaku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpecial SquadNazoRaku
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (35 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size778 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHFG ENTERTAINMENTS PRIVATE LIMITEDFuji Bit Inc.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Special Squad

One-time12
  • Get 10 Hints$0.99
  • Double Your Reward Video$0.99
  • Get 22 Hints$1.99
Show 9 more
  • 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 150 Hints from offer$9.99
  • Get 155 hints and adsfree$9.99
  • Get 175 hints$9.99
  • Get 300 Hints$19.99
5 purchases

NazoRaku

One-time5
  • 1 Hint Ticket$0.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • 10 Hint Tickets$5.99
Show 2 more
  • Modern Cipher Pack$5.99
  • Premium (All-in-One)$14.99

Questions

Is Special Squad free?
Special Squad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NazoRaku free?
NazoRaku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Special Squad or NazoRaku have ads?
Both Special Squad and NazoRaku show ads.

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