Comparison

Boxville vs Chronescher

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

Head to head
About

Boxville

This animated adventure puzzle game features speechless cans navigating a city of boxes. Solve logic puzzles and riddles, explore a charming world, and uncover the mystery behind earthquakes. Enjoy a unique audio-visual experience, playable solo or with a friend.

Highlights
  • Animated film and puzzle game hybrid
  • Hand-drawn graphics and custom animations
  • Environmental quests and logical puzzles
  • Unique music for each scene
  • Wordless communication via speech bubbles
  • Playable solo or co-op
Features
Currently charting
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Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle game. Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together. Design The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time. We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure. The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options. Story Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll... Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way. He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal. What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville: - Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists. - Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction. - Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game. - Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game. - There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.

About

Chronescher

Embark on a challenging isometric puzzle adventure through a surreal, escherpunk world. Master time, space, and perspective-bending mechanics to ascend towering structures and uncover a personal mystery. This game demands clever use of portals, time anchors, and shifting viewpoints to solve intricate levels.

Highlights
  • Isometric puzzle gameplay
  • Time and space manipulation
  • Perspective shifting mechanics
  • Escherpunk world with unique biomes
  • Narrative-driven progression
  • Portal placement and return
Features
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Ascend the roofs of the city and journey to the top of the highest tower, where you may even discover something about yourself. Chronescher is a challenging isometric puzzle game. Set in an escherpunk world consisting of six unique biomes. It requires you to learn time- space- and mind bending mechanics in order to puzzle your way forward. As you progress further you will untangle who you are playing and what happened to them. Master Time and Space: Learn to place portals and return to them at a whim. Place a time anchor in order to take a snapshot of the level and restore the saved state at a later point - without moving yourself. Change your perspective in order to unveil new paths and hidden passages. The most difficult puzzles will require you to combine all these abilities and reach places that seem almost impossible to get to.

Screenshots

Boxville4 screens
Chronescher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Boxville at 4.7 against Chronescher's 3.0. Boxville also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (755 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Boxville costs $3.99 and Chronescher $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boxville holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boxville has 755 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Boxville's written reviews are positive against 75% of Chronescher's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Boxville ships an update every 9 days, Chronescher every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Boxville versus Chronescher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoxvilleChronescher
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating4.7 (755 ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings755 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#188 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB288 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTriomatica GamesPurple Sloth Studio eG

Customer experience

Boxville

All ratings755 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative13.7%

Chronescher

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

Boxville

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Progress reset after updates
  • Inventory items disappearing
  • Puzzle mechanics not working as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer game with more content
  • Ability to use stylus/Apple Pencil
  • Improved save/load system
  • In-game hints or ability to skip puzzles

Chronescher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Boxville

No in-app purchases

None

Chronescher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boxville free?
Boxville costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chronescher free?
Chronescher costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Boxville or Chronescher?
Boxville is rated higher. Boxville averages 4.7 out of 5 from 755 ratings, while Chronescher averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Boxville or Chronescher have ads?
Neither Boxville nor Chronescher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Boxville or Chronescher?
Boxville ships an update every 9 days, and Chronescher every 18 months. Most recently, Boxville was updated on October 18, 2026 and Chronescher on October 16, 2026.

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