Surround vs Island Path Puzzle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surround
Strategically place wall blocks to surround an enemy on a turn-based board. Plan your moves carefully to prevent the enemy from escaping and achieve high scores by using fewer blocks and leaving escape routes open. Aim for three stars to unlock new levels.
- Surround enemy with wall blocks
- Turn-based gameplay
- Strategic move planning
- Scoring system for efficiency
- Unlockable levels
- Bonus for uncovered escape blocks
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A fun but challenging puzzle game! The objective of the game is to surround the enemy by placing wall blocks on the board before the enemy escapes trough an escape block. The game is turn based and the enemy can move in all directions. This makes it crucial to plan your next move carefully, otherwise the enemy will escape and you will lose! The less blocks you place the higher score you will get! You also get a big bonus at the end of the game for every escape block you don’t cover with a wall block during the game. Aim to get the score as high as possible to collect all 3 stars and unlock the next level.
Island Path Puzzle
Connect islands by building bridges according to specific rules. Solve logic puzzles with randomly generated levels and daily challenges. Play offline with intuitive controls.
- Connect islands with bridges
- Follow three logical rules
- Pure logical deduction gameplay
- Nine different board sizes
- Unlimited randomly generated levels
- Daily new challenges
- Offline play
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Island Path Puzzle is small logical game where you connecting island while following three simple rules: 1) All islands are connected and there are no cycles 2) The number of bridges connected to a given island is equal to the number on the island 3) The number of bridges in each row and column is equal to the number at the beginning of the row or column It's up to you to discover the correct connections of the islands using pure logic. Using logical deduction in different parts of the game board, you discover places where there are or aren't bridges. In this way, bit by bit you will connect all the islands and you will have a tangled maze of connected islands. Game control is very simple and intuitive. Just click between two islands to create a bridge between them. With another click, the bridge is simply removed. Other features of the game: - Game contains nine different sizes starting from small with couple of islands up to big ones with hundreds of islands. - An unlimited number of randomly generated levels available. - Each day there are 10 new challenges - No internet connection is required to play this puzzle game. If you like logical puzzles, this game is exactly for you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Island Path Puzzle at 5.0 against Surround's 3.5. Surround's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Surround sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Island Path Puzzle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Island Path Puzzle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Surround ships an update every 5 days, Island Path Puzzle every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Surround | Island Path Puzzle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INNCODER AS | LIBOR MASICEK |
Customer experience
Surround
Island Path Puzzle
In-app purchases
Surround
- 10 Coins$1.99
- 50 Coins$6.99
- 100 Coins$10.99
Island Path Puzzle
- +10 hints$0.99
- +25 hints$1.99
- +100 hints$4.99
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- Remove ads$9.99
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