Family Bash vs Delete After Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Family Bash
Uncover family secrets and navigate intergenerational conflict at a 90th birthday celebration. Explore a small French town, make impactful choices, and interact with relatives to reveal hidden motives and a mysterious will. The game features a unique visual style and an original rap soundtrack.
- Explore family dynamics and secrets
- Make impactful narrative choices
- Uncover a mysterious will
- Unique visual style
- Original rap soundtrack
- Navigate intergenerational conflict
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Family Bash tells the timeless story of the Family – the one we love, cherish, insult and despise. You arrive in the village hall of a small French town out in the sticks in Normandy to celebrate your grandfather’s birthday: he’s 90 years old, still “all there” and is the living memory of your family. Just as the party is shaping up to be fun, you find yourself at the centre of an intergenerational conflict with unforeseeable consequences. You begin to uncover the dark secrets and ulterior motives of the various members of your family. In Family Bash, a seemingly insignificant choice can change the relationships between your family members forever. So explore your surroundings and make choices, talk to your cousins, confront your uncle and find out about that mysterious will – for better or for worse. • Explore some unusual themes in the video game: the family and comedy. • Find out about your grandfather’s last will and testament, uncover some unmentionable secrets and destroy your uncle’s car. • The extraordinary visual style of Geoffroy Monde • An original rap soundtrack Produced by Atomic Raccoon and Kilosaurus, edited and co-produced by ARTE FRANCE, European cultural TV and digital channel.
Delete After Reading
Engage in an interactive adventure that blends reading with puzzle-solving. Uncover a secret mission to retrieve a stolen videogame and alter destiny, all while ensuring your actions remain undetected.
- Interactive reading and story gameplay
- Escape room style puzzles
- Unique storytelling format
- Adventure mission
- Stealth and puzzle mechanics
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A book you can play, or a game you can read, Delete After Reading is a crafted combination of an adventure story and puzzle games about cheating your destiny. An original storytelling format for armchair detectives and escape room aficionados of all ages. On the worst day of your life, you find a strange device with a file named “Delete After Reading”. It’s a classified document. Nina, Cinco, and Tomate, a clandestine group of kids (they happen to be dead, but they’ve never let that small detail interfere with their daily, uh, lives) want you to join them on a secret mission to repair Destiny’s latest injustice: the despised millionaire Martin Skrilhex has stolen the only existing copy of the highly coveted videogame “The Curse of Penguin Island” so only he can play it. Together you’ll have to sneak into the magnate’s mansion and steal back the videogame, so kids around the world can play it. But this mission will only be successful if Destiny does not find out that you are changing his plans, so never ever forget to delete the file after reading it. Main features: - Text is the gameplay, a cool and innovative mix of interactive reading, story, and escape room puzzles. - An immersive storytelling format that broadens the view of what games (and books) could be. - A thrilling adventure story for the whole family.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Family Bash at free against Delete After Reading's free with in-app purchases. Family Bash also leads on review sentiment (64% vs 50%). Delete After Reading's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Family Bash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Delete After Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Delete After Reading holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 74 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Family Bash's written reviews are positive against 50% of Delete After Reading's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Family Bash ships an update every 2 weeks, Delete After Reading every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Family Bash | Delete After Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (26 ratings) | 4.2 (74 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 497 MB | 393 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ARTE France Apps | Patrones y Escondites |
Customer experience
Family Bash
Delete After Reading
Bugs and requests
Family Bash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Delete After Reading
Reported bugs
6 issues- Cannot scroll on MacBook Pro
- Symbols on TV are incorrect
- Cannot buy the game on Mac
- Chapter 5 is terrible on Mac
- TV did not show channels 7-9 until reloading app
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- Audio did not play after reloading
Requested features
8 requests- Add a save/continue feature
- Make all levels free or reduce price
- Add iCloud syncing
- Add built-in video walkthroughs
- Improve scrolling on iOS
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- Adjust controls for Mac users
- Fix text spacing issues
- Provide clearer guides for puzzles
In-app purchases
Family Bash
- Family Bash - the full game$4.99
Delete After Reading
- Full Game$4.99









