Comparison

Family Bash vs Delete After Reading

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Explore family dynamics and secrets
  • Make impactful narrative choices
  • Uncover a mysterious will
  • Unique visual style
  • Original rap soundtrack
  • Navigate intergenerational conflict
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive reading and story gameplay
  • Escape room style puzzles
  • Unique storytelling format
  • Adventure mission
  • Stealth and puzzle mechanics
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Family Bash4 screens
Delete After Reading4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Family Bash ships an update every 2 weeks, Delete After Reading every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Family Bash versus Delete After Reading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFamily BashDelete After Reading
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (26 ratings)4.2 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.1% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2674 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.212.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size497 MB393 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperARTE France AppsPatrones y Escondites

Customer experience

Family Bash

All ratings26 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative19.2%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive64.1%
Neutral10.3%
Negative25.6%

Delete After Reading

All ratings74 ratings
Positive78.4%
Neutral6.8%
Negative14.9%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

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

1 purchases

Family Bash

One-time1
  • Family Bash - the full game$4.99
1 purchases

Delete After Reading

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Family Bash free?
Family Bash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Delete After Reading free?
Delete After Reading is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Family Bash or Delete After Reading?
Delete After Reading is rated higher. Family Bash averages 4.0 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Delete After Reading averages 4.2 from 74 ratings.
Do Family Bash or Delete After Reading have ads?
Neither Family Bash nor Delete After Reading shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Family Bash or Delete After Reading?
Family Bash ships an update every 2 weeks, and Delete After Reading every 4 weeks. Most recently, Family Bash was updated on October 24, 2026 and Delete After Reading on October 24, 2026.

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