Comparison

Patience Balls vs Packed!?

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

Head to head
About

Patience Balls

Engage in a minimalist physics puzzle game designed for a calming and meditative experience. Solve intricate labyrinths and mazes using precision, patience, and logic. This game offers a serene escape while sharpening your reflexes and problem-solving skills.

Highlights
  • Relaxing Zen-like Gameplay
  • Mind-Teasing Labyrinths and Mazes
  • Physics-Based Challenges
  • Precision and Logic Puzzles
  • Beautiful Minimal Graphics
  • Unlockable Achievements
  • Global Leaderboards
Features
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Master your focus and conquer precision tilt controls in Patience Balls—the ultimate physics-based marble maze puzzle game! Whether you are navigating smooth logic labyrinths or tackling high-precision spatial challenges, test your steady hands, master fine balance, and guide every ball safely to its goal. Patience Balls combines realistic motion physics with clean, minimalist board design. Every movement requires complete spatial control, visual focus, and timing—offering a deeply satisfying physics experience where precision leads to victory. Key Features: • Precision Physics & Gyro Control: Calibrated tilt mechanics tuned for exact spatial accuracy. Every subtle wrist movement directly influences board gravity. • Challenging Marble Mazes: Navigate 3D labyrinths, narrow paths, moving obstacles, and gravity holes designed to test your hand-eye coordination. • Test Your Focus & Patience: Progress through 200+ handcrafted levels ranging from satisfying rolling puzzles to high-precision skill challenges. • Satisfying ASMR & Minimalist Design: Clean visuals paired with tactile rolling physics and crisp audio for an engaging, anti-stress atmosphere. • Seamless Offline Play: No Wi-Fi required. Enjoy zero-friction tilt puzzle gameplay anytime, anywhere. • Track Your Mastery: Unlock unique marble skins, achieve level milestones, and see how your precision balance stacks up on global leaderboards. Steady your hands, master the tilt, and download Patience Balls today!

About

Packed!?

Guide two characters through increasingly challenging box-pushing puzzles to escape a depot. Solve each level with minimal moves and time, utilizing unique mechanics introduced in each world. The game features simple, visual-only controls and 120 handcrafted levels.

Highlights
  • 120 challenging puzzle levels
  • Move count and time-based rating system
  • Unique mechanics per world
  • Simple, visual-only controls
  • No in-game text
Features
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Packed!? is an extremely difficult puzzle game which has you guiding two punctual little friends on their journey to escape the depot one box at a time. Each box offers a fun, increasingly challenging puzzle to solve in as few moves as possible, as you push, slide and outsmart obstacles that stand between our friends and their path to freedom. They’re great listeners and will follow your direction in unison - for better or worse… GAME FEATURES * 120 carefully crafted levels of increasingly difficult puzzles. * Rating system based on move count and elapsed time. * A unique mechanic for each world you unlock. * Simple controls. * No text. All communication is conveyed through visuals. * No ads

Screenshots

Patience Balls4 screens
Packed!?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Packed!? at none against Patience Balls's shown. Packed!? also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Patience Balls's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (478 vs 52). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Patience Balls sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Packed!? sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Patience Balls holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Patience Balls has 478 ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Patience Balls's written reviews are positive against 64% of Packed!?'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Patience Balls ships an update every 3 weeks, Packed!? every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Patience Balls versus Packed!?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatience BallsPacked!?
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (478 ratings) — better4.4 (52 ratings)
Positive reviews68.2% of reviews — better64.0% of reviews
Number of ratings478 — better52
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size274 MB358 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRicardo MendoncaShortbread Games Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Patience Balls

All ratings478 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive68.2%
Neutral18.2%
Negative13.6%

Packed!?

All ratings53 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral3.8%
Negative11.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive64.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative24.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Patience Balls

One-time7
  • 250 Gems$0.99
  • Patience Balls Premium$1.99
  • 400 Gems$1.99
Show 4 more
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$2.99
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$3.99
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$4.99
  • Remove ads and 2500 Gems$7.99
6 purchases

Packed!?

One-time6
  • 5 Hints$0.99
  • 15 Hints$1.99
  • Full Game$2.99
Show 3 more
  • 30 Hints$2.99
  • 50 Hints$2.99
  • 100 Hints$3.99

Questions

Is Patience Balls free?
Patience Balls is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Packed!? free?
Packed!? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Patience Balls or Packed!??
Patience Balls is rated higher. Patience Balls averages 4.8 out of 5 from 478 ratings, while Packed!? averages 4.4 from 52 ratings.
Do Patience Balls or Packed!? have ads?
Patience Balls shows ads; Packed!? does not.
Which is updated more often, Patience Balls or Packed!??
Patience Balls ships an update every 3 weeks, and Packed!? every 9 days. Most recently, Patience Balls was updated on October 17, 2026 and Packed!? on October 9, 2026.

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