Delete After Reading vs Tiny Machinery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Tiny Machinery
Immerse yourself in a virtual dimension to solve intricate puzzles and escape a mysterious experiment. Use your intellect to manipulate complex machinery and unlock the secrets of your confinement. Experience a unique escape room adventure with creative 3D graphics and atmospheric audio.
- Escape room-style puzzles
- Creative 3D graphics
- Intricate mechanisms
- Atmospheric audio
- Hint system
- Unlockable story notes
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You've been kidnapped by unknown scientists and your brain has been plugged into a sophisticated machine to run an experiment: travel into a virtual dimension to unlock weird machinery. Use your imagination and IQ to crack puzzles and complete all intricate levels to save your life. Can you make it? A CLEVER PUZZLE GAME Embark into an escape room-style adventure full of riddles! CREATIVE 3D GRAPHICS Explore weird machines that will impress you with their unique art style INTRICATE MECHANISMS Enjoy tons of original puzzles, interact with buttons, levers, and little wheels to complete each level ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO Play the game with your headphones to get immersed in the game at best TRY FOR FREE Play the first 4 levels for free, with the option to unlock all the levels with a small In-App purchase, which will make you experience the whole story and puzzles HINTS In case you get stuck on a level, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the riddles STORY NOTES You will unlock a new story paragraph for each level you will complete. Discover how your kidnappers have threatened you and how it ends! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent solo startup from Italy. Find out more at xsgames.co Follow me @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Delete After Reading at every 4 weeks against Tiny Machinery's every 3 months. Delete After Reading also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Delete After Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tiny Machinery sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Delete After Reading against 4.2 for Tiny Machinery. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 73 and 45 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Delete After Reading's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tiny Machinery's.
Delete After Reading ships an update every 4 weeks, Tiny Machinery every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Delete After Reading | Tiny Machinery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (73 ratings) | 4.2 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.6% of reviews | 54.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 73 — better | 45 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 393 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrones y Escondites | XSGames |
Customer experience
Delete After Reading
Tiny Machinery
Bugs and 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
Tiny Machinery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Delete After Reading
- Full Game$4.99
Tiny Machinery
- Full Game$3.99
- Full Game + Coffee$4.99
- Full Game + Love$7.99









