iCave vs Sisyphos
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iCave
Navigate a progressively shrinking cave, dodging obstacles to survive. Control your flight by touching and holding the screen to ascend, releasing to descend. Test your reflexes across three distinct difficulty levels.
- Endless cave navigation
- Touch and hold flight control
- Obstacle avoidance
- Three difficulty levels
- High score tracking
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Fly through an ever decreasing cave avoiding the obsticles in your way. How long can you last? To fly, touch and hold the screen to fly up, release and gravity will take its hold. Three levels of difficulty.
Sisyphos
Experience the Sisyphean task of pushing a rock uphill. This game offers a unique, philosophical challenge that explores themes of futility and perseverance. It's a minimalist yet profound gaming experience.
- Push a rock uphill
- Philosophical gameplay
- Minimalist design
- Humility and ego destruction themes
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Sisyphos lets you experience the joy and pain of pushing a rock up a mountain. "A lesson in humility—a destruction of the human ego" - killscreensdaily.com "Utterly ridiculous ,utterly pointless and utterly brilliant" pocketgamer.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iCave at 5.0 against Sisyphos's 4.2. iCave also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). Sisyphos's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 64 months) and ratings volume (371 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support 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. Sisyphos sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. iCave asks for nothing beyond the download.
iCave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sisyphos has 371 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of iCave's written reviews are positive against 82% of Sisyphos's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iCave ships an update every 64 months, Sisyphos every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCave | Sisyphos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.2 (371 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.8% of reviews | 81.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 371 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andy Qua | Florian Grolig |
Customer experience
iCave
Sisyphos
Bugs and requests
iCave
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Sisyphos
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes or freezes
- Unresponsive controls
- Audio issues
Requested features
4 requests- Endless hill mode
- Character customization options
- Varied landscapes or biomes
- Progression system or achievements
In-app purchases
iCave
No in-app purchases
Sisyphos
- A MODEST OFFERING2 variants$0.99
- A GENEROUS OFFERING$1.99
- A GENEROUS OFFERING$2.99
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- THE GODS ARE DELIGHTED$4.99
- THE GODS ARE DELIGHTED$5.99
