Ships Squared vs Flippy the Train
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ships Squared
A logic puzzle game where players deduce the hidden layout of thirteen ships on a 10x10 grid. It offers varying difficulty levels, from casual to intensely challenging, and allows for custom game creation and sharing with friends.
- Deduce hidden ship layouts
- 10x10 grid gameplay
- 12 difficulty levels
- Unlimited custom games
- Design and share own layouts
- Workout for the mind
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Ships Squared (Ships²) is a new game exclusive to the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch. You probably grew out of Battleships a long time ago. Now it's time to grow back in. Because Ships² is for adults, not children. Ships² is addictive. If you let it, it will take over your mind and ruin your life. Thirteen ships are laid out on a 10x10 board according to strict rules. You fire at squares. You get the results. You deduce where the ships are. And you draw them. Unlike traditional Battleships, you don't actually need to sink the ships: it's deducing their layout that is the achievement. There are 12 levels, all using the same basic rules. The lightest ones can be played casually while waiting for the bus. The middling ones take from 5 to 20 minutes of concentrated thought. The heaviest levels demand intense, rigorous, error-free reasoning for half an hour or more. Only a few geniuses will attempt the top level, which takes two hours at least. Ships² is not a game of chance but of reasoning. It's a workout for the mind. Like all workouts, you mustn't overdo it. As it says on the bottle: please think responsibly! Ships² can create an unlimited number of different games for you to play. You can design your own layouts too, and send them to your friends to see how well they do. Full, illustrated instructions are included as part of the game.
Flippy the Train
Solve digital circuitry puzzles by building train tracks that model logic gates like NOT, AND, and OR. Challenge yourself to create complex circuits such as XOR gates and half-adders with minimal track segments. Explore a sandbox mode for freeform track creation.
- Digital circuitry puzzles
- Logic gate simulation (NOT, AND, OR, XOR)
- Half-adder circuit challenges
- Sandbox mode for track creation
- Minimal track segment challenges
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Build a train track to solve digital circuitry puzzles! Flippy the Train rides the rails, flipping switches to model basic digital circuitry: NOT, AND, and OR logic gates. After building these basics, reuse them in larger tracks to create the more-complex XOR gate and half-adder. What is the fewest number of track segments required to build a half-adder? Includes a sandbox mode for creating arbitrary track for Flippy to ride.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ships Squared at every 6 weeks against Flippy the Train's every 6 months. Ships Squared also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 13.0). Flippy the Train's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ships Squared against 5.0 for Flippy the Train. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Ships Squared's written reviews are positive against 100% of Flippy the Train's.
Ships Squared ships an update every 6 weeks, Flippy the Train every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ships Squared | Flippy the Train |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Universalis Publishing | Karl Voskuil |
Customer experience
Ships Squared
Flippy the Train
In-app purchases
Ships Squared
No in-app purchases
Flippy the Train
No in-app purchases







