Pipes vs Misery Match
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipes
Connect pipe segments by rotating them to form a continuous flow. This addictive puzzle game offers a variety of board sizes and challenging options. Features like piece locking and auto-save enhance the gameplay experience.
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Multiple board sizes
- Wraparound option
- Piece locking feature
- Auto save and resume
- Online leaderboard
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Rotate the pipe segments to connect all the pieces. Easy to learn and very addictive. Features: - Randomly generated puzzles - never the same game twice - Multiple board sizes ranging from "Training Wheels" (4x4) to "Mega Insane" (56x70) * - Introductory tutorial - Wraparound option (also known as "without walls" or "endless") * - "One color" option - when enabled, all pipes are blue, making it harder to tell which ones are connected * - Piece locking feature to help with large boards - Zoom and scroll using familiar pinch and drag gestures - Auto save and resume - never lose your place, even if someone calls in the middle of your game - Timer (can be disabled if you want a more relaxing game) - Online leaderboard - compare your best times to other players around the world * - Offline "personal best times" - try to beat your best times - Introductory tutorial - Piece locking feature to help with large boards - Every puzzle can be solved - Wraparound option (also known as "without walls" or "endless") - "One color" option - when enabled, all pipes are blue, making it harder to tell which ones are connected - Online leaderboard - compare your best times to other players around the world * Requires in-app purchase, or previous app purchase from 1.0 or 2.0 versions
Misery Match
Engage in a fast-paced matching game requiring quick pattern recognition. Match three cards before time expires by identifying similarities across four categories: motion, color, count, and shape. Test your skills across 100 increasingly difficult levels.
- Fast-paced matching gameplay
- Identify patterns in four categories
- Progressively harder levels
- 100 challenging levels
- Time-based challenges
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Misery Match is a challenging fast-paced game where your goal is to find matches of 3 cards before time runs out. Find patterns between unique cards each with four different categories: motion, color, count, and shape. Every level gets progressively harder. Can you beat all 100 levels?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pipes at 155 against Misery Match's 1. Misery Match's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Pipes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Misery Match sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Misery Match holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pipes has 155 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pipes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Misery Match's.
| Parameter | Pipes | Misery Match |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (155 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Kerley | Jeremy Swedberg |
Customer experience
Pipes
Misery Match
Bugs and requests
Pipes
Reported bugs
9 issues- Not very responsive
- Game crashes to Home Screen with recent updates
- Newest version fails to complete correctly
- No longer comes up with the “complete ok” prompt
- No longer has the “new game prompt immediately available to start a new game with the same parameters as the last one
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- Rotating animation is annoying and slows gameplay
- Game won't launch anymore with latest iOS update
- Game freezes on the outside tiles on bigger phones
- Screen is too sensitive on larger phones, turning one tile accidentally turns more
Requested features
10 requests- Add more levels for gameplay
- Ability to change pipe color
- Remove timer option
- HD version
- Support for Retina display
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- Support for extra screen size of iPhone 5 and iPad
- Option to change color from blue
- Counter for remaining leaks
- Different way of seeing leaks
- Update with super insane levels
Misery Match
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pipes
- Unlock Full Game$0.99
Misery Match
- Infinity Mode$2.99
