Comparison

Befuddled vs Marbly

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

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About

Befuddled

This word game blends puzzle, crossword, and word search elements for a relaxing yet strategic experience. Form words by connecting adjacent tiles, which then vanish and are replaced, introducing new challenges and tile types as you progress. Utilize special abilities to enhance your gameplay and aim for high scores.

Highlights
  • No timer, relaxing gameplay
  • Form words from adjacent tiles
  • Falling tiles and new tile types
  • Special abilities like bombs and swaps
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • High score tracking
  • Extensive word dictionary
Features
Currently charting
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BE BEFUDDLED! Are you a bookworm at heart? Befuddled is an all new word game that is a mix of puzzle games, crosswords, word search games, and much more! If you ever want to relax to a word game that has no timer and lets you get lost in strategic thinking, Befuddled is the game for you. Form words by touching adjacent tiles in the grid. You can select tiles to the right, left, up, down, and diagonally. As you submit words, the used up letters in the grid vanish, and tiles fall down from above to take their place. When you reach higher levels, additional tile types (marble, jade, glass, and ruby) begin to fall, in addition to the original wood style. Words can only be spelled using a single tile type. SPECIAL ABILITIES - Small and Big Bombs - Change Materials - Buy Tiles - Move x2 Multiplier - Swap Tiles - Scramble Tiles - Kill Tiles By Texture Features: --------- * Addictive gameplay with no timer * 5 unique tile types with varied looks * Multiple kinds of bonuses * Many strategies and play methods * A tutorial system * Complete help menus * 4 difficulty levels * High Score and Best Word lists (separate lists for each level!) * Colorful tiles and animations * A dictionary of over 450,000 words * Tracked stats for each game ___________________________________________ Visit us at www.inertsoap.com

About

Marbly

This mobile puzzle game challenges your mind with marble-matching mechanics. Designed by the creator of Tetris, it offers hundreds of unique puzzles and daily challenges. Compete against the clock, aim for high scores, and strategize your moves to clear the board.

Highlights
  • Marble matching gameplay
  • Hundreds of unique puzzles
  • Daily puzzle challenges
  • Time, Score, and Moves challenges
  • Brain-training mechanics
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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TETRIS® 40 YEARS: This game designed by Tetris® creator. Play puzzle classics from Tetris® creator on your mobile device! Shake up your Mind! Alexey Pajitnov – author of world-famous Tetris® comes to you with his new creation. This is the first game ever designed by Mr. Tetris exclusively for mobile devices. Move the marbles to build a line of three or more matching marbles at every go. Remove all marbles from the board to solve a puzzle. - Play free set of puzzles; - Play new free puzzles daily; - Race against the clock in Time Challenge; - Score enough points in Score Challenge; - Build your solution strategy in Moves Challenge and much more. Win enough coins for additional sets of puzzles and challenges. Get your brain ready for a real challenge – Alexey’s Challenge: Marbly ™ Featuring: - 240+ unique puzzles exclusively braincrafted for you by Mr. Tetris; - 1400+ free daily puzzles; - series of Daily, Time, Moves, Score and Golden challenges; - listen Mr. Tetris summary on your play; - Game Center high score competitions and achievements. Marbly™ makes losing your marbles so much fun! Try now and enjoy forever! Please visit official Marby page at Facebook for your questions and comments: https://www.facebook.com/wildsnakemarbly “I highly recommend checking out Marbly. Just like Tetris, this features simple gameplay, but it is definitely tricky at times, which is great to see in a puzzle game.” - Christine Chan, http://www.appadvice.com "The Marbly game, is an innovative, simple yet difficult, interesting, engrossing and brain application, board game." - Chaudhari Ali, http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com "Simply put, Pajitnov and Wildsnake have made a great puzzle game." - Andrew Mandula, http://www.gameskinny.com "Marbly is still both challenging and addictive in equal measure, the perfect combination for a good iOS puzzle game."-Lee Hamlet, http://www.freeitunestore.com

Screenshots

Befuddled4 screens
Marbly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Marbly at Free against Befuddled's $1.99. Marbly also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (54 vs 12). Befuddled's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Marbly is free to download; Befuddled costs $1.99 up front. Marbly sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Befuddled asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Marbly holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 54 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Befuddled's written reviews are positive against 78% of Marbly's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Befuddled ships an update every 2 months, Marbly every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Befuddled versus Marbly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBefuddledMarbly
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (12 ratings)4.4 (54 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.4% of reviews — better77.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1254 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#73 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas RicketANDREY NOVIKOV

Customer experience

Befuddled

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive89.4%
Neutral3.9%
Negative6.7%

Marbly

All ratings54 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral9.3%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews192 reviews
Positive77.6%
Neutral7.3%
Negative15.1%

User reviews

Befuddled

From 12 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent game
  • 👍 Challenging and addictive
  • 🧠 Keeps the brain active
  • 🕰️ No time limit, can play at own pace
  • 💡 Multiple games can be saved at once

Room to improve

  • 🔇 No option to completely mute the game
  • 🪙 Coins deplete quickly, need more for special actions
  • 🔋 Battery intensive

Marbly

From 54 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🧠 Intellectually stimulating and challenging puzzles
  • 😊 Highly addictive and engaging gameplay
  • 🎮 Simple yet fun mechanics easy to learn
  • 🎯 Good difficulty progression from easy to hard
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family-friendly and suitable for all ages

Room to improve

  • 📱 Severe overheating issues on iPhones
  • 💔 Excessive pop-up advertisements
  • 💰 Aggressive in-app purchase monetization
  • 🔇 Difficult to disable sound/music
  • 🎮 Inconsistent and unclear scoring system

Bugs and requests

Befuddled

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Top score not always updating correctly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a 'quick game' option
  • Implement a 'check word' feature
  • Improve letter distribution, less repetitive tiles
  • Add support for Apple Watch

Marbly

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • iPhone overheating to dangerous levels
  • App crashes on startup with blue screen
  • App won't open or immediately crashes to home
  • Scoring system produces incorrect/inconsistent results
  • Sound cannot be disabled even when turned off
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  • Daily challenge doesn't update daily
  • Achievements not working properly
  • Puzzle difficulty inconsistencies and balance issues
  • Crashes on iPhone 4S and iOS 15.0.2

Requested features

10 requests
  • Sound/music volume control option
  • Clear and detailed game rules documentation
  • More ways to earn coins without daily challenges
  • Additional puzzle volumes and levels
  • Better explanation of scoring mechanics
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  • More frequent daily challenges
  • Adjustable difficulty settings
  • Unlimited undo and restart options
  • Achievements system fix and improvements
  • Reduced in-app purchase pricing

In-app purchases

None

Befuddled

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Marbly

One-time6
  • Pack of 10 Marbly Coins$0.99
  • Pack of 25 Marbly Coins$1.99
  • Pack of 20 Marbly Coins$1.99
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  • Pack of 50 Marbly Coins$3.99
  • Pack of 100 Marbly Coins$6.99
  • Magic Sac (unlimited coins)$14.99

Questions

Is Befuddled free?
Befuddled costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Marbly free?
Marbly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Befuddled or Marbly?
Marbly is rated higher. Befuddled averages 4.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Marbly averages 4.4 from 54 ratings.
Do Befuddled or Marbly have ads?
Marbly shows ads; Befuddled does not.
Which is updated more often, Befuddled or Marbly?
Befuddled ships an update every 2 months, and Marbly every 3 months. Most recently, Befuddled was updated on November 1, 2026 and Marbly on November 1, 2026.

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