Nurikabe Vault vs Bal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nurikabe Vault
Engage your logic with a vast collection of original Nurikabe puzzles. This game offers hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, ranging in difficulty and size, with unique artwork for each board. Learn the rules and strategies with an included guide, and enjoy a pure puzzle experience without ads or data collection.
- Hundreds of original Nurikabe puzzles
- Hand-crafted challenges
- Varying difficulty levels
- Multiple board sizes
- Unique artwork
- Includes rules and strategy guide
- Optional visual hints
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An abundance of original, hand-crafted nurikabe puzzles. Nurikabe is a logic puzzle from the inventors of sudoku. Simply build a wall that divides the board into areas given by the numbers. There's only one way to do it! This collection contains 500 all original, hand-crafted puzzles. Difficulty ranges from merely tricky to utterly fiendish. Sizes range from 6 x 6 to 9 x 11, each with distinct and unique artwork. A guide demonstrates the rules and beginning strategies. Optional visual hints point out problems, and a solution is detected immediately. This game does NOT: - show Advertisements - offer In-App Purchases - collect Analytics - collect any Personal Information whatsoever You can put your scores on an Apple Game Center leaderboard if you like. That's the only data that will ever leave your device.
Bal
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Bal is a Knights & Knaves logic puzzle game. You meet a group of people — knights always tell the truth, knaves always lie — and figure out who is who from their statements. Features: • Thousands of puzzles with classic and whodunit modes • Adaptive difficulty — puzzles matched to your skill level • Multiple puzzle types: normals (wildcards), sanity/belief, compound statements • Track your rating and compete on the ranking Sign in with Google, Apple, GitHub, or Discord. No ads, ever. Currently free to play, may add in-app payments for unlimited puzzles or new puzzle types in the future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bal at Free against Nurikabe Vault's $0.99. Bal also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 13 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Bal is free to download; Nurikabe Vault costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nurikabe Vault ships an update every 13 months, Bal every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nurikabe Vault | Bal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rogers George | Steven Scott Kaye |
In-app purchases
Nurikabe Vault
No in-app purchases
Bal
No in-app purchases
