Strong Mind Puzzles vs Oberty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strong Mind Puzzles
This game challenges your brain with progressively difficult puzzles designed to enhance cognitive skills. It helps users reduce impulsivity, improve planning, and develop introspection through unique gameplay mechanics.
- Progressively difficult puzzle variations
- Internal dialogue for skill building
- Reduces impulsivity
- Enhances planning behavior
- Encourages introspection
- Error-detection reflex training
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Strong Mind Puzzles update provides progressively difficult variations. This encourages deliberate rehearsal and enhances learning. The rules, graphics, number of icons, and abstract images become more complex. Individuals must use the voice in their head to match the goal and complete the game. The voice in our head (internal dialogue) builds executive skills because it helps: * reduce impulsivity * contributes to planning behavior * encourages introspection and reflection * provides a system to generate alternatives This updates include all previous Strong Mind Puzzle Variations. The user is able to control their starting point and progression. The user has the flexibility of moving between games to individualize their learning experience. — Strong Mind Puzzles is a game designed to challenge your brain. In her 35 years of cognitive restructuring practice, Dr. Markus created a series of paper-and-pencil puzzles to explore new ways to challenge the brain and rehearse cognitive abilities. To reach beyond her clinical practice, these puzzles were converted to a mobile format which provide numerous, varied opportunities for learning. Effective problem-solving and decision-making is based, at least in part, on the number of variables a problem solver or decision maker is capable of evaluating. With deliberate rehearsal, individuals can learn to increase the number of variables that they use to make a decision. -- Why Finding Mistakes Develops Critical Thinking Behaviors Strong Mind Puzzles can help reduce mistakes. Think about what happens when you make a mistake. You become emotionally attached to the mistake. As a result, this emotional investment makes it difficult to examine results objectively. Such reasoning helps explain why we are better at catching other people's mistakes than our own errors. These puzzles give you practice in identifying and learning to anticipate errors. When you are comparing and contrasting images you search for mistakes. With practice, this develops an error-detection reflex.
Oberty
This minimalist puzzle game challenges players to rotate and blend cards using XOR logic to solve over 200 unique puzzles. It features a relaxing soundtrack, inclusive color schemes, and a level editor to create and share custom challenges.
- Shape-blending puzzles
- XOR logic gameplay
- 200+ puzzles
- Meditative and relaxing
- Inclusive color schemes
- Level editor
- Share custom levels
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** Most Anticipated Game – Indie Cup Ukraine’23 ** ** OFFICIAL SELECTION, DAY OF THE DEVS, THE GAME AWARDS EDITION 2023 ** Oberty is a minimalist shape-blending puzzle. Rotate and blend cards with XOR rule: "Black + Black = White". • 200+ puzzles to complete • Meditative • Minimal • Monochromatic • Relaxing and atmospheric original soundtrack • Inclusive color schemes for people with visual impairment • Level editor, create and share you cards with friends • No ads LEVEL EDITOR Create your own unique level-cards, share it to your friends by sending picture. To play level simply load it from picture of level-card.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Oberty at $2.99 against Strong Mind Puzzles's $29.99. Oberty also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Strong Mind Puzzles's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16). On ratings volume, ads, monetization model 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
Strong Mind Puzzles costs $29.99 and Oberty $2.99 up front. Strong Mind Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Oberty asks for nothing beyond the download.
Oberty holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Strong Mind Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 67% of Oberty's.
Strong Mind Puzzles ships an update every 5 weeks, Oberty every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strong Mind Puzzles | Oberty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (10 ratings) | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #197 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Donalee Markus | Dmytro Denys |
Customer experience
Strong Mind Puzzles
Oberty
In-app purchases
Strong Mind Puzzles
- Levels 4-9$1.99
Oberty
No in-app purchases









