Circuitous vs Overwords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Circuitous
A puzzle game where you slide and rotate tiles to connect two terminals. It features 40 challenging levels, including complex circuits with multiple connection points. Track your best times and replay levels to improve your scores.
- Slide and rotate tiles
- Complete circuits
- 40 challenging levels
- Multiple terminals
- Best time tracking
- Replay levels
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Slide and rotate tiles to complete a circuit between two terminals. 40 levels of challenging puzzles. Higher levels include multiple terminals and puzzles where you must complete two possibly overlapping circuits. Keeps best time for game and each level. Can repeat levels to improve level and total time. To play, simply tap the tiles to rotate or touch and drag to slide into place. Great for all ages! Universal App - supports iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, including standard, Retina, and iPhone X displays. Even runs on Apple Mac or MacBook equipped with the new Apple’s M1 Silicon chip with easy to use keyboard and mouse controls.
Overwords
A word game where you stack, fuse, and expand letters to achieve high scores. Features an infinite mode for endless gameplay. It's completely free with no advertisements.
- Stack letters
- Fuse letters
- Expand words
- Infinite mode
- High score chasing
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Overwords returns: stack, fuse, and expand. Now with an infinite mode. Chase your high score for as long as you can. 100% free and no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Overwords at Free against Circuitous's $1.99. Overwords also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 35 months). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Overwords is free to download; Circuitous costs $1.99 up front. 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 Circuitous against 5.0 for Overwords. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Circuitous ships an update every 35 months, Overwords daily. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circuitous | Overwords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Magnin & Associates | Maciej Targoni |
Customer experience
Circuitous
Overwords
In-app purchases
Circuitous
No in-app purchases
Overwords
No in-app purchases
