Alchemy Help vs Moth Lake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alchemy Help
This application assists players of the game Alchemy by detailing the ingredients needed to create specific items and what those items can be used to craft. It provides guidance for progressing through item tiers in the game.
- Item crafting recipes
- Ingredient lists
- Item usage guidance
- Supports specific Alchemy game versions
- User feedback integration
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Alchemy help is a program to help you with the game Alchemy. Sometimes you just need a little help to figure out the next tier of items. This program shows you what it takes to make an item and also what that item helps to make. Use as much or as little as you need. Please let us know if you have any feedback (web@lajdesignsw.com). Thanks This was designed for Alchemy by Zed. Some of the other Alchemy's might have other combinations not included. Email us any that you find are missing.
Moth Lake
Uncover a small town's dark secret through a story-driven adventure. Navigate a 2.5D pixel art world, solve unconventional puzzles, and make choices that impact character relationships and the narrative's outcome. Experience thrills, suspense, and horror with a touch of dark humor.
- 2.5D pixel art with frame-to-frame animations
- Simple controls for touch, mouse, keyboard, and controllers
- Unconventional puzzles with optional walkthrough
- Stealth-action gameplay
- Choices affecting character bonds and narrative
- Multiple endings
- Original soundtrack
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Synopsis: This is the story of Moth Lake, a small town that, behind its peaceful facade, hides a terrible secret. Only a group of teenagers, with a difficult life, will reveal what has been hidden for generations. Mysterious events will intensify starting from the eve of a solar eclipse, and our young friends will start a journey into the shadow and into their own soul. What to expect from this game: In short: •2.5D pixel art (Frame to frame animations, as if we are still in '90s) • Simple controls (Supporting touch screen, mouse, keyboard and controllers) • Unconventional puzzles (Don't worry, there's a free walkthrough if you need help!) • Stealth-action • Choices that will change the bonds between the characters as well as the spirit of the experience (Just like in life, a choice can make the difference between friendship, love, hate, life or death) • Thrills, suspense and horror (Not a survival game, but it can be creepy or scary at times) • Bad humor and strong language (They are teenagers, don't judge them) • At some point this experience might even move you to tear (I'm not crying, I just got a pixel in my eye) • 6 different endings • A soundtrack that is original, suggestive, and exciting In detail: Moth Lake is a story-driven experience, with a lot of textual contents (more than 20k words), and hundreds of different scenes (more than 300 scenarios). The script is a long journey through a mystery, through horrors and through the characters hearts. It contains dark topics and very sad stuff, but also a lot of nonsense jokes and weird conversations, so it's hard to say whether it is a horror game or not. The main characters move around a 2.5D world, interacting with many hotspots and NPCs. They can pull objects and perform a set of specific actions to solve very different puzzles. The artwork is a modern pixel art, with a big colour palette and a lot of frame-to-frame animations. There's a very large set of animations, including talking, walking, running, crouching, crawling, pushing, climbing, sneaking, punching, throwing... and much more. Scenarios have some modern lighting/shading work, with particles effects and a constant use of parallax, to simulate a 3D environment. There are 6 main characters and more than 50 NPCs, with their own look and personality. You can control 7 characters through the main story and more in the additional chapters. They all move their eyes, they change facial expressions, and they have some peculiar behaviours. As the story proceeds, the player has to take some choices, affecting the characters mood and sometimes even the plot. For most of the time the player controls a character surrounded by his/her friends. Each one has some kind of skill to be used at the right moment, and sometimes even their personality will be important to solve a puzzle. Some puzzles can be solved by a single character, while other must be solved using the whole squad cooperation. As I said, the game aims to give psychological horror vibes. So keep in mind that this game is not for everyone! Some scenes are disturbing, some scenes may give you anxiety, and some other scenes are extremely sad. Characters are constantly called to face their difficult past, and to go through their scary present. They need to hide, to take terrible decisions and sometimes even to fight for their lives. ...But after all, your choices can lead you to the best possible ending, and if you fail, you can always try again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Alchemy Help at 5.0 against Moth Lake's 4.2. Alchemy Help also leads on price ($0.99 vs $3.99) and chart position (#179 vs unranked). Moth Lake's advantage is review sentiment (72% vs 40%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Alchemy Help costs $0.99 and Moth Lake $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Alchemy Help holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moth Lake has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Alchemy Help's written reviews are positive against 72% of Moth Lake's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Alchemy Help ships an update every 7 months, Moth Lake every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alchemy Help | Moth Lake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 72.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #179 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Luke Jackson | Stefano Mazzotta |
Customer experience
Alchemy Help
Moth Lake
In-app purchases
Alchemy Help
No in-app purchases
Moth Lake
No in-app purchases
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