SEQ vs Recursive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SEQ
Engage in a challenging puzzle game featuring a unique concept. Test your skills with this mentally stimulating experience.
- Unique puzzle concept
- Serious challenge
- Mentally stimulating
- New puzzle game
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Are you ready for a serious challenge? Get SEQ and discover a great new puzzle game with a unique concept!
Recursive
A challenging puzzle game where you guide robots to collect gems by creating simple programs. Master recursion and logic with a minimalistic, easy-to-learn language and diverse level elements.
- Learn a simple programming language
- Solve puzzles with robots and gems
- Master recursion concepts
- Explore diverse level elements
- Challenging, hard puzzles
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Recursive is a puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming. It is the perfect game for people who love hard puzzles. Your goal is to help little robots complete their mission and collect all gems by finding the correct pattern and translating it into a short program. # Programming language (no prior knowledge required) The programming language is minimalistic and easy to learn. It doesn't require any prior programming knowledge and consists of only four instructions. - Move forward: Move one cell forward. - Rotate left: Rotate 90° left in place. - Rotate right: Rotate 90° right in place. - Change color: Load a chip of a specified color and execute the instructions it contains. And even with this simple programming language, robots can follow complex patterns thanks to the power of recursion and to other tricks that you can discover along with your progression in the game. # Rich levels Recursive offers a large variety of levels thanks to supporting multiple types of elements. - Robots: They can have different colors that reflect the chip they have loaded. - Gems: Your goal is to collect all of them. - Bugs: They destroy robots and make them disappear. - Chips: They make robots load a different program. - Teleportation gates: They make robots teleport to a different location. - Inactive robots: They are activated when touched by another robot. # Mastering recursion Recursion is said to be hard to understand as a famous quote attributed to Stephen Hawking says: "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." However, we believe that playing Recursive is another fun way to understand it or even master it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Recursive at every 4 days against SEQ's every 6 weeks. SEQ's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 28) and review sentiment (94% vs 71%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
SEQ costs $1.99 and Recursive $2.99 up front. SEQ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Recursive sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Recursive holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SEQ has 2.6K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of SEQ's written reviews are positive against 71% of Recursive's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SEQ ships an update every 6 weeks, Recursive every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SEQ | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.6K ratings) | 4.9 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.3% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1Button SARL | Kidori |
Customer experience
SEQ
Recursive
Bugs and requests
SEQ
Reported bugs
2 issues- Freezing on login screen
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to save progress
- Provide more difficult puzzles
- Improve difficulty labeling
- Introduce new game worlds
Recursive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SEQ
- 5-Key Pack$0.99
Recursive
- 10 hint credits$0.99
- 20 hint credits$1.99
- 40 hint credits$2.99









