Blindscape vs Frequency Missing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blindscape
An experimental audio-driven narrative game set in an authoritarian society. Players experience a story told entirely through sound, focusing on a man's desire to escape his life. It offers a unique, emotionally involving plot with no typical game mechanics.
- Entirely sound-based storytelling
- Experimental narrative gameplay
- Emotionally involving plot
- No in-app purchases or interruptions
- Unique artistic experience
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**Featured by Apple in Adventure and Role Playing game categories** Blindscape is a piece of experimental storytelling that takes place entirely through sound, . The narrative is told from the point of view of a man in an authoritarian society who wants to escape his life intolerable life by ending it. "A whole new take on puzzles . . . emotional and heartfelt." - Playboard.me "Games like Blindscape are a testament to the fact that even mobile gaming should be considered an art form, especially when done like this." - 148apps.com Features: • Stunning Retina-ready HD graphics • Up to ten minutes of gameplay • Some guy talking at you • No In-App Purchases, ratings nagging, or other interruptions • No badges, achievements, or integration with gamecenter • Makes you feel like a sophisticated patron of the arts • A serious, emotionally involving plot line • Look silly while you poke at the screen trying to find things Get the soundtrack: music.blindscapegame.com Sign up for the newsletter: blindscapegame.com Contact: gavin@gavinbrown.com
Frequency Missing
Embark on a captivating audio-only adventure game where you play as a young radio reporter investigating a colleague's disappearance and mysterious tampering with recordings. Solve puzzles, explore environments, and interact with characters using sound alone.
- Audio-only gameplay
- Point-and-click mechanics
- Mystery investigation
- Puzzle solving
- Character interaction
- Environmental exploration
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Plays best with headphones. Young radio reporter Patricia has just started her first job at a radio station. But immediately strange things begin to happen. Where is Richard, her friend and colleague who got her the job? He's been missing for three days. And who is tampering with Patricia's recordings? Solve mysteries and puzzles, explore environments and talk to characters. A short adventure game in classic point-and-click style with a small twist: The game can be played by using sound only! This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Blindscape at 1.4K against Frequency Missing's 92. Blindscape also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 80%). Frequency Missing's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Blindscape against 4.5 for Frequency Missing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blindscape has 1.4K ratings behind it against 92, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Blindscape's written reviews are positive against 80% of Frequency Missing's.
| Parameter | Blindscape | Frequency Missing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.5 (92 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.3% of reviews — better | 79.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 92 |
| Update frequency | Every 55 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 317 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gavin Brown | Hogskolan i Skovde |
Customer experience
Blindscape
Frequency Missing
Bugs and requests
Blindscape
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Frequency Missing
Reported bugs
3 issues- Clicking not registering properly
- Stuck on puzzles (e.g., building with cat and fruit boxes)
- Difficulty progressing in certain areas (e.g., newsroom)
Requested features
12 requests- Add new chapters
- Add an audio unit plug-in
- Speech settings (censor words, volume, pitch, speed, expression)
- More choice options to change the story
- Character backstory expansion
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- Prequel or sequel
- More directed action
- Longer and more in-depth game
- More games like this
- Fire fighting, police work, medical, or dispatching game ideas
- Ability to skip dialogue
- More choice options that can change the story
In-app purchases
Blindscape
No in-app purchases
Frequency Missing
No in-app purchases
