Line Sweeper vs Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Line Sweeper
This puzzle game challenges you to create a single, continuous loop by strategically placing lines. Numbered tiles indicate how many adjacent spaces must be part of the path, with a "check" function to help identify errors. It offers over 500 levels across five difficulty settings.
- Create a single continuous loop
- Numbered tiles guide path placement
- Over 500 levels
- 5 difficulty levels
- "Check" function highlights wrong lines
- Autosave unfinished levels
- Record best completion times
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Linesweeper is puzzle similar to Minesweeper. Your aim is to create a single continuous non-intersecting loop. The numbered tiles can't be passed through. The number means how many of the 8 surrounding tiles should contain some part of the solution path. Linesweeper is originally invented by Jak Marshall. **** Linesweeper features **** # Content - 5 difficulty levels - more than 500 levels # Features - "Check" function can highlight wrong lines - option to enable automatically highlight wrong lines - Automatically indicate correct numbers - Autosave the process of unfinished levels - Record best completion time for each level # Challenge - Game Center Achievements - Try to complete as many levels as possible
Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
This logic puzzle game challenges you to fill a grid with stars, ensuring no two stars touch, even diagonally. It offers daily and weekly challenges with varying difficulty levels and tracks your progress.
- Daily puzzle challenges
- Leaderboards for competitive play
- Weekly challenges for advanced players
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Puzzle packs for beginners
- Solving strategy guide
- Player stats and progress tracking
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Hoshi (星, Japanese for star) is a free and competitive Star Battle game with daily challenges. Star Battle, also known as "Two Not Touch", is a classic pen-and-paper logic puzzle published in newspapers and puzzle magazines worldwide. If you enjoy playing tricky puzzles and brain-teasing games and seek a new challenge, then you should give Hoshi a try. If you have never played the Star Battle logic game before, don’t worry the rules are straight forward: Similar to other logic puzzles you have a grid that you need to fill. In a normal 2 star “Two Not Touch” game each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars. Stars are not allowed to touch, even not diagonally. Hoshi includes Star Battles with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 stars, but games with more stars are yet to come ;) Hoshi offers you: - Everyday we release a new number game (daily puzzle challenge) - Track your solving time and compete against other players (leaderboards) - There is also a weekly challenge for geniuses (3 star plus games) - There are 5 different difficulties (easy to diabolical) - Packs with hand-selected logic puzzle (e.g. for beginners) - Guide with solving strategies - Profile with stats about your skill level & progress Coming soon: - Add your friends and play with them a numbers puzzle - Star Battle games with more than 5 stars Privacy policy: https://guriddo.app/hoshi/legal/privacy Terms of use: https://guriddo.app/hoshi/legal/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles at every 2 weeks against Line Sweeper's every 6 months. Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles also leads on ratings volume (272 vs 8). Line Sweeper's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 59%). 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. Line Sweeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.79 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Line Sweeper against 4.8 for Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles has 272 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Line Sweeper's written reviews are positive against 59% of Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles's.
Line Sweeper ships an update every 6 months, Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Line Sweeper | Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (272 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 59.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 272 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stanley Lam | Simon Schuster |
Customer experience
Line Sweeper
Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
In-app purchases
Line Sweeper
- Upgrade to Full Version$0.99
Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
- Supporter (Weekly)$0.797 Days
- Supporter (Monthly)$2.491 Month
- Supporter (Annual)$14.991 Year
- Beginner Pack 3$1.99
- Beginner Pack 5$1.99
- Beginner Pack 4$1.99
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- Advanced Pack 4$2.99
- Advanced Pack 2$2.99
- Advanced Pack 3$2.99
- Expert Pack 2$2.99
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