Honeycomb Hotel PRO vs Codenames
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Honeycomb Hotel PRO
Engage your mind with a logic puzzle game where you deduce image placements and paths within a honeycomb structure. This version offers 600 challenging puzzles across three sizes, requiring clear, cold, and precise reasoning to solve.
- 600 logic puzzles
- Small, medium, and large puzzle sizes
- Image placement deduction
- Pathfinding through honeycomb cells
- Graphical clue system
- Clear, precise logic required
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Honeycomb Hotel is a game of logic and deduction. The Pro version provides 600 puzzles, 200 in each of small, medium and large sizes. The goal of each puzzle is to determine the placements of images within the honeycomb (up to 37 different cells on the large puzzles) and to determine the exact path that runs through each cell of the honeycomb. You're provided with sufficient clues (presented graphically) to determine all of this using clear, cold, precise logic. Are you up to the task, or are you too buzzy?
Codenames
This official digital adaptation of a popular board game offers a unique word-association puzzle experience. Engage in turn-based matches, solve daily solo puzzles, and explore numerous rule variations for endless replayability. Collect themed word cards and level up your agent to unlock new content.
- Nearly 50 rule-bending game modes
- Daily solo puzzles
- Themed word collections
- Turn-based multiplayer
- Cross-platform play
- Pass & Play mode
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The official Codenames puzzle game from the makers of the award-winning board game. Built on the same clever clue-giving, but made for mobile: nearly 50 rule-bending game modes, daily solo puzzles, themed word collections and a deep meta-game. One purchase. No ads. No timers, no pay-to-win. Optional Duet expansion for two-player co-op. NOT JUST THE BOARD GAME ON YOUR PHONE This is a standalone Codenames game with its own content and style. Where the board game is a party game, this one is a puzzle game: every clue is a small riddle you crack at your own pace, and every mode adds a new twist to think through. HOW IT WORKS A grid of words hides your team's secret agents. As Spymaster, you give a single clue that links as many of your words as you dare. As Operative, you work out what your teammate meant and make the guesses. One wrong word helps the other team, and the assassin ends the game instantly. NEARLY 50 TWISTS ON THE RULES Every mode keeps the core of Codenames and bends one rule, turning each game into a fresh puzzle: • Mines: Codenames meets Minesweeper. Numbers on the cards tell you how many agents are hiding nearby. • Mirrors: the Spymasters' grids are symmetrical. Find the axis and you can deduce cards you were never given a clue for. • Convertor: before giving a clue, the Spymaster can swap the colors of two cards to set up a better clue or sabotage the other team. • Quantum Gadget: torn between two words? Mark both and the gadget reveals which one is the better pick. Use it wisely, you only get three per mission. • …and dozens more. SOLO PUZZLES EVERY DAY • Daily Cases: 16 cards, one clue. Find the right words, collect your reward and move on to the next case. Every puzzle is made by real players, not an algorithm. • Daily Spymaster Challenge: everyone gets the same board. Come up with your best clue, then see how it performs when other players try to guess it, and how it ranks against every other Spymaster's clue. COLLECT, LEVEL UP, EXPLORE • Open briefcases to collect themed word cards: video games, movies, travel, sci-fi, fantasy, history, the 20th century and more • Play themed missions with the words you've collected • Earn experience and level up your agent to unlock more daily cases, better rewards and new options PLAY WITH OTHERS AT YOUR OWN PACE • Turn-based matches for 2–4 players: take your turn whenever you have a minute • Get matched with players from around the world, on iPhone, iPad and Android • Invite friends to a private game, or pass one phone around with Pass & Play • Run several games at once, chat with your team and draw notes right on the board PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic. FROM THE MAKERS OF THE ORIGINAL Codenames is designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. The board game won the Spiel des Jahres 2016. This app won Best Design at the Czech Game of the Year Awards and was selected as an App Store Editors' Choice. CODENAMES: DUET EXPANSION (in-app purchase) The cooperative two-player version, based on the green-box Duet board game: • Work together instead of competing: take turns giving clues and guessing • Each player knows only some of the agents, and the same card can look different to each of them: a card one player sees as the assassin may be an agent the other player needs to contact • 28 VIP missions adapted from the original Duet, now for cooperative play • Dual Cases: probably the hardest puzzle in Codenames yet. First find the cards that connect to both clues, then the words that fit only one
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Honeycomb Hotel PRO at none against Codenames's 1. Honeycomb Hotel PRO also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 66%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Codenames's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 12). On ads, 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
Honeycomb Hotel PRO costs $0.99 and Codenames $4.99 up front. Codenames sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Honeycomb Hotel PRO asks for nothing beyond the download.
Honeycomb Hotel PRO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Codenames has 1.2K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Honeycomb Hotel PRO's written reviews are positive against 66% of Codenames's.
Honeycomb Hotel PRO ships an update every 27 months, Codenames fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Honeycomb Hotel PRO | Codenames |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 66.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #9 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 221 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Everett Kaser Software | CGE Digital s.r.o. |
Customer experience
Honeycomb Hotel PRO
Codenames
Bugs and requests
Honeycomb Hotel PRO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Codenames
Reported bugs
2 issues- Initial launch with only Czech language support
- Occasional app crashes and server disconnections
Requested features
5 requests- Add Codenames Duet mode
- Implement AI/bot players for faster games
- Allow custom word packs and themes
- Add a 'speed mode' for faster gameplay
- Improve the jury system to maintain game integrity
In-app purchases
Honeycomb Hotel PRO
No in-app purchases
Codenames
- Krycí jména: Duet$4.99
Questions
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