Scream The Game vs Detective Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scream The Game
This app enhances a cooperative real-time board game by featuring Ghost Face's voice. Players must work together to complete game objectives before time runs out, while Ghost Face taunts and stalks them. The app offers adjustable difficulty and language settings for a more intense experience.
- Real-time cooperative gameplay
- Interactive Ghost Face voice calls
- Adjustable difficulty modes
- Customizable language settings
- Tense and fast-paced experience
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This app is designed to be used with the Scream Game from Funko Games. This cooperative board game is played in real time. It's a fun, tense and fast-paced experience! Work together to play cards as fast as you can. Rush to draw and trade for the cards you need to complete your scene. If you complete all the scenes before time runs out, and before any player is killed, you all win! If not, Ghost Face gets you and you all lose! Ghost Face (voiced by Roger L. Jackson) will call you using this app to taunt, threaten, or stalk players during the game as described in the instructions and how to play video. Make sure to keep working together and prevent players from becoming Ghost Face's next victim! Need more of a challenge? Select Hard Mode in the Settings and Ghost Face calls more often and you have less time to win. The game defaults to Moderate language, but you may choose Strong language for more graphic and intense narration from Ghost Face.
Detective Notes
Organize clues, suspects, and locations to solve mysteries. Customize your detective notebook for any game, adjust player counts, and keep your strategies private. Features include marker variety and multilingual support.
- Customizable setup for suspects, tools, and locations
- Flexible player count adjustment
- Private note customization
- Variety of marker tools
- Multilingual support
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The perfect companion for your mystery board games — the detective notebook! Are you ready to take your deduction skills to the next level? This app helps you track clues, organize suspects, and solve mysteries with ease. • Customizable Setup: Add or edit suspects, tools, and locations to create your own unique detective notebook and share it with friends. • Flexible Player Count: Easily adjust the notebook to match the number of participants so you can enjoy the game anytime, anywhere. • Private Strategy: Customize or hide your notes for each game to keep your deductions secret from other players. • Marker Variety: Use a range of markers to help with your deduction process, undo mistakes, or reset everything with one tap. • Multilingual Support: Play and share your detective fun in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Now is the time to level up your detective game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Detective Notes at 4.7 against Scream The Game's 3.7. Detective Notes also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (72% vs 54%). Scream The Game's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Detective Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scream The Game asks for nothing beyond the download.
Detective Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 162 and 217 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Scream The Game's written reviews are positive against 72% of Detective Notes's.
Scream The Game ships an update every 6 months, Detective Notes every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scream The Game | Detective Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (162 ratings) | 4.7 (217 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.9% of reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 | 217 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goliath BV | Kyeong Cheon Yang |
Customer experience
Scream The Game
Detective Notes
User reviews
Scream The Game
From 162 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Fun game
- 👻 Great Ghostface interactions
- 🎥 Exciting and fast-paced gameplay
- 🎉 Enjoyable for family and friends
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches (e.g. Ghostface not calling, app crashing)
- 🕰️ Repetitive setup (having to re-enter player names/photos each game)
- 🔊 Volume/audio issues (quiet voice, missing sound effects)
- 🤔 Unbalanced difficulty (normal mode too easy, hard mode too hard)
Detective Notes
From 217 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 All-in-one solution for Clue
- 🚀 Makes Clue game more efficient
- 😍 Fun for playing with friends
- 👍 Great alternative to paper
- 😊 Fun for family game nights
Room to improve
- 🐛 Reset button stopped working
- 🐛 App blocks for days
- 🐛 Custom settings don't work
- 🐛 Ads not closable
- 🐛 Error on start, unusable
Bugs and requests
Scream The Game
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashing or freezing
- Ghostface not calling at all in certain game modes
- Incorrect difficulty settings (normal/hard mode swapped)
- Issues with volume and audio playback
Requested features
4 requests- Save player profiles to avoid repeated setup
- Add more locations/interactions beyond just high school and Macher house
- Provide more customization options (e.g. timer, difficulty settings)
- Improve Ghostface's call frequency and threat variety
Detective Notes
Reported bugs
8 issues- Reset button stopped working after update
- Application blocked for 3 days
- Custom setting does not work
- Ads are not closable, requires force close
- Error on main screen, cannot use app
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- Weapons and rooms categories select 2 rows at a time
- App broke when adding more custom suspects, weapons, rooms
- Harry Potter version shows 8 rooms instead of 9
Requested features
5 requests- Add numbering system for cells
- Allow multiple numbers per cell
- Add Harry Potter version rooms (9 rooms)
- Fix custom settings functionality
- Fix weapons and rooms category selection
In-app purchases
Scream The Game
No in-app purchases
Detective Notes
- No Ads$3.99
Questions
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