Comparison

Puzzled Paths vs Puzzle Vault

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

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Puzzled Paths

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Find your way through life in this short and sweet demo of a puzzle game.ย  Hold and pull the blocks to create a path forward and reach the goal.

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Puzzle Vault

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A new puzzle every day, 10+ brain games, and a badge for every milestone. Puzzle Vault is free to play, with no ads. Open the app and today's puzzle is waiting: a fresh challenge from a different game, the same one for everyone. Solve it to grow your streak. Miss a day and nothing is lost but the streak; all of the other puzzles are still there when you want them. Between daily puzzles there is a vault of 1,300+ hand-tuned levels across 10+ games. Block puzzles and water sort. Pipe connect and path drawing. Pentominoes, color mixing, untangle, parking jam, and the classic Lights Out. Calm, portrait, one-handed, no time pressure. THREE TABS, ONE VAULT โ€ข DAILY โ€” Today's puzzle, on a card of its own. Solve it, see your best time, and keep your streak alive. A new puzzle arrives every day. โ€ข PUZZLES โ€” All of the games, each with its chapters, level map and your progress. Pick up anything, any time. Every level plays offline. โ€ข BADGES โ€” 78+ medals to earn. Streak badges at 1, 5, 25, 50 and 100 days. Chapter and level badges for every game. Watch the progress ring fill as you play. 10+ GAMES, 1,300+ LEVELS โ€ข Jewelbox โ€” place three shapes at a time and clear lines to free the jewels. Crates, geodes, locked plates and buried gems. 80+ levels. โ€ข PowerPath โ€” connect and cover. Draw colored paths from every source to its core until the board is full. 220+ levels. โ€ข Lights Out โ€” tap a light and its neighbors flip too. Clear the grid in as few taps as you can. 150+ levels. โ€ข Pipe Spin โ€” rotate the pipes, seal every leak, get the water home. 60+ levels. โ€ข Pigment โ€” mix real paint to match the color each gate asks for, and a public-domain masterpiece is revealed behind it. 36+ levels. โ€ข Pour Sort โ€” sort the colored liquids back into matching tubes. Simple to learn, tricky to untangle. 160+ levels. โ€ข TileFit โ€” fit twelve pentomino pieces onto the board. Pure spatial reasoning. 70+ levels. โ€ข Untangle โ€” drag the nodes until no lines cross. Starts simple, gets tangled fast. 160+ levels. โ€ข Parking Jam โ€” slide the cars out of the way and free the red one. 90+ levels. โ€ข Sudoku โ€” classic 9ร—9 in five chapters, from Very Easy to Expert. 275+ puzzles. NO INTERRUPTIONS โ€ข Free to play, with no ads: no banners, no interstitials, no rewarded video โ€ข No lives, no hearts, no energy meter, no waiting to play again โ€ข No countdown timers: every puzzle waits as long as you do โ€ข No coins, no gems, no loot boxes โ€ข Undo and hints are always there, and progress saves after every move โ€ข All 1,300+ levels play offline. The daily puzzle downloads when you're online, so open the app once before a flight and it's ready If you enjoy the app, there's an optional "Buy us a coffee" tip in the Coffee tab. It unlocks nothing; it just keeps new games and levels coming, and earns you a supporter badge. BUILT FOR CALM Difficulty rises on a curve you can feel. Play one puzzle on a coffee break or an hour on the sofa; it picks up exactly where you stopped. Dark, soft artwork. One-handed portrait play. Works on phones and tablets. WHO IT'S FOR If you like daily puzzles, brain games, logic puzzles, sudoku and number puzzles, block puzzles, water sort and color sorting, untangle puzzles, pipe and flow connect puzzles, pentomino puzzles, brain teasers and relaxing offline puzzle games, and you want something to come back to each day without being pushed, this is it.

Screenshots

Puzzled Paths4 screens
Puzzle Vault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Puzzled Paths at none against Puzzle Vault's 5. Puzzled Paths also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.2). Puzzle Vault's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Puzzle Vault sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. Puzzled Paths asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Puzzled Paths versus Puzzle Vault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuzzled PathsPuzzle Vault
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Fortnightly
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better18.2
Further details โ€” not scored
Size151 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEge Deniz CorakayScott cameron

In-app purchases

None

Puzzled Paths

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Puzzle Vault

Subscriptions3
  • Full access to Puzzle Vault$2.991 Year
  • Puzzle Vault Yearly Pro Access$4.991 Year
  • Puzzle Vault Yearly Pro Access$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Puzzle Vault Lifetime Access$14.99
  • Puzzle Vault Lifetime Access$24.99

Questions

Is Puzzled Paths free?
Puzzled Paths is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Puzzle Vault free?
Puzzle Vault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Puzzled Paths or Puzzle Vault have ads?
Puzzled Paths shows ads; Puzzle Vault does not.

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