Subliminal Words vs Phantolex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Subliminal Words
This game challenges you to find hidden words, famous faces, and secret terms camouflaged within images. Create, play, and share your own visual puzzles with a growing community. Enjoy endless challenges with new user-generated content added regularly.
- Find hidden words and faces
- Create and share custom levels
- Solve user-generated puzzles
- Over 500 official levels
- Daily puzzles and live quests
- Hint system available
- Customizable color themes
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Look closer. What do you see? And now... what will you create? Like the classic 'magic eye' pictures that once held our gaze, Subliminal Words is a captivating visual puzzle game filled with secrets hidden in plain sight. Subliminal words, famous faces, and hidden terms are cleverly camouflaged within each image, emerging only as you focus. - NEW: CREATE, PLAY & SHARE YOUR OWN LEVELS! - The hunt just got endless! What began as a quest to find hidden words has expanded into a massive, community-driven brain teaser experience. With our brand-new Level Maker, YOU can design the ultimate visual puzzles: • Create: Build your own custom optical illusions and hide secret words within them. • Play & Test: Solve your personalized puzzles to ensure your secrets are perfectly camouflaged. • Submit for Review: Send us your custom levels! Once accepted, your creations will be published globally and playable by thousands of players worldwide. ENDLESS VISUAL PUZZLES Test your "super sight" across 500+ official levels and a constantly growing library of user-generated content. Can you: • Beat Community Puzzles: Conquer fresh visual challenges designed by players just like you! • Discover hidden words from mesmerizing scenery. • Spot the Stars: Find famous celebrities sneakily blended into complex scenes. • Find the Athlete: Hunt for secret football lingo and identify iconic players. With our flexible, live-updated system, you get new community levels, daily puzzles, new categories, and live quests instantly—without ever needing to update the app. The puzzle-solving hunt never ends! Enjoy a clean and intuitive UI, choose your favorite color themes, and use helpful hints when an illusion leaves you truly stuck. How sharp are your eyes—and how creative is your imagination? Download Subliminal Words now to start hunting and creating your own masterpieces! EULA: https://indest.ee/eula
Phantolex
A unique word game where the objective is to avoid spelling a complete word. Players take turns adding letters, strategically using powers to outmaneuver opponents and progress through challenging, endless levels. Lose, and it's game over.
- Avoid spelling words
- Turn-based letter adding
- Strategic power-ups
- Endless challenging levels
- Unlock rewards
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“Top 5 Games of the Week” – Pocket Gamer “Phantolex is smart, brain-teasing, [and] throws surprises” – Metro.co.uk "Best and freshest [word game] on iPhone” – Stuff.tv Phantolex is a rogue-like word game with a twist: the goal is to avoid spelling the word. Think of it like hot potato - you'll take turns adding letters, but don't be the one to finish the word. As you progress, you'll use powers and face tougher levels, but if you lose, it's game over! How to Play: - Build Words: Take turns against Casp adding letters and avoid being the one to complete a word. - Strategic Powers: Use powers like Letter Rewind, Bluff Stopper, and Word Connoisseur to gain an edge. - Endless Levels: Progress through increasingly challenging levels, unlock rewards, and win a run!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Phantolex at 84% against Subliminal Words's 0%. Phantolex also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Subliminal Words's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads 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. Subliminal Words sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Phantolex asks for nothing beyond the download.
Subliminal Words holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phantolex has 100 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Subliminal Words's written reviews are positive against 84% of Phantolex's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Subliminal Words ships an update every 2 months, Phantolex every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Subliminal Words | Phantolex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (100 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 100 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Indest | Tyler Green |
Customer experience
Subliminal Words
Phantolex
Bugs and requests
Subliminal Words
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Phantolex
Reported bugs
4 issues- Invalid word flagged as completed
- False positive for invalid words
- Win/Defeat bug on run completion
- Ad not working to continue game
Requested features
7 requests- Multiplayer option (1v1)
- Definitions for words
- Portuguese version
- Overrule game's word errors
- More facial expressions for Casp
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- Holiday themes for UI
- Festive characters for holidays
In-app purchases
Subliminal Words
- Monthly Pro Pass$2.991 Month
- Annual Pro Pass3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- No Ad Breaks$1.99
- Remove 3$1.99
- Highlight$1.99
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- Manipulate$1.99
- All-In Pack$4.99
- Lifetime Unlock$39.99
Phantolex
No in-app purchases









