Comparison

Tile Tales vs Dead Lasso

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

Head to head
About

Tile Tales

Embark on a treasure-hunting puzzle adventure across a remote island. Solve 90 handcrafted tile sliding puzzles through 9 chapters, encountering characters, obstacles, and traps. Guide a treasure-obsessed pirate to discover lost riches.

Highlights
  • 90 handcrafted tile sliding puzzles
  • Story-driven adventure
  • 9 engaging chapters
  • Encounter characters and obstacles
  • Explore lush island environments
  • Discover lost treasure
Features
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Arr matey! Get ready for a new kind of puzzle adventure... the likes of which you've never seen before! Help our hopelessly treasure obsessed Pirate find his way across a remote island paradise! Solve 90 uniquely handcrafted tile sliding puzzles by guiding him through many trials and tribulations, across 9 engaging chapters, each with their own lush environment to explore. Along the way, he'll encounter interesting characters, daunting obstacles, dangerous foes, and tricky traps! All in an effort to discover the ultimate lost treasure! May your sails be taut and your coffers be full, matey!

About

Dead Lasso

Embark on an adventure as a cowboy explorer in a trap-filled temple. Collect golden dust to awaken a powerful relic, mastering new abilities like dashing, gliding, and triple jumps to solve puzzles and uncover secrets. Explore 190 rooms in a Metroidvania-style labyrinth.

Highlights
  • Lasso-based traversal and combat
  • Metroidvania exploration
  • Environmental puzzle solving
  • Unlockable abilities
  • 190 hand-crafted rooms
  • Collectibles for power-ups
Features
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You're Ed Lasso, world-renowned adventurer and rootin'-tootin' cowboy with a lasso that never misses and a thirst for trouble that never quits. When whispers of the Lazarus Stone, a relic said to pack the raw punch of forgotten gods, reach your ears, you saddle up and charge straight into the Temple of Shadows, a sprawling, trap-riddled labyrinth buried beneath forgotten jungles. Deep within this forgotten labyrinth of crumbling platforms, lethal traps, and shifting shadows, mysterious glowing sacks of golden dust are scattered across the ruins. Collect them all to awaken the Lazarus Stone and claim its legendary power. Master new abilities as you find the power-up relics: Dash across chasms, Glide with your lasso, soar with triple jumps, blast through walls with bombs, scale sheer cliffs, swim through flooded chambers, and more. With 190 hand crafted rooms, you explore a vast, interconnected temple filled with secrets, hidden paths, and one very strange tentacle-dwelling cowboy who’s a little too happy about his situation.   Dodge enemies, solve environmental puzzles, and chain your growing moveset in true Metroidvania style as you unravel the temple’s deadly mysteries. Will you claim the Rune… or become another ghost in the shadows?

Screenshots

Tile Tales4 screens
Dead Lasso4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tile Tales at Free against Dead Lasso's $2.99. Dead Lasso's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tile Tales is free to download; Dead Lasso costs $2.99 up front. Tile Tales sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dead Lasso asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tile Tales ships an update monthly, Dead Lasso every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tile Tales versus Dead Lasso: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTile TalesDead Lasso
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size539 MB269 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperNineZyme OUChilling Moose

Customer experience

Tile Tales

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dead Lasso

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tile Tales

One-time1
  • Full Game$2.99
None

Dead Lasso

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tile Tales free?
Tile Tales is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dead Lasso free?
Dead Lasso costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tile Tales or Dead Lasso have ads?
Neither Tile Tales nor Dead Lasso shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tile Tales or Dead Lasso?
Tile Tales ships an update monthly, and Dead Lasso every 5 days. Most recently, Tile Tales was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dead Lasso on October 26, 2026.

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