Looped Interactive vs Shapik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Looped Interactive
Engage with a wordless, interactive puzzle story about love, time travel, and a mysterious wormhole. Solve mini-puzzles to guide characters through a narrative inspired by an award-winning short film, enhanced by beautiful hand-drawn animation and an original soundtrack.
- Wordless interactive story
- Mini-puzzle gameplay
- Hand-drawn 2D animation
- Original soundtrack
- Hidden Easter eggs
- Based on award-winning short film
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Looped is a short interactive story in which you solve mini-puzzles to progress a peaceful story about love, rockets, and time travel. This is a story of a love-at-first-sight so powerful it creates a wormhole in time. From the end to the beginning and back again, you follow Him and Her and help them with tasks along their way. A black hole appears suddenly in a young woman’s living room. An unconscious man falls out. He opens his eyes and it’s love at first sight. Or is this the first sight? Features - A wordless story based on an award-winning short film - Illustrated with beautiful hand-drawn 2D frame-by-frame animation - Original soundtrack by United Sound - Find the hidden Easter eggs “Looped” is based on the award-winning short film of the same name, with the film based on the short story appearing in the book Ouvertyr och andra sagor för nästan vuxna written by Thomas Costa Freté in 2022.
Shapik
Embark on a magical forest adventure to find your missing sister. Solve puzzles and explore a hand-drawn world filled with mystery and danger. The story unfolds through animated bubble thoughts, accompanied by an atmospheric soundtrack.
- Hand-drawn graphics
- Puzzle solving
- No text dialogue
- Atmospheric soundtrack
- Exploration
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This is a story of Shapik, traveling through magic forest in search of his missing sister. Explore a beautiful world, full of mystery, magic and danger and find your missing sister, solving puzzles on your way. Graphics Backgrounds and characters were drawn by hand. You will find very many seemingly inconspicuous details. Just stop and take a closer look. FEWER letters In this story you will not find a single text line. The whole story is told using animated “bubble thoughts”. Exciting music Our music maker composed atmospheric music to make you feel all the twists and turns and exciting moments of the plot. Listen up when you're tired of exploring locations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Shapik at every 2 days against Looped Interactive's every 10 days. Shapik also leads on price ($1.99 vs $2.99). Looped Interactive's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 57%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Looped Interactive costs $2.99 and Shapik $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Looped Interactive against 4.3 for Shapik. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Looped Interactive's written reviews are positive against 57% of Shapik's.
Looped Interactive ships an update every 10 days, Shapik every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Looped Interactive | Shapik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.6 GB | 547 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | peter hamlin | Pavlo Podbierozko |
Customer experience
Looped Interactive
Shapik
In-app purchases
Looped Interactive
No in-app purchases
Shapik
No in-app purchases
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