Comparison

Cute Puzzle vs Elementex

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

Head to head
About

Cute Puzzle

Features
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Embark on a delightful journey filled with adorable felines and captivating puzzles in Hex Cat! Welcome to a world where adorable challenges and captivating puzzles await. This enchanting and free puzzle game is perfect for relaxing your mind and enjoying a purrfectly fun time with the cutest kittens ever. Merge tiles, enjoy the leisurely pace, and engage your brain with special cats. Free from any pressure or time constraints, it strikes the perfect balance of challenge, adorable charm, and limitless enjoyment!

About

Elementex

A tactical tower-defense game focused on strategic placement and elemental combat. Build your defenses, bend enemy paths, and tap towers for skills to climb the global leaderboard. Every decision counts in this endless challenge.

Highlights
  • Hex-grid tower defense
  • Maze-builder pathing
  • Four elemental rock-paper-scissors matchups
  • Tap-to-cast active skills
  • Boss chests with transparent pricing
  • Global leaderboard
  • Endless mode
Features
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Elementex is a tactical tower-defense run. No worlds to grind. No campaign to crawl. One hex arena, one shot at the leaderboard, and every decision counts. Build between waves. Place towers on hex tiles. Bend the path with free walls. Tap a tower mid-wave to fire its skill. Lives reach zero, the run ends, and your best wave is the only number that matters. Fire beats Frost. Frost beats Nature. Nature beats Lightning. Lightning beats Fire. Hit a weakness for 1.5x damage. Hit a resistance for 0.7x. Read the wave, pick the counter, or pay for it. Every upgrade is bought with in-run gold. One tower per element — push its damage, its fire rate, or its range, each on a rising cost curve. No blueprints. No permanent unlocks to grind. Your build is what you can pay for, this run, right now. Every fifth wave is a boss. The boss drops a chest of three runes. You see every drop, every stat, every price, before you spend a single gem. Whatever you do not keep goes into the Recall Pool for seven days at +25 percent. Nothing disappears. Nothing is hidden. Runes you keep persist across runs. Combine two of the same rarity to climb to the next. Five rarities: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Mythic is boss-chest only and carries a unique passive skill. An element-matched rune on its tower hits 20 percent harder. There is no end state. There is only the next wave, the global leaderboard, and how far you can hold the line. • Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing • Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) • One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold • A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element • Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool • A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs • No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.

Screenshots

Cute Puzzle4 screens
Elementex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cute Puzzle at 13.0 against Elementex's 15.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cute Puzzle sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Elementex sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cute Puzzle ships an update every 2 weeks, Elementex every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cute Puzzle versus Elementex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCute PuzzleElementex
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB36 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperLABELEDMAN LTDTassilo Posegga

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Cute Puzzle

One-time6
  • Tiny gems pack$1.99
  • Small gems pack$7.99
  • Medium gems pack$14.99
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  • Large gems pack$29.99
  • Mega gems pack$59.99
  • Giant gems pack$99.99
5 purchases

Elementex

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 550 Gems$3.99
  • 1,200 Gems$8.99
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  • 2,500 Gems$17.99
  • 6,500 Gems$44.99

Questions

Is Cute Puzzle free?
Cute Puzzle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elementex free?
Elementex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cute Puzzle or Elementex have ads?
Both Cute Puzzle and Elementex show ads.
Which is updated more often, Cute Puzzle or Elementex?
Cute Puzzle ships an update every 2 weeks, and Elementex every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cute Puzzle was updated on November 4, 2026 and Elementex on October 31, 2026.

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