Shaporama vs Tiny Machinery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shaporama
Tilt your device to guide liquids through intricate shapes and solve puzzles. Drink your beverage and watch it interact with the game's physics to reveal the answer. A unique blend of casual gameplay and brain-teasing challenges.
- Liquid physics simulation
- Tilt-based controls
- Shape exploration
- Mystery solving
- Beverage interaction
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Tilt your phone and explore unknown shapes. Take a sip of water, coffee, beer or milk and let it flow. Type the correct answer and solve the mystery.
Tiny Machinery
Immerse yourself in a virtual dimension to solve intricate puzzles and escape a mysterious experiment. Use your intellect to manipulate complex machinery and unlock the secrets of your confinement. Experience a unique escape room adventure with creative 3D graphics and atmospheric audio.
- Escape room-style puzzles
- Creative 3D graphics
- Intricate mechanisms
- Atmospheric audio
- Hint system
- Unlockable story notes
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You've been kidnapped by unknown scientists and your brain has been plugged into a sophisticated machine to run an experiment: travel into a virtual dimension to unlock weird machinery. Use your imagination and IQ to crack puzzles and complete all intricate levels to save your life. Can you make it? A CLEVER PUZZLE GAME Embark into an escape room-style adventure full of riddles! CREATIVE 3D GRAPHICS Explore weird machines that will impress you with their unique art style INTRICATE MECHANISMS Enjoy tons of original puzzles, interact with buttons, levers, and little wheels to complete each level ATMOSPHERIC AUDIO Play the game with your headphones to get immersed in the game at best TRY FOR FREE Play the first 4 levels for free, with the option to unlock all the levels with a small In-App purchase, which will make you experience the whole story and puzzles HINTS In case you get stuck on a level, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the riddles STORY NOTES You will unlock a new story paragraph for each level you will complete. Discover how your kidnappers have threatened you and how it ends! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent solo startup from Italy. Find out more at xsgames.co Follow me @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram
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Verdict
Shaporama and Tiny Machinery both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Shaporama's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tiny Machinery's. Shaporama also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.0). Tiny Machinery's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Shaporama sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tiny Machinery sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Shaporama against 4.2 for Tiny Machinery. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 48 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Shaporama's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tiny Machinery's.
Shaporama ships an update every 3 weeks, Tiny Machinery every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shaporama | Tiny Machinery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (19 ratings) | 4.2 (48 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 54.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 48 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Kretz | XSGames |
Customer experience
Shaporama
Tiny Machinery
In-app purchases
Shaporama
- Remove ads$3.99
Tiny Machinery
- Full Game$3.99
- Full Game + Coffee$4.99
- Full Game + Love$7.99
