Boxville 2 vs TR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boxville 2
Embark on an adventure in a city of boxes to find a missing friend and fix a fireworks mishap. Explore diverse locations, solve puzzles, and enjoy charming hand-drawn visuals and unique interactions.
- Hand-drawn visuals
- Unique animations and sounds
- Original music tracks
- Logic puzzles
- Story-driven mini-games
- No dialogue
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Boxville 2 tells a new story set in the city of boxes. Two can friends are given an important task by the mayor: to set up fireworks for the city’s celebration. But due to a mistake, the fireworks go off incorrectly, causing chaos throughout the city. Worse yet, one of the friends goes missing. Now, the main character — a red can — must explore different areas and secret corners of Boxville, and even venture beyond the city, to set things right and find his friend. What’s Inside Boxville 2: - Hand-drawn visuals crafted with love - Unique animations and sounds for every interaction - Original music tracks set the mood in every scene - Dozens of logic puzzles and story-driven mini-games - No dialogue — characters speak through fun sketches
TR
Uncover a WWII-era mystery by navigating a vast archive of obscure texts. Communicate with a mysterious handler to find a stolen book and unravel the secrets of the machine's creators before time runs out.
- Narrative deduction gameplay
- Interactive audio drama
- Archive exploration
- Link obscure texts
- Dynamic dialogue system
- Original soundtrack
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A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out. The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working. Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Destroy the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late. NARRATIVE DEDUCTION - Deduce links through the archive to locate hidden sources. - Unravel the stories and unearth the secrets of the books’ authors and the machine's creators. - Map the archive and find the book that will rewrite the world. INTERACTIVE AUDIO DRAMA - Talk with your handler at any time, creating a dynamic audio drama that responds as you explore. - Featuring the voices of Rebekah McLoughlin (The SCP Archives, Eternal Threads), Paul Warren (A Highland Song, Viewfinder, The Séance of Blake Manor) and Phillipe Bosher (Baldur's Gate 3, Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). - Original soundtrack by Laurence Chapman (A Highland Song, Heaven's Vault, The Mask of the Rose). INSPIRATIONS TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like The Roottrees are Dead and The Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA. Written and created by the award-winning team behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boxville 2 at 88% against TR's 64%. Boxville 2 also leads on price ($1.99 vs $6.99) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). TR's advantage is chart position (#16 vs #142). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Boxville 2 costs $1.99 and TR $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Boxville 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boxville 2 has 319 ratings behind it against 37, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Boxville 2's written reviews are positive against 64% of TR's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boxville 2 | TR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (319 ratings) — better | 4.5 (37 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 64.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 319 — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #142 | #16 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 513 MB | 505 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Triomatica Games | inkle |
Customer experience
Boxville 2
TR
Bugs and requests
Boxville 2
Reported bugs
1 issue- Controls not sensitive enough on mobile
Requested features
2 requests- More Boxville games
- Longer story and gameplay
TR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Boxville 2
No in-app purchases
TR
No in-app purchases








