Nocturnals vs TR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nocturnals
Embark on an interactive story game where your choices shape the bond between Ted and his companion Diego in a post-apocalyptic town. Explore 3D environments, solve puzzles, and uncover mysteries to determine their survival and fate.
- Interactive story with branching choices
- Explore stylized 3D environments
- Solve puzzles and find collectibles
- Shape character destiny
- Companion bonding mechanics
- Controller support
Read full descriptionHide full description
***NOTE: This app is best optimised for devices with more than 4GB RAM, such as the iPhone 14 and above. This app is not compatible with the iPad 7th Generation or iPhone 13. Follow the story of Ted as he navigates the abandoned town of Ruddleside amidst the post apocalypse, finding a solitary companion in Diego. Your choices determine whether Diego will bond with Ted and help him continue his search for surviving communities, or whether the pair will face difficulties and challenges that put them at odds with each other whilst trying to escape the horrors within Ruddleside. Gameplay: • Explore Stylized 3D Environments: Navigate the atmospheric setting of Ruddleside. • Solve Puzzles and Find Collectibles: Uncover the town's mysteries through various puzzles and collectibles. • Shape Ted's Destiny: Make decisions that influence Ted's personality and determine his fate. The game has been fully ported over from PC to mobile, includes controller support and 4 additional subtitle languages: Spanish, French, Polish and Russian.
TR
Uncover a WWII-era mystery by navigating a vast archive of obscure texts. Communicate with a handler through an interactive audio drama to find a stolen book and unravel the secrets of the machine's creators before it's too late.
- Narrative deduction gameplay
- Interactive audio drama
- Archive exploration
- Link obscure texts
- Uncover creator secrets
- Dynamic dialogue system
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TR at 4.5 against Nocturnals's 3.4. TR also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 37%) and chart position (#136 vs unranked). Nocturnals's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $6.99). On ratings volume, 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
Nocturnals costs $2.99 and TR $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TR holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 83 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Nocturnals's written reviews are positive against 67% of TR's.
Nocturnals ships an update every 2 weeks, TR every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nocturnals | TR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (83 ratings) | 4.5 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.6% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 37 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #136 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 392 MB | 527 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Cowboy Toad Games LTD | inkle |
Customer experience
Nocturnals
TR
Bugs and requests
Nocturnals
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes and freezes on startup
- Audio issues and screen blackouts
- Compatibility problems on newer devices
Requested features
2 requests- More content and endings
- Optimization for iPad and larger devices
TR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Nocturnals
No in-app purchases
TR
No in-app purchases








