Comparison

Nocturnals vs TR

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive story with branching choices
  • Explore stylized 3D environments
  • Solve puzzles and find collectibles
  • Shape character destiny
  • Companion bonding mechanics
  • Controller support
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***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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Narrative deduction gameplay
  • Interactive audio drama
  • Archive exploration
  • Link obscure texts
  • Uncover creator secrets
  • Dynamic dialogue system
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Nocturnals4 screens
TR4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Nocturnals costs $2.99 and TR $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Nocturnals versus TR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNocturnalsTR
Price$2.99 — better$6.99
Rating3.4 (83 ratings)4.5 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.6% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings83 — better37
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#136 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size392 MB527 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperCowboy Toad Games LTDinkle

Customer experience

Nocturnals

All ratings83 ratings
Positive53.0%
Neutral14.5%
Negative32.5%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive36.6%
Neutral20.7%
Negative42.7%

TR

All ratings37 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

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

None

Nocturnals

No in-app purchases

None

TR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nocturnals free?
Nocturnals costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TR free?
TR costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nocturnals or TR?
TR is rated higher. Nocturnals averages 3.4 out of 5 from 83 ratings, while TR averages 4.5 from 37 ratings.
Do Nocturnals or TR have ads?
Neither Nocturnals nor TR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nocturnals or TR?
Nocturnals ships an update every 2 weeks, and TR every 6 days. Most recently, Nocturnals was updated on September 19, 2026 and TR on September 22, 2026.

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