Mystery Clues vs ClockmakersBench
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Mystery Clues
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- Solve the Mystery! Use Clues and Logic to Solve Mystery Puzzles! Step into the shoes of a detective! Analyze cryptic clues, use your logic, and place each character in the right spot to crack the case. Every move counts, solve the mystery before itโs too late! Game Features: - Unlimited Levels โ Endless brain-teasing puzzles to challenge your detective skills. - Solo Events โ Solve unique mysteries and earn exclusive rewards! - Asynchronous PvP Events โ Compete against players worldwide at your own pace. - Daily Challenges โ Fresh new puzzles every day to keep you sharp! - Real-Time Battles โ Face off in intense 1v1 logic duels and prove you're the best detective! - Love puzzle games, detective mysteries, and brain teasers? This game is for you! Download now and put your logic to the test!
ClockmakersBench
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Pull up a stool at the Clockmaker's Bench. This is a calm, hands-on idle game about the slow craft of horology โ winding escapements, seating gears into half-built pocket watches, and listening to a whole shelf of finished mechanisms tick away. Start with a bare bench. Tap to wind the mainspring; each turn seats another gear into the movement on your workbench. Finish a watch and place it on the ticking shelf, where it runs on its own and earns coin tick after tick โ even while the app is closed. As coin flows in, master finer movements. Unlock the moonphase, then the chronograph, the gravity-defying tourbillon, and finally the perpetual calendar โ each grade more intricate, more valuable, and more beautiful on the shelf than the last. Patrons come calling, too. Accept a commission and one of your finished watches auto-ships to its owner overnight, paying coin plus patina โ a prestige currency you spend on permanent polish that lifts your whole workshop. What you'll do: - Tap to wind and watch gears click into place - Fill a ticking shelf that earns coin passively, even offline - Unlock five complication grades, from time-only to perpetual calendar - Fulfil patron commissions for coin and patina - Upgrade your winding power, automatic winder, shelf, and commission slots - Polish your workshop with patina for a permanent yield bonus Clockmaker's Bench is free to play and supported by occasional ads. You can watch an optional short video for a 30-minute taste of doubled yield, or unlock Master Horologist once to remove ads, double all coin and patina forever, and add two extra commission slots. No subscription โ a single purchase, restorable on any device. No timers nagging you, no fail states, no rush. Just the quiet satisfaction of a well-built mechanism and a shelf that keeps on ticking. Pull up a stool and start winding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ClockmakersBench at every 5 days against Mystery Clues's every 3 weeks. Mystery Clues's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Mystery Clues sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and ClockmakersBench sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mystery Clues ships an update every 3 weeks, ClockmakersBench every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mystery Clues | ClockmakersBench |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIZZY ANTS LTD | Christian Pedersen |
In-app purchases
Mystery Clues
- x10 Skip Its-Instant Rewards$2.99
- x25 Skip Its - Instant Rewards$5.99
- Remove Ads$9.99
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- x100 Skip Its-Instant Rewards$19.99
- x200 Skip Its-Instant Rewards$29.99
ClockmakersBench
- Clockmaker's Bench Lifetime$4.99
Questions
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