Tetranea vs Hive Order
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tetranea
This puzzle game combines roguelike deckbuilding with tile-placement mechanics on a 9x9 grid. Build a unique deck each run to alter gameplay, with over 200 cards to discover and modify. Enjoy short or long runs with increasing difficulty and multiple scoring methods.
- Roguelike deckbuilding
- Tile placement on 9x9 grid
- 200+ discoverable cards
- Card modification
- Boss battles
- Row and column chaining
- Multiple scoring methods
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I built this game to combine two of my great loves in gaming: simple abstract spatial strategy, and deep, complex card deck builders. You can play it for a few minutes at a time, or really get into it and go down the rabbit hole of nearly 100 special cards with special powers. It looks kind of like one of the gazillion tetromino-placing games — pretty simple, usually full of ads, and not much more than making sure you lose after some arbitrary amount of time so they can show you more ads. This one is different. There's tetromino (and pentomino) placement to score points, but the whole game rests on your own deck of cards: shape cards you play on the board, and special cards with special powers. You play runs - series of boards that get harder and harder. Each board needs more points to beat, and some boards have bosses that do all kinds of crazy things. You can play short runs, long runs, and even infinite runs. Each run you get to add new cards to your deck and modify (or delete) existing ones. I've been working on this game for two years now, and I keep adding to it and polishing it. It's become a labor of love. I play it myself often, and friends I've introduced it to generally get hooked. The full game is free to try. There's just one single purchase that unlocks some of the run types. Supported languages: 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, Français, Deutsch, Español
Hive Order
A hexagon-based puzzle game where players match numbers to clear cells and advance through levels. Offers both a challenging regular mode with a final boss and an endless arcade mode for high scores.
- Hexagon board matching
- Number merge puzzles
- Regular mode with final level
- Arcade mode for high scores
- Progressive difficulty
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A game of matching numbers on a hexagon board. Win all the cells and overcome the final level to beat the game in regular mode! Then try for as many points in arcade mode!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hive Order at every 2 days against Tetranea's weekly. Hive Order also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Tetranea sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Hive Order sells 2 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 — 5.0 for Tetranea against 5.0 for Hive Order. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tetranea ships an update weekly, Hive Order every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tetranea | Hive Order |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathanael Boxer | Jin Chen |
Customer experience
Tetranea
Hive Order
In-app purchases
Tetranea
- Tetranea Full Game$2.99
- Tetranea Full Game$4.99
Hive Order
- Premium Version Unlock$1.99
- Tip Developer$2.99
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