Comparison

Tetranea vs AquaCircuit

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

AquaCircuit

Features
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AquaCircuit is a calm pressure-routing puzzle game about building stable water circuits. Rotate pipe tiles, guide colored fluids to matching sinks, seal branch leaks, route through filters, cross over bridges, tune pressure gates, and combine flows through mixers. Each stage has an authored solution and target budgets for moves and time, with difficulty increasing across the full campaign. Features: - 500 playable stages across tutorials, glass routing, deep tanks, pressureworks, and advanced generated challenge packs. - Pipe mechanics including elbows, tees, caps, reservoirs, filters, pumps, bridges, pressure gates, and mixers. - Local-only progress and best-score tracking. - Optional timer, sound, haptics, and reduced-motion setting. - No third-party ads, in-app purchases, or account requirement. - Inspect pipe openings, pressure gates, timers, and portals without changing your route. - Read-only circuit overview for larger puzzles, then return to full-size editing controls. - Saved puzzle routes, clearer flow feedback, and a Firebase gameplay analytics control in Settings. Optional Hishi Games suggestions can introduce Nilo's Path on the main menu after three distinct non-tutorial stages are completed. Suggestions never interrupt a puzzle, appear at most once per app session and seven days, and can be dismissed for 30 days. The link opens the studio's Nilo page, with no user identifier in the URL.

Screenshots

Tetranea4 screens
AquaCircuit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AquaCircuit at none against Tetranea's 1. Tetranea's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Tetranea sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AquaCircuit asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tetranea ships an update weekly, AquaCircuit every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tetranea versus AquaCircuit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTetraneaAquaCircuit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNathanael Boxerhili mor

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tetranea

One-time1
  • Tetranea Full Game$4.99
None

AquaCircuit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tetranea free?
Tetranea is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AquaCircuit free?
AquaCircuit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tetranea or AquaCircuit have ads?
Neither Tetranea nor AquaCircuit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tetranea or AquaCircuit?
Tetranea ships an update weekly, and AquaCircuit every 4 weeks. Most recently, Tetranea was updated on November 8, 2026 and AquaCircuit on November 9, 2026.

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