Comparison

Snakes Connect vs Elementex

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

Head to head
About

Snakes Connect

Connect matching snake pairs by drawing smooth paths across a grid. Enjoy a relaxing and satisfying puzzle experience with charming animations. This game is designed to keep your fingers and mind engaged.

Highlights
  • Snake pair matching
  • Smooth path drawing
  • Squishy animations
  • Relaxing gameplay
  • Brain engagement
Features
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Link up the snakes! Match each snake pair with a smooth path across the grid. With soft movements and squishy animations, every connection feels rewarding. It’s a relaxing, feel-good game that keeps your fingers and brain happy.

About

Elementex

Features
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Elementex is a tactical tower-defense run. No worlds to grind. No campaign to crawl. One hex arena, one shot at the leaderboard, and every decision counts. Build between waves. Place towers on hex tiles. Bend the path with free walls. Tap a tower mid-wave to fire its skill. Lives reach zero, the run ends, and your best wave is the only number that matters. Fire beats Frost. Frost beats Nature. Nature beats Lightning. Lightning beats Fire. Hit a weakness for 1.5x damage. Hit a resistance for 0.7x. Read the wave, pick the counter, or pay for it. Every upgrade is bought with in-run gold. One tower per element — push its damage, its fire rate, or its range, each on a rising cost curve. No blueprints. No permanent unlocks to grind. Your build is what you can pay for, this run, right now. Every fifth wave is a boss. The boss drops a chest of three runes. You see every drop, every stat, every price, before you spend a single gem. Whatever you do not keep goes into the Recall Pool for seven days at +25 percent. Nothing disappears. Nothing is hidden. Runes you keep persist across runs. Combine two of the same rarity to climb to the next. Five rarities: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Mythic is boss-chest only and carries a unique passive skill. An element-matched rune on its tower hits 20 percent harder. There is no end state. There is only the next wave, the global leaderboard, and how far you can hold the line. • Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing • Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) • One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold • A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element • Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool • A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs • No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.

Screenshots

Snakes Connect4 screens
Elementex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snakes Connect at none against Elementex's 5. Snakes Connect also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Elementex's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. Elementex sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Snakes Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snakes Connect ships an update every 8 days, Elementex every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Snakes Connect versus Elementex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnakes ConnectElementex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (20 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size241 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRedLine GamesTassilo Posegga

In-app purchases

None

Snakes Connect

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Elementex

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 550 Gems$3.99
  • 1,200 Gems$8.99
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  • 2,500 Gems$17.99
  • 6,500 Gems$44.99

Questions

Is Snakes Connect free?
Snakes Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elementex free?
Elementex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Snakes Connect or Elementex have ads?
Snakes Connect shows ads; Elementex does not.
Which is updated more often, Snakes Connect or Elementex?
Snakes Connect ships an update every 8 days, and Elementex every 3 weeks. Most recently, Snakes Connect was updated on September 24, 2026 and Elementex on September 27, 2026.

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