Save the Cube! vs Honu Guardian
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Save the Cube!
Slide and match colorful blocks to their corresponding gates in this engaging puzzle game. With progressively challenging levels and satisfying gameplay, it's perfect for quick breaks or longer sessions. Enjoy a clean visual style and play anytime, anywhere.
- Slide and match blocks to gates
- Satisfying controls and visuals
- Progressively challenging levels
- Playable in short sessions
- Offline play supported
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A Fresh Block Puzzle Experience! Slide, match, and clear colorful blocks in this satisfying puzzle game that challenges your mind and rewards your focus. Your goal is simple: Move each block to its matching gate and clear the board. With each level, the challenge grows — and so does the satisfaction. Whether you're here for a quick break or a deeper session, there's always something rewarding to solve. Enjoy smooth gameplay, a clean visual style, and a premium puzzle experience built to keep you coming back. Game Features: Slide and Match – Move blocks to their matching gates and clear the board Feel the Flow – Satisfying controls and visuals that make every move enjoyable Progressively Challenging – Levels start easy, then evolve into deeper puzzles Perfect for Short Sessions – Pick up and play whenever you like Offline Friendly – No Wi-Fi? No problem. Play anytime, anywhere Whether you're unwinding after a long day or chasing your next perfect solve, this is the puzzle game that makes every move count.
Honu Guardian
Merge sea creatures to grow them into powerful guardians and drive polluters out of the bay. Restore fifty real beaches by defeating unique bosses before the bay's health runs out. Enjoy a single-player, portrait-mode experience with no timers or accounts.
- Merge sea creatures to evolve
- Defeat unique polluter bosses
- Restore 50 real-world beaches
- Portrait mode, one-thumb gameplay
- No accounts or timers
- 50% of profits donated to charity
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Merge hatchlings into giants. Drive the polluters out of the bay. A single sea turtle hatchling is not much against a fleet of dumping boats. Two of them merged are a little more. Keep going and you get manta rays, whales, and reef guardians big enough to push back. Honu Guardian is a merge puzzle with a tide clock running. Link matching sea creatures to grow them, spend mana to hatch more, and send your biggest guardians at the boats fouling the water before the bay's health runs out. FIFTY REAL BEACHES From Playa Balandra to Turquoise Bay at Ningaloo, every level is a named place with its own water, coastline, and landmark. Clear one and it is restored behind you. FIFTY POLLUTERS, EACH WITH A HABIT Bosses do not just have more health. A tiger shark wrapped in warning tape fights differently from a channel cutter or a refinery ghost. Learn what each one does before it reaches the shallows. EVERY TITAN YOU BEAT SWIMS AWAY FREE Break one open and the trash falls off it. What is underneath is a bright, live sea creature that turns and heads back out to open water. The five machines in the roster just sink. BUILT TO BE PLAYED ON A PHONE Touch controls, portrait and landscape layouts, no account, and no timers begging you to come back. Your best two hundred runs and top ten fastest times for each beach are saved on the device. Legendary-assisted times are labeled separately; these are personal records, not a global leaderboard. LEGENDARY CREATURES Optional one-time purchases permanently unlock three powerful merge recipes: Great, Great White, King Killer Whale, and Great Blue Whale. Unlock them in order, then merge two creatures of the preceding tier to create each one. Purchases unlock recipes, not instantly spawned creatures. Restore Purchases is available in SHOP. THE OCEAN PLEDGE At the end of the year, 50% of all profits will be donated to charity. Ours go to Oceanic Society, a U.S. 501(c)(3) that has worked on ocean conservation since 1969. If the game earns nothing, there is nothing to split, and we will say so plainly rather than quietly drop the promise. No separate game account. No paywalled levels. All fifty beaches are playable for free. Optional purchases include powerful legendary creature recipes, Remove Ads, and Tide Charm.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Honu Guardian at 100% against Save the Cube!'s 53%. Honu Guardian also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Save the Cube!'s advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Save the Cube! sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Honu Guardian sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Honu Guardian holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Save the Cube! has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Save the Cube!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Honu Guardian's.
Save the Cube! ships an update weekly, Honu Guardian every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Save the Cube! | Honu Guardian |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 241 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pickcel Games | Matthew Knoth |
Customer experience
Save the Cube!
Honu Guardian
In-app purchases
Save the Cube!
- Mini Coin Pack$1.99
- Starter Bundle$1.99
- Power Bundle$4.99
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- Small Coin Pack$7.99
- No Ads$7.99
- Super Bundle2 variants$9.99
- Medium Coin Pack$14.99
- Mega Bundle2 variants$19.99
- Big Coin Pack$29.99
- Ultra Bundle$49.99
- Supreme Bundle$99.99
Honu Guardian
- Tide Charm$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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