Crush Bar vs Tidegate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crush Bar
Step into a stylish bar as the bartender, solving puzzles to craft drinks and uncover guest stories. Your choices influence their journeys, and you can upgrade your lounge. Enjoy a cozy atmosphere with immersive visuals.
- Sort-and-merge puzzle gameplay
- Uncover character stories
- Branching narrative choices
- Bar decoration and upgrades
- Immersive atmosphere and visuals
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Welcome to your new favorite bar—where every guest has a story, and every drink unlocks a new chapter. You’re the bartender, the fixer, the listener. Behind the counter, you’ll meet a cast of unforgettable characters, each bringing their own mystery, charm, or trouble. Play stylish sort-and-merge puzzles to craft drinks, upgrade your lounge, and unlock deeper stories. Whether you’re building the perfect bar or just enjoying the night shift, it’s your space to make your mark. Features -Chic sort & merge gameplay with a bartender twist -Uncover character stories through conversations -Choices matter—your answers shape each guest’s journey -Decorate and upgrade your bar your way -Stylish visuals and a cozy, immersive atmosphere
Tidegate
Explore a hand-painted island mystery where the tide is your only control. Manipulate water levels to uncover hidden paths, solve environmental puzzles, and piece together the story of vanished island keepers. Enjoy a no-pressure, offline experience with a unique cross-scene reasoning mechanic.
- Tidal control mechanic
- Hand-painted 2.5D dioramas
- Environmental puzzles
- No combat or timers
- In-game hint journal
- Offline play
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Tidegate is a quiet, hand-painted island mystery you play with one strange control: the tide. You wash ashore on Brenn Hollow, a tidal island whose keepers vanished mid-ritual. The moon no longer moves the water — a great brass orrery in the lighthouse does, and it is jammed between phases. Turn it, and the whole island re-floods or drains at once. Low tide and high tide are two different islands sharing one map. A TIDE YOU CONTROL Five tide stops reshape every scene at the same time. Dead low bares the causeway and the mud flat; spring high floats rafts and barrels along the old channels and drowns the paths you knew. Some clues read only at exactly the middle stop. You stop thinking scene-by-scene and start reading the island as one great machine — that cross-scene reasoning is the whole feeling this game is built around. HAND-PAINTED 2.5D DIORAMAS Each scene is a set of painted planes at real depth in front of a moving camera, so the world has parallax and weight. The water is a true plane that slides into the scene as the tide rises, swallowing the deeper ground first — the signature mechanic is legible at a glance. POINT-AND-CLICK, NO PRESSURE No combat. No death. No timers. Just observation, memory and a handful of genuinely clever puzzles: a drowned carillon whose bells only sing at the waterline, a message walked into the mud years ago that you read by lantern-light at the right tide, a barrel-post you route by setting four sluice gates along the water-road, and a cove that runs backwards. In the tradition of classic point-and-click and Myst-like island mysteries. THE KEEPER'S ALMANAC A journal that quietly collects the letters and tide-charts you find, and writes gentle, in-fiction hints in its margins once you have been stuck a while — never spoilers before then. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT - Play all of District 1 (Harrow Reach) free, including lighting its beacon. - Invite a friend from the title screen and you both get promo credits toward unlocking the island. - Plays in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, Nederlands, Polski and Português. - 100% offline. No account, no sign-up, no cloud, no ads, no tracking. The whole island lives on your device. UNLOCK TIDEGATE (OPTIONAL) One unlock opens the rest of Brenn Hollow: Cannery Rows, the drowned Chapel Shoals, Lighthouse Point, the Tidegate finale, and the Almanac's plain-spoken hint tier. It is one-time and permanent — no subscription, nothing renews — and restores on a new device. The free reach stays free, forever. Terms of Service: https://adelyons.com/apps/tidegate/terms.html EULA: https://adelyons.com/apps/tidegate/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://adelyons.com/apps/tidegate/privacy.html Wash ashore, and set the tide right. Questions or ideas? dev@adelyons.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crush Bar at none against Tidegate's 1. Crush Bar also leads on iOS requirement (12 vs 15.0). Tidegate's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Tidegate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Crush Bar asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Crush Bar against 5.0 for Tidegate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Crush Bar ships an update every 9 days, Tidegate every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crush Bar | Tidegate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hijoy | Adelyons Software LLC |
Customer experience
Crush Bar
Tidegate
In-app purchases
Crush Bar
No in-app purchases
Tidegate
- Unlock Tidegate$9.99









