Polygon Mayhem vs Cartographer's Lie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polygon Mayhem
Engage your mind with a unique puzzle game that uses geometric shapes to create intricate challenges. Solve spatial puzzles by strategically placing, rotating, and unfolding shapes to fit within a frame. This game offers a mentally stimulating and satisfying experience for puzzle enthusiasts.
- Intricate spatial puzzle levels
- Geometric shape manipulation
- Logic and creativity challenges
- Out-of-the-box thinking
- Mentally stimulating gameplay
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Polygon Mayhem is a highly innovative and intellectually engaging puzzle game that challenges players with a wide variety of intricate levels — some of which are true brain teasers. At the heart of the gameplay lies a clever mechanic: solving spatial puzzles using simple geometric shapes like squares and triangles. Players must strategically place, rotate, and unfold (flip) parts of these shapes to fit perfectly within the puzzle frame. This elegant combination of geometry, logic, and creativity results in a unique gameplay experience that encourages out-of-the-box thinking and spatial reasoning. Whether you're solving a quick level or tackling a complex shape arrangement, Polygon Mayhem delivers a deeply satisfying puzzle-solving experience that’s both fun and mentally stimulating.
Cartographer's Lie
Engage in daily deduction puzzles on a hex-based island. Use clues to identify a single lying hex, with four difficulty tiers and a puzzle composer. Track your progress and streaks, with offline play available.
- Daily deduction puzzles
- Four difficulty tiers
- Puzzle composer
- Note-taking tools
- Streak tracking
- Offline play
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One island. Forty-eight hexes. A handful of clues, and exactly one of them is lying. Every day brings a new map and a new deduction. Read the clues, rule out what cannot be true, and find the single hex that fits. No guessing, no luck, no coin flips. THE SETTER CAN DECEIVE. THE SETTER CANNOT CHEAT. Puzzles are built to mislead you, and a red herring is a legitimate weapon. But before a single one reaches you, a fairness gate proves that exactly one hex satisfies every clue and that you can reach it by elimination alone. Misdirection is fair. Ambiguity is not. A clue that eliminates nothing is banned outright. THREE TIERS FREE, EVERY DAY Casual, Standard and Hard, each with a measured difficulty rating. Three fresh puzzles daily. Start where you are comfortable and climb. The daily Fiendish chart comes with the Guild. TAKE NOTES YOUR WAY Tap to mark hexes, long-press for colour tags, highlight the map by individual clue. Or switch to Pure mode and hold the whole thing in your head. THREE GUESSES Each one costs you more than the last. Solve it clean, or do not solve it at all. SET YOUR OWN PUZZLES Build them in the composer with live candidate counts, a difficulty projection and Preview-as-Solver. You have to prove you can solve it before anyone else sees it. STREAKS AND STATS Daily streaks with freezes for the days life gets in the way, a spoiler-free grid for sharing your solve, and a skill rating that tracks how you are actually doing rather than how you feel you are doing. Play offline any time. Sign in with Apple to sync your history and play ranked. CARTOGRAPHER'S GUILD SUBSCRIPTION Cartographer's Guild is an optional auto-renewable subscription: the daily Fiendish chart, unlimited extra charts, the full archive, a solve review after every chart, targeted practice, rating and clue-type analysis, setter analytics, the ranked ladder, unlimited streak freezes and cosmetics. Casual, Standard and Hard stay free, every day. • 1 month: $3.99 per month • 1 year: $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/cartographers-lie/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://wisejester-sudo.github.io/cartographers-lie/privacy.html
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Verdict
Polygon Mayhem and Cartographer's Lie both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Cartographer's Lie's written reviews are positive against 50% of Polygon Mayhem's. Cartographer's Lie also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). Polygon Mayhem's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Polygon Mayhem sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Cartographer's Lie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. 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 Polygon Mayhem against 5.0 for Cartographer's Lie. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Polygon Mayhem has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Polygon Mayhem's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cartographer's Lie's.
Polygon Mayhem ships an update every 9 days, Cartographer's Lie every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polygon Mayhem | Cartographer's Lie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | 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, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ezra kohavi | Kevin Marsh |
Customer experience
Polygon Mayhem
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In-app purchases
Polygon Mayhem
- Gold Coins (1000)$0.99
- Gems (100)$0.99
- Gold Coins (5000)$3.99
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- Unlock Level 7 & 8!$3.99
- Gems (500)$3.99
- Gems (1000)$7.99
- Gold Coins (12000)$7.99
- Unlock All Levels Forever!$12.99
Cartographer's Lie
- Guild Monthly$3.991 Month
- Guild Annual$29.991 Year
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