Comparison

Mystery Case vs Unfading

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

Head to head
About

Mystery Case

Embark on thrilling puzzle adventures filled with secrets and brain-teasing challenges. Investigate clues, solve clever puzzles, and uncover shocking truths across diverse storylines. Play offline anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Gripping puzzle adventures
  • Diverse storylines
  • Logic puzzles and hidden object hunts
  • Offline play available
  • Cinematic storytelling
  • Ever-growing library of stories
Features
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Mystery Case — A growing collection of story-driven puzzle adventures. (Free to play · Standalone stories · Offline play available) Every Case Is a New Adventure In Mystery Case, every standalone puzzle story brings its own setting, characters, and mysteries. Search interactive scenes, uncover hidden clues, use collected items, and solve puzzles that move the story forward. Stories That Never Repeat Escape a zombie apocalypse. Survive a deadly game of chance. Face dark magic in the Wild West. Join detectives hunting for cursed relics. Every story brings a different atmosphere, a new cast, and fresh challenges—with more cases still to come. Investigate, Connect, Solve Test your observation and logic through hidden object searches, inventory challenges, environmental puzzles, and unexpected twists. Every clue matters, and every solution brings you closer to the truth. Features - Standalone mystery adventures set in diverse worlds - Logic puzzles, hidden objects, and inventory-based challenges - Story-driven exploration with illustrated scenes - Play for free, with optional hints available - Offline play available anytime, anywhere Every case hides a truth. Can you uncover them all?

About

Unfading

Experience inspiring true stories through interactive adventures. Make choices that shape your path, play story-driven minigames, and unlock short videos revealing the real people and events behind each narrative. Discover courage and compassion in moments that matter.

Highlights
  • Interactive branching narratives
  • Story-driven minigames
  • Unlockable short videos
  • Decision-based gameplay
  • Real-life inspired stories
  • Character stat building
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Every adventure in Unfading is built around an inspiring true story. The world is more than bleak headlines. In every place and every age, people act with courage, compassion and conviction. Unfading brings their stories to light. Step into the moment, make difficult decisions, win story-driven minigames and unlock short videos revealing the real people and events behind each adventure. THE STORY IS YOURS TO PLAY Choose your path through each adventure. Your decisions shape your stats and can unlock new ways to progress in the story. The strengths you build affect the difficulty of the challenges you face. PLAY THROUGH THE MOMENT Minigames woven into the story put those strengths to the test. Complete the main goals to reach the end—and every optional goal to earn a Golden Seal. DISCOVER WHO REALLY LIVED IT Finish each adventure to unlock a short video about the real people and events behind what you played. FIND STORIES WORTH REMEMBERING Meet ordinary people who faced extraordinary moments—and left behind proof of what people can do when it matters. For fans of branching stories, interactive fiction and visual novels, Unfading brings meaningful choices and minigames together with something rare: inspiring stories rooted in real life. The playable stories are dramatizations inspired by the historical record, not documentaries. Your choices shape how you experience them; they do not change the real act at their center. Dialogue and inner lives may be imagined, timelines compressed, and some characters renamed or combined. Each reveal explores the real history behind the fiction. Made by Mannord Games.

Screenshots

Mystery Case4 screens
Unfading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Unfading at 100% against Mystery Case's 55%. Unfading also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Mystery Case's advantage is ratings volume (177 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Mystery Case sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Unfading sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Unfading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mystery Case has 177 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Mystery Case's written reviews are positive against 100% of Unfading's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mystery Case ships an update every 2 weeks, Unfading every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mystery Case versus Unfading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMystery CaseUnfading
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (177 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings177 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size208 MB152 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJOYSTREAM TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDMannord Games

Customer experience

Mystery Case

All ratings177 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative30.0%

Unfading

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Mystery Case

One-time9
  • get 10 inspirations$0.99
  • get 20 inspirations2 variants$1.99
  • get starter pack$1.99
Show 6 more
  • get starter pack$4.99
  • get 60 inspirations$4.99
  • get 100 inspirations$6.99
  • get 200 inspirations$12.99
  • get 900 inspirations$34.99
  • get 600 inspirations$34.99
5 purchases

Unfading

One-time5
  • Tip - a coffee's worth$2.99
  • Complete the Shrine$3.99
  • Tip - bigger$14.99
Show 2 more
  • Tip - generous$49.99
  • Tip - very generous$99.99

Questions

Is Mystery Case free?
Mystery Case is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Unfading free?
Unfading is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mystery Case or Unfading?
Unfading is rated higher. Mystery Case averages 4.7 out of 5 from 177 ratings, while Unfading averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mystery Case or Unfading have ads?
Mystery Case shows ads; Unfading does not.
Which is updated more often, Mystery Case or Unfading?
Mystery Case ships an update every 2 weeks, and Unfading every 5 days. Most recently, Mystery Case was updated on October 28, 2026 and Unfading on October 25, 2026.

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