Aurora Hills vs CodeLock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aurora Hills
Embark on a chilling point-and-click puzzle adventure as a park ranger investigating disappearances in a remote mountain community. Uncover dark secrets and solve intricate puzzles to find a missing colleague before nightfall.
- Point-and-click puzzle gameplay
- Investigate mysterious disappearances
- Explore remote national park
- Solve challenging puzzles
- Atmospheric soundtrack and sound effects
- Hint system for difficult riddles
- Color blind mode
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The morning of October 6, 1981, began like any other: waking up from a restless sleep, preparing for the day ahead of you and driving to the ranger station where you've worked for the past 11 years. Aurora Hills was once a tranquil community nestled within the mountains of Appalachia, but a series of disappearances have all but shattered the serene atmosphere. Only a feeling of desolation permeates the surrounding as you drive through the now dilapidated small town. Jen wasn't at the ranger station when you arrived that morning. Being the only other park ranger, she likes to get an early start to the day and by the time you arrived, she had driven to one of the many closed off hiking trails to start searching for the missing people. Following her trail of notes, you make your way off the main trail to meet up with her to explore the remote parts of the national park. When you find her camp however, your worst fears are realized: The site's been ransacked, her equipment strewn across the campsite, her tent's been torn up, and Jen is nowhere to be seen. There's no time to turn back now, it's already midday and the sun sets early this time of year. The only thing worse than wandering into the forest alone is braving it at night. You can't abandon Jen now, not when the trail is so fresh. Now you have no choice but to venture deeper into the uncharted parts of the national park, the parts mythologized into local urban legends by frightened townsfolk. You'd better leave soon, you may never get a better chance to uncover the dark history of Aurora Hills... Developed by the creators of Meridian 157, Aurora Hills: Chapter 2 is the second part in a series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Based in the year 1981 in a small West Virginian community, Aurora Hills follows the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from the region. Explore the rolling hills of West Virginia, find clues of the whereabouts of the missing people and solve intriguing puzzles to solve the mystery of Aurora Hills! Features: • Custom soundtrack and sound effects designed for a creepy in-game atmosphere • Challenging and clever puzzles • A logical hint system for some of the most difficult riddles • Available in 9 languages, including English, French, Russian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese! • New colour blind mode available for people who might have trouble with colour based puzzles • Has a hard mode, for those who want to enjoy even more challenging puzzles! Follow us to receive all the latest news! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NovaSoftInteractive/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/novasoftint Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/novasoftint/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/NovaSoftInteractive
CodeLock
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Your grandfather left you a letter, four vaults, and a road nobody finished. In CodeLock you crack codes to open vaults, and every vault gives up a scrap of his letter. As the letter comes together, you learn what he spent his life looking for — and why seven generations before him died without reaching it. ◆ How it plays The code is a run of digits, none repeated. Enter a guess and the vault tells you exactly two things: how many digits are right and in the right place, and how many are right but in the wrong place. The rest is your mind. It feels simple on stage one. By stage sixty you are drawing a grid on paper. ◆ Four eras • The Last Drawer — a painted home safe, and your grandfather's study as he left it • Under the Sand — a desert excavation, and a stone door unopened for thousands of years • The Only Survivor — a sea chest eaten by salt, where the story began • Before Words — a grooved stone disc, the oldest lock humankind has known At the end of every chapter waits a lock your grandfather wrote himself, not a machine. You do not open it by guessing, but with what you learned from his papers. ◆ What you will find • 90 stages, from four digits up to seven • Scraps of a letter, collected stage after stage • Evidence that piles up in your hands — and you have to know which piece fits where • One daily challenge shared by every player in the world, its code derived from the day's date • A monthly gift calendar, achievements, and statistics that tell you how much you have really improved • Tools bought with what you earn: a hint, reveal a digit, rule out a digit ◆ What you will not find No ads. No in-app purchases. No account, no sign-in. No internet needed — the whole game plays offline. Coins and gems are earned by playing and never bought with money, because a game about opening locks with your mind should not open for cash. ◆ In your language Arabic · English · German — written and designed for each, not machine-translated. ◆ Your progress Everything stays on your device. Nothing is collected, nothing is sent anywhere. — CodeLock is made by Zarython. We build apps that make life easier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: CodeLock at Free against Aurora Hills's $3.99. CodeLock also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 weeks). Aurora Hills's advantage is chart position (#67 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
CodeLock is free to download; Aurora Hills costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Aurora Hills ships an update every 4 weeks, CodeLock daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aurora Hills | CodeLock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (668 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 668 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #67 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 837 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NovaSoft Interactive Ltd | Alaa Shehabeddin |
In-app purchases
Aurora Hills
No in-app purchases
CodeLock
No in-app purchases









