IQ Cube vs Miles Mercer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IQ Cube
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Welcome to IQ Cube! It is a brain test we made into a fun game. Play through 100 challenging boards and upgrade to 200 boards through in-app purchase. Many boards consist of geometric shapes you need to create in the shortest amount of time without mistake.
Miles Mercer
Solve puzzles using real-world science principles to escape a series of locked rooms. Explore, combine items, and deduce clues to progress through immersive stages.
- Science-driven puzzle solving
- Item collection and combination
- Immersive story-driven gameplay
- Multi-stage escape rooms
- Real-world science principles
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Texas, 1997. A motel in the middle of nowhere. You wake up locked in an unfamiliar room. Abducted by an unknown captor, you are Miles Mercer — and the only way out is up to you. The door is sealed and there's nothing but desert beyond the window. But the room is full of forgotten junk — a paperclip, a cracked mirror, a dead battery. Don't overlook a single thing. "Miles Mercer: Escape Case" is a science-driven escape room where everything you touch becomes a clue. Use real, middle-school-level science — light, heat, electricity, magnets, buoyancy, levers, sound, air pressure — to build gadgets, crack locks, and break out one room at a time. ■ How to play · EXPLORE — Tap around each room to inspect it and collect items · READ — Piece together scattered hints and notes to find your next clue · COMBINE — Merge items into new tools and contraptions · ESCAPE — Trigger your device, open the locked door, move to the next room ■ Three zones, one tightening chase · STAGE 1 — The Motel: from the storeroom to the back exit, break out toward the gas station · STAGE 2 — The Abandoned Gas Station: get the dead pickup truck running again · STAGE 3 — The Desert Relay Base: send a rescue signal and escape the base ■ You'll love this if you enjoy · Real-life escape rooms, mystery and detective stories · Puzzles solved by principle, not by brute-force tapping · Immersive one-handed story games Observe. Deduce. Build your way out. Can you escape the room?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Miles Mercer at none against IQ Cube's shown. Miles Mercer also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. IQ Cube sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Miles Mercer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
IQ Cube ships an update every 2 weeks, Miles Mercer every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IQ Cube | Miles Mercer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 359 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Geeky Games, LLC | SNA |
In-app purchases
IQ Cube
- Premium Boards$2.99
- No Ads$2.99
Miles Mercer
- 10 Hunches$0.49
- remove ad$1.99
- 100 Hunches$5.99









