Comparison

Strata vs Echo

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

Head to head
About

Strata

Features
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Minesweeper. Unboxed. The rules haven't changed. The grid has. Strata generates a new irregularly shaped board every time you play. No rectangles. No predictable patterns. Narrow corridors, isolated pockets, organic contours -- each puzzle is terrain you've never seen before. Same deduction. Same flags. Same satisfying cascade when you nail a zero-cell. But the geometry forces you to think again. BUILT FOR YOUR THUMBS Grids are deliberately small with large touch targets. No pinch-to-zoom. No panning. No squinting at tiny cells. The entire puzzle fits on one screen, playable one-handed. THREE DIFFICULTY TIERS Easy: Wide, forgiving shapes. 20-30 cells. Room to breathe. Medium: Corridors appear. Neighbor counts drop. 35-50 cells. Hard: Narrow bridges, peninsulas, 2-neighbor cells. 55-75 cells. Guessing happens. THE SHAPE IS THE GAME Irregular grids disrupt the patterns you've internalized from thousands of rectangular games. A cell with 3 neighbors instead of 8 changes everything. Peninsulas isolate information. Narrow bridges create chokepoints. The shape is the puzzle. WHAT YOU GET - Procedurally generated irregular grids - Classic minesweeper rules (tap to reveal, long-press to flag) - First-tap safety on every board - Per-difficulty stats: win rate, best time, streaks - Game state saves automatically - Haptic feedback tuned to each action - Dark mode by default WHAT YOU DON'T GET No tutorials. No hints. No ads. No accounts. No cloud. No in-app purchases. No internet required. Ever. A puzzle game for people who already know minesweeper.

About

Echo

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Echo Grid Puzzle is a clean and satisfying tile puzzle game. Tap tiles to trigger echo patterns (+, ×, -) and fill the entire grid before your moves run out. Start easy, then face deeper strategy as levels scale from small grids to larger challenges. Use your limited Extra Moves wisely and climb the global leaderboard.

Screenshots

Strata4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Strata at 2 against Echo's —. Strata also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
Strata versus Echo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrataEcho
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew KearneyBERKE ERKESIM

In-app purchases

None

Strata

No in-app purchases

None

Echo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Strata free?
Strata is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Echo free?
Echo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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