Comparison

Recall Detective vs Decoction

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

Head to head
About

Recall Detective

A unique game that tests your visual memory, critical thinking, and mystery-solving skills. Study detailed scenes and video clips to uncover clues, remember details, and connect evidence to solve cases. Rise through the ranks and unlock new detective avatars.

Highlights
  • Visual memory challenges
  • Critical thinking puzzles
  • Mystery case investigations
  • Image and video scenarios
  • Unlockable detective avatars
  • Progressive difficulty levels
Features
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Scan. Recall. Crack the Case! Do you have the eye of a detective? Recall Detective is a unique game that combines visual memory, critical thinking, and mystery solving. Study scenes, uncover clues, remember important details, and connect the evidence to determine what really happened. Some challenges test how much you can remember. Others test how well you can think. The best detectives must do both. A missing key. A suspicious alibi. An object that doesn't belong. A face that appears where it shouldn't. The clues are there—but only if you're paying attention. Choose how you want to play: - Image Challenges Explore themed scenes packed with details. Choose your viewing time, study carefully, and answer questions from memory. Less time means bigger rewards—but also bigger risks. - Video Challenges Watch short video clips and dynamic scenarios unfold. Track movements, objects, timing, and events as they happen, then prove what you remember when the questions begin. - Mystery Cases Become the detective. Investigate multi-part mysteries, examine evidence, uncover hidden connections, eliminate false leads, and piece together the truth. Success requires both sharp recall and logical deduction as you work toward solving the case. Rise through the ranks from Rookie to Recall Master and unlock new fox detective avatars as your skills improve. Whether you have a few minutes to tackle a quick challenge or want to dive into a deeper investigation, Recall Detective offers a fun and rewarding way to test your observation, memory, and reasoning skills. The clues are there. Can you connect the dots? Scan the scene. Recall the details. Crack the case.

About

Decoction

Features
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Practice Table lets you rehearse a fictional case, pin a baseline and compare another formula with the same base scoring rules used in a tour. Save your experiments in a local practice notebook. HOW TO USE THE UPGRADE 1. Open Practice Table from the main menu. Choose a fictional case, a diagnosis guess and two to four distinct ingredient cards. 2. Evaluate the trial and pin it as the baseline. Explore one-card alternatives from the starter-card pool. 3. Try a swap and read the difference in target distance and score. 4. Save a trial, revisit it later or share its text report. This practice spends and awards no tour resources. The seven-day deck-building tour, ingredient catalog, patient cases, reference material, achievements and Casebook tools remain available. WHAT TO KNOW This is historical-fiction gameplay, not real medical guidance or a usable recipe. Base scoring excludes tools, archetypes and Rigour. Alternatives search one-card substitutions from the starter pool, not every deck. The local notebook holds up to 100 trials and 4 MB; deleting a trial does not affect tour progress. iPhone and iPad. No account required.

Screenshots

Recall Detective4 screens
Decoction3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Recall Detective at Free against Decoction's $2.99. Recall Detective also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Decoction's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Recall Detective is free to download; Decoction costs $2.99 up front. Recall Detective sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Decoction asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recall Detective ships an update fortnightly, Decoction weekly. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Recall Detective versus Decoction: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecall DetectiveDecoction
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB39 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperMcclure Technology SolutionsRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Recall Detective

One-time3
  • Mystery Unlock$1.99
  • 50 Video Pack$2.99
  • Recall Detective Ad-free$4.99
None

Decoction

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recall Detective free?
Recall Detective is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Decoction free?
Decoction costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Recall Detective or Decoction have ads?
Recall Detective shows ads; Decoction does not.
Which is updated more often, Recall Detective or Decoction?
Recall Detective ships an update fortnightly, and Decoction weekly. Most recently, Recall Detective was updated on October 14, 2026 and Decoction on October 14, 2026.

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