Tessel Run vs Match Attack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tessel Run
Navigate a physics-based puzzle platformer where colored surfaces alter the rules of gravity and movement. Roll through hand-drawn levels, using color-coded tessels to overcome obstacles and reach the goal. Precision and experimentation are key to mastering the dynamic challenges.
- Physics-based puzzle platforming
- Color-coded physics mechanics
- Hand-drawn tangram level design
- Precision and momentum gameplay
- Dynamic tessellations
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You are a ball in a world of hand-colored tessels where color changes the rules of physics. Tessel Run is a physics-based puzzle platformer where color-coded tessels modify how the world behaves. Roll across different colored surfaces to flip gravity, remove obstacles, bounce higher, and chain effects together to reach the goal. Each level is built from hand-drawn tangram shapes, scanned from real paper drawings by the developers and assembled into dynamic tessellations. Precision, momentum, and experimentation matter. And falling is part of learning the path.
Match Attack
Engage in roguelike match-3 combat where tile swaps trigger attacks, defense, and healing. Collect powerful relics and build game-breaking synergies across multiple chapters. Enjoy single-player, offline gameplay with no timers or energy systems.
- Match tiles to attack, defend, and heal
- Create powerful tile cascades
- Collect over 280 synergistic relics
- Progress through three distinct chapters
- Unlock permanent relics through runs
- Ascension tiers for increased difficulty
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Match Attack is a match-3 roguelike game where the board is your weapon! Swap tiles to make matches and watch satisfying cascades. Set up the perfect board, collect upgrades and create gamebreaking builds! - Match tiles to attack, defend, recharge and heal - Get rewarded for bigger matches with clears, empowered tiles, wildcards, and bombs - 280+ relics with synergizing mechanics - Three chapters, each with fights, elites, events, shops, rest sites, and a boss finale - Earn experience from every run to permanently unlock new relics - Ascension tiers add difficulty for uncapped replayability Single-player, fully offline. No timers, no energy. One optional in-app purchase to removes ads and support the solo developer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tessel Run at none against Match Attack's 1. Tessel Run also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Match Attack's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 3). On price, 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. Match Attack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tessel Run asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tessel Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Match Attack has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Tessel Run | Match Attack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Micah Arvey | Michael Ip |
Customer experience
Tessel Run
Match Attack
In-app purchases
Tessel Run
No in-app purchases
Match Attack
- Match Attack Remove Ads$1.99
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