Comparison

Tile Five vs AsterLynx Rift Run

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

Head to head
About

Tile Five

Place numbered tiles on a grid, with each tile occupying a specific number of spaces based on its value and position. Master thousands of levels with increasing difficulty, daily challenges, and unique board shapes. Earn rewards and enjoy a visually pleasing and tactile puzzle experience.

Highlights
  • Numbered tile placement logic
  • Thousands of campaign levels
  • Daily puzzles with leaderboards
  • Silhouette and free play modes
  • In-game rewards and hints
  • Smooth animations and haptics
Features
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Every tile has a rule. Every placement has consequences. Get it wrong and the whole board falls apart. Place numbered tiles on a grid — each one fills a specific number of spaces around it. Odd tiles claim the corners. Even tiles take the sides. Tile 5 does both. Every tile must be placed perfectly to win. One wrong move and the board stays unsolved. Simple to learn. Incredibly hard to master. CAMPAIGN MODE Take on thousands of levels across dozens of phases. Boards grow larger, tile counts climb higher, and the challenge deepens with every phase you unlock. Earn XP, climb reward tiers, and collect resource drops as you go. There's always a harder board ahead. DAILY PUZZLE A fresh puzzle every day. Race the clock, post your score, and see how you rank on the global leaderboard. The built-in calendar lets you replay any past puzzle whenever you want. SILHOUETTE MODE The board is shaped like an object. Your job is to fill it perfectly. Same rules, a completely different kind of challenge. FREE PLAY Your board, your rules. Pick your tile count, play as many rounds as you want, and track your wins across every configuration. EARN AS YOU PLAY Complete levels to earn hints, undos, and restarts. Hit milestones for bonus rewards. Play clean — no hints, no undos, no restarts — for extra XP. BUILT TO FEEL GREAT Smooth animations. Warm wood aesthetics. Satisfying sounds and haptics. Designed to feel as good as it plays. Tile Five. One more round always makes sense.

About

AsterLynx Rift Run

Navigate a ship through increasingly challenging levels filled with asteroids, mines, and lasers. Collect energy, utilize power-ups, and upgrade your pilot to achieve high scores. The core gameplay is available offline.

Highlights
  • 10 handcrafted difficulty levels
  • Fast portrait gameplay
  • Asteroid, mine, and laser hazards
  • Power-ups: magnet, slow-motion, shields
  • Pilot progression and upgrades
  • Unlockable ships
  • Offline gameplay
Features
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Enter the rift and prove your reflexes across 10 increasingly dangerous levels. Asterlynx: Rift Run is a fast-paced portrait arcade game built for quick missions and repeat high-score runs. Guide your ship through shifting asteroid fields, collect energy, and react to hazards before the rift closes in. SURVIVE AN ESCALATING RUN Every level raises the pressure with faster hazards and denser patterns. Face multiple asteroid types, space mines, moving laser barriers, and boss encounters as you fight your way to the final level. TURN POWER-UPS INTO AN ADVANTAGE Collect shields to absorb collisions. Pull nearby energy toward your ship with the magnet, slow the action when the field becomes overwhelming, and activate double score to push your run further. BUILD YOUR PILOT Earn experience, complete missions and daily missions, unlock badges, and gain permanent upgrades for speed, starting shields, and score. Expand your hangar with new ships as your pilot level grows. CHASE YOUR NEXT RECORD Save your best scores on your device and enter your pilot name. If an optional rewarded ad is available after a failed mission, you can choose to watch it for one protected continuation. Starting a new run never requires an ad. FEATURES • 10 handcrafted difficulty levels with a final victory • Fast portrait gameplay designed for touch controls • Asteroids, mines, laser barriers, and boss encounters • Magnet, slow-motion, double-score, and shield power-ups • Missions, daily missions, experience, and badges • Unlockable ships and permanent pilot upgrades • 10 escalating difficulty levels with a final victory • Music, sound, haptic feedback, and screen-shake controls • Core gameplay remains available offline Launch your ship, read the field, and survive the rift.

Screenshots

Tile Five4 screens
AsterLynx Rift Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AsterLynx Rift Run at none against Tile Five's 10. AsterLynx Rift Run also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Tile Five's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tile Five sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. AsterLynx Rift Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tile Five against 5.0 for AsterLynx Rift Run. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tile Five has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tile Five ships an update every 10 days, AsterLynx Rift Run every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tile Five versus AsterLynx Rift Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTile FiveAsterLynx Rift Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB36 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJonathan TuckerHuseyin OZDEMIR

Customer experience

Tile Five

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AsterLynx Rift Run

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tile Five

One-time10
  • 10 Hints$0.99
  • 10 Undos$0.99
  • 10 Restarts$0.99
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  • 50 Hints$2.99
  • 50 Undos$2.99
  • 50 Restarts$2.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • 100 Hints$4.99
  • 100 Undos$4.99
  • 100 Restarts$4.99
None

AsterLynx Rift Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tile Five free?
Tile Five is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AsterLynx Rift Run free?
AsterLynx Rift Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tile Five or AsterLynx Rift Run?
Tile Five and AsterLynx Rift Run are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tile Five or AsterLynx Rift Run have ads?
AsterLynx Rift Run shows ads; Tile Five does not.
Which is updated more often, Tile Five or AsterLynx Rift Run?
Tile Five ships an update every 10 days, and AsterLynx Rift Run every 3 days. Most recently, Tile Five was updated on October 24, 2026 and AsterLynx Rift Run on October 29, 2026.

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