Comparison

Rooms Unseen vs CipherStreet

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

Head to head
About

Rooms Unseen

Engage in a series of unique escape room challenges, each featuring interconnected chambers, hidden objects, and intricate puzzles. Explore diverse worlds, solve various puzzle types, and escape to progress through increasingly complex scenarios.

Highlights
  • Unique escape room challenges
  • Interconnected chambers
  • Hidden objects and ciphers
  • Diverse puzzle types
  • Inventory-driven exploration
  • Custom music and sound design
  • Weekly new rooms
Features
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Rooms Unseen is a collection of more than 60 escape rooms with over 35 hours of puzzles. Each one is a small interconnected world: several illustrated chambers, locked doors between them, hidden objects, ciphers, and machinery you have to figure out. Swipe to look around. Tap to look closer. Pick up what you find. Use it. Solve the Puzzles. Escape the room. HOW IT PLAYS You enter a room and find yourself in its first chamber. Swipe to pan across the illustrated scene. Tap anything that catches your attention — a desk, a painting, a control panel — to zoom in for a closer look or open a puzzle. Pick up the items you find and carry them with you. Drag the right item onto the right place to unlock a mechanism. Solve a puzzle and a door opens. Step through into the next chamber. Keep going until you escape. WHAT'S INSIDE • More than 60 original escape rooms across wildly different worlds — an Egyptian tomb, a cyberpunk hacker den, a frozen Victorian observatory, an Art Nouveau apothecary, a pirate hideout carved into a tropical cliff, and many more — from gentle first rooms to hard puzzle-box challenges. • A wide variety of puzzle types — sliders, wire connections, rotary dials, button grids, concentric rings, cryptexes, pipes, mechanical assemblies, text codes, inventory items, tile slides, sorters, and more. • Inventory-driven exploration. The right item from your bag, dragged onto the right place, clicks into the world like it always belonged there. • A dedicated visual style for every room, with cohesive palettes and lighting tuned to the story you've walked into. • Quiet narrative threaded throughout. Each room opens with a literary hook and reveals more about itself as you make progress. • Custom music and sound design for each setting, with tactile haptic feedback on every solve. PASSPORT FOR TRAVELERS Track your journey through the Passport. Rank up from Visitor to Wanderer, Journeyman, Veteran, Loremaster, and more as you escape more rooms. Build a weekly streak by escaping at least one room a week. Earn puzzle-mastery marks for every puzzle type you solve without using a hint. Personal best times save alongside each room you've completed. HINTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM Stuck on a puzzle? Open the hint panel. Pathfinder pans you to the next thing worth investigating, without giving the answer away. Walkthrough overlays the exact step-by-step solution onto the puzzle in front of you. Solve a puzzle without using a hint and you earn a mastery stamp for that puzzle type. Hints are there when you want them and out of the way when you don't. EXPLORE AT YOUR PACE Browse the collection and bookmark the ones that catch your eye. No timer, no pressure — pick up where you left off whenever you like. UNLOCK THE FULL LIBRARY Rooms Unseen is free to download, with several rooms free to play. A single one-time purchase unlocks the entire catalog — more than 60 rooms and over 35 hours of puzzles — with no subscription and no recurring charge. The price is shown in the app and may vary by region. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • This is a one-time purchase — it does not renew. • Restore Purchases is available in the app's Settings if you reinstall or switch devices. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zebrafinchgames.com/rooms-unseen-privacy.html

About

CipherStreet

Features
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CipherStreet is a story-driven puzzle game where every level is a real cryptographic cipher - from Caesar shifts to RSA public keys - wrapped in a cold-war spy thriller. Intercept encoded messages. Decode them with on-screen tools you discover, not tutorials you sit through. Unlock fragments of a decades-spanning conspiracy with every cipher you crack. By the end of ten chapters you'll have genuinely internalised the foundations of modern cryptography - roughly the first four weeks of a university course — without a single lecture. THE STORY A defector known only as The Architect has built a private intelligence network hidden inside ever more sophisticated ciphers. Your handler, Agent Kovács, sends each intercept with minimal context and maximum urgency. A mole. A missing codebook. A name that keeps reappearing across fifty years. Crack the codes before dawn. TEN CHAPTERS, TEN REAL CIPHERS • Caesar cipher: frequency analysis • Vigenère: the pattern inside the pattern • Rail Fence: transposition • Enigma (simplified): the crib attack that broke a war • Playfair: grid geometry • One-Time Pad: the perfect, unbreakable lock • Diffie-Hellman: sharing a secret in public • RSA: math as a lock • Hash functions: integrity, not secrecy • Steganography: messages hidden in plain sight WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Learn by doing: tools are discovered through play, never explained at you • Real, historically accurate cryptography, all running offline on your device • A genuine spy narrative with characters, twists, and a finale that recasts everything • No punishing fail states: get a cipher wrong and the story simply waits • Build and share your own encrypted intercepts; challenge friends to crack them FREE TO START Chapters 1–2 are completely free, no account required. A single one-time purchase unlocks chapters 3–10 and every cipher type in the Builder. No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. The cipher is never the weakest link. The human always is.

Screenshots

Rooms Unseen4 screens
CipherStreet4 screens

Verdict

The call

Rooms Unseen and CipherStreet are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Rooms Unseen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CipherStreet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Rooms Unseen versus CipherStreet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRooms UnseenCipherStreet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB115 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperZebra Finch GamesDenys Popov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Rooms Unseen

One-time1
  • Unlock Every Room$3.99
1 purchases

CipherStreet

One-time1
  • Full Unlock — All Chapters$4.99

Questions

Is Rooms Unseen free?
Rooms Unseen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CipherStreet free?
CipherStreet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rooms Unseen or CipherStreet have ads?
Neither Rooms Unseen nor CipherStreet shows ads.

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