Comparison

Towers vs Chain Link Words

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

Head to head
About

Towers

Features
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Stack every skyline with pure logic. Towers is a clean skyscraper puzzle where each clue tells how many buildings are visible from that edge. Fill every row and column with each height exactly once, then use the skyline clues to finish the grid without guessing. HOW IT WORKS • Each row and column contains every tower height once • Edge clues count visible towers from that direction • Taller towers hide shorter towers behind them • Every puzzle is built for a unique solution WHY YOU'LL KEEP PLAYING • 900 curated puzzles across Easy, Medium, and Hard • A fresh daily challenge with streak tracking • Smart hints when you want a nudge • Game Center leaderboards and achievements PLAY YOUR WAY • Full offline play • Home Screen widget for daily practice • Readable light and dark themes • VoiceOver-friendly labels, hints, and scalable text • Free to start, with premium content when you want more Perfect for fans of Sudoku, Futoshiki, KenKen, Hashi, and elegant deduction puzzles. Download Towers and complete your first skyline.

About

Chain Link Words

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SUN Ā· FLOWER Ā· POT One word sits between two others and links them both. Sunflower. Flowerpot. Find it, and the chain grows. Chain Link Words is a word puzzle built on compound words and everyday phrases. Each answer becomes the anchor for the next, so a chain builds beneath you as you climb — and one wrong turn is the difference between a clean run and a scrappy one. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY DAILY — Five links, once a day. Everyone gets the same chain. Keep the streak alive. LADDER — The long climbs, up to eleven links. No clock. Just how far you can go. BLITZ — Ninety seconds. How much chain can you build before it runs out? RELAY — A finished chain with gaps in it, fillable in any order. Work backwards, sideways, whatever gets you there. HUB — One word in the middle. How many words can you hang off it? RECORDS — Every past daily, still playable. Nothing expires. BUILT PROPERLY Every link in the game is a real compound word or a phrase people actually say — checked against a corpus of billions of words, not a dictionary that treats "leaflove" and "lighthouse" as equals. Stuck? Spend a key to reveal a letter, or give up and move on. You collect keys every day and earn more for solving unaided. No ads. No account. No internet needed. Just words.

Screenshots

Towers4 screens
Chain Link Words4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Towers at Free against Chain Link Words's $0.99. Chain Link Words's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Towers is free to download; Chain Link Words costs $0.99 up front. Towers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chain Link Words asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Towers versus Chain Link Words: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTowersChain Link Words
PriceFree — better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAN URBANEKadam rogan

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Towers

One-time1
  • Towers Premium Unlock$3.00
None

Chain Link Words

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Towers free?
Towers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chain Link Words free?
Chain Link Words costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Towers or Chain Link Words have ads?
Neither Towers nor Chain Link Words shows ads.

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