BrAIn Beat the Bot vs Sumward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrAIn Beat the Bot
Engage in a fast-paced word guessing game. Challenge a bot or friends, revealing words letter by letter. Track scores, improve your time, and enjoy distraction-free gameplay across multiple languages and categories.
- Solo bot challenges
- Local score tracking
- Multiplayer mode
- Tournament play
- Multiple languages
- Distraction-free gameplay
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A few spare minutes. A new word. Your next destination. BrAIn brings offline word games, crosswords and sports trivia to iPhone and iPad. PLAY YOUR WAY - Beat the Bot: guess hidden words across countries, cities, animals, food and more. - Beat the Grid: solve connected crosswords in Daily, Mini or Full mode, with hints and saved progress. - Beat the Link: find four connected groups among 16 words. There are 72 puzzles in total across 18 language modes: four per mode, split between Easy and Hard. - Beat the Ball: test your soccer, American football, basketball and baseball knowledge. - Daily: play a word round and an NFL round. EXPLORE BEFORE YOU GO Discover 15 city destinations, illustrated landmarks, a kids' quiz mode and club trivia, including Bayern museum and stadium questions. Read a quick fact after an answer. BrAIn is an independent educational game, not an official club or league app. PLAY TOGETHER Share one device, invite a friend through Game Center, or send a five-word Beat My Score challenge to play at different times. Track supported scores and achievements in Game Center. Solo puzzles work offline. Game Center invitations, challenges, score syncing and external links require internet. Local puzzle progress is saved on your device. Choose from 18 language and script modes. Content coverage varies: city clues and facts are in English and Persian; club quizzes in English, German and Persian. Other interface languages use clearly marked English clues for those packs. Beat the Link has native-language puzzles for all 18 modes.
Sumward
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MAKE A HAND. BUILD AN ENGINE. BREAK THE MATH. Step into the Night Parade: a number-card roguelite where simple hands become outrageous scoring machines. Draw 8 cards, play up to 5, and turn familiar sets and runs - plus Sum to Ten, Spectrum, and Pure Run - into chips x mult. Then draft relics, tune your deck, and survive eight escalating rounds. EASY TO READ. DEEP TO MASTER. • See your score before you commit a hand • Keep the complete hand table one tap away • Read every suit by color, symbol, and name • Spot overlapping hands and score the strongest pattern BUILD SOMETHING BROKEN • Discover 22 relics across common, uncommon, and rare tiers • Combine relic effects into powerful scoring engines • Add, enhance, or remove cards in The Exchange • Upgrade cards with foil, holo, and gild enhancements • Bank coins between rounds to earn interest - or spend them chasing the perfect build THE RULES CHANGE AS YOU CLIMB Every run climbs through eight named rounds. From the third, each round bends a rule: fewer swaps, a smaller hand, halved coins, or junk hands worth nothing. Beat The Auditor at Round 8 to win. Your run saves after every action, so you can leave and continue exactly where you stopped. ONE SHARED DAILY Everyone gets the same seeded run each day: the same deal, the same rule changes, and the same Exchange. You get one ranked attempt, then you can compare your result on the global leaderboard. The Daily is free for everyone. THE MARATHON (PRO) Pro adds a separate board on the same daily deck. Carry it past Round 8 in Infinite Mode as often as you like: every run counts and your best run ranks. The Daily itself stays one ranked attempt for everyone. KEEP MAKING PROGRESS • Complete 13 milestones • Discover every hand and relic • Track personal records and your strongest builds • Change the full table with unlockable themes • Share polished result cards with friends FREE TO PLAY Play the ranked Daily every day, start five introductory casual runs, then receive three casual starts each day. Free players get the complete eight-round game and the full core relic pool. There are no ads. GO PRO Unlock unlimited casual runs, continue winning builds into Infinite Mode, expand from five to eight relic slots after Round 8, play today's deck on the Marathon Pro board, where unlimited attempts count and your best run past Round 8 ranks, keep the Ledger of lifetime records and your last 30 runs, and equip every premium table theme. Choose the one-time Full Game Unlock or the StackForge Play Pass. No subscription is required to own the full game. Made by StackForge Studios. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrAIn Beat the Bot at none against Sumward's 3. BrAIn Beat the Bot also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Sumward sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. BrAIn Beat the Bot asks for nothing beyond the download.
BrAIn Beat the Bot ships an update every 5 days, Sumward every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrAIn Beat the Bot | Sumward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IdeaAsCode LLC | StackForge Studios |
In-app purchases
BrAIn Beat the Bot
No in-app purchases
Sumward
- StackForge Play Pass Monthly$2.991 Month
- StackForge Play Pass Annual$14.991 Year
- Sumward Full Game Unlock$4.99









