Comparison

Bento Stack vs Tia's Lights

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

Head to head
About

Bento Stack

Features
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Bento Stack is a cozy offline lunchbox placement puzzle about fitting bright little food pieces into satisfying bento trays. Every level asks you to read the tray, rotate pieces, and place rice, sweets, proteins, and veggies into the right spaces. The rules are simple, but the board gets denser as the campaign grows. Features: - 120 handcrafted-style generated puzzle levels - Offline play with no login required - Increasing difficulty across five bento chapters - Tap to rotate, drag to place, undo, hints, and star ratings - Original food art, soft background music, and playful sound effects - Founder Bento Pass removes interstitial ads and unlocks unlimited hints Bento Stack is designed for quick puzzle breaks: warm, readable, and just tricky enough to make the perfect lunchbox feel earned. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tia's Lights

Features
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Turn the wires. Bring the lights home. A cozy circuit puzzle with no ads and no timers. Tia, a young electrician, comes home to reopen Ray's Lights, her grandfather's little repair shop by the ferry. A storm has tangled every wire in town. Help her relight a cozy hometown, one neighbor at a time. HOW IT PLAYS Tap wire tiles to rotate them and guide power from the source to every bulb. Follow numbered stations in order, cross wire bridges and split the power along clever routes. Light the whole circuit to finish a puzzle. A JOURNEY WORTH LIGHTING 320 puzzles in 16 districts. All of Dawn Village โ€” the first 80 โ€” is free; the rest unlock with one optional purchase, The Full Journey. Explore four places, from Dawn Village to Lighthouse Town, and meet the neighbors behind each repair. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE No timers or energy limits. Undo a move or restart a board whenever you like. Fix a tile is free, with no limit on uses, and caps that level at two stars. Return to a solved circuit to try for three stars. Play puzzles offline, choose your language, adjust music and sound, or enable Reduce Motion. FAIR BY DESIGN Free to download. No ads, no subscriptions and no virtual currency. The Full Journey is a one-time purchase; purchasing and restoring require access to the App Store. Made by one independent developer in Vietnam. All characters and places are fictional.

Screenshots

Bento Stack4 screens
Tia's Lights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tia's Lights at none against Bento Stack's shown. Bento Stack's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Bento Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tia's Lights sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Bento Stack versus Tia's Lights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBento StackTia's Lights
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size31 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGobling CompanyHoang Ngoc Son

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bento Stack

One-time1
  • Founder Bento Pass$2.99
1 purchases

Tia's Lights

One-time1
  • The Full Journey$2.99

Questions

Is Bento Stack free?
Bento Stack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tia's Lights free?
Tia's Lights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bento Stack or Tia's Lights have ads?
Bento Stack shows ads; Tia's Lights does not.

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