Cascadou vs ArcFlush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cascadou
A deckbuilding roguelike where poker hands trigger chain reactions. Plan sequences, use stickers to break rules, and unleash satisfying cascades. Survive seven days by creating high-scoring hands and upgrading your deck with collectible items.
- Deckbuilding roguelike gameplay
- Collect and combine 120 stickers
- 8 unique card types for combos
- Permanent upgrades with 10 badges
- Multiple play modes for all skill levels
- Daily Challenges and special stages
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A uniquely satisfying deckbuilding roguelike where poker hands topple into each other like dominoes. Plan the perfect sequence, break the rules with powerful stickers, and unleash cascades of pure joy! Each round raises the target score. With limited moves per round, you need to create the biggest scoring hands to survive seven days. Upgrade your 52‑card deck with collectible stickers, earn permanent badges, and discover special cards that open new ways to play. A new game mode debuts on iOS: Freeswap Run: Move cards freely, but you only have 4 chances to play! FEATURES The full, complete Cascadou game now available on the go! 120 stickers to collect, combine, and experiment with 8 card types that help you create wild combos 10 badges that permanently upgrade your run Auto saves game each round Multiple play modes for beginners and advanced players Daily Challenges: Chill Mode (free swaps, chase the longest chains) and Solitaire (remove all 52 cards in 20 moves or less) Morning, Afternoon, and Night stages with optional challenges and big rewards 20 rounds plus a tough final level that tests your deck and your skill Secrets to uncover and new modes and stickers to unlock Bronze, Silver and Gold medals to earn for each play mode Handcrafted art and music by solo developer machineboy from Norway High replayability with endless deck, sticker, and badge combos So take off your shoes, kick back, and soak in the delightful chain reactions of Cascadou!
ArcFlush
This game combines solitaire-style card removal with poker hand building. Strategically clear layered card formations to unlock new cards and build winning poker hands to achieve target scores and progress through unique stages.
- Layered card formations
- Solitaire card removal
- Poker hand building
- Unique stage themes
- Unlockable twists
- Collectible trinkets
- In-game shop
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Cards don't line up politely here. They're stacked in layers — the way mahjong tiles are stacked, except these are playing cards, and one of the maps is on fire. Which means there are two games sitting on top of each other: getting a card out of the pile, and knowing what to do with it once you have it. HOW IT WORKS · The map is a layered formation. Anything underneath is locked until you clear what's covering it, so every card you take decides what you're allowed to take next. That half is solitaire. · Play up to five of the cards you've taken as a poker hand. A pair is fine. A Flush is better. A Straight Flush means you planned ahead — or got lucky and will claim you planned ahead. That half is poker. · Beat the stage's target score, spend what you earned in the Shop, and do it again. And again. Until the target has grown a couple of digits and you're no longer certain which of your trinkets is doing the heavy lifting. WHAT'S IN IT · Every map is built around exactly one idea. Ice Lake freezes cards. Furnace sets them alight. Dark Pool turns the lights off and invites you to feel your way out. · Clear a map and its Twist unlocks: the same map, in a considerably worse mood. · Trinkets. Some add points. Some quietly rewrite a rule you'd assumed was permanent. The legendary ones turn up rarely enough that finding the right one feels like the run has decided to help you, just this once. · A Shop between stages, because a roguelite without a shop is just a difficult puzzle. · A tutorial that leaves quickly and waits in Settings in case you ever want it back. WHAT'S NOT IN IT · Ads. · In-app purchases. · A season pass, a battle pass, or a little bar that refills while you sleep. · An internet connection. This app has never phoned home and wouldn't know who to call. Buy it once and own all of it — every map, every trinket, every Twist. There is nothing else to sell you, and we are not going to think of anything. One deck, thirteen languages. Good luck.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ArcFlush at 4.7 against Cascadou's 3.8. ArcFlush also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and chart position (#12 vs unranked). Cascadou's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 73%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Cascadou costs $4.99 and ArcFlush $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ArcFlush holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ArcFlush has 35 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Cascadou's written reviews are positive against 73% of ArcFlush's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cascadou ships an update fortnightly, ArcFlush every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Cascadou | ArcFlush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better | 73.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #12 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 529 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Machineboy AS | 欣宇 王 |
Customer experience
Cascadou
ArcFlush
In-app purchases
Cascadou
No in-app purchases
ArcFlush
No in-app purchases









