Limnering vs Skeeter Strike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Limnering
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Paint one page a day. By Christmas, you will have a whole illuminated year. Limnering is a quiet, parchment styled daily puzzle that puts you in the seat of a medieval manuscript painter. Each morning a fresh hand designed page appears in your studio: a saint's portrait, a giant decorative initial, a bestiary creature, a margin drollery, a biblical scene, or a Lindisfarne style carpet page. Tap a region to fill it with the pigment of your choice. Save the page to your year long codex. Come back tomorrow for another. Twelve historical pigments wait in the tray: Lapis lazuli ultramarine, the most expensive medieval pigment, reserved for the Virgin's robe. Vermillion, ground from cinnabar, the bright red of blood and royalty. Gold leaf, beaten foil burnished onto the page for haloes and the figure of Christ. Verdigris, copper acetate, beautiful and corrosive. Malachite, the safe and stable green from copper ore. Indigo, fermented from Indigofera leaves, cheaper than ultramarine. Woad, the European blue, even cheaper. Saffron, hand picked crocus stigmas, used for yellow highlights. Lead white, toxic but bright opaque, the medieval flesh ground. Bone black, charred bones, the scribe's ink and outline color. Madder lake, a cool plant red layered over warmer reds for royal robes. Orpiment, brilliant arsenic yellow, fatal to grind without ventilation. Forty hand designed patterns ship at launch, grouped into six sections: Eight saint portraits with halo, robe, attribute, and flesh. Six decorative initial letters with knotwork interior and marginal vine. Eight marginalia pages: knight and snail, dancing rabbits, monkey trumpet, owl scribe, ape doctor, fox preaching, hare hunting hound, cockerel joust. Four biblical scenes in silhouette: Nativity, Annunciation, Last Supper, Crucifixion. Six bestiary creatures: unicorn, manticore, basilisk, gryphon, leviathan, pelican. Eight geometric Insular carpet pages: four corners, cross of the scribe, rosette, checker field, vesica weave, eight fold knot, star of the north, spiral quadrants. A monastic accuracy score quietly rewards you for following the iconographic conventions a medieval illuminator was taught: gold for haloes, ultramarine for Mary, malachite for foliage, lead white for flesh, vermillion for martyr's robes. The Scriptorium inside the app explains every rule, every pigment, and the source it would have come from. Your scoring history is saved in the codex. There is no time pressure. There is no fail state. There is no system to chase. There is just paint, and parchment, and the soft pluck of a lute when you set down a color. The soundtrack is generated procedurally on device. Three voices model a contemplative monastic chamber piece: an organ drone in the Hypodorian mode, a soft lute pluck for each pigment you apply, and a recorder counterpoint that briefly wells up whenever you satisfy an iconographic rule. No audio files are bundled with the app. Limnering ships with twenty achievements, a yearly codex grid for every UTC day, a sandbox mode that unlocks every pattern from the first launch, accessibility options for reduced motion, dyslexic friendly font, and high contrast outlines, and local SwiftData persistence for the codex. No subscriptions. No in app purchases. No expansion packs. No tracking. No analytics. No accounts. No third party SDKs. Thank you for reading.
Skeeter Strike
Play as a mosquito trying to survive and drink blood without getting squished or bursting. Master quick reflexes to dodge hands and manage your blood meter for high scores. This addictive game offers fast, simple, one-thumb controls for quick sessions.
- One-thumb controls
- Risk-vs-reward blood meter
- Quick-reaction dodge gameplay
- High-score chasing
- Satisfying splat/burst moments
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Become the mosquito. Survive the slap. In Skeeter Strike, you play as a hungry mosquito on a high-stakes blood run. Hold to drink and fill your blood meter — but the fuller you get, the higher the risk of getting squished… or bursting from drinking too fast. How to play: • Hold Drink to fill your blood meter • Tap Dodge the moment the hand strikes • Balance greed and survival — drink too fast and you’ll Burst! • Get caught and it’s Splat! Every successful dodge and every drop of blood counts. Push your luck, beat your best score, and see how long you can stay buzzing. Fast, simple, and dangerously addictive. Perfect for quick sessions or “just one more try” sessions that somehow last an hour. Features: • Instant one-thumb controls • Risk-vs-reward blood meter • Quick-reaction dodge gameplay • High-score chasing • Cartoon chaos and satisfying splat/burst moments Think you can fill up without becoming a red smear? Start Buzzin’.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Skeeter Strike at Free against Limnering's $2.99. Skeeter Strike also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Skeeter Strike is free to download; Limnering costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Limnering ships an update every 5 days, Skeeter Strike every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Limnering | Skeeter Strike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Corbin | Do Not Get Abstracted Studios, LLC |
In-app purchases
Limnering
No in-app purchases
Skeeter Strike
No in-app purchases









