Riomaker vs Word Vice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Riomaker
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Turn the tiles. Let the water through. Riomaker is a game about building rivers. Every tile has to fill with water, so twist them around until the whole thing flows from the source all the way to the goal. Keep half an eye on the clock. Each stretch gives you a set amount of time, and the water will not wait for you to make up your mind. No menus. No story to keep up with. The world is the map. Clear a stretch, plant your flag at the checkpoint, and the river carries you straight into the next one. The further you go, the more the landscape around you changes. Out of time? Spend a heart and pick up from your last checkpoint. Hearts are won in the whirlpools, and when they run out, you start over from the source. Wrong turn? So did the Mississippi. WHAT YOU GET • One long journey downriver, bend after bend • Tiles to turn, water to guide, a goal to reach • Whirlpools that pull you under and change the rules for a while • Gifts to help you along the way • Rivers that get trickier the further you travel • New landscapes along the way • An island of your own that fills up as you play GOOD TO KNOW • Free to start. No account needed, just open it and play • After the first rivers, you choose: pay once and play with no ads in between rivers, or keep playing for free with an ad now and then • One purchase, yours for good. No subscriptions • Plays offline Help the river find its way down.
Word Vice
A word game where naughty words score more points. Swipe letters to spell words, with daily challenges and timed rounds. Choose your corruption level from PG-13 to R-Rated, with no ads or tracking.
- Score bonus points with 'naughty' words
- Daily timed and untimed word challenges
- Unlock R-Rated dictionary for more words
- Offline play with no ads or tracking
- Supports VoiceOver and tap-to-spell mode
- iCloud sync for streaks and word collection
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Play dirty with words. Word Vice is a word game where ordinary words score the ordinary way and the naughty ones pay a bonus. Swipe across neighboring letters to spell words, and find the ones you'd never say at brunch. DAILY HUNT • A fresh 4×4 board at midnight, the same for everyone, with no clock • Somewhere in it hides a vice word. Find one and you win the day • Find them all to show off. Fridays come loaded • Keep your streak alive. Night owls get until 2 a.m. • Every vice you find goes in your jar of bad words, for good TIMED ROUNDS • Sixty-second rounds, as many as you like • 4×4 and 5×5 boards, plus 6×6 on iPad • Find a vice for Vice Fever, where its letters pay extra CHOOSE YOUR CORRUPTION LEVEL • PG-13 is free forever. The whole game, unlimited, no trial • R-Rated takes the gloves off with the full filthy dictionary • It also opens the last week of boards, to play late and mend a streak • One permanent unlock, at the price you pick from three. Every price unlocks exactly the same thing YOUR DEGENERACY STAYS PRIVATE • No ads, no accounts, no tracking • No internet required • iCloud carries your streak and jar to your other devices Works with VoiceOver, with an untimed tap-to-spell mode. Got an iPhone Duo? Word Vice plays across both screens, and it knows one extra trick for when the boss walks in. It started in the car. My wife found the word in the grid that made everyone blush, and said, "The dirty words should be worth more." She was right. I built it for her first. The rest of you are welcome to it. Word Vice contains crude language by design. The vice list is rude, not cruel: slurs and hate terms are left out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Word Vice at none against Riomaker's shown. Riomaker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Riomaker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Word Vice sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Riomaker ships an update every 3 days, Word Vice weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Riomaker | Word Vice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hibombo - A Creative Helping Hand AB | Alan Brooks |
In-app purchases
Riomaker
- Full game$5.99
Word Vice
- Cheap Date$2.99
- Fair Deal$4.99
- Buy My Wife a Drink$9.99









