Comparison

Sumward vs Aqua Sort

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

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About

Sumward

Features
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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/

About

Aqua Sort

A relaxing color-sorting puzzle game where you pour liquids between bottles to match colors. Features unique accessibility options and visually engaging animations for a polished experience.

Highlights
  • Colorblind support
  • Animated pouring
  • Bonus levels
  • Light and dark modes
  • Hand-drawn art
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Sort the colors, one pour at a time. Aqua Sort: Water Color Puzzle is a classic water-sort puzzle: pick a bottle, pour it into another, and untangle the colors until every bottle holds just one. Simple to learn, genuinely relaxing, and built with a level of craft and accessibility this genre usually skips. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - Real colourblind support: a second palette built and measured for color-vision deficiency, not a filter slapped on top. Switch it on anytime in Settings. - Pours you can actually watch: the bottle lifts, tips, and streams liquid into its target — no instant color swaps. - Pour two bottles into the same target at once, when the puzzle allows it. - Bonus levels: starting at level 15 and then every ten levels, taller bottles and a fresh layout shake up the routine, with a gold progress bar showing how close the next one is. - A hand-drawn icon and a hand-measured color palette — not a generated template. - Light and dark mode, controlled by a switch in the game, not just your phone's setting. HOW TO PLAY Tap a bottle to pick it up, then tap another to pour. You can only pour a color onto the same color or into an empty bottle, and only as much as fits. Clear every bottle down to a single color to finish the level. FAIR MONETIZATION It is free to play, supported by ads between levels. A one-time Remove Ads purchase turns them off for good — no subscription, no repeated charges. Every level is generated to be solvable before you ever see it.

Screenshots

Sumward4 screens
Aqua Sort3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sumward at none against Aqua Sort's shown. Sumward also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sumward sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Aqua Sort sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sumward ships an update every 3 weeks, Aqua Sort every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sumward versus Aqua Sort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSumwardAqua Sort
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStackForge StudiosKACPER ADAM OSINSKI

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sumward

Subscriptions2
  • StackForge Play Pass Monthly$2.991 Month
  • StackForge Play Pass Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sumward Full Game Unlock$4.99
1 purchases

Aqua Sort

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Sumward free?
Sumward is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aqua Sort free?
Aqua Sort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sumward or Aqua Sort have ads?
Aqua Sort shows ads; Sumward does not.
Which is updated more often, Sumward or Aqua Sort?
Sumward ships an update every 3 weeks, and Aqua Sort every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sumward was updated on October 29, 2026 and Aqua Sort on October 19, 2026.

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