Halloway vs wurdweb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Halloway
Explore a house of riddles played in the dark, focusing on solving clues to unlock doors. Progress is saved on your device, with optional cross-device sync. No account is needed to begin your mysterious journey.
- Three hand-built cipher wings
- Played phone-first in the dark
- No maps or busywork
- Solve rooms to turn keys
- Progress saved on device
- Optional cross-device sync
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Halloway is a house of riddles - three hand-built cipher wings (The Veil, The Athanor, and The Threshold) played phone-first in the dark. No maps, no busywork: just you, a clue, and the next door. Solve a room to turn its key; the house remembers them all. No account is required. Progress stays on your device unless you sign in for cross-device sync; anonymous aggregate usage counts can be turned off in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
wurdweb
Engage in word puzzles with a relaxed atmosphere. Connect words from a list to form a web on the board, aiming to reach a finish tile or maximize word placement. Offers infinite unique puzzles, daily challenges, and custom puzzle creation.
- Infinite unique puzzles
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly Puzzles
- Custom puzzle creation
- Controller support
- Leaderboards
- Multiple languages
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Word puzzles with Sunday morning vibes. Grab words from a list and cross them with words on the board. Puzzle your way towards a Finish Tile, put down enough words, or put down as many words as you can! In this game, you'll find: • Infinite unique puzzles, generated by an intelligent algorithm. • Challenges, to let you try different play styles. • Daily, Weekly and Monthly Puzzles, where you put down as many words as you can! • Numbered Puzzles, a sequence of slightly harder puzzles. On top of that, you'll also find: • Cute little characters who walk around in your puzzles doing absolutely nothing. • Leaderboards for Daily, Weekly and Monthly Puzzles, for when you feel competitive. • Make Your Own Puzzle, where you get to pick the type of puzzle, the theme, and the optional variation. • Play with controllers compatible with your device. wurdweb can generate puzzles in the following languages: • Dutch • English (U.K.) • English (U.S.) • French (Canada) • French (France) • German • Italian • Portuguese (Brazil) • Russian • Spanish (Latin America) • Turkish • Swedish • Polish On top of the languages above, the interface (but not the puzzles!) is also available in the following languages: • Japanese • Arabic • Chinese (Simplified) • Chinese (Traditional) • Korean wurdweb is designed by Aran Koning and Adriaan de Jongh, two game designers and friends from the Netherlands.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Halloway at Free against wurdweb's $3.99. wurdweb's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On rating 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
Halloway is free to download; wurdweb costs $3.99 up front. Halloway sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. wurdweb asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Halloway against 5.0 for wurdweb. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: wurdweb has 63 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Halloway | wurdweb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #7 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | No Evil Star LLC | Adriaan de Jongh |
In-app purchases
Halloway
- Whole House Upgrade$1.00
- Halloway - The Veil$1.99
- Halloway - The Threshold$1.99
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- Halloway - The Athanor$1.99
- Whole House Upgrade$3.00
- Halloway - All Access$4.99
wurdweb
No in-app purchases









