Comparison

Sisyphus with Stickers vs Tumble Tubes

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

Head to head
About

Sisyphus with Stickers

A calming game where you push a boulder up a hill to earn stickers. Decorate your boulder with collected stickers, which change its rolling physics and appearance over time. Explore ever-changing landscapes and unlock milestones as you continue your endless climb.

Highlights
  • Push boulder up hills
  • Earn and collect stickers
  • Decorate boulder with stickers
  • Stickers affect rolling physics
  • Dynamic, changing landscapes
  • Unlock milestones and achievements
Features
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Sisyphus had it rough. Push the boulder up, watch it roll back down, repeat forever. No points, no prizes, nothing to show for it. We fixed that last part. Sisyphus with Stickers is a small, calming game about a slightly happier Sisyphus. Tap anywhere to shove your boulder up the hill. Use as many fingers as you like, because every finger counts. Stop tapping and gravity rolls it back toward the valley, or hold a finger down to rest. Crest the apex and you earn a sticker for your rock. THE LOOP • Start in a valley with your boulder. • Tap to push it up the near side. Around a hundred taps gets you to the top. • Crest the summit to earn a sticker. The boulder rolls down the far side into the next hill, and the climb starts again. • Decorate whenever you feel like it. Tap your rock to spin it up close, then pick a sticker from a random pack, the full emoji keyboard, or your own photos. PLACE IT JUST SO • Line each sticker up under the reticle. Drag to rotate the boulder, pinch to resize the sticker, twist to spin it, and add a border if you want one. • Changed your mind? Peel any sticker back off. • In a hurry? Let Surprise Me scatter your whole collection at once. KEEP GOING (please don't) Game Center puts your summit count on a leaderboard and turns each milestone into an achievement. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account required. Just you, a rock, a hill, and an ever-growing pile of stickers.

About

Tumble Tubes

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Two glass tubes arc up either side of the board. A funnel sits at the top. And a winding track runs back down toward four stacks of holders that are never quite the color you need. Every level opens with a board of loaded cartridges. Most carry nine marbles. Some carry far more. Tap one and its marbles rush up through the side tube, over the arc, and spill out of the funnel onto the track below. From there they tumble down, lane by lane, toward the holders. A marble that reaches a holder in its own color clicks into place. Fill that holder and it pops away, and whatever color was buried under it rises up to take its turn. Marbles with no holder to go to keep riding. They queue up behind one another, and the track has an end. Pack it with marbles that have nowhere to click in and the run is finished. You'll see it coming a few moves out. Getting out of it is the hard part. And not every cartridge is ready to fire. Some sit frozen. Some are buried under stone. Some are bolted into a frame and won't move until you clear what's around them. Which one you open, and when, is the whole game. HOW TO PLAY - Tap a cartridge to send its marbles up the tube and through the funnel - Marbles pour onto the track and tumble down toward the holders - A marble clears when it clicks into a holder of its own color - Fill a holder and the next color in that stack rises up behind it - Marbles with no matching holder stay on the track and take up room - Fill the track with marbles that can't clear and the level ends - Empty the board and finish every stack to move on ON THE BOARD - Cartridges from three marbles up to a couple of hundred - Frozen cartridges that need a few clears before they open - Stone tiles hiding what sits underneath - Boosters for when the track is packed and you need a way out NO TIMER Open a cartridge when you're ready. Sit and read the board for a minute if you want. Nothing on screen is counting down.

Screenshots

Sisyphus with Stickers4 screens
Tumble Tubes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Sisyphus with Stickers at 2 against Tumble Tubes's —. Tumble Tubes's advantage is iOS requirement (14.5 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sisyphus with Stickers versus Tumble Tubes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSisyphus with StickersTumble Tubes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS17.014.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB184 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKavan BahramiDIGITAL EDUCATION LAB PTY LTD

In-app purchases

None

Sisyphus with Stickers

No in-app purchases

None

Tumble Tubes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sisyphus with Stickers free?
Sisyphus with Stickers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tumble Tubes free?
Tumble Tubes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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