Crushed In Time vs Jarble
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crushed In Time
Embark on a meta, time-traveling adventure with familiar detectives to solve a mystery within a game's development. This point-and-click game features humor, puzzles, and a unique story that breaks the fourth wall.
- Meta time-traveling story
- Point-and-click gameplay
- Humorous dialogue
- Character-driven puzzles
- Unique game development setting
- 2D/3D graphics
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Try Crushed in Time for free, then unlock the full game to continue your stretchy adventure! #Shboing The game is free to download and to start playing, with a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the full game. No ads and no other in-app purchases. Panic at the development studio! Just as the new Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson video game hit the market, one of its characters mysteriously went missing. After their memorable appearance in the non-game There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, our extravagant investigators are back in their own adventure. Armed with their iconic ineptitude, they must solve a mystery that transcends the space-time boundaries of their world… But they won’t succeed without your help! Travel to the very heart of the game's creation and explore the various stages of its development to unravel the threads of this strange case. Welcome to a wildly elastic and infinitely meta experience! • Rediscover Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, joined by a cast of new, endearing characters. • Dialogue recorded by real humans. All natural. Non-GMO and additive-free. • A completely meta story of time travel that will take you through the design stages of the game. • Chock-full of humor and surprises (and bugs, probably). • An offbeat point and click adventure offering fun and elastic gameplay. • Loads of puzzles that will require up to three neurons (we couldn’t keep up beyond that). • Beautiful 2D graphics. Sorry, I meant 3D… Hold on. Which one was it again?
Jarble
Engage your mind with a unique word game where you swap letters to form new words of the same length. Choose from daily challenges, competitive timed matches, or a solo adventure with hundreds of levels.
- Swap up to 5 letters
- Maintain word length
- Daily mental challenges
- 60-second timed matches
- 300 solo levels
- Multiplayer via game code
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JARBLE-The letter swap word game. The name of the game is simple, change up to 5 letters in place to make a different valid word. The length never changes — substitution only. Three ways to play Daily, Quick Match and Solo. Daily-A daily mental spark that gives you something new every day. Share your results with friends or coworkers. Quick Match-For the competitive player-A word appears; you have 60 seconds to think of a new word and swap the letters. Fewest swaps wins the round, but if any players land on the same word they cancel out and neither scores. 10 rounds, most round wins takes the game. Solo-For the more casual player. 300 levels that increase in difficulty the further you go along. Play on your pace! Play Quick Match with friends as well. Share the game code and start a match!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jarble at none against Crushed In Time's 1. Crushed In Time's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, 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. Crushed In Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jarble asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crushed In Time holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crushed In Time has 106 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Crushed In Time's written reviews are positive against 67% of Jarble's.
Crushed In Time ships an update every 2 days, Jarble every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crushed In Time | Jarble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (106 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.4% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 106 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.5 GB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Draw Me A Pixel | F Originations LLC |
Customer experience
Crushed In Time
Jarble
In-app purchases
Crushed In Time
- Crushed In Time Full Game$6.99
Jarble
No in-app purchases
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