Comparison

Crushed In Time vs Spacetime Chronicles

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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?

About

Spacetime Chronicles

Embark on a unique paper stop-motion adventure where you guide a boy through a collapsing timeline. Solve puzzles by observing your surroundings in handcrafted paper sets. The initial part of the journey is free, with a single purchase unlocking the full experience.

Highlights
  • Hand-cut paper stop-motion animation
  • Time-traveling narrative adventure
  • Observational puzzle-solving
  • Multiple diverse environments
  • Customizable touch controls
  • Offline play
Features
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Every room, every character, every frame: real paper, cut and animated by hand. Spacetime Chronicles is an animated feature film that turned into a game. Start for free: the first part of the adventure (about 25 minutes) is included. Unlock the full journey with a single in-app purchase, at any time from the pause menu or when the free part ends. Already bought the game? Everything stays unlocked. Fred was late for school. Then a cat walked past — and the century changed. Spacetime Chronicles is a paper stop-motion adventure about a boy, a cat, and the accidental collapse of time. Every room is a real paper set, every puzzle is solved by looking closely at the world, and nothing is explained twice. WHAT YOU DO Follow the cat through a school, an airport, a Tokyo street, a bus depot and places that should not exist. Climb, jump, push, hide, and work out what the world wants from you. Some rooms are quiet. Some are a maze with a clock running down. One is a tesseract. MADE BY HAND Every set, every character and every frame was cut from paper and animated in stop motion — this is an animated feature film that turned into a game, made by one person over several years. WHAT'S INSIDE - A full adventure, several hours long - English voices, subtitles in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German - Touch controls you can move, resize and place wherever you like - No internet, no account, no ads, no tracking - Play offline, anywhere Buy it once. It's yours.

Screenshots

Crushed In Time4 screens
Spacetime Chronicles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spacetime Chronicles at 100% against Crushed In Time's 81%. Spacetime Chronicles also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Crushed In Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spacetime Chronicles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crushed In Time versus Spacetime Chronicles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrushed In TimeSpacetime Chronicles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (116 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings116 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.5 GB3.7 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDraw Me A PixelSeenfilm di Bertelli Stefano Sas & c.

Customer experience

Crushed In Time

All ratings106 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive81.4%
Neutral5.1%
Negative13.6%

Spacetime Chronicles

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Crushed In Time

One-time1
  • Crushed In Time Full Game$6.99
1 purchases

Spacetime Chronicles

One-time1
  • Full Game$3.99

Questions

Is Crushed In Time free?
Crushed In Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spacetime Chronicles free?
Spacetime Chronicles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Crushed In Time or Spacetime Chronicles have ads?
Neither Crushed In Time nor Spacetime Chronicles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crushed In Time or Spacetime Chronicles?
Crushed In Time ships an update every 2 days, and Spacetime Chronicles every 2 days. Most recently, Crushed In Time was updated on November 10, 2026 and Spacetime Chronicles on October 31, 2026.

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