Comparison

Pixel Tale Tiles vs must be one

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Tale Tiles

Features
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Follow the numbers, paint the tiles, and watch a picture come to life โ€” a nonogram-style logic puzzle wrapped in storybook art. Unlock 48 pixel-art illustrations inspired by fairy tales from around the world and Japan: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Momotaro, Princess Kaguya, and more. Each number shows how many "light" tiles are in the 3ร—3 block around that cell. That's the only rule โ€” just logic, no trivia. โ€ข Drag with two fingers or the D-pad to move, press and hold to switch paint color, pinch to zoom โ€ข A small celebration on every unlock, plus a synopsis for each story in your gallery โ€ข Fully offline, auto-saved progress, adjustable BGM/SE volume โ€ข Automatically supports Japanese & English Solve one tile at a time, whenever you have a spare moment โ€” how many of the 48 tales can you bring to light?

About

must be one

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must be one is a number puzzle built on a single rule โ€” the one in its name. A grid of numbers. Four operators. Combine neighboring tiles with arithmetic and collapse the whole board down to a single 1. That's the entire game: all becomes one. It reads as obvious for about three moves. Then it doesn't. - One rule, no filler โ€” no twenty-minute tutorial, no menus to dig through. You understand it in seconds and spend the rest of your time actually thinking. - Always solvable โ€” every stage is generated so that a solution is guaranteed to exist before you ever see it. If you're stuck, that's on you, not the board. - A climb that keeps widening โ€” early stages stay in single digits; later ones open the range up and the arithmetic gets meaner. - Free, and quick to pick up. One stage on the train; look up an hour later. From office-canard โ€” a one-person studio making small, system-first games. If this one gets its hooks in, there are more small games where it came from.

Screenshots

Pixel Tale Tiles3 screens
must be one4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pixel Tale Tiles and must be one are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pixel Tale Tiles versus must be one: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel Tale Tilesmust be one
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer7tomatoesoffice-canard games

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Tale Tiles

No in-app purchases

None

must be one

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Tale Tiles free?
Pixel Tale Tiles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is must be one free?
must be one is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixel Tale Tiles or must be one have ads?
Both Pixel Tale Tiles and must be one show ads.

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