Cube Flow vs Valley Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cube Flow
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Tap a block. Watch it break into cubes and ride the belt. Cube Flow is a color-sorting puzzle built on a factory line. Stacked blocks wait on the feeders. Every tap sends one of them onto the conveyor, cube by cube, and the belt carries it toward the crates waiting at the top of the line. Match the color, fill the crate, ship it out. Clear every crate to finish the level. HOW IT PLAYS - Tap a feeder to release its front block onto the belt. - Cubes ride the branch line, merge into the loop and roll past three crates. - A crate only accepts its own color. Send the wrong one and it keeps circling. - Crates fill as one solid growing block, then pop and slide away. - Clear all crates to win. THINK BEFORE YOU TAP The belt only holds so much. Flood it with colors nothing is waiting for and the line stalls: no room to feed, nothing that can be delivered, level over. Every level is a small logistics problem. Which block goes first? Which color can wait a lap? Which feeder do you keep in reserve? There is no timer breathing down your neck, but there is always an order that works and plenty that do not. FEATURES - Simple one-tap control, no dragging, no fiddly aiming - tap anywhere on a feeder. - Hand-built levels, each one a different belt layout to read. - Blocks in every size, from thin slivers to wide slabs that eat half the line. - Iced blocks that only thaw once you get a delivery through. - Linked blocks that will not move unless both halves are ready at once. - Deeply satisfying flow: cubes leap into the crate, merge and grow, and the finished block jumps off the line. - Plays in portrait, one hand, anywhere. Gameplay works offline. - Free to play, with ads. Cozy enough for a queue, tight enough that you will restart a level to get the order right. Get the line moving.
Valley Sort
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A crowd of robed travellers waits at the top of the stairs. Tap to lift them, tap again to send them walking down — and watch a whole valley sort itself into colour. Valley Sort is a calm, beautiful sorting puzzle set among pastel towers, floating stones and long stairways. Gather every colour onto its own platform to finish the valley, then watch it crumble into the mist as the next one rises out of it. LEARNED IN TWO TAPS Travellers will only join a crowd of their own colour, or step onto an empty platform. That is the whole rule. Everything after it is you, looking at a beautiful little tangle and quietly working out the thread to pull first. A VALLEY THAT KEEPS SURPRISING YOU Just as you settle into a rhythm, the valley teaches you something new: - Veiled travellers who hide their colour until the crowd in front of them walks away - Caves that let crowds out one by one, and never let anyone back in - Frozen crowds that thaw only as you complete others - Wild travellers who belong to every colour at once - Burning lanterns counting down, worn stairs that crumble, carts that must move as one - Dyed stairs that recolour whoever crosses them - A harbour where completed crowds sail away and caravans bring new travellers to the gate IT NEVER RUNS OUT — AND IT IS NEVER UNFAIR Hand-built opening valleys give way to an endless supply of fresh ones, and every single puzzle is solved by the game before it ever reaches you. No impossible deals. No wasted evening. A JOURNEY WITH A SHAPE Climb through chapters of themed valleys, rise from Traveller to Valley Sage, fill your firefly jar, and meet a boss valley — the biggest of its chapter — at the end of each one. Your furthest valley goes to Game Center, if you want the company. MADE TO RELAX IN - Soft isometric architecture that dissolves into drifting mist - Skies that turn from dawn to lagoon to lilac to a starlit night - Gentle generative music and bell-like chimes that follow each level - Undo, hints, power-ups and a rewind for when you are truly stuck - Haptics on supported devices Take a breath, lift a crowd and guide the travellers home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cube Flow at none against Valley Sort's 10. Valley Sort's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 days). 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. Valley Sort sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Cube Flow asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cube Flow ships an update every 3 days, Valley Sort daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cube Flow | Valley Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 180 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Backpack Games | HE HE |
In-app purchases
Cube Flow
No in-app purchases
Valley Sort
- Hour of Hearts$0.99
- Wayfarer’s Kit2 variants$1.99
- Afternoon of Hearts2 variants$1.99
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- Day of Hearts$4.99
- Explorer’s Bundle2 variants$7.99
- Legend of the Valley2 variants$19.99
Questions
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