Comparison

Squircle Shift vs Drawer Tales

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

Head to head
About

Squircle Shift

Features
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A tranquil, minimalist spatial phenomenon where out-of-the-box thinking and precise color frame alignments offer total mental clarity. Escape noisy, over-stimulating games and discover true mental calm! Designed for thinkers seeking refined simplicity, this aesthetic puzzle experience invites you to slide rounded squares (squircles) into matching colored frames. While the rules are deceptively easy, solving these handcrafted challenges demands genuine creative intuition and lateral thinking—where a single brilliant move can unlock solutions you've contemplated for days! Enhanced by a subtle visual aesthetic, soothing ambient music, and intuitive one-handed controls, enjoy a peaceful sanctuary featuring 48 initial handcrafted levels, a smooth puzzle previewer, and a powerful undo mechanism.

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Drawer Tales

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A tiny courier. A desk full of possibilities. Behind the wooden drawers, little doors lead to hidden mailboxes and neighbors with stories to share. Slide each drawer into place, connect the route and send your courier on a delivery through this warm miniature world. THINK SMALL. DISCOVER MORE. Explore 60 puzzles across six chapters. Line up doorways, work around wooden walls and fixed drawers, and reach every mailbox before the exit. A route that looks right may still leave a letter behind. FIND YOUR THREE-STAR ROUTE Try a different arrangement, undo a move or use a hint when you need a nudge. Earn stars for fewer moves. Replay completed hard levels with three stars to earn more stamps. MAKE THIS LITTLE WORLD YOURS Collect five couriers, each with a different look and story. Spend earned stamps on 15 decorations for the room and the puzzle drawers, from a trailing plant to a tiny wooden house. Open the letter journal to meet the neighbors along the way. A QUIET MOMENT, WHEREVER YOU ARE Play the puzzles offline, with no account required. Your progress is saved on your device. Enjoy a softly animated room, seasonal scenery, sound controls and a Reduce Motion option. Available in English, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Thai. Optional rewarded ads offer extra hint tickets or stamps and require an internet connection. You can continue playing without watching ads. Open a drawer. See where the next letter takes you. MORE LETTERS, NEW CHALLENGES Take on six resident orders and six self-solve challenges to earn extra stamps. Each challenge stage gives you three delivery attempts, with free restarts and unlimited drawer moves and undo. Hints are disabled in challenges; the regular campaign keeps unlimited delivery attempts. Every drawer in the 30 new levels can move.

Screenshots

Squircle Shift4 screens
Drawer Tales4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Drawer Tales at none against Squircle Shift's shown. Squircle Shift's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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 · 4 level
Squircle Shift versus Drawer Tales: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquircle ShiftDrawer Tales
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 11 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMong Xuan Luong HoangDINH TAN HOANG

In-app purchases

None

Squircle Shift

No in-app purchases

None

Drawer Tales

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Squircle Shift free?
Squircle Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drawer Tales free?
Drawer Tales is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Squircle Shift or Drawer Tales have ads?
Squircle Shift shows ads; Drawer Tales does not.

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