Comparison

Squircle Shift vs Murdoku

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.

About

Murdoku

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Ari is missing, and somebody in the village was the last to see her. Every neighbor has a card saying where they were. Place them on the map, one to a row and one to a column, and the square left over is where Ari was — and whoever was alone with her there did it. It is a logic puzzle, not a guessing game. Every case has exactly one answer and every case can be reasoned out completely. No timers you cannot beat, no lives to run out of, no move that punishes you for thinking. Two hundred cases. Seventy gentle ones to learn on, eighty that take some working out, and fifty that will keep you up. Play at your own pace. Every case is open from the start. Leave one half-finished and come back to it next week; it will be exactly where you left it. Beat your own time. Solved cases keep your best, so a case you have already closed becomes something to race. Plays completely offline. No account needed, and it works on a plane. In English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese and Italian.

Screenshots

Squircle Shift4 screens
Murdoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Squircle Shift at 12.0 against Murdoku's 16.4. On price, ads, 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Squircle Shift versus Murdoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquircle ShiftMurdoku
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB61 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMong Xuan Luong HoangPablo Elizalde

In-app purchases

None

Squircle Shift

No in-app purchases

None

Murdoku

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Squircle Shift free?
Squircle Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Murdoku free?
Murdoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Squircle Shift or Murdoku have ads?
Both Squircle Shift and Murdoku show ads.

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