Bluff & Punch vs Minimum Effort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bluff & Punch
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One rival. One target card. One risky decision. Liar’s Deck is a fast single-player bluffing card game made for short breaks. Play 1–3 cards face down and claim they match the round target. Your opponent must believe you or call your bluff. Then the cards flip, the truth comes out, and the spring-loaded glove delivers the verdict. BLUFF YOUR WAY OUT Play the right cards—or sell the perfect lie. Your opponent sees only your claim, never the cards beneath it. READ YOUR RIVAL Believe the last play or call liar. One wrong read is all it takes to lose the round. AN AI THAT REMEMBERS Your rival remembers past bluffs, successful challenges, and broken trust. Its behavior changes as your history grows. POWERED BY APPLE INTELLIGENCE On supported devices, Apple Intelligence creates situational moves and in-character table talk. If it is unavailable or disabled, the game automatically switches to a local AI engine. ONE BIG COMIC PUNCH The loser is immediately punished by an exaggerated spring-loaded boxing glove, complete with slapstick animation, sound, and win-streak effects. BUILT FOR QUICK PLAY • One player versus one AI rival • Fast rounds with no matchmaking • Core gameplay works offline • No account or forced social features • Game progress and rival memory stay on your device • Optional rewarded ads can replenish coins Win a match to earn 30 coins. Lose and 30 coins are deducted. Build a streak, learn your rival, and decide when the next lie is worth the risk. Apple Intelligence availability depends on device compatibility, language, region, system settings, and model download status. An internet connection is required to load optional rewarded ads.
Minimum Effort
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You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS • Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. • The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. • Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. • Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. No server of ours. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bluff & Punch at none against Minimum Effort's 1. Bluff & Punch also leads on ads (none vs shown). Minimum Effort's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Minimum Effort sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bluff & Punch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bluff & Punch | Minimum Effort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SHENG GAO | Levin David Schwab |
In-app purchases
Bluff & Punch
No in-app purchases
Minimum Effort
- Career Pack$3.99
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