Liquid King vs Tether Arcade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Liquid King
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No in-app purchases. Not one. Liquid King is a water sort puzzle that asks for your attention and never for your wallet. Pour colored liquid between glass tubes until every tube holds a single color. Easy to start, and the boards keep tightening: three colors and two spare tubes early on, six colors and a single spare by the end. EVERY BOARD HAS A SOLUTION All 150 levels are run through a solver before release. If a board looks impossible, it isn't. You are never handed a dead end. 150 LEVELS, SIX CHAPTERS The Fractured Spring, Frozen Gardens, Royal Forge, Forgotten Archive, Silent Frost and Aurora Crown โ 25 levels each, climbing from Easy through Medium, Hard and Expert to Master. A fixed set of boards, the same for every player, not an endless random feed. Collect 30 stars to open the next chapter. YOU SET THE PACE โข Timed mode is on by default. Switch it off in Settings and no clock ever runs โข Undo steps back up to 50 moves, so a wrong pour costs you nothing โข Three stars read both your time and your move count, so levels are worth replaying โข Run out of moves and the game tells you, then offers undo, an extra tube or a reset HOW IT WORKS Tap a tube to lift its top color, tap another to pour it. Color onto matching color, or into an empty tube. Fill a tube with four of one color and it seals. Clear the board to finish the level. DAILY CHALLENGE A new goal every day โ clear levels, complete tubes, earn stars or reach a score โ worth 60 to 90 coins. Spend coins on a hint, an extra tube or a reset. FAIR BY DESIGN โข No in-app purchases of any kind. Nothing is locked behind a payment โข A full-screen ad only after every third level, and never less than a minute apart โข A small banner sits at the bottom of the board and the level list โข One optional rewarded video: watch it for 30 extra seconds when the clock runs out. Skip it and you lose nothing โข Plays fully offline. No account, no sign-up; progress stays on your device MADE TO LOOK AT Arctic glass and aurora light โ frosted panels, gold filigree, six liquid essences, and music that shifts with every chapter. Portrait, one-handed, short sessions. ACCESSIBILITY AND LANGUAGES A reduce-motion option, plus separate switches for music, sound effects, voice and haptics. English, Turkish, Spanish, German and French. Pour the first tube and see how far the Aurora Crown really is.
Tether Arcade
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Tether is a one-touch arcade game. No account, no sign-in, no in-app purchases and no ads. It works fully offline. HOW TO PLAY Hold anywhere to hook the nearest anchor and swing around it. Release to fly off along the tangent, then hold again to catch the next one. There is no brake and no undo - just how far you get before the wipeout. SKIM THE SAWS Saws sit between the anchors. Cutting close to one without touching it stacks your multiplier, so the tighter your line, the faster the score climbs. Play it safe and you score slowly. Play it greedy and you score fast. DAY STREAK Come back on consecutive days and your streak raises the score floor you start every run from. SKINS New looks unlock as your best score climbs, from the first at 60 all the way to 1500. SHARE Every run ends with a card of your score, ready to share. LANGUAGES The game reads the device language at launch and shows its text in whichever of its thirteen supported languages matches: English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Thai. Any other language falls back to English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Liquid King at none against Tether Arcade's 1. Liquid King also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Tether Arcade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Liquid King asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Liquid King | Tether Arcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ICI TECH TEKNOLOJI ANONIM SIRKETI | Adolfo Orlandini |
In-app purchases
Liquid King
No in-app purchases
Tether Arcade
- Tether Pro$2.99
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