MrRook vs Lanterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MrRook
A puzzle game where you tap to dig, long-press to mark, and slide a rook to a safe tile. Navigate through mines and reach the goal in various game modes.
- Tap to dig
- Long-press to mark
- Slide the Rook
- Dodge mines
- Campaign mode
- Daily Challenge
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Dig the desk. Dodge the mines. Slide the Rook home. Tap to dig. Long-press to mark. Slide the Rook to the green tile. Campaign, Daily Challenge, optional hints.
Lanterns
A logic puzzle game where you place lanterns to illuminate every tile on the board. Solve over 10,000 unique puzzles with a daily challenge and a cozy, ad-free experience.
- Logic deduction puzzles
- Over 10,000 unique rooms
- Daily timed challenges
- No countdown in campaign mode
- Optional in-app purchases
- Ad-free experience
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Light every tile and bring a hidden world back to life. Lanterns is Akari, also called Light Up: a puzzle of pure deduction. Place lanterns so every open tile glows. Numbered walls tell you how many lanterns must touch them. Light stops at walls, and no two lanterns may shine on each other. Meet Pip, your lantern-moth companion, and explore over 10,000 puzzle rooms across 834 floors. Restore chapter landmarks as you progress, and take a break with Firefly Flight at chapter restorations. Campaign puzzles have no countdown. Take your time, mark your plans, use free Undo, and follow Why explanations on the board. Your unfinished campaign puzzle stays ready when you return. The Daily challenge brings one timed puzzle each local date: ninety seconds, one attempt, no hints or revives. Keep your daily streak going and look back on your results. See a score out of 100 after each campaign win, celebrate your personal best, and choose lantern styles as you make the world brighter. If you enjoy Nonogram, Picross, Sudoku, Hashi or Nurikabe, try a different kind of logic puzzle. Each board is generated and checked for a unique solution. Lanterns is free to download, with optional in-app purchases. Campaign entry tickets recover over time. Between-level ads may appear after the introductory levels; a one-time purchase removes forced ads permanently. Rewarded videos remain optional. No sign-in is required to play. Akari (Light Up) is Nikoli's puzzle form.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lanterns at 100% against MrRook's 0%. Lanterns also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). MrRook's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, ads, 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. Lanterns sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. MrRook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lanterns holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lanterns has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of MrRook's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lanterns's.
MrRook ships an update every 4 days, Lanterns daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MrRook | Lanterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 151 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erez Nardia | 10X Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
MrRook
Lanterns
In-app purchases
MrRook
No in-app purchases
Lanterns
- Pouch of Embers$1.99
- The Gilded Lantern$2.99
- Satchel of Embers$4.99
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- Chest of Embers$9.99









