Comparison

Pugoku vs Knapsack

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

Head to head
About

Pugoku

Features
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Every Pug has one perfect spot. Pugoku is a cozy, number-free logic game where you solve uniquely generated parks, follow biscuit-distance clues, and draw exact-length routes. The rules take seconds to learn: • Place exactly one pug in every row. • Place exactly one pug in every column. • Place exactly one pug in every colorful park. • Pugs cannot touch, even diagonally. Tap once to leave a Paw note on an impossible cell. Double-tap to place a Pug. Drag across the board to quickly add or remove multiple Paw notes. What you’ll find in Pugoku: • Endless puzzles from friendly 4×4 lessons to expansive 12×12 parks • One verified solution for every puzzle • Biscuit Trail: place each Pug at the exact within-park path distance from its bowl • Bowl Trails: connect matching numbered Pugs and bowls with exact-length routes through their colored biscuit stops • 20 teaching Park Missions plus Blitz, First Try, and No Paw challenges • A shared-seed Daily Puzzle with streak tracking • Park restoration and eight cosmetic Pugs that become your in-board playing piece • Teaching hints and proof replay that explain the reasoning instead of only revealing an answer • A gentle difficulty curve that grows deeper over time • No timer pressure in Classic mode—solve at your own pace • Expressive pug reactions, combos, and joyful level celebrations • Offline puzzle play; an internet connection is required for ad-supported help Read the parks, eliminate possibilities, and help every Pug find the right spot.

About

Knapsack

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Your bag is the riddle. You go down into a dungeon and you pick things up. Every item takes up a shape: a blade takes a column, a hauberk a square, a relic a corner. Your bag isn't a list — it's a grid, and whatever you manage to fit into it IS your character sheet. Damage, block, hit points: all of it is read off the packing. Two items of the same family that touch reinforce each other. One lit seam is often worth more than one more item. That is where the descent is won. THE FIGHT IS DECIDED BEFORE IT STARTS No moves to choose. The enemy is announced with its numbers, you pack, you strike. If it falls, the maths was right. If it doesn't, the packing was wrong. DESCEND Nine worlds, each with a rule of its own: the rockfall that seals cells at every depth, the frost that blunts blades, the bone that splits your bag in two. Fights, elites, merchants, campfires, riddles, bosses — seventeen depths, and a different map every descent. THE TREE 293 nodes across seven domains. The fog doesn't hide what a node gives; it hides what comes AFTER. You see where you can go, never what grows behind it. THE WORKSHOP Five bag silhouettes and twenty-three kinds of cell to place yourself: etchings that reinforce, impassable straps, anvils that take weapons only. You draw your own problem. WHEN IT STOPS BEING HARD ENOUGH Forty-six trials with fixed rules — no rotation, no rest, every blow a crit. Twenty ascension tiers. An endless mode with leaderboards. Forty-six achievements. Two worlds are open from the start; the seven others can be bought — and the right to enter them is still earned in wins. Shards never buy power: not damage, not block, not one cell of bag.

Screenshots

Pugoku4 screens
Knapsack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pugoku at none against Knapsack's 4. Knapsack's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Knapsack sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Pugoku asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
Pugoku versus Knapsack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPugokuKnapsack
PriceFreeFree
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMEHMET PEKERMathieu Vigne

In-app purchases

None

Pugoku

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Knapsack

One-time4
  • 100 éclats$1.99
  • 275 éclats$3.99
  • 550 éclats$7.99
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  • 1050 éclats$14.99

Questions

Is Pugoku free?
Pugoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Knapsack free?
Knapsack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pugoku or Knapsack have ads?
Pugoku shows ads; Knapsack does not.

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