Comparison

Syrious Squish vs Squish Squad

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

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About

Syrious Squish

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Ninety-six little monsters live at the bottom of the water. They watch your finger. They blink when they feel like it. When you close in on their group, their eyes go wide and their mouths fall open. Squish them anyway. GUS IS WATCHING Gus is the biggest of them, and he is not exactly on your side. He hangs over the board and talks you through your run in a voice that keeps sliding out of encouragement into something else. "They can see you, you know." Squish a monster that was all on its own and he goes cold and gray: "You took a lonely one. Rude." Pull off something enormous and he comes down off his perch to stomp the group flat himself. HOW IT PLAYS Tap a group of touching monsters of the same color. They pulse, a ring draws around them, and the score you would get floats above their heads. Tap again and they pop. Whatever is left falls into the hole, empty columns slide shut, and the board is a different board than it was a second ago. BIGGER IS BETTER. MUCH BETTER. Every monster you add to a group is worth more than the one before it. Ten together are worth 356 points. Split those same ten into two fives and you get 152. So this is not really a game about spotting a match. It is a game about how big you can grow something before it falls apart. You can squish a monster that is all on its own. It costs you 100 points. That one rule is what makes this a thinking game: tidying up has a price, and the last few moves of a round turn into a real decision. Clear the whole board without ever taking a lonely one and your score doubles. You always see what a group is worth before you take it. Nothing is hidden from you. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY Level - Hit the target score and go deeper. There is no last level, and you never lose your place. Put the game down for a week and you come back to the deepest level you ever reached. Timed - 120 seconds. The faster you move, the more each squish is worth, and every second you have left over pays out at the end. Endless - No clock, no target. Just you and the board. Versus - Two players, one phone. Take turns. Your own color is worth double to you. First to 2000 wins. SIX COLORS, SIX TEMPERAMENTS Blush, Sky, Yolk, Wisp, Mint and Berry. Each has its own eyes, its own way of blinking, and its own way of panicking when you come for it. The colors were chosen to stay easy to tell apart, including if you are color blind. Ten pieces of music, written for this game. None of them loop, so none of them wear out. And the squish itself gets deeper, longer and wetter the more monsters go at once. The rules are borrowed from a puzzle game from 1999, and they have not been watered down since. WHAT IS NOT IN IT No ads. No in-app purchases. No sign-in, no account, nothing to connect. Works with no internet at all. ALSO Close the game in the middle of a round and it comes back exactly where you left it, same board, still paused. Squish with one tap instead of two, if you would rather. Prefer things calmer? Turn off the screen shake and the bursts. Music and sound effects have their own volume sliders. "Nothing left down there but water."

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Squish Squad

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Squish Squad is a lane-defence strategy game about squishy fidget blobs holding the line. Frets roll in from the right, one lane at a time. Your squad stands in their way. Let three of them reach the line behind you and the level is over. Everything in between is your call: what to build, where to build it, and whether to spend early on economy or hold the lane you're about to lose. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY LEVELS Ten worlds, twenty-five levels each, and a difficulty curve that climbs the whole way. Every fifth level eases off just enough to breathe. Every twenty-fifth ends with a Mega Glob. A SQUAD THAT GROWS Twelve defenders unlock as you go โ€” Poppers and Goopers to start, then Chillers that slow, Splitters that cover three lanes, Zappers that chain, Prisms that pierce, Vortexes that drag Frets backwards and Novas that hit everything nearby. FRETS WITH IDEAS Runners that outrun your opening. Hoppers that leap your front line. Menders that heal the whole pack. Bloblings that pop into two more Bloblings. Chrome that blunts every hit. Phantoms that cannot be slowed. LEVEL TWISTS Sticky tiles you can't build on. A short bench when half your squad sits one out. Thin goo. Waves with no gap between them. BUILT PROPERLY FOR BOTH On iPad the squad palette and the readouts move to a side rail and the board gets wider โ€” a real layout, not a stretched phone. Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and dark mode are all supported. NOTHING ELSE IN THE WAY No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. Play the whole game offline. Your progress lives on your device and nothing is collected or sent anywhere. Game Center leaderboards are optional.

Screenshots

Syrious Squish4 screens
Squish Squad3 screens

Verdict

The call

Syrious Squish and Squish Squad are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Syrious Squish versus Squish Squad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSyrious SquishSquish Squad
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size40 MB1 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperVisual Systems Corp.John Clark

In-app purchases

None

Syrious Squish

No in-app purchases

None

Squish Squad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Syrious Squish free?
Syrious Squish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Squish Squad free?
Squish Squad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Syrious Squish or Squish Squad have ads?
Neither Syrious Squish nor Squish Squad shows ads.

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