Comparison

Driftleaf vs カゲオトシ

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

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Driftleaf

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You drop a leaf on a grid of arrows and let go. It drifts the way the arrow beneath it points — and here is the whole game in one line: as the leaf leaves a tile, that tile turns a quarter. So the path rewrites itself while you watch. Come back to a square a second time and it sends you somewhere new. Loops untie themselves. A route that looked hopeless closes like a door. You never touch the leaf. Before you release it you may turn three or four arrows — no more — and then you watch. The puzzle is not "draw the path". It is "build a current that will solve itself", and watching it run is the reward. Sixty-three puzzles across four worlds • Creek (2×1–5×5) — arrows and rocks, and the one rule everything else is built on. • Whirl (5×5–6×6) — marble arrows that never turn, and whirls that turn the other way. Two spins on one board. • Lily (6×6–7×7) — reaching the pond is no longer enough. Every lily has to be touched on the way. • Delta (7×7) — everything at once, on the widest water, with the tightest budgets in the game. And then it does not stop The campaign teaches the vocabulary and ends. What follows is a creek that keeps going: a hundred and eighty more proven boards, whose difficulty rises and falls on a twelve-board wave instead of climbing for ever. You are never more than six boards from a breather, and never more than six from a fight. One board a day The same puzzle for everyone, changing at midnight. Finish it and you can say how it went — the taps it cost, the days you have kept — on a card that never shows the board, so it cannot spoil it for whoever reads it. Each world has its own water The creek starts cool and green, deepens as it turns, greens again among the lilies, pales where the delta widens, and runs into dusk downstream. The leaf, the rocks and the lilies never change colour: they are things in the water, not the water. Every level is proved, not guessed Each board was generated and then brute-forced: a solution exists, no cheaper solution exists, and there are never more than a handful. When the counter says three taps, all three are needed. That is why the budget is a hint rather than a resource. A quiet game No timers. No lives. No score. Fail and the water simply settles — your taps stay exactly where you put them, and you try the next idea. The only thing recorded is how few taps you needed. The daily keeps a streak if you want one, and forgets it without a word if you do not. Free, with one short ad between every third level • No purchases, no accounts, no analytics, no energy timers. • A short video runs after every third level you clear, and you can choose to watch one for an extra tap when a board has you stuck — never more than twice, and never needed: every level is solvable within its printed budget. • Your progress lives on your device and nowhere else; we run no servers and receive nothing about you. • The puzzles need no connection. Offline, every level and language works normally and the ads are simply skipped. • Full keyboard support, screen-reader labels, reduced-motion and dark themes. • Ten languages: Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. Set the current. Drop the leaf. Watch.

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カゲオトシ

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ガラスの箱の中に、青いブロック。 正面から光を当てると、奥の壁に影が落ちます。 その影を、壁に描かれた「お題」の形にぴったりそろえるパズルです。 ■ 遊び方 ・横になぞると、箱を左右に回す ・縦になぞると、箱を奥・手前に倒す――重力の向きが変わって、ブロックが転がり落ちる ・2本指でくるっと、箱をひねる ・影がお題と重なったらクリア。最短手数なら星3つ ■ 間違えて回さない操作感 ・指を離すまで操作は確定しません。なぞっている間は箱が指に吸いつくように回り、「離すと 右に回す」と教えてくれます ・確定の位置を越えると、指先に軽い手ごたえ。戻せば取り消し ・斜めのあいまいな動きは無視。動いている最中のタッチも受け付けません ・それでも間違えたら「戻す」で1手ずつ元どおり ・ボタン操作にも対応 ■ 特徴 ・指を動かして覚える、動くお手本つきのチュートリアル ・全60レベル。すべて最短手数を計算済み ・手数には(ゆるめの)上限あり。当てずっぽうでは解けない、考えるパズル ・なぞっている間、「離すと影がどうなるか」を先に表示 ・迷ったら「次の一手」で最短ルートの一手を表示 ・もう揃わない形になったらすぐにお知らせ ・「次の一手」は各レベル3回まで無料。オフラインでも遊べます

Screenshots

Driftleaf4 screens
カゲオトシ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Driftleaf at 15.0 against カゲオトシ's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Driftleaf versus カゲオトシ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftleafカゲオトシ
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBurak GocegozShoei Tsutsumi

In-app purchases

None

Driftleaf

No in-app purchases

None

カゲオトシ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Driftleaf free?
Driftleaf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is カゲオトシ free?
カゲオトシ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Driftleaf or カゲオトシ have ads?
Both Driftleaf and カゲオトシ show ads.

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