Brook Side vs Mag Lode Spin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Brook Side
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Brookside is a garden where the water has stopped flowing. Rotate the pipes, guide each stream to its outlet, collect flowers along the way, and bring the gardens back to life. Garden Pipes Explore five gardens with fifteen levels each. Turn bends, junctions and crossings to build the right route and reach every outlet. Flowers and Three Stars The shortest path is not always the best. Guide water to healthy flowers while keeping wilted ones dry to earn a perfect three-star result. Repair Run Water starts flowing after five seconds, and each pipe locks once the stream passes through. Plan ahead and react quickly. Two Streams Guide two separate streams to their own outlets without letting them touch. Endless and Daily Play continuously generated puzzles or complete one fresh Daily Puzzle each day. The Plumbers Meet Fen the Frog, Muffin the Bunny, Pip the Otter, Wren the Swift and Dusty the Mole as you complete each garden.
Mag Lode Spin
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MAGLODE is a one-thumb mining game about a magnetic breaker head on a cable. Hold to grab it, draw circles to wind it up, release to throw. Every ore you smash is loose in the void until you reel the head back in โ and the deeper you go, the more you are carrying when it all goes wrong. Swing, Throw, Reel Three inputs, no menus in the way. Press anywhere to catch the head and bank whatever it carries. Circle your thumb to build speed โ the faster the head travels, the harder it hits. Let go and it flies, smashing ore on contact and dragging the cable behind it. Reeling in at full speed pays CLEAN or PERFECT; reeling in slow pays plain. The whole loop lives under one thumb. Loose Until Banked Smashed ore is not yours yet. It rides with the head as loose cargo, multiplying as your combo climbs, and a single crash into the floor scatters it. The HUD says it plainly โ LOOSE 21 AT RISK. Reel in to lock it away, or keep swinging to grow the pile you might lose. Descend or Extract Clear a seam and the run stops to ask one question. EXTRACT banks everything and ends the run. DESCEND takes you a layer deeper at a higher multiplier, into denser ore, more volatile rock, and a fuel clock that never stops counting down. There is no correct answer, only how far you trust yourself. Pick Your Route Every descent offers two seams, and each one costs something. RICH SEAM pays ore value ร1.6 but drops ore count 25%. DENSE SEAM adds five ore and 1.5ร the volatile rock. SILENT SEAM removes volatile ore entirely at the price of a thinner field. HAZARD ZONE hands you an extra crate on clear and doubles the volatile. Choose one โ no reroll. Rig & Modules Eleven modules turn up in crates and fit into a three-bay rig. LONG CABLE extends your reach 18%. RECLAIMER pays half a second of fuel every catch. VOID WARD stops volatile ore from scattering your cargo. OVERCATCH pushes a PERFECT catch from ร2.0 to ร2.5. BLAST RIG widens chain reactions 40%. Three legendary modules โ BLAST RIG, ANCHOR POINT and AUTO CRUISER โ only appear in specific crates. Contracts & Records The Freight Ring tracks your best banked run, deepest seam, biggest single hit and longest chain. Book a contract before you launch โ CHAIN, BREAK, CLEAN STREAK or ONE HIT โ and it pays out mid-run when you meet it, on top of whatever you were already carrying. Loadouts Each run opens with a choice that shapes it. STEADY adds ten seconds of fuel and softens every seam. DEEP DIVE starts you at seam five with ten seconds less. One high-variance option doubles the first three seams and halves everything after. Every option costs something โ that is the point.
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Verdict
Brook Side and Mag Lode Spin are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brook Side | Mag Lode Spin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jamya Fultcher | Wilimina Holt |
In-app purchases
Brook Side
No in-app purchases
Mag Lode Spin
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Brook Side free?
Is Mag Lode Spin free?
Do Brook Side or Mag Lode Spin have ads?
Which is updated more often, Brook Side or Mag Lode Spin?
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