Haystack Needle Quest vs Where's the Needle?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Haystack Needle Quest
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A precision challenge where you must find a single needle buried deep inside a massive haystack. With 10 levels of difficulty and time tracking, your focus, reaction speed, and finger accuracy will be pushed to the limit. In the training level, the needle flashes red, making it easy to learn the basics. Once you get used to the controls, increase the difficulty and dive into the dense maze of hay. As the level rises, the hay becomes finer, thicker, and the needle becomes nearly impossible to spot. It's the true experience of "finding a needle in a haystack." Can you find it? A perfect game for stress relief and concentration training. Slide the needle upward with delicate, precise movements—and claim your victory.
Where's the Needle?
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You wake up locked in a warehouse with an open roof. In front of you stands a mountain of hay: millions of strands, and somewhere inside, six buried needles. All you have are your hands. So you start. ONE STRAND AT A TIME Pick hay strand by strand and toss it into the HAY IN intake at the SELL HAY stand. Every strand earns you cents. Cents become dollars, and dollars unlock tool licenses and machine plans in Yard Research. Then buy your gear at Supply Co. BUILD YOUR OWN HAY FACTORY Place every machine wherever you like: conveyor belts, a Dump Hatch, a Steam Rake that needs no power, robot arms in three sizes, Hay Generators wired up with power poles, a Hay Compressor that presses bales, and a Splitter that divides a belt in two. Each extra copy of a machine costs more, so plan your layout. LET THE SCANNER HUNT Mount a scanner arch over a belt. It holds the passing hay, checks it, and sounds a siren when it spots a needle. Careful: sell a needle with the hay or burn it in a generator, and it slips back into the pile. SIX NEEDLES A sewing needle, a desk pin, a safety pin, a bent pin, a hat pin and a darning needle. Each is buried at a different depth, and the deepest hide in the heart of the pile. Every needle you recover goes into your wooden Needle Cabinet until all six slots are full. FEATURES • A first-person 3D haystack you can dig into • Three pile sizes: Small (4.8 million strands), Standard (13.8 million) and Big (34 million), with a peak above the warehouse walls • Yard Research: 8 branches and 48 unlocks and upgrades, from tools, belts and power to your own stamina • Supply Co.: toy shovel, spade, pitchfork, Yard Vac, a metal detector that beeps near a needle, bucket and wheelbarrow • 13 machines and structures to place and connect • Uncover a needle by hand and it glints • A 15-step task card to get you started (you can switch it off) • Game Center leaderboards for the fastest finish on each pile size • Three save slots with autosave • Quality settings from "Potato" for older iPhones up to "High", plus adjustable interface size • Plays fully offline • No ads, no in-app purchases • Landscape only Languages: English and Arabic (Kuwaiti dialect). The game follows your iPhone's language, and you can switch it any time in Settings. Made by a solo indie developer in Kuwait.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Where's the Needle? at none against Haystack Needle Quest's 1. Where's the Needle? also leads on ads (none vs shown). Haystack Needle Quest's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Haystack Needle Quest sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Where's the Needle? asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Haystack Needle Quest | Where's the Needle? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | akira ohmachi | Faisal Aljuwaisri |
In-app purchases
Haystack Needle Quest
- Remove Ads$1.99
Where's the Needle?
No in-app purchases
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