Comparison

Northdown vs Cindertext

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

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About

Northdown

Features
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Northdown is a 3D gravity puzzle. Your character cannot climb โ€” so you tip the whole world instead. Swipe, the world rotates, the blocks tumble, and a wall becomes a floor. 100 hand-built levels. Free, offline, no wifi needed. A GRAVITY PUZZLE GAME WHERE THE WORLD MOVES, NOT YOU Gravity is the move. Rotate the world 90ยฐ and every block falls somewhere new โ€” including you. Each level is a small floating world with exactly one way out, and finding it feels like a trick you taught yourself. If you have played a gravity puzzle before, you have not played one that turns the whole map. 100 LEVELS ACROSS 21 PAINTED PLACES Balloon skies, waterfall islands, a red canyon, temples in the clouds, the aurora, deep space, and lava spires at the very end. The sky changes every fifth level, and the light on the blocks follows it. A 3D GRAVITY MAZE IN YOUR POCKET Every stage is a small 3D maze built out of gravity blocks. Walk, tip, watch it fall, walk again. Simple to pick up, and the later levels are a genuine brain teaser. STARS, NOT TIMERS Every level has a shortest route. Match it for three stars. Nothing counts down, nothing runs out, nothing blocks you from playing. A relaxing puzzle game you can put down and pick straight back up. A NEW PUZZLE EVERY DAY The daily puzzle is the same one for everybody in the world. Build a streak โ€” one free streak freeze a week forgives a missed day. SIX CHARACTERS TO EARN Sprocket the field medic, Rajan, Kofi, Zahra, Wisp and Bolt. Each has their own walk, their own voice and their own way of celebrating. Unlocked by playing, never by paying. PLAYS OFFLINE, ANYWHERE No account, no sign-in, no internet. An offline puzzle game for flights, commutes and dead zones. BUILT FOR ONE HAND Two on-screen pads: left walks, right tips the world. Portrait only, one thumb, any time. ACCESSIBLE Reduce-motion and colour-blind modes are built in. Coins are earned by playing and spent on hints, an extra undo, or a skip when you are truly stuck. Optional ads pay coins, and a one-time purchase removes the ads between levels forever. If you like gravity puzzles, isometric puzzle games, 3D logic games and brain teasers, Northdown was built for you.

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Cindertext

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Cindertext is a quiet memory game about an archivist recording the last words of a folding nebula. A word flashes briefly, then you swipe one continuous path across the face-down constellation plates to spell it โ€” the drag is both the reveal and the match. โ€ข Watch the word, then trace it across the plates in one stroke โ€ข The plates are yours to remember โ€” decoys and a scramble creep in later worlds โ€ข Trace cleanly to hold the echo and earn up to three stars 5 worlds โ€” First Reverberation, The Fold, Chamber of Halves, Doppler Garden, Final Echo โ€” 100 echoes. Two optional tools (Hint replays the path, Restore unwinds a scramble) for stubborn plates. Built with Flutter. No accounts. No cloud saves. Core gameplay is fully offline โ€” internet is only needed for optional ads. Contains optional ads; third-party ad SDKs may collect device identifiers for ad serving (see Privacy Policy).

Screenshots

Northdown4 screens
Cindertext4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cindertext at none against Northdown's 5. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. Northdown sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Cindertext asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Northdown versus Cindertext: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNorthdownCindertext
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysโ€”
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 โ€” better15.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size56 MB127 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRevelar Solutions Private LimitedNova Claire Merriweather

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Northdown

One-time5
  • 500 coins$0.99
  • 2,000 coins$2.99
  • Remove ads$5.99
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  • 6,000 coins$6.99
  • Everything pack$8.99
None

Cindertext

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Northdown free?
Northdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cindertext free?
Cindertext is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Northdown or Cindertext have ads?
Both Northdown and Cindertext show ads.

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