Comparison

tiles. vs Halloween Drop

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

Head to head
About

tiles.

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One rule. Drag to move, flick to turn. Fill every gap, and it's done. tiles. is a puzzle game about fitting scattered pieces perfectly into a board. Three kinds of board: square, triangle and hexagon. Change the shape, and the same idea of filling a board asks you to think in a whole new way. Over 2,000 stages: from small boards solved with three pieces to large ones built from twelve. The difficulty rises gradually. Simple controls: drag a piece to move it, and flick to rotate it. Pieces can't be flipped. Rankings: solve a stage to see where you place among everyone who solved it. Rooms: make a room with friends or family and compete on a ranking of your own. Invite them by QR code or password. Free, no ads: every stage is free to play, with nothing in the way.

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Halloween Drop

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Ad-free! Drop a little Halloween into your day. Aim each piece, merge matching pairs, and grow a pile from candy corn to a haunted house. Keep it below the danger line and chase your best score. Make a haunted house and watch it come alive. It opens its eyes, looks around, roars through a toothy grin, grows arms and legs, and climbs out before leaping away. Six climbing routes keep the celebration varied, wherever the house is formed. The pile keeps moving, and pieces pushed up or out by the house do not end your run. Some drops turn ghostly. They drift slowly through the pile until you tap to make them solid. Reach a buried match or make room for your next move. First a treat, then a trick. As the pile first nears the danger line, a glowing jack-o'-lantern winds to the middle and bursts, clearing Candy Corn through Skull so Jack-o’-Lanterns and higher tiers can fall together and merge. Next time, a witch steals your highest-tier pieces. Your points stay, but your biggest pieces are gone. After those two visits, you're on your own. • Eleven Halloween pieces to discover • Living haunted houses with six escape routes • Controllable ghost drops • Two surprises when the pile nears the danger line • One Undo per run • Pause and resume while the app stays open • Local best scores • Optional sound and haptics • Offline play with no account Designed for portrait play on iPhone. Current boards are not saved after the app closes completely.

Screenshots

tiles.4 screens
Halloween Drop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: tiles. at Free against Halloween Drop's $0.99. tiles. also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 days) and device support (3 vs 1). Halloween Drop's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

tiles. is free to download; Halloween Drop costs $0.99 up front. tiles. sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Halloween Drop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tiles. ships an update daily, Halloween Drop every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Ā· 1 level
tiles. versus Halloween Drop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertiles.Halloween Drop
PriceFree — better$0.99
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size138 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomonobu KuroishiBrian Lain

In-app purchases

3 purchases

tiles.

One-time3
  • A treat for Leon$0.99
  • Leon's favorite goat milk$2.99
  • A toy for Leon the destroyer$5.99
None

Halloween Drop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is tiles. free?
tiles. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Halloween Drop free?
Halloween Drop costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do tiles. or Halloween Drop have ads?
Neither tiles. nor Halloween Drop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tiles. or Halloween Drop?
tiles. ships an update daily, and Halloween Drop every 9 days. Most recently, tiles. was updated on October 31, 2026 and Halloween Drop on November 1, 2026.

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