Comparison

Light Up! Puzzle vs Slackwire

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

Head to head
About

Light Up! Puzzle

Features
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Light up every tile. Solve every puzzle. A simple idea. A challenging puzzle. Place lights on the board to illuminate the tiles around them. Your goal is simple: light up every single tile. Think carefully before each move. The position of every light matters, and finding the right combination is the key to solving each puzzle. With simple rules and increasingly challenging boards, this is a puzzle game designed to test your logic, observation, and ability to think ahead. Features Simple and intuitive gameplay Challenging logic puzzles Increasingly difficult boards Clean and minimalist design No time pressure Play at your own pace Easy to learn, difficult to master Can you find the perfect solution and light up the entire board? Place. Light. Solve.

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Slackwire

Features
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Slackwire is a puzzle about joining cables into loops. Every loop plays music. The board is a panel of cut cables bolted to a plate. Tap a piece of cable and it swings. Bring two cut ends together and they join. Close a whole run and a spark sets off around it, playing one note for every cell it crosses. A loop's shape decides its melody. Where it sits decides how high it sounds, and the number of cells it covers is the length of its phrase. Two loops of different lengths drift against each other and come back together. While you work, the loose ends crackle on their own, in the key of the room you're in. Close a loop and the notes that were already sounding fall into rhythm. WHAT'S IN IT Eight rooms. Each has its own scale, reverb, cable colors and set of four instruments. You move to a new one every few panels. Panels that grow. The first is a single ring of four pieces. Later ones tangle, and once the plain board is familiar, cables start to cross over each other. No score, no timer, no way to lose. No notifications and no streaks. Put it down in the middle of a panel and nothing is spoiled. No account, no analytics, no internet. It works on a plane. PRICE Slackwire is free, with no ads and nothing locked.

Screenshots

Light Up! Puzzle4 screens
Slackwire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Slackwire at none against Light Up! Puzzle's shown. Light Up! Puzzle's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Light Up! Puzzle versus Slackwire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight Up! PuzzleSlackwire
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size228 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLoop GamesKevin Spence

In-app purchases

None

Light Up! Puzzle

No in-app purchases

None

Slackwire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Light Up! Puzzle free?
Light Up! Puzzle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slackwire free?
Slackwire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Light Up! Puzzle or Slackwire have ads?
Light Up! Puzzle shows ads; Slackwire does not.

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