Comparison

Drift vs Parcel Patch

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

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About

Drift

Features
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Find a place for every lantern. Place lanterns around stones to meet each row and column count. Explore 660 catalog gardens, with room for different solutions that satisfy the clues. Build your own sanctuary as you complete different gardens. Choose lanterns, plants, ponds and moonstones for nine places, and rearrange them whenever you like. In Garden workshop, design a 4-6 square garden, solve its clues and keep it in a private collection of up to 24 designs. Share a plain garden code with someone you choose, or import theirs. No account or public feed is needed. Evening mode, optional sound and gentle-touch settings let you choose the atmosphere. Progress stays on your device, with no timers or daily streak penalties. One free hint is available each day. Optional rewarded ads and ten-hint packs provide extra help; no banners or interrupting ads are shown. Delivered hint credits are device-local and cannot be restored after deleting the app. Core play and the workshop do not require purchases.

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Parcel Patch

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Turn a few conveyor belts, press Send, and deliver every parcel to the exit that matches its shape. Parcel Patch is a calm logic puzzle for iPhone, played in portrait with one finger. CHANGE ONLY A FEW TILES Every level is a small sorting floor, at most 5 by 6 tiles, that is almost right. Belts with a rotate symbol turn a quarter turn clockwise with each tap; every other tile is fixed. The catch is the limit: each level lets you change only one to four belts, and a counter ("Changed 1/2 tiles") shows where you stand. Turn a belt back to where it started and it no longer counts. Undo and Reset level let you back out. When you press Send, all parcels set off together and move one tile at a time, so timing matters as much as direction. EVERY FAILURE HAS A REASON A run that goes wrong stops at the exact spot, marks it on the board and tells you why in one plain sentence: "There is no belt here." "Two parcels reached this spot together." "The parcels met head-on." "The parcel is going in circles." "This parcel needs the matching exit." There are no lives to lose. Adjust the layout and send again. 2,012 LEVELS, ONE IDEA AT A TIME Twelve hand-made starter levels teach the rules with circles and triangles. 2,000 more follow in chapters of 50. They bring in square parcels, three parcels at once, sorters (parcels with the sorter's mark follow the colored arrow, all others the gray one), diamond parcels and later four parcels together. Levels open in order, and any level you have cleared can be replayed. ENDLESS MODE Clear the twelve starter levels and Endless mode opens. Its levels come from the game's own generator, with no connection needed, and they never run out. Each one is checked by the game's own rules engine before you see it, so it can always be solved within its change limit. Endless mode is also where the newest pieces appear, one at a time: - Portals: a parcel that enters one door comes out of the matching door and follows that door's arrow. - Switches: the bright arrow shows where the next parcel goes, and it changes sides after each parcel. - Star and heart parcels, for six shapes in all. The first levels are gentle and the difficulty climbs from there, with a breather now and then. There are no lives or penalties, and your best level is kept in My records. DAILY CHALLENGE One level every day, changing at 00:00 UTC, the same for every player. Only the time you spend in the level counts. HINTS WHEN YOU WANT THEM The Hint button works in every mode and has three steps: a nudge in words, then one tile and the direction it should point, then the whole solution drawn on the board. Even then you turn the belts and press Send yourself. A clear made with a hint is not counted as a first-try clear, and a daily time that used a hint is never sent to the leaderboard. RECORDS AND GAME CENTER LEADERBOARDS My records keeps your own figures on the device, including levels cleared, first-try clears (everything delivered on the first Send, without hints), fastest daily and Endless best. Game Center is optional. If your iPhone is signed in to it, the game connects when it opens, with four leaderboards: Daily challenge time, Levels cleared, First-try clears and Endless best. Only those four scores are sent. DETAILS - Every parcel and exit shows its shape as well as its color, and portal pairs differ by pattern as well as color. - English and Chinese, switchable in Settings. - Music and sound effects have separate switches and volume sliders, and haptics can be turned off. - Reduce motion follows your system setting or can be set in the app. - "Export my game data" shows your progress, records and the game's local event log as text you can share or copy. PLAY IN PEACE No account, no ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking. The whole game works offline: levels are in the app or generated on your device, and your progress stays on your iPhone. Only the optional Game Center leaderboards and the About links need a connection.

Screenshots

Drift4 screens
Parcel Patch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Parcel Patch at none against Drift's 2. Parcel Patch also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and device support 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. Drift sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Parcel Patch asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Drift versus Parcel Patch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftParcel Patch
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHOMAS WILLIAM UPSONCurastone CORP.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drift

One-time2
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • 10 Hints$0.99
None

Parcel Patch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drift free?
Drift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Parcel Patch free?
Parcel Patch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drift or Parcel Patch have ads?
Drift shows ads; Parcel Patch does not.

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