Comparison

Manafell Cairn vs Eddywick

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

Head to head
About

Manafell Cairn

Features
Read full description

The moon over the fjord is thinning, because the signs that held it up fell into the water. You keep the cairn on the headland. Signs rise out of the black water toward a halo of lantern light, and each one asks a different thing of your hands: a Wane Glyph takes a single tap, a Deep Glyph wears a ring that has to be pressed and held until the ring closes, and a Hollow Shard has to be left alone entirely. Three wicks burn in the lantern. One goes out when a sign escapes past the halo, one goes out when you touch a shard, and a Hearth Glyph caught in time puts a wick back. Inside one watch the moon turns four times, and the rules turn with it. Waxing is plain reading. Full drives everything faster and lifts your Chant Verse a rung, so clean catches start paying double, triple, quadruple. Waning is where the shards learn to wear a glyph's face, and where most keepers lose a wick to something they were certain about. New Moon runs eight seconds, takes the light away, leaves outlines only, and counts every point twice. Eight nights carry the story from First Sliver to The Cairn Rekindled, each with its own spawn table and its own threshold. After them the Endless Watch has no target and no end, only a lantern that eventually goes out. What you gather turns into Rimesilver, and Rimesilver cuts marks into the Cairn Wall: twenty four invented signs, each with a name, a meaning and a few lines from Hedra Wanesdóttir, who has been carving that wall a long time. Portrait, offline, no ads, nothing to buy, no account, no tracking.

About

Eddywick

Features
Read full description

Puoli vuosisataa sitten laakso katosi tekojärven alle. Vanhan venevajan hoitaja ojentaa sinulle metsätyökirjan, jonka sivut ovat haalistuneet ja jokainen puuttuva sivu edustaa havaintoa, joka sinun on löydettävä. Venevajaa ympäröi kuusi vesistöä: kalkkikivipuro, ruovikko, uoma, vuoristojärvi, jokisuu ja itse tekojärvi. Asetat viisi merkkiä tyynelle näkymälle, sitten vesi kirkastuu ja jokainen vastaus perustellaan, ja kahden rakenteen kohtaamiskohdista tulee ylimääräisiä ompeleita. Luotain pyyhkäisee pohjan poikki, ja nimeät, mitä alla on: pudotus, soraharjanne, uponnut puutavara vai laakson mukana uponnut aita. 24 tunnin syklissä valitset aktiiviset ikkunat, ja yksi tunti liikaa on merkittävämpi kuin yksi tunti liian vähän. Jos tuuli kääntyy, määrität etukäteen, mihin matalikko liikkuu, ja sitten tarkkailet. Työpöydällä rakennat oman prototyypin valitsemalla värin, koon, painon, toiminnan ja kelluvuuden, ja testaat sitä sitten veden alla, ja heikoin ominaisuus muodostaa kolmanneksen pisteistä. Kahdeksankymmentä prosenttia yhdestä vesistöstä avaa seuraavan. Kahdeksantoista sivua, kaksitoista lajia, seitsemän sääolosuhdetta ja kuusi harvinaista tapahtumaa, yksi päivässä. Pystysuuntainen, yhdellä kädellä pelattava, mainokseton, ei sovelluksen sisäisiä ostoksia, pelattavissa offline-tilassa.

Screenshots

Manafell Cairn4 screens
Eddywick4 screens

Verdict

The call

Manafell Cairn and Eddywick are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Manafell Cairn ships an update every 6 days, Eddywick every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Manafell Cairn versus Eddywick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterManafell CairnEddywick
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB16 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperHall DexterHamilton Eugene

In-app purchases

None

Manafell Cairn

No in-app purchases

None

Eddywick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Manafell Cairn free?
Manafell Cairn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eddywick free?
Eddywick is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Manafell Cairn or Eddywick have ads?
Neither Manafell Cairn nor Eddywick shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Manafell Cairn or Eddywick?
Manafell Cairn ships an update every 6 days, and Eddywick every 10 days. Most recently, Manafell Cairn was updated on October 19, 2026 and Eddywick on October 11, 2026.

Other comparisons