Comparison

Lost Echo vs Yestertide

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

Head to head
About

Lost Echo

Embark on a sci-fi mystery adventure to find a missing girlfriend. Explore 3D environments, solve puzzles, and interact with characters to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. This story-driven experience captures the spirit of classic adventure games.

Highlights
  • Story-driven sci-fi mystery
  • Point-and-click adventure gameplay
  • Explore fully 3D environments
  • Solve puzzles
  • Interact with characters
  • Uncover the truth
Features
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"A richly defined, innovative experience [...] capturing the spirit of traditional adventure gaming with all the potential the platform has to offer." > 4.5/5 AdventureGamers.com In the near future Greg's girlfriend Chloe mysteriously disappears in front of him. He starts a desperate search for her. What happened? Why does no-one else remember her? Solve puzzles, explore fully 3d environments, interact with numerous characters, solve the mystery and find the truth. But will the truth be enough? Lost Echo is a story driven, visually ambitious, sci-fi mystery point and click adventure game.

About

Yestertide

Embark on a mysterious adventure in a quaint, uncharted village. Solve puzzles, interact with cryptic characters, and uncover secrets involving time travel and aliens. Your choices are crucial to saving this strange place.

Highlights
  • Hand-drawn art
  • Puzzles and riddles
  • Cryptic character interaction
  • Time-travel elements
  • Alien encounters
  • Card tricks
Features
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Come in. Stay for AGES and AGES … Welcome to YESTERTIDE, another exciting mind-bender from the MysteryCaper team. Enjoy your visit. You're not going anywhere anytime soon. – You've been backpacking for days. You're tired; you're sore. You just want to SLEEP … You stumble upon a quaint old village. YESTERTIDE. Quiet, unassuming, cobblestoney. You'll rest here. It's funny, though. You've never heard of this place, and it's not on any maps. Oh well. It will do for now. But when is NOW exactly? And why do you feel like someone — or some-THING — is watching you? – FEATURES • a thrilling array of hand-drawn art • an endless supply of puzzles and riddles • the occasional cryptic character interaction • hilarious in-game comments • a pigeon • a cat • time-travel • aliens • card tricks • and YOU, the last hope for Yestertide — and beyond – MysteryCaper. It's COMEDY SOLVED.

Screenshots

Lost Echo4 screens
Yestertide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lost Echo at fortnightly against Yestertide's every 5 months. Lost Echo also leads on price ($4.49 vs $5.99). Yestertide's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Lost Echo costs $4.49 and Yestertide $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Lost Echo against 4.6 for Yestertide. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 86 and 76 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 76% and 77% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lost Echo ships an update fortnightly, Yestertide every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lost Echo versus Yestertide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLost EchoYestertide
Price$4.49 — better$5.99
Rating4.6 (86 ratings)4.6 (76 ratings)
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews76.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings86 — better76
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size444 MB396 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperKickBackMysteryCaper, LLC

Customer experience

Lost Echo

All ratings86 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews575 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral8.2%
Negative15.8%

Yestertide

All ratings76 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive76.6%
Neutral10.6%
Negative12.8%

User reviews

Lost Echo

From 86 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent story and plot
  • 🎨 Beautiful graphics and visuals
  • 🎶 Immersive soundtrack
  • 👍 Engaging and thought-provoking gameplay
  • 💡 Unique and innovative concept

Room to improve

  • 🐢 Slow pacing and excessive dialogue
  • 🤔 Confusing and unsatisfying ending
  • 👨‍💻 Awkward character animations and interactions
  • 🌐 Issues with translation and grammar

Yestertide

From 76 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging story and humor
  • 💡 Creative and challenging puzzles
  • ⭐️ Excellent hint system available
  • 🎨 Charming art style
  • ⏳ Good game length

Room to improve

  • 🤔 Puzzles lack logic
  • 😵 Navigation is confusing
  • 🤯 Puzzles are too obscure
  • frustrating to navigate hints
  • 🤷‍♀️ Some puzzles not solvable

Bugs and requests

Lost Echo

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game progress getting deleted after updates
  • Inability to progress past certain points

Requested features

4 requests
  • More challenging puzzles
  • Multiple endings or branching storylines
  • Improved character development
  • Sequel or expansion to continue the story

Yestertide

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Fruits must be dragged twice to blend
  • Cafe safe code didn't work
  • Hot plate puzzle bug
  • Alien keypad issue
  • Safe combination in hints doesn't work

Requested features

3 requests
  • More games from the developer
  • In-game hints instead of website
  • Notebook to remind of tasks

In-app purchases

None

Lost Echo

No in-app purchases

None

Yestertide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lost Echo free?
Lost Echo costs $4.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yestertide free?
Yestertide costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lost Echo or Yestertide?
Lost Echo and Yestertide are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 86 and 76 ratings respectively.
Do Lost Echo or Yestertide have ads?
Neither Lost Echo nor Yestertide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lost Echo or Yestertide?
Lost Echo ships an update fortnightly, and Yestertide every 5 months. Most recently, Lost Echo was updated on September 29, 2026 and Yestertide on September 28, 2026.

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