Sisyphos vs Skiplit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sisyphos
Experience the Sisyphean task of pushing a rock uphill. This game offers a unique, philosophical challenge that explores themes of futility and perseverance. It's a minimalist yet profound gaming experience.
- Push a rock uphill
- Philosophical gameplay
- Minimalist design
- Humility and ego destruction themes
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Sisyphos lets you experience the joy and pain of pushing a rock up a mountain. "A lesson in humility—a destruction of the human ego" - killscreensdaily.com "Utterly ridiculous ,utterly pointless and utterly brilliant" pocketgamer.com
Skiplit
A visually appealing puzzle game where players strategically shoot colored balls into matching goals. It offers increasing difficulty with unique mechanics and a level designer for user-created content. Perfect for offline play and challenging your problem-solving skills.
- Color-matching ball shooting
- Increasingly challenging levels
- Level designer
- User-created levels
- Offline play
- Minimalistic design
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Skiplit is a beautifully simple yet awesomely complex puzzle game all about colors meeting. You'll soon learn that simple doesn't mean easy. Ranked #1 game to play in Airplane mode by iGeeksBlog.com in 2019 Just swipe the ball to shoot it in the direction you want, bouncing it off of walls and around obstacles to get it into the correctly colored goal. Be careful, though — you can only bounce the ball a few times each level! Almost every level can be completed in more than one way. Levels are as minimalistic as possible allowing you to spend less time figuring out what you're looking at and more time solving the puzzle. Skiplit can be played anywhere! No internet connection is needed, making it perfect for plane rides, road trips, on your commute, or whenever you just want to have fun, pass time, and solve puzzles. As you progress, you'll quickly discover that levels get more and more challenging when you are faced with. • Different colored balls and goals • Different types of balls • Walls and goals that move just like balls • Dangerous walls and balls • Even more complications to discover! Build, play, and share your own unique levels using the level designer, and play endless levels from anyone else around the world in the Skiplit Community! Need an airplane mode game? Long for an easy yet impossible arcade game? Want a puzzle game with lots of levels and without distractions? Skiplit is a simple yet puzzling, relaxing but brain-twisting, straightforward yet complex, fun and free game. Skiplit — the beautifully simple yet impossibly complex puzzle game for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skiplit at 4.8 against Sisyphos's 4.1. Skiplit also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). Sisyphos's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (389 vs 83). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Sisyphos sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Skiplit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Skiplit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 389 and 83 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Sisyphos's written reviews are positive against 89% of Skiplit's.
Sisyphos ships an update every 2 months, Skiplit every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sisyphos | Skiplit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (389 ratings) | 4.8 (83 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.7% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 389 — better | 83 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Florian Grolig | Domenico Ottolia |
Customer experience
Sisyphos
Skiplit
User reviews
Sisyphos
From 389 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Captures the essence of the Sisyphus myth
- 🤔 Thought-provoking and meditative gameplay
- 🕰️ Satisfying to pass time
- 🧠 Helps with mental health and coping
Room to improve
- 🥱 Repetitive and monotonous
- 😩 Extremely frustrating and demoralizing
- 🤯 Rage-inducing at times
- 🤷♀️ Unclear purpose or objective
Skiplit
From 83 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Addictive and fun gameplay
- 🧠 Engages thought and strategy
- ✨ Simple yet challenging puzzles
- 🎨 Minimalistic and nice design
- 🎮 Innovative physics puzzler
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game freezing repeatedly
- 🐛 Glitching and unplayable
- 🐛 Ball motion lags on iPad
- 🐛 Inconsistent device compatibility
- ⚠️ Forced app store redirects
Bugs and requests
Sisyphos
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes or freezes
- Unresponsive controls
- Audio issues
Requested features
4 requests- Endless hill mode
- Character customization options
- Varied landscapes or biomes
- Progression system or achievements
Skiplit
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game freezes for seconds repeatedly
- Game is glitching out so much
- Ball motion lags and gets interrupted on iPad
- Forces user to App Store for random downloads
- Nothing works
Requested features
4 requests- Add more levels
- Fix freezing issues
- Improve iPad performance
- Clarify device compatibility
In-app purchases
Sisyphos
- A MODEST OFFERING2 variants$0.99
- A GENEROUS OFFERING$1.99
- A GENEROUS OFFERING$2.99
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- THE GODS ARE DELIGHTED$4.99
- THE GODS ARE DELIGHTED$5.99
Skiplit
- Remove Ads$0.99









