Comparison

Hidden City vs Time Crimes

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

Head to head
About

Hidden City

Embark on a thrilling detective adventure to rescue a friend from a mysterious phantom city. Solve puzzles, explore dark dungeons, and battle strange creatures as you uncover secrets and confront evil.

Highlights
  • Hidden object scenes
  • Quests and puzzles
  • Dungeon exploration
  • Combat against monsters and cults
  • Offline play
  • Friend assistance
Features
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Hidden City is a hidden object detective adventure for players who enjoy cozy mystery games, search-and-find puzzles, story-rich quests and richly detailed scenes. Explore a mystical Victorian city, find hidden objects, follow clues, solve puzzles, meet unique characters and uncover magical secrets in the City of Shadows. Your next investigation awaits in a game where detective cases, beautiful search scenes, puzzle variety and magical events blend into one captivating mystery story. Look closer, collect clues and discover why every object, note and artifact matters. What will you investigate? Search atmospheric scenes filled with hidden items, evidence, notes, artifacts, keys, symbols, curiosities and visual clues. Every location invites careful observation and rewards players who love to find meaningful details in beautiful environments. Explore foggy streets, ornate halls, manor-like rooms, curious shops, gardens, arcades, laboratories and magical city districts. Each place supports the mystery and turns object search into part of the investigation. Which search modes can you play? Hidden City keeps the main investigation fresh with different modes designed to test your observation skills: • Words mode: Classic hidden object searching using text lists. • Silhouettes mode: Visual challenges based on object shapes. • Night mode: Focused searches in dim scenes using a spotlight. • Pairs mode: Matching identical or logically related objects to test your attention. These modes support players who enjoy search-and-find adventures, visual puzzles, detective games and finding hidden items through careful observation. Are there mini-games and puzzles? Yes. The core search mechanics are supported by puzzle modes that add variety without taking over the main experience. Take a break from the investigation and play through: • Spot the difference: Compare two scenes using sharp observation. • Match-3 levels: Crystal and gem matching for satisfying puzzle breaks. • Brain teasers: Logic mini-games, memory challenges and story-driven riddles. This mix works well for players who want a detective game with brain teasers, a mystery puzzle with clues or a search-and-find adventure with match-3 elements. How does the story unfold? Follow narrative-driven quests, character stories, special cases and event investigations. Assemble artifact collections, solve anomalies, complete requests and unlock rewards that help you continue your detective journey. Every quest connects detailed scenes, puzzle challenges, magical discoveries and story progression into one polished mystery adventure. Play Hidden City your way • Play offline: Continue your investigation anywhere, even without an internet connection. • Follow the story: Return to character quests, detective cases and magical events as your mystery unfolds. • Regular updates: Discover new cases, quests, search scenes and special events added over time. • Cross-device sync: Save your progress and switch between your devices. While this game is absolutely free to play, you have the ability to unlock optional bonuses via in-app purchases from within the game. You may disable in-app purchases in your device settings. You can play this game even if you’re offline! Game available in: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Ukrainian. ____________________________ Sign up now for a weekly round-up of the best from G5 Games! https://www.g5.com/e-mail ____________________________ Download more great games here: https://store.g5.com G5 Games — World of Adventures™! Collect them all! Search for ""g5"" in the App Store! ____________________________ Visit us: https://www.g5.com Watch us: https://www.youtube.com/g5enter Find us: https://www.facebook.com/HiddenCityGame/ Join us: https://www.instagram.com/hiddencity_ Follow us: https://x.com/g5games

About

Time Crimes

Embark on a time-traveling mystery adventure to find hidden objects and prevent a criminal from altering history. Explore beautifully hand-drawn scenes across different eras, collect treasures, and solve puzzles with a team of detectives. New content is released regularly.

Highlights
  • Solve mysteries
  • Beautiful hand-drawn scenes
  • Engaging storyline
  • New episodes released regularly
  • Find the differences
  • Collect rare treasures
  • Offline play
Features
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Find hidden objects in TIME CRIMES, the all new time-traveling hidden object adventure game! AN UNKNOWN CRIMINAL has been altering the past from the shadows. However, you have come across an ancient time machine and uncovered his plot. Now its up to you and your crime-solving team of detectives to preserve history and solve this case! Prevent the theft of rare historical artifacts and stop the criminal in his tracks! TRAVEL THROUGH TIME and explore the same crime scenes centuries apart. Watch history unfold before your eyes! Explore the secrets of an ancient library and witness the building of a mysterious Egyptian tomb. See the city transform across several eras. JOIN AN ADVENTUROUS CREW as you travel throughout history and solve crimes. Use their unique skills to progress through an exciting, mystery-filled story. Find clues and hidden objects throughout your adventure in beautiful hand-drawn scenes. Crack the case and don't let the criminals escape! TIME CRIMES is an addictive mystery adventure game that will keep you coming back for more. If you like seek and find games, searching for clues, and solving puzzles then Time Crimes is for you! Join the millions who have played Rolltower Studios' Games! ***FEATURES*** - SOLVE MYSTERIES in this free hidden object game. - BEAUTIFUL HAND-DRAWN characters and scenes that change every time you play! - AN ENGAGING STORYLINE awaits! Solve a mystery that elapses thousands of years and don't let the criminals escape! - NEW EPISODES of content released regularly! - FIND THE DIFFERENCES, Mirror Mode, Night Mode, and more adventure-filled game modes await! - COLLECT RARE TREASURES in your time lab! Your laboratory grows as you meet new companions and travel to new lands. - NO INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED to play! Escape the internet and enjoy the game at any time! ***Play the most exciting FREE hidden objects game on iPhone and iPad!*** Questions? Email timecrimes-support@rolltower.com

Screenshots

Hidden City4 screens
Time Crimes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hidden City at 95K against Time Crimes's 436. Hidden City also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Time Crimes's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Hidden City sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Time Crimes sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hidden City holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hidden City has 95K ratings behind it against 436, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Hidden City's written reviews are positive against 71% of Time Crimes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, Time Crimes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Hidden City versus Time Crimes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHidden CityTime Crimes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (95K ratings) — better4.1 (436 ratings)
Positive reviews72.6% of reviews — better71.0% of reviews
Number of ratings95K — better436
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#111 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size335 MB87 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperG5 Entertainment ABRolltower Studios Inc

Customer experience

Hidden City

All ratings94,782 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral10.4%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews2,569 reviews
Positive72.6%
Neutral10.6%
Negative16.9%

Time Crimes

All ratings436 ratings
Positive77.5%
Neutral14.9%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews183 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral18.6%
Negative10.4%

User reviews

Hidden City

From 95K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Challenging
  • 👍 Fun and challenging
  • 👍 Great fun
  • 👍 Fabulous
  • 👍 Never knew I could be such a clever person

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Hidden City: You have a VERY offensive ad in your line up
  • 💰 Too costly, not enough bang for your hard earned bucks
  • 💰 Game is the most frustrating I have ever played, very little in return for achieving goals
  • 💰 Game is getting more and more difficult to play without making in-app purchases
  • 🐛 Quite often when visiting friends, the game freezes and I can no longer continue playing

Time Crimes

From 436 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun
  • 👍 Enjoyable
  • 👍 Great game
  • 👍 Interesting
  • 👍 Challenging

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Freezes/glitches
  • 🔋 Slow energy regeneration
  • 💰 Requires in-app purchases
  • 🐛 Bugs and issues

Bugs and requests

Hidden City

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Can not access the game to sign in after changing password
  • Game freezes and crashes frequently
  • Losing progress and achievements when switching devices
  • Glitches with events and mini-games
  • Disappearing items and rewards
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  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

9 requests
  • Give more free rubies, game is too expensive
  • Make the game less expensive
  • Give more rewards for completing goals
  • Make the game less frustrating and more enjoyable
  • Fix the glitches and technical issues
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  • Provide better instructions and tutorials
  • Offer an ad-free version for a one-time purchase
  • Make the mini-games less difficult and frustrating
  • Improve the social features and gifting system

Time Crimes

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Game crashes
  • Freezes during gameplay
  • In-app purchases not working
  • Connectivity issues
  • Taps not registering
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  • Objectives not tracking properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • More time travel locations
  • Ability to save progress/level upgrades
  • Faster energy regeneration
  • More mini-games
  • Ability to request items from friends
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  • Improved tutorial/instructions

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Hidden City

One-time10
  • Special Offer$0.99
  • Cluster of Rubies$1.99
  • Tray of Rubies$4.99
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  • Super Deal$4.99
  • Platter of Rubies$9.99
  • Hyper Deal$9.99
  • Drawer of Rubies$19.99
  • Special Deal$19.99
  • Trunk of Rubies$49.99
  • Stockpile of Rubies$99.99
12 purchases

Time Crimes

One-time12
  • Pack of Energy Items$2.99
  • 15000 Coins$4.99
  • 44 Gems$4.99
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  • Pack of Hints$7.99
  • 93 Gems$9.99
  • 30000 Coins and 90 Gems$9.99
  • Max Energy Pack$9.99
  • 64500 Coins$19.99
  • 190 Gems$19.99
  • Magic Key$19.99
  • 395 Gems$39.99
  • 999 Gems$99.99

Questions

Is Hidden City free?
Hidden City is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Crimes free?
Time Crimes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hidden City or Time Crimes?
Hidden City is rated higher. Hidden City averages 4.3 out of 5 from 95K ratings, while Time Crimes averages 4.1 from 436 ratings.
Do Hidden City or Time Crimes have ads?
Both Hidden City and Time Crimes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hidden City or Time Crimes?
Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, and Time Crimes every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hidden City was updated on September 25, 2026 and Time Crimes on September 6, 2026.

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