Comparison

Hidden City vs Clutter 1000

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

Clutter 1000

Engage in an addicting hidden object game with over 1000 unique puzzles. Features randomly generated levels for unlimited replayability and a variety of object sets and layouts.

Highlights
  • 1000+ unique puzzles
  • Randomly generated levels
  • Unlimited replayability
  • New object sets
  • Varied layouts
  • 100 picture puzzles
Features
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It's the most addicting Un-Hidden Object game you'll ever play and Clutter 1000 is definitely the best Clutter of them all. Too many amazing levels to even begin describing. 1000 puzzles that can be played over and over. All your old favorites are here along with twice as many new ones keep you playing for days and days. 1000 puzzles in all. * Unlimited replayability due to randomly generated levels * Too many variations to even begin listing * All new main objects and object sets * 100 picture puzzles * Wide variations of layouts, not just "Hog-Pile" --- Also note that this game optionally offers a subscription to join ALL ACCESS, which turns off ads and allows unlimited gameplay. If you opt to join the club, a $9.99 purchase will be applied to your iTunes account on confirmation. You can try the pass out for 7 days for free. Subscriptions will automatically renew each month unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. For more information, see our Terms (https://m.iwin.com/terms-of-service) and Privacy Policy (https://m.iwin.com/privacy-policy).

Screenshots

Hidden City4 screens
Clutter 10004 screens

Verdict

The call

Hidden City and Clutter 1000 both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 72% of Hidden City's written reviews are positive against 25% of Clutter 1000's. Hidden City also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (95K vs 172). Clutter 1000's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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 Clutter 1000 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Hidden City against 4.4 for Clutter 1000. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hidden City has 95K ratings behind it against 172, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Hidden City's written reviews are positive against 25% of Clutter 1000's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, Clutter 1000 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Hidden City versus Clutter 1000: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHidden CityClutter 1000
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (95K ratings)4.4 (172 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.4% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings95K — better172
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#128 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size320 MB759 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperG5 Entertainment ABiwin, Inc.

Customer experience

Hidden City

All ratings95,045 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral10.4%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews2,582 reviews
Positive72.4%
Neutral10.7%
Negative16.9%

Clutter 1000

All ratings172 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative11.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative68.8%

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

Clutter 1000

From 172 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
  • 🤩 Addictive in a good way
  • 🤔 Challenging puzzles
  • 💡 Original game concept

Room to improve

  • 💸 Unreasonable subscription pricing
  • ❌ Inaccessible game
  • 💳 Refusal of one-off payment
  • 🚫 Subscription malfunctions
  • 🤔 Difficulty closing app

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

Clutter 1000

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Game displays upside down
  • Game does not work after subscription
  • Game stops playing
  • Game freezes or does not load
  • Trial page appears after purchase
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  • Game will not progress past first level
  • Game hangs after first screen
  • Game will not play on iPad
  • Picture spins when trying to go to next level
  • Game will not open or play after upgrade
  • Cannot access other Clutter puzzles
  • Cannot open the app
  • Game does not show up on iPad after PC purchase

Requested features

3 requests
  • Allow one-off purchase option
  • Provide game explanations/tutorials
  • Improve subscription sign-in functionality

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
2 purchases

Clutter 1000

Subscriptions2
  • All Access Games Subscription$4.991 Month
  • All Access Games7 Days trial$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Hidden City free?
Hidden City is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clutter 1000 free?
Clutter 1000 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hidden City or Clutter 1000?
Clutter 1000 is rated higher. Hidden City averages 4.3 out of 5 from 95K ratings, while Clutter 1000 averages 4.4 from 172 ratings.
Do Hidden City or Clutter 1000 have ads?
Both Hidden City and Clutter 1000 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hidden City or Clutter 1000?
Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, and Clutter 1000 every 3 months. Most recently, Hidden City was updated on October 18, 2026 and Clutter 1000 on October 17, 2026.

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