Comparison

Hidden City vs Hidden Journey 2

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

Hidden Journey 2

Embark on a thrilling adventure to find hidden objects in intricate scenes. Solve picture puzzles, use your investigative skills, and boost your concentration with this engaging seek-and-find game. Enjoy a variety of challenges, including spot the differences and finding identical items.

Highlights
  • Search for highlighted items
  • Solve picture puzzles
  • Spot the differences
  • Find identical items
  • Use helpful boosters
  • Win stars for prizes
Features
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Explore the area and start hunting for hidden objects! Hidden Journey 2: Find Objects is a new kind of seek and find games where you'll be searching for objects! Your search will be a true pleasure with objects staying at the same positions. The adventure puzzle game to enjoy! On each level you'll have to solve a picture puzzle: search for highlighted items and complete hidden object challenges. Sounds quite easy, ha? We dare you to find all missing items! Hidden Journey 2: Find Objects has tons of maps and locations, awesome graphics and hidden object art, fun minigames, bonuses and lots more. Use your investigative skills to find an object after object on your puzzle quest. Enjoy the simple and intuitive interface. Boost your concentration and have fun! Easy controls will help you find hidden figures faster, as well as helpful boosters! The best scavenger hunt game around! Features of Hidden Journey 2: Find Objects: - Highly-detailed, awesome graphics - Different object finding mechanics - Level map with unique locations - Varieties of instruments to help your search - Additional challenging levels - Lots of levels with silhouettes - Countdown timer to make the game more dynamic and immersive Additional levels contains: - Puzzles - Spot the differences - Find 10 identical items - Pairs Win stars to open treasure chest and find mystery prizes! Great adventure awaits you!

Screenshots

Hidden City4 screens
Hidden Journey 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hidden City at every 9 days against Hidden Journey 2's every 2 months. Hidden City also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 60%) and chart position (#116 vs unranked). Hidden Journey 2's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hidden City sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hidden Journey 2 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 Journey 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 95K and 20K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Hidden City's written reviews are positive against 60% of Hidden Journey 2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, Hidden Journey 2 every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hidden City versus Hidden Journey 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHidden CityHidden Journey 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (95K ratings)4.6 (20K ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews — better59.7% of reviews
Number of ratings95K — better20K
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#116 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size320 MB386 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperG5 Entertainment ABAZUR INTERACTIVE GAMES LIMITED

Customer experience

Hidden City

All ratings95,045 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral10.4%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews2,587 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral10.7%
Negative17.0%

Hidden Journey 2

All ratings19,858 ratings
Positive91.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews221 reviews
Positive59.7%
Neutral17.2%
Negative23.1%

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

Hidden Journey 2

From 20K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Enjoyable and relaxing game
  • 🧠 Helps keep the mind active
  • 🎨 Visually appealing graphics

Room to improve

  • 🤖 Too many ads and forced video ads
  • 🔍 Some objects hard to see or identify
  • ⏱️ Strict time limits can be frustrating

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

Hidden Journey 2

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game freezing or crashing after ads
  • Objects not registering as found correctly

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to remove ads or reduce ad frequency
  • Ability to enlarge or zoom in on objects
  • More variety in levels and scenes

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

Hidden Journey 2

One-time12
  • Coin Pack (2)$1.99
  • Find hidden objects with hints$1.99
  • 2200 coins2 variants$1.99
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  • Coin Pack (5)$4.99
  • 5500 coins$4.99
  • Simple Pack (7)$6.99
  • 7700 coins2 variants$6.99
  • 11000 coins$9.99
  • Juicy Pack (15)$14.99
  • 22000 coins$19.99
  • Coin Pack (20)$19.99
  • Mega Pack (30)$29.99

Questions

Is Hidden City free?
Hidden City is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hidden Journey 2 free?
Hidden Journey 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hidden City or Hidden Journey 2?
Hidden Journey 2 is rated higher. Hidden City averages 4.3 out of 5 from 95K ratings, while Hidden Journey 2 averages 4.6 from 20K ratings.
Do Hidden City or Hidden Journey 2 have ads?
Both Hidden City and Hidden Journey 2 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hidden City or Hidden Journey 2?
Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, and Hidden Journey 2 every 2 months. Most recently, Hidden City was updated on November 1, 2026 and Hidden Journey 2 on November 1, 2026.

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