Comparison

Hidden City vs Twilight Land

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

Twilight Land

Embark on a mystical journey to find a missing sister in a cursed town. Solve hidden object puzzles and challenging match-3 levels to uncover secrets, restore the city, and save its inhabitants. Enjoy an engaging storyline and fascinating characters.

Highlights
  • Hidden object scenes
  • Match-3 puzzles
  • Mystical storyline
  • City renovation and design
  • Fascinating characters
  • Offline play
Features
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Solve mystical brainteasers in Twilight Land—the most captivating hidden object puzzle game. Uncover mysteries, unravel tricky match-3 puzzles, help restore a small town and unlock bonuses along the way. Join Rosemary Bell as she travels to Twilight Land to find her sister. A MYSTICAL STORYLINE The main character, Rosemary Bell, is having strange dreams where her missing older sister is trying to contact her. Two weeks prior, her sister got an invitation from a mysterious stranger and headed off to Twilight Land. Rosemary is determined to find out what happened to her. When Rosemary enters Twilight Land, she discovers that her sister is under a curse. Now she must solve the mystery of the strange town, save its inhabitants and help her sister. But be careful what you wish for... CAPTIVATING HIDDEN OBJECT SCENES Journey through a small 1930s town as you search for hidden objects and match items to progress through the story. Each level in this adventure puzzle game contains charming scenes full of hidden objects or unsolved levels full of match-3 puzzles. CITY RENOVATION AND DESIGN Unlock decorations and collections to rebuild the town. Influence its appearance and help bring back its elegance in this stimulating puzzle game. MEET FASCINATING CHARACTERS The town is full of exciting characters waiting for you! Solve mysteries and brainteasers as you work to save the townspeople. Enjoy engaging storylines in this unique puzzle game and find out what really happened here. PLAY PUZZLES ANYWHERE Now you can solve mysteries, enjoy search and find games and match items from anywhere. This mystery game is playable offline, so you can take this hidden objects adventure wherever you go! Help Rosemary save her sister and find out what unspoken secrets caused the town’s ruin. Download Twilight Land today and begin your mysterious journey! 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 whether you’re offline or online. ____________________________ Game available in: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish. ____________________________ Sign up now for a weekly round-up of the best from G5 Games! https://www.g5.com/e-mail ____________________________ G5 Games — World of Adventures™! Collect them all! Search for "g5" on the App Store! ____________________________ Visit us: https://www.g5.com Watch us: https://www.youtube.com/g5enter Find us: https://www.facebook.com/g5games Join us: https://www.instagram.com/g5games Follow us: https://x.com/g5games Terms of Service: https://www.g5.com/termsofservice G5 End User License Supplemental Terms: https://www.g5.com/G5_End_User_License_Supplemental_Terms

Screenshots

Hidden City4 screens
Twilight Land4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Twilight Land at 4.6 against Hidden City's 4.3. Twilight Land also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Hidden City's advantage is ratings volume (95K vs 10K) and chart position (#97 vs unranked). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Hidden City sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Twilight Land sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Twilight Land holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hidden City has 95K ratings behind it against 10K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Hidden City's written reviews are positive against 66% of Twilight Land'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, Twilight Land weekly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Hidden City versus Twilight Land: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHidden CityTwilight Land
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (95K ratings)4.6 (10K ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews — better66.2% of reviews
Number of ratings95K — better10K
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#97 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size320 MB218 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperG5 Entertainment ABG5 Entertainment AB

Customer experience

Hidden City

All ratings95,045 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral10.4%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews2,584 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral10.7%
Negative17.0%

Twilight Land

All ratings10,383 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral6.6%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews266 reviews
Positive66.2%
Neutral14.7%
Negative19.2%

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

Twilight Land

From 10K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
  • 💎 Beautiful graphics
  • 🧠 Challenging and engaging
  • 🕹️ Fun mind game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Freezing and crashing issues
  • ⏱️ Strict time constraints
  • 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🔒 Limited language options

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

Twilight Land

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Hall of fame not working properly
  • Zoom feature issues
  • Inability to use earned coins
  • Stuck at certain levels

Requested features

4 requests
  • Remove timer option
  • Ability to send/receive items with friends
  • More levels and new content
  • Improved progression and story

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
18 purchases

Twilight Land

One-time18
  • Special Offer$0.99
  • Special Deal$0.99
  • Handful of Crystals$1.99
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  • Super Deal$1.99
  • Exclusive Deal$2.99
  • Pile of Crystals$4.99
  • Wonderful Deal$4.99
  • Season Pass$4.99
  • Awesome Deal$5.99
  • Season Pass$6.99
  • Amazing Deal$6.99
  • Pile of Crystals$7.99
  • Bowl of Crystals$9.99
  • Incredible Deal$9.99
  • Bowl of Crystals$14.99
  • Chest of Crystals$19.99
  • Hyper Deal$19.99
  • Bag of Crystals$49.99

Questions

Is Hidden City free?
Hidden City is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Twilight Land free?
Twilight Land is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hidden City or Twilight Land?
Twilight Land is rated higher. Hidden City averages 4.3 out of 5 from 95K ratings, while Twilight Land averages 4.6 from 10K ratings.
Do Hidden City or Twilight Land have ads?
Both Hidden City and Twilight Land show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hidden City or Twilight Land?
Hidden City ships an update every 9 days, and Twilight Land weekly. Most recently, Hidden City was updated on October 26, 2026 and Twilight Land on October 26, 2026.

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