Comparison

Tesseract! vs Polychoron Explorer

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

Head to head
About

Tesseract!

Navigate a unique four-dimensional puzzle by rolling a golden sphere to every surface of a hypercube. Strategically pass through doors to rotate the tesseract and enter new rooms, aiming to reach all walls, floors, and ceilings.

Highlights
  • Four-dimensional puzzle gameplay
  • Roll a golden sphere
  • Navigate a hypercube
  • Rotate the tesseract
  • Reach all surfaces of rooms
Features
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A unique four-dimensional puzzle, but please do not expect to solve it easily. The game consists of rolling a golden sphere to each surface of a hypercube. This is done by touching a door to pass through which in turn rotates the tesseract four dimensionally and brings the sphere into a new room. Passing through a series of rooms strategically will put the sphere on the walls and ceilings of rooms it has previously been in. The goal is to reach every wall, floor and ceiling of every room.

About

Polychoron Explorer

Features
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Introducing Magic Manycell - a puzzle game inspired by Magic Cube but in 4D. Rotate 4D slices of a Tesseract or 16-Cell to match colors. Comprehend and feel 4D space by watching 4D objects projected into 3D by brand new 4D projection-based rendering engine. Magic Manycell puzzle can be played on 3 different 4D figures -- Tesseract with its Cells divided into 8 cubes 2*2*2, tesseract with cells divided into 3*3*3=27 smaller cubes each, and a 16-cell, which is a regular polychoron with 16 tetrahedral cells, where you have to match colors in 4 cells aligned together. If Magic Manycell puzzle seems too hard at first, you can adjust difficulty by selecting amount of moves (called shuffles) that game creates from the state with all colors perfectly aligned. So as you master elementary 1, 2 and 3 shuffles, you can move on to more challenging puzzles. In addition to starting with less shuffles, with Tesseract based figures players can select to utilize rotations that affects less cells that actual rotation would which makes this puzzle playable to even most casual players (this is the default mode - for only "realistic" rotations select "IRON AN" mode). In addition to Magic Manycell, this game contains Explorer mode without game goal where you can take your time to explore all 6 regular 4D polytopes (called polychorons). You can also customize how polychoron looks by selecting colors for each Cell of it. In Premium version, you can even create your own polychorons by scanning and splitting existing ones into 2 parts. Even though right now there're only 2 modes, more fun games on the same engine are planned to be added in the future into this same app. Game uses Freemium model where free (Demo) functionality is limited. Full functionality is unlockable with one-time purchases, only one for each mode. Demo mode is indicated by watermark so you know that there are some limitations to be expected. However in each mode there is a fully unlocked free functionality - for Magic Manycell, this is 2*2*2 tesseract board, for Explorer it's the 5-cell and Tesseract.

Screenshots

Tesseract!3 screens
Polychoron Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tesseract! at none against Polychoron Explorer's 3. Polychoron Explorer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 66 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Polychoron Explorer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Tesseract! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tesseract! ships an update every 66 months, Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tesseract! versus Polychoron Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTesseract!Polychoron Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 66 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony GrahnOLEG LESHCHEV

In-app purchases

None

Tesseract!

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Polychoron Explorer

One-time3
  • Unlock Explorer$4.99
  • Unlock Magic Manycell$4.99
  • Full Lifetime Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is Tesseract! free?
Tesseract! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Polychoron Explorer free?
Polychoron Explorer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tesseract! or Polychoron Explorer have ads?
Neither Tesseract! nor Polychoron Explorer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tesseract! or Polychoron Explorer?
Tesseract! ships an update every 66 months, and Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tesseract! was updated on October 2, 2026 and Polychoron Explorer on October 5, 2026.

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