Blek vs hocus.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blek
This is a minimalist puzzle game that challenges your imagination. Draw a line that collects all colored circles while avoiding obstacles. Discover elegant solutions and enjoy a magical experience as your creations come to life.
- Draw and animate lines
- Collect colored circles
- Avoid black holes
- Multiple solutions per level
- Elegant and intuitive design
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Blek is a unique game about imagination and personality. Everything you draw keeps moving – and watching your creations move is like watching magic. The goal is simple: shape a line that collects all colored circles avoiding black holes on its route. There are no specific moves that you need to master. To every level countless solutions exist, from delightfully simple to exceptionally deep and complex, yet always elegant. ----- Articles & Commentaries ----- "The Most Brilliant iPad Game I've Played All Year." ~ Kotaku "One of the greatest joys of Blek is experimenting with your approach." ~ WIRED "It’s the sort of game you’d want to put on a space probe: when the aliens play it, they’ll take a liking to us right away." ~ The New Yorker "Wonderful experience" ~ Pocket Gamer "Blek is a thing of elegant, intuitive beauty" ~ Edge "One of the year’s best" ~ The New York Times ----- Awards ----- • Apple Design Award • Best Mobile Game - Casual Connect, Amsterdam • Excellence in Innovation - International Mobile Gaming Awards • Best Game - Content Award Vienna"
hocus.
Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.
- 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
- Create and share custom levels
- Load levels from pictures
- Endless mode
- AI-assisted gameplay
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: hocus. at every 5 weeks against Blek's every 3 months. hocus. also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 73%) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). Blek's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (795 vs 234). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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
Blek costs $4.99 and hocus. $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Blek holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 795 and 234 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Blek's written reviews are positive against 87% of hocus.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Blek ships an update every 3 months, hocus. every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blek | hocus. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (795 ratings) — better | 4.3 (234 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 795 — better | 234 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #69 — better | #126 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 196 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kunabi brother GmbH | GAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI |
Customer experience
Blek
hocus.
Bugs and requests
Blek
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to save screenshots
- Compatibility issues on larger screens
- Line disappears randomly during gameplay
Requested features
4 requests- Add more levels and content
- Implement a level select or skip option
- Add sound/music controls
- Improve UI and controls
hocus.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blek
No in-app purchases
hocus.
No in-app purchases
