Dottos vs Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dottos
A simple and fun game where players match five dots of the same color. Compete with others by submitting your score to the Game Center.
- Match 5 dots
- Vertical, horizontal, diagonal matches
- Score submission
- Game Center integration
- Leaderboards
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Dottos is a simple, relaxing puzzle game: line up 5 or more dots of the same color – horizontally, vertically or diagonally – and watch them disappear. • Tap a dot to select it, then tap an empty field to move it there. A dot can only travel along a free path. • Every move that doesn't clear a line adds three new dots. You can always see which colors come next. • You get one point for every dot that disappears. The game ends when the board is full. Made with color-blind players in mind: turn on numbers on the dots in Options and tell every color apart without guessing. • Interactive tutorial • Your game is saved automatically – continue anytime • Local high scores • Works offline, no ads, no tracking • iPhone and iPad
Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
This logic puzzle game challenges you to fill a grid with stars, ensuring no two stars touch, even diagonally. It offers daily and weekly challenges with varying difficulty levels and tracks your progress.
- Daily puzzle challenges
- Leaderboards for competitive play
- Weekly challenges for advanced players
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Puzzle packs for beginners
- Solving strategy guide
- Player stats and progress tracking
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Hoshi (星, Japanese for star) is a free and competitive Star Battle game with daily challenges. Star Battle, also known as "Two Not Touch", is a classic pen-and-paper logic puzzle published in newspapers and puzzle magazines worldwide. If you enjoy playing tricky puzzles and brain-teasing games and seek a new challenge, then you should give Hoshi a try. If you have never played the Star Battle logic game before, don’t worry the rules are straight forward: Similar to other logic puzzles you have a grid that you need to fill. In a normal 2 star “Two Not Touch” game each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars. Stars are not allowed to touch, even not diagonally. Hoshi includes Star Battles with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 stars, but games with more stars are yet to come ;) Hoshi offers you: - Everyday we release a new number game (daily puzzle challenge) - Track your solving time and compete against other players (leaderboards) - There is also a weekly challenge for geniuses (3 star plus games) - There are 5 different difficulties (easy to diabolical) - Packs with hand-selected logic puzzle (e.g. for beginners) - Guide with solving strategies - Profile with stats about your skill level & progress Coming soon: - Add your friends and play with them a numbers puzzle - Star Battle games with more than 5 stars Privacy policy: https://guriddo.app/hoshi/legal/privacy Terms of use: https://guriddo.app/hoshi/legal/tos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dottos at none against Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles's 10. Dottos also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 77 months) and ratings volume (272 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.79 per 7 days. Dottos asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dottos holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles has 272 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Dottos ships an update every 77 months, Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dottos | Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (272 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 59.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 272 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 77 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marek Moscichowski | Simon Schuster |
Customer experience
Dottos
Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
In-app purchases
Dottos
No in-app purchases
Star Battle Hoshi Puzzles
- Supporter (Weekly)$0.797 Days
- Supporter (Monthly)$2.491 Month
- Supporter (Annual)$14.991 Year
- Beginner Pack 3$1.99
- Beginner Pack 5$1.99
- Beginner Pack 4$1.99
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- Advanced Pack 4$2.99
- Advanced Pack 2$2.99
- Advanced Pack 3$2.99
- Expert Pack 2$2.99
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