Causality vs Boxville
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Causality
Manipulate time to solve intricate puzzles and guide stranded astronauts to safety. Work with your past selves across alien landscapes to overcome paradoxes and complete hazardous levels within a time limit.
- Manipulate time to change level outcomes
- Work with past selves
- Solve paradoxes
- Guide astronauts to safety
- 60 challenging levels
- Unlock achievements
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Causality is a puzzle game about manipulating time, altering the sequence of events and changing the outcome of each level. Set across strange and alien landscapes, help a group of stranded astronauts find a route to safety. Travel through time, work with your past selves and solve paradoxes as you take on this uniquely challenging puzzler. Each level represents a brief but hazardous moment in time. Levels are completed by guiding each astronaut to an exit that matches their colour, within a limited time frame. When all astronauts reach an exit the level is complete. - Control time and change the outcome of each level - Work with your past selves to solve puzzles - 60 levels to complete - 13 achievements to unlock
Boxville
This animated adventure puzzle game features speechless cans navigating a city of boxes. Solve logic puzzles and riddles, explore a charming world, and uncover the mystery behind earthquakes. Enjoy a unique audio-visual experience, playable solo or with a friend.
- Animated film and puzzle game hybrid
- Hand-drawn graphics and custom animations
- Environmental quests and logical puzzles
- Unique music for each scene
- Wordless communication via speech bubbles
- Playable solo or co-op
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Boxville is 2-in-1: an animated film and a puzzle game. Boxville is an adventure puzzle game about speechless cans living in the city of boxes and drawing doodles on cardboards to tell the stories. Boxville is good for playing alone to dive into the atmosphere and challenge your brain with sophisticated logic puzzles and riddles, or playing with a friend or family to share unique audio-visual experiences and solve the puzzles together. Design The core idea of the game is that it’s not just a game - but also an animated film that you can watch and play at the same time. We designed Boxville’s gameplay with the purpose of taking away your anxiety and stress. You can explore and observe the world without rushing and pressure. The game is full of environmental quests and logical puzzles that we have carefully picked from among hundreds of options. Story Boxville is a city of boxes populated with old cans. They live quiet and happy lives with their everyday routines and habits. But one day, unexplained earthquakes disturbed their idyll... Blue Can (our hero) lost his best friend because of that. He started his search but it is not so easy to move through the city after earthquakes. He has to find a way to move forward, return the friend back home and discover the real reason for all those earthquakes. There are many adventures, new friends and it’s not only friends that are waiting for him on the way. He has to be curious, inventive, careful, and to help others, to reach his goal. What you can expect to see and hear in Boxville: - Hand-drawn graphics — all backgrounds and characters are carefully drawn by our artists. - Every animation and sound is created especially for each interaction. - Unique music track was created for every scene to accomplish the atmosphere of the game. - Tens of logical puzzles and mini-games are tightly incorporated into the story of the game. - There are no words in the game — all characters communicate via cartoony speechbubbles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Boxville at every 9 days against Causality's every 3 months. Boxville also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and chart position (#190 vs unranked). Causality's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Causality costs $1.99 and Boxville $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Boxville holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 185 and 755 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Causality's written reviews are positive against 78% of Boxville's.
Causality ships an update every 3 months, Boxville every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Causality | Boxville |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (185 ratings) | 4.7 (755 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.8% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 185 | 755 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #190 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 166 MB | 1.2 GB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Loju LTD | Triomatica Games |
Customer experience
Causality
Boxville
User reviews
Causality
From 185 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Unique and challenging puzzles
- 👍 Intuitive and easy-to-use UI
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics and sound design
- 💡 Innovative time travel mechanics
- 🧠 Mind-bending gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches in certain levels
- 🤔 Lack of clear instructions or tutorials
- 🕹️ Unintuitive controls on some devices
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay after a while
Boxville
From 755 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Enjoyable puzzles
- 🎨 Beautiful art and animation
- 🎶 Lovely music
- 🧠 Challenging but logical puzzles
- 🤗 Charming characters and story
Room to improve
- 🕰️ Short game length
- 🔍 Tiny inventory items hard to see
- 🤯 Some puzzles too obscure
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🤖 Lack of hint system or ability to skip puzzles
Bugs and requests
Causality
Reported bugs
3 issues- Certain levels (e.g. 307, 407, 410) not working as expected
- Game crashing or freezing on some devices
- Issues with achievements not unlocking properly
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content
- Ability to replay completed levels
- Cloud save/sync support
- Difficulty settings or options
Boxville
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress reset after updates
- Inventory items disappearing
- Puzzle mechanics not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Longer game with more content
- Ability to use stylus/Apple Pencil
- Improved save/load system
- In-game hints or ability to skip puzzles
In-app purchases
Causality
No in-app purchases
Boxville
No in-app purchases









