Comparison

Causality vs Boxville

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Manipulate time to change level outcomes
  • Work with past selves
  • Solve paradoxes
  • Guide astronauts to safety
  • 60 challenging levels
  • Unlock achievements
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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.

Screenshots

Causality4 screens
Boxville4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Causality costs $1.99 and Boxville $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Causality ships an update every 3 months, Boxville every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Causality versus Boxville: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCausalityBoxville
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (185 ratings)4.7 (755 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.8% of reviews78.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings185755 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#190 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB1.2 GB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperLoju LTDTriomatica Games

Customer experience

Causality

All ratings185 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews139 reviews
Positive69.8%
Neutral8.6%
Negative21.6%

Boxville

All ratings755 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative13.7%

User reviews

Causality

From 185 App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

None

Causality

No in-app purchases

None

Boxville

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Causality free?
Causality costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boxville free?
Boxville costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Causality or Boxville?
Boxville is rated higher. Causality averages 4.4 out of 5 from 185 ratings, while Boxville averages 4.7 from 755 ratings.
Do Causality or Boxville have ads?
Neither Causality nor Boxville shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Causality or Boxville?
Causality ships an update every 3 months, and Boxville every 9 days. Most recently, Causality was updated on October 14, 2026 and Boxville on October 14, 2026.

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