Comparison

Hocus Puzzle vs Witch Forest Magic Adventure

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

Head to head
About

Hocus Puzzle

Embark on a magical puzzle adventure to restore a dried-up river by mixing potions and casting spells. Explore enchanting worlds, defeat villains, and challenge friends on leaderboards. Collect costumes for powerful advantages in over 200 levels.

Highlights
  • Mix and match potions
  • Cast spells
  • Over 200 spellbinding levels
  • Challenge friends
  • Collect costumes
  • Leaderboards
Features
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Boil, bubble, toil, puzzle! Join Serena on her spellbinding adventure and discover how to defeat the evil that’s drained the magical river dry. Mix and match potions, cast spells and focus on long paths to increase Serena’s power and help you complete the levels. Challenge friends to see who can get to the top of the leaderboards! Send gifts to give each other a helping hand and collect costumes to gain powerful advantages. THE MOST BEWITCHING PUZZLE GAME • Over 200 spellbinding levels featuring funny characters, cute graphics and exciting worlds to explore • Take on the evil Master Wizard and his fiendish followers including the fierce Yetis of the Frozen Mountains • Complete tasks such as destroying ice blocks on your way to the Giant Canyon and restarting the watermill in the Mad Forest • Easy to learn game mechanics • Hours of entertaining and challenging puzzles Get ready for a magic adventure where the witches bring the environment to life! Want to receive the latest updates? Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/HocusPuzzle Do you have questions or feedback? We would love to hear from you! Visit http://www.hocuspuzzle.com/support or write to us at hocuspuzzle_en@customerservice-bigpoint.com Hocus Puzzle is completely free to play but you are also able to purchase some in-game items for real money. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.

About

Witch Forest Magic Adventure

Embark on a magical journey through a fairytale forest, collecting forest specialties with cute wizards. Solve over 1000 puzzle levels, battling an evil witch and her dark potions. Unleash pure magic and protect your home in this enchanting adventure.

Highlights
  • Over 1000 puzzle levels
  • Collect forest specialties
  • Match 3 or more items
  • Special spell abilities
  • No heart life limits
  • Daily free bonuses
  • Offline play
Features
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Witch Forest Magic Adventure - A mystery journey in magic Witch world with cute wizards Sophia and Lucas. In fairytale forest, there are lots of wild fruits, nuts, and berries. Your lovely wizards can help you collect forest specialties with pure magic power and wands, but be careful with evil witch Gigi - she has darkness powerful potions - and harmful creatures. Now, let start your magical adventure with over 1000 puzzle levels to unleash the power of pure magic and protect your fairytale home. Can you prove you are the best pure witch! HOW TO PLAY * Swap forest fruits to match 3 in a line to collect them. * Match 4 items in a line to make a powerful lightning Spell. Cast spell to make a magical blast to destroy all items in a line. * Match 5 fruits with T or L shape to create a mystery Fire Spell. Cast spell to blast all items around it. * Slice 5 fruity items to make mystery Witch Hat. Cast spell to collect all specialities with the same color. * Cast spells 2 powerful wands to blast a wonder explosion. FEATURES * Fantastical gameplay with over 1000 puzzle levels in a magic wizard world. * Mystery and magical Witch world with cute wizards: Sophia and Lucas - they have strong pure magic abilities. * No heart life limits. Just enjoy the forest adventure as much as you want! * Easy to play, but later stages will challenge you. More magic puzzle levels will be added soon. * Meet mythical and magical creatures along the challenging journey. * Play against the bad evil Witch Gigi. Be careful with her strong darkness powerful potions. * Use Magic Wand ability to get any items on the puzzle board. * A classic match 3 game that support almost phone and tablet devices. You can play without Internet. * Fun and challenging adventure in fairytale and fantasy forest. Mysterious graphics, beautiful fruits and characters. * Buy more coins in the wizard house. Use coins to buy power-ups and win challenging mission. * Two game modes: classic normal and challenge hard mode. You can switch between them. * Daily free games bonus. Get free boosters and moves by watching video rewards to win challenging levels! * Save game progress (synchronize) on multiple devices. If you have any feedback about this match 3 mystery game, please contact us: creativejoygames@gmail.com

Screenshots

Hocus Puzzle4 screens
Witch Forest Magic Adventure4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hocus Puzzle at fortnightly against Witch Forest Magic Adventure's every 4 months. Witch Forest Magic Adventure's advantage is ratings volume (303 vs 42) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Hocus Puzzle sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Witch Forest Magic Adventure sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Hocus Puzzle against 4.7 for Witch Forest Magic Adventure. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Witch Forest Magic Adventure has 303 ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Hocus Puzzle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Witch Forest Magic Adventure's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hocus Puzzle ships an update fortnightly, Witch Forest Magic Adventure every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hocus Puzzle versus Witch Forest Magic Adventure: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHocus PuzzleWitch Forest Magic Adventure
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (42 ratings)4.7 (303 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings42303 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size265 MB107 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperBigpoint GmbHSa Doan

Customer experience

Hocus Puzzle

All ratings41 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews552 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative2.2%

Witch Forest Magic Adventure

All ratings278 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral3.6%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Hocus Puzzle

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Lottery wheel not working properly
  • Game freezing during updates
  • Losing progress after updates

Requested features

3 requests
  • More levels and content updates
  • Ability to convert coins to gems
  • Option to disable ads or in-app purchases

Witch Forest Magic Adventure

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Hocus Puzzle

One-time9
  • Welcome Pack2 variants$0.99
  • Gem Pack n°1$0.99
  • Special Pack 5$1.99
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  • Special Pack 10$1.99
  • Gem Pack n°2$3.99
  • Win The Level$4.99
  • Gem Pack n°3$9.99
  • Gem Pack n°4$16.99
  • Gem Pack n°5$39.99
1 purchases

Witch Forest Magic Adventure

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Hocus Puzzle free?
Hocus Puzzle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Witch Forest Magic Adventure free?
Witch Forest Magic Adventure is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hocus Puzzle or Witch Forest Magic Adventure?
Witch Forest Magic Adventure is rated higher. Hocus Puzzle averages 4.5 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Witch Forest Magic Adventure averages 4.7 from 303 ratings.
Do Hocus Puzzle or Witch Forest Magic Adventure have ads?
Both Hocus Puzzle and Witch Forest Magic Adventure show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hocus Puzzle or Witch Forest Magic Adventure?
Hocus Puzzle ships an update fortnightly, and Witch Forest Magic Adventure every 4 months. Most recently, Hocus Puzzle was updated on October 24, 2026 and Witch Forest Magic Adventure on October 25, 2026.

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