PlayBox vs Games Fair
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlayBox
This app offers a curated collection of ten classic games with a consistent design and smooth controls. Enjoy Sudoku, Yatzy, Invaders, and more, all playable offline. Track your progress with achievements and compete on online leaderboards.
- Ten classic games in one app
- Offline play
- Online leaderboards
- Achievements and stats
- Clean, consistent design
- Light and dark appearance
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PlayBox is your go-to game collection for a quick break: ten lovingly crafted classics in one app, with a consistent look, smooth controls and no clutter. Perfect for the commute, the coffee break or a quiet evening on the couch. THE GAMES • Sudoku – Three difficulty levels, pencil notes, error checking and a timer. Large, easy-to-read digits. • Yatzy – The dice game for tacticians. Hold dice, pick categories wisely, secure the bonus. • Invaders – Defend Earth against waves of advancing aliens. Hand-drawn pixel art, bunkers and a UFO bonus. • Lander – Touch down gently with your spacecraft. 20 missions featuring canyons, gates, asteroids, wind and moving pads. Three lives per run. • BoxPush – Push crates onto their target squares. 40 levels from relaxed to brain-bending, with undo and a star rating. • Hopper – Guide your frog across the road and the river to get home. Every level gets faster. • Snake – The evergreen, with three speeds. How long can your snake grow? • Pairs – Find all matching cards in record time. Three board sizes. • BlockDrop – Place shapes on the 8×8 board and clear rows and columns. Streaks earn extra points. • Tic-Tac-Toe – Play against friends or against the app at three strength levels. YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS • Online leaderboards for every game – compare yourself with other players. • Stats and achievements: rounds played, best scores, levels reached and more than 30 unlockable badges. • Favorites: pin the games you love to the top of your home screen. WELL MADE • Clean, consistent design with light and dark appearance. • Haptic feedback and sound effects, both can be switched off. • Large controls, protection against accidental restarts, Dynamic Type support. • Available in English and German. • All games work offline. You only need an account if you want to appear on the leaderboards. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just play. Missing a particular game? Tell us directly from the app via "What's next". The next classics are already in the works.
Games Fair
A free, open-source collection of classic puzzle and arcade games. Enjoy timeless gameplay with features like haptic feedback, high score tracking, and auto-save. Play offline with a comfortable dark theme.
- Block Blast puzzle game
- Classic falling-block gameplay
- Tap-based arcade challenges
- Brick-breaking action
- Sudoku with multiple difficulties
- Tile-merging number puzzles
- Haptic feedback
- Offline play
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Games Fair is a free, open-source collection of classic puzzle and arcade games, in one app that never asks you for anything. SOLITAIRE Klondike, turning one card at a time or three. With Winnable Deals Only on, a solver plays every deal through to a win before it reaches the table, and Hint shows a move on the way. Once every card is face up, the rest fly home by themselves. BLOCK BLAST Drag pieces onto the board and fill rows and columns to clear them. Clear on back-to-back moves for a combo, or empty the whole board for a 5,000-point bonus. BREAKOUT Clear the bricks. Power-ups widen the paddle, slow the ball, or let it smash straight through. Levels get faster. FALLING BLOCKS The one you already know how to play. Lines clear, the level climbs, the pieces come quicker. SUDOKU Puzzles at several difficulties, with the number pad where your thumb already is. 2048 Slide the tiles, watch them merge, chase your best score. Reaching 2048 is not the end if you do not want it to be. CHARADES Hold the phone to your forehead while your friends give clues, nod when you guess right, and tip your head back to pass. Decks run from animals and movies to sayings and things to act out, and the screen stays on for the whole round. MINES The classic sweeper. Your first tap is always safe, holding a square plants a flag, and a number with all its flags opens the rest around it. Three board sizes, each shaped to fit your screen. LANGUAGES Menus, instructions and accessibility labels are in 13 languages. Charades has localized animal and food decks in each of them, and twenty-one themed decks in English. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No advertising. No purchases. No account. No network access at all — every game runs entirely on your device. Your progress is saved when you leave a game and restored when you come back, including if the phone puts the app to sleep mid-round. Games Fair is published by the App Fair Project and is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, with an exception for distribution through the app stores. It is built with the Day framework: one Rust codebase drawing itself with each platform's real native widgets. github.com/Games-Fair/Games-Fair
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Games Fair at every 4 days against PlayBox's every 5 weeks. Games Fair also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PlayBox ships an update every 5 weeks, Games Fair every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlayBox | Games Fair |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MycroApps | The App Fair Project Inc |
Customer experience
PlayBox
Games Fair
In-app purchases
PlayBox
No in-app purchases
Games Fair
No in-app purchases









