Four Squares vs sugar (game)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Four Squares
Test your memory and concentration by watching sequences and repeating them. Increase difficulty, speed, and challenge friends across multiple game modes. Customize your experience with themes and sound packs.
- Sequence memorization and repetition
- Three distinct game modes
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Customizable themes and sound packs
- iCloud save and sync
- Automatic game pausing
- Game Center leaderboards
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Four Squares is a game of memory, skill, and concentration. Watch what happens each turn and repeat what you see. Each time you successfully repeat the sequence it is lengthened, the speed increases, and your thinking time is shortened. Keep practising, work your way up the leaderboards, and challenge your friends. ----- 3 Game Modes ----- Four Squares features 3 different game modes to challenge you in unique ways. Each game mode can be played with easy, normal, or hard difficulty. Endless is the classic mode that gives you a single life to repeat the longest sequence you can. One wrong move and it's game over! Time Attack mode gives you 30 seconds to repeat the longest sequence you can. Every correct sequence will win you some more time, but every wrong move will lose you time so don't rush! Speedrun mode gives you 3 lives to reach a sequence of 10 in the quickest time. You'll lose a life with each wrong move, but the timer doesn't stop so find the right balance of speed and accuracy. ----- Customisation ----- With 9 themes and 6 sound packs Four Squares allows you to customise the experience to your heart's content. ----- Save, Sync, and Replay ----- Each game you complete is saved and backed up to iCloud. You can view completed games on any device and choose to play the same sequence to get the best score. ----- Automatic Pausing ----- When interruptions occur, such as phone call or replying to a text, Four Squares will automatically pause the game and allow you to resume where you left off. ----- Leaderboards ----- Game Center integration provides leaderboards that let you compare your score to friends and other players worldwide. ----- Privacy ----- Four Squares doesn't collect user data or contain any adverts. It is funded by a single in-app purchase that unlocks extra themes and sound packs.
sugar (game)
Draw lines on your screen to guide falling sugar into cups. Enjoy a calming puzzle experience with visually satisfying sugar particles. This game offers a fresh, free puzzle challenge.
- Draw to direct sugar
- Soothing particle physics
- Relaxing puzzle gameplay
- Free puzzle experience
- Creator of color puzzle series
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Draw on the screen to direct sugar into the cups. Experience the soothing puzzling with sugar particles trickling across the screen. A relaxing puzzle game from the creator of the color puzzle series and the "sugar, sugar" games. It was time for a brand new free sugar puzzle experience so I hope you'll enjoy this! @BartBonte
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Four Squares at none against sugar (game)'s shown. sugar (game)'s advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 57 months) and ratings volume (410 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Four Squares sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and sugar (game) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Four Squares against 4.3 for sugar (game). That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: sugar (game) has 410 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Four Squares's written reviews are positive against 82% of sugar (game)'s.
Four Squares ships an update every 57 months, sugar (game) monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Four Squares | sugar (game) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (410 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 81.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 410 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 57 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Yetii Ltd. | Bart BONTE |
Customer experience
Four Squares
sugar (game)
Bugs and requests
Four Squares
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
sugar (game)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels not progressing after completion
- Sugar disappearing or not registering correctly
- Restart button accidentally pressed instead of gravity switch
Requested features
6 requests- Undo/reset option per level
- Ability to skip difficult levels
- Colorblind mode or options
- More levels and content updates
- Landscape mode support on tablets
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- Customization options
In-app purchases
Four Squares
- Four Squares⁺$0.99
sugar (game)
- premium unlock$2.99
