Brainess vs Escape Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brainess
This application offers a collection of brain training games designed to stimulate cognitive functions. It helps improve memory, vision, and computation skills through engaging challenges. Users can track their progress and monitor their 'brain age' with daily exercises.
- 7 brain training games
- Improves memory
- Enhances vision skills
- Boosts computation skills
- Monitors brain age
- Daily brain exercises
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Exercise helps keep the body healthy and fit. And the brain? Will no one think of the brain? Brainess is a brain training game that, in a simple and fun way, helps you stimulate your brain. Brainess includes 7 brain training games to improve and exercise your memory, vision and compute skills. In just a few minutes you can have a daily brain exercise and monitor your brain age (lower is better). List of included exercises: • Dice - Memorize and then Tap dice from Low to High • Signs - Choose the correct mathematical Sign to solve the equation • Equations - Choose the correct Number to solve the equation • Memory - Match pairs of identical cards • Numbers - Tap the highest Number • Colors - Match the color of the upper box's letters with the right word below. • Fruits - Pay attention at dropping fruits and answer the questions
Escape Game
This application combines two escape room games. One offers a heartwarming story with 18 episodes, while the other provides a horror-themed challenge with occult elements and 18 episodes. An additional game unlocks after completing both.
- Two distinct escape games
- Heartwarming story mode
- Horror-themed escape challenge
- 18 episodes per game
- Unlockable bonus game
- Suitable for iOS devices
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Escape Games: “Both Sides Now” This game is a combination of two games that were previously released as a single game application. “a day…" This is a story of the main character who lives with a cat in a small room. It is a heartwarming short escape game with 18 episodes. “AYAKASHI” In order to escape from a cursed room, you have to get a talisman hidden somewhere and defeat the evils that lurk in the room. This is a horror-flavored escape game with 18 episodes. (It may be difficult for those with low tolerance for horror, but it is not too scary among horror games.) If you fulfill certain conditions, you can enjoy an extra game. “day after day" A new game that can be played after completing both “a day…” and “AYAKASHI”.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Escape Game at 5.0 against Brainess's 4.3. Brainess's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (199 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Brainess costs $0.99 and Escape Game $0.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Escape Game holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brainess has 199 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Brainess's written reviews are positive against 50% of Escape Game's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brainess ships an update every 3 months, Escape Game every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brainess | Escape Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.49 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (199 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 199 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #44 — better | #142 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Raffaele D'Amato | Yukihiro Hozumi |
Customer experience
Brainess
Escape Game
In-app purchases
Brainess
No in-app purchases
Escape Game
No in-app purchases
