OMBY vs Four Square
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OMBY
Unscramble word tiles to reveal censored text from Moby-Dick. This unique puzzle game allows you to experience Herman Melville's classic novel through interactive wordplay, chapter by chapter.
- Word tile unscrambling
- Reveal censored text
- Experience Moby-Dick
- Chapter-by-chapter progression
- 10,395 puzzles
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Discover the weird beauty of the language in Moby-Dick with OMBY, a new kind of word-puzzle game based on Herman Melville’s classic novel. “OMBY is like a friend who accompanies me to the Louvre and keeps me from striding past a hundred unfamiliar masterworks on my way to see the ones I already know. In the Louvre, though, the art is already on the wall. OMBY lets me co-create Moby-Dick’s unfamiliar ingenuities, searching like Melville for the right words, massaging the letters into something meaningful.” ---Tim Cassedy (Avidly, Los Angeles Review of Books) Playing OMBY, you’ll unscramble sets of 1x2 domino word tiles containing portions of text that have been blacked-out, as if by a censor's pen. As you solve each puzzle, the blacked-out text is revealed. Pause periodically to savor the completed paragraphs. Finish all 10,395 puzzles and you will have read the complete text of Moby Dick! Page-by-page, chapter-by-chapter, an epic voyage of puzzle solving and classic literature awaits you! Reviews: ***** Genius! - A wonderful tribute/brain teaser to the great American novel. ***** Great fun - An idea that might on hearing it sound silly or complicated but is in execution a metric ton of fun. ***** Best - Best game ever. The world needs this.
Four Square
Test your reflexes in this quick-reaction game. Tap solid squares and avoid blank ones within a 15-second time limit. It's a simple yet challenging test of speed and accuracy.
- Tap solid squares
- Avoid blank squares
- 15-second time limit
- Simple controls
- Reaction test
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There are four squares. Tap on a square when it is solid and avoid tapping when the square is blank. You have 15 seconds. Good luck!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Four Square at daily against OMBY's every 15 months. OMBY's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for OMBY against 5.0 for Four Square. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 5 respectively.
OMBY ships an update every 15 months, Four Square daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | OMBY | Four Square |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Counterwave | Elo Book LLC |
Customer experience
OMBY
Four Square
In-app purchases
OMBY
No in-app purchases
Four Square
No in-app purchases
