Puzzle Strike vs Morels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puzzle Strike
A deckbuilding puzzle game where players manage a gem pile and improve their deck by purchasing new chips. Compete against others or AI, climb leaderboards, and master advanced tactics in various game modes.
- Deckbuilding mechanics
- Gem pile management
- Cross-platform play
- Leaderboards and replays
- Puzzle Challenge mode
- Offline AI practice
- Daily Quests
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Puzzle Strike is a deckbuilding puzzle game played amongst Fantasy Strike characters. It's inspired by puzzle games such as Puzzle Fighter. Gems fall into each player's gem pile every turn, and whoever's gem pile fills up first loses. Improve your deck (of chips!) by purchasing new chips as the game unfolds. Will you go heavy on economy, offense, or build an intricate engine? In any case, make sure to adapt to your opponents because Puzzle Strike has a lot more interactivity than most other deckbuilders. And like the other games in the Fantasy Strike universe, Puzzle Strike is designed to hold up to thousands of games at the expert level, and we fully embrace the philosophy of even-playfield competition. The new iOS version of Puzzle Strike has these new features: - Cross-platform play with players on iOS, Steam or the web version on FantasyStrike.com - Chips have 4x the resolution as the web version - Climb the leaderboards in Quick Match and check out replays of top players to improve your game! - New Puzzle Challenge mode: learn advanced character tactics and think outside the bag! Beat these advanced challenges to become a real Puzzle Striker! - Complete your Daily Quests to earn Jewels, then spend them to play "Puzzle Smash", a high-powered version of Puzzle Strike - Contains all 48 Puzzle chips from both Puzzle Strike Third Edition and Puzzle Strike: Shadows, as well as the promo chips, Combinatorics, Dashing Strike and Custom Combo - Practice offline against AI Puzzlebots for the first time! - English, French and Japanese language support, with German localization on the way - The base game comes with the first four characters (Grave, Jaina, Midori, and Setsuki), with fourteen additional characters available in-app
Morels
This is a digital adaptation of a beloved card game where players forage for delicious mushrooms in a dappled forest. Compete against others or AI, cook your finds, and strategically collect varieties to win. Includes an expansion with new cards and gameplay elements.
- Digital adaptation of a strategy card game
- Online asynchronous 2-player games
- Local pass & play mode
- Solo play against AI
- Game modifiers for varied gameplay
- Interactive tutorial
- In-app rulebook
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*** Foray is now available! Foray expands Morels with 13 new types of cards including new items, characters, weather, and a more dynamic forest. Last fall, crackling fires wreathed the mountains. This spring, light-wielding thunderstorms roiled the valleys. Now, with summer come early and a glowing moon overhead, the soil is moist and black and delicious mushrooms are peeking up all over the forest. The Foray is on! *** The official digital adaptation of the beloved card game Morels. The woods are old-growth, dappled with sunlight. Delicious mushrooms beckon from every grove and hollow with many tasty varieties awaiting the savvy collector. Forage, sautée with butter over the fire, and cook your way to victory! Highlights: -Elegant digital conversion of the card game by Brent Povis -Online asynchronous 2 player games -Local pass & play -Solo play against 3 AI difficulty levels -Game modifiers: try a new way to play! -Interactive tutorial -In-app rulebook -Translated into: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish -No ads or microtransactions. Awards & Honors: 2014 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Two-players Nominee 2014 Games Magazine Best New Card Game Winner 2014 Fairplay À la carte Winner 2012 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2012 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Morels at 90% against Puzzle Strike's 38%. Morels also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 52 months). Puzzle Strike's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Puzzle Strike costs $3.99 and Morels $4.99 up front. Puzzle Strike sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Morels sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Morels holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Morels has 485 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Puzzle Strike's written reviews are positive against 90% of Morels's.
Puzzle Strike ships an update every 52 months, Morels fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puzzle Strike | Morels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (16 ratings) | 4.9 (485 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 485 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 52 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 377 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sirlin Games | MOSSBARK GAMES LLC |
Customer experience
Puzzle Strike
Morels
Bugs and requests
Puzzle Strike
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Morels
Reported bugs
4 issues- Foray cards not functioning properly
- Destroying Angel card causing game to get stuck
- Shiitake log not always creating bonus
- Butter and cider extras not working together
Requested features
4 requests- Online synchronous 2-player mode
- In-game messaging for online play
- Faster end-game scoring
- More player accounts and leaderboards
In-app purchases
Puzzle Strike
- Unlock Rook$1.99
- Unlock Menelker$1.99
- Unlock Persephone$1.99
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- Unlock Gloria$1.99
- Unlock Gwen$1.99
- Unlock Vendetta$1.99
- Unlock Zane$1.99
- Unlock Bal-Bas-Beta$1.99
- Character Value Bundle$5.99
- Shadows Character Bundle$9.99
- Unlock ALL characters$11.99
Morels
- Foray$2.99









