Linebox vs Retro Games Hub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Linebox
An addictive puzzle game where you break horizontal or vertical lines by dragging and dropping block shapes. Utilize helpful tools to generate new blocks when stuck and challenge friends with your high scores.
- Break horizontal and vertical lines
- Drag and drop block shapes
- Generate new random blocks
- Challenge friends on GameCenter
- Share scores and moments
Read full descriptionHide full description
Linebox is the 10×10 block puzzle, rebuilt from the ground up. Drag pieces onto the board. Fill a whole row or column and it clears. Plan ahead: when no piece fits and no Swap is left, the run is over. FOUR MODES • Classic: the original, endless. Bigger pieces arrive as your score grows. • Cascade: pieces drop to the bottom, blocks fall into gaps for chain clears, and new rows rise from below. • Puzzle: 120 solvable levels with a fixed board and a fixed set of pieces — decoy pieces, several gems and real planning from the first minutes. Clear every gem and earn up to 3 stars; stars open the next of six chapters. • Blitz: 90 seconds on the clock. Every line you clear adds time. MADE FOR GOOD MOVES • See where a piece lands and which lines will clear before you let go. • Combos multiply your points and earn back Swaps. • Stuck? Swap draws three new pieces. • Unlock five more tile palettes by clearing lines in any mode. ALSO • Plays offline, no account needed. • Leaderboards for every mode with Game Center. • Made for iPhone Duo: unfold mid-run and keep playing. Held sideways, the board sits on the left and the pieces fill the side column; Home, Settings, Levels and Stats use the whole inner screen. • On iPad the board grows to fill the screen. • English and Vietnamese. • Remove Ads: one-time purchase, restorable.
Retro Games Hub
Enjoy nine classic offline games in one convenient app. Perfect for quick breaks or longer sessions, it offers instant play without internet or sign-up. Track your progress and enjoy a variety of nostalgic challenges.
- Nine classic games in one app
- Fully offline gameplay
- Instant start, no sign-up
- Pause and resume games
- Personal best tracking
- Global leaderboards
- 13 language support
Read full descriptionHide full description
Eighteen games in one free app, led by the arcade classics: Snake, Brick Breaker and Fuse Pop for a quick round, then Sudoku, Puzzle Slider, Solitaire, Tic Tac Toe and a fresh daily puzzle when you want to think. Everything plays offline, with no account and no sign-up. ARCADE - Snake: the classic snake game, rebuilt from the ground up. Eat colored beads, line up three of a color to fuse them, and chain fuses for a bigger score. A daily garden, past gardens and an endless Arcade on three lives. - Brick Breaker: bounce the ball into glazed tiles and crack whole fault lines, with a daily wall and an endless Arcade. - Fuse Pop: hit the targets, dodge the bombs and chain a combo into Fever. - Bubblecrest: aim, bounce and pop matching bubbles in daily boards or endless Arcade. - Shoalight: swing a lighthouse beam to guide boats home past the reef, through drifting fog. BRAIN GAMES - Sudoku: classic 9x9 in Easy, Medium or Hard, with notes and hints. - Gem Hunter: minesweeper with gems. Read the numbers, mark the danger, uncover every gem. - 2048: slide and merge tiles toward the big number. - Memory Master: flip cards and match the pairs across ten levels. - Puzzle Slider: a sliding puzzle with 24 pictures or classic numbers, from 3x3 to 6x6. - Sinter: cool every stone to zero before your drops run out. CARDS & BOARD - Klondike Solitaire: draw one or draw three, with a daily deal that is always winnable. - Tic Tac Toe: a daily four in a row puzzle on a 5x5 board, a Puzzle Run on three lives, and classic 3x3 against the computer or a friend on one phone. DAILY PUZZLES Five original logic puzzles. - Rimepost: slide the puck across the ice onto the gold ring. Every stop leaves a post behind. - Croftmark: fence the field into plots, one stake each, sized by its number. - Stillbough: a balance puzzle. Hang every stone so each branch of the mobile balances. - Glintway: a mirror puzzle in the spirit of laser puzzles. Set mirrors to steer each lamp's beam onto its matching gem. - Lilydrift: ripple the pond until every lily pad drifts onto its flower. A NEW BOARD EVERY DAY Eleven games deal a daily board that is the same for everyone. Seven keep the last two weeks to catch up on, and every one of them can send a friend a short code that rebuilds the exact board you played. BUILT FOR SHORT BREAKS - Fully offline. Every game runs on a plane, in a tunnel or with data switched off. - Pause any game and pick it up where you left it. - Personal bests on every game, plus leaderboards through Game Center. - Sound and haptics, each switchable on its own. - Screen reader labels on the Sudoku and Tic Tac Toe boards. - 13 languages. Free to play and supported by ads. No purchases, no subscription. Download Retro Games Hub and keep a puzzle for every mood in your pocket.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retro Games Hub at none against Linebox's 1. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Linebox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Retro Games Hub asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Linebox against 5.0 for Retro Games Hub. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Linebox ships an update every 2 weeks, Retro Games Hub every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Linebox | Retro Games Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | techplus jsc | Pooja Gupta |
Customer experience
Linebox
Retro Games Hub
In-app purchases
Linebox
- Remove Ads$0.99
Retro Games Hub
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Linebox free?
Is Retro Games Hub free?
Which has better reviews, Linebox or Retro Games Hub?
Do Linebox or Retro Games Hub have ads?
Which is updated more often, Linebox or Retro Games Hub?
Other comparisons















