When comparing Circle Rush vs Spirits, the Slant community recommends Spirits for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” Spirits is ranked 75th while Circle Rush is ranked 132nd. The most important reason people chose Spirits is:
The artistic design of the game is quite dream-like, with hand-drawn characters and levels. Its sound design is equally impressive.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Creative gameplay mechanic
Creative idea with super simple controls. Easy to pick up, hard to master. The gameplay consists of the players white ball dodging all red balls in the two outline circles. By tapping the screen the player can slow down or speed up their white ball.
Pro Beautiful, minimalistic design
The graphics are simple yet hold to a true minimalistic design.
Pro Local multiplayer for two players on the same device
Play with a friend on the same device and choose how many games to play.
Pro Runs smoothly
Being that there is not much graphics to push the game runs very smoothly on all devices.
Pro Ads are opt-in
Advertisements are not on by default, user need to turn them on in the settings. This allows the user to decide if they want to contribute to the dev, which is a remarkably clever way to go about allowing users to support a free app.
Pro Impressive style and quality
The artistic design of the game is quite dream-like, with hand-drawn characters and levels. Its sound design is equally impressive.
Pro Whimsical artistic style
This game is ethereal and relaxing, while at the same time engaging the player in challenging puzzles. The main character is comical, yet beautiful at the same time. It's almost like The Wisp and Lemmings had a child.
Pro Great atmosphere
Dream-like art direction with hand-drawn characters and levels, and excellent sound design.
Pro Varied, Lemmings-style puzzles
The game has interesting and often challenging puzzles, especially if you wish to complete the level perfectly, made possible with varied abilities of spirits that get introduced throughout the game.
Cons
Con Advertisements can slow down the game
The optional advertisements, when turned on do slow the game down a little bit, which can detract from the gameplay.
Con Broken on Android Marshmallow devices
Unfortunately, Spirits doesn't work with Android devices with Android 6.0 Marshmallow installed (or higher). The game simply freezes or crashes instantly while loading.
Con Slow-moving gameplay
Spirits is intended to be a slow, relaxing game, though some may not enjoy the extent of the title's slowness.