When comparing Spirits vs Puddle, the Slant community recommends Puddle for most people. In the question“What are the best Android games without in-app purchases/paywalls?” Puddle is ranked 68th while Spirits is ranked 75th. The most important reason people chose Puddle is:
From the different environments to all of the different liquids in the game, everything looks very striking.
Specs
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Pros
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.
Pro Beautiful graphics
From the different environments to all of the different liquids in the game, everything looks very striking.
Pro Gameplay based on physics and chemistry
Puddle is a physics based game that also uses aspects of chemistry in it's gameplay.
Cons
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.
Con HDR graphics setting buggy
The newly added HDR graphics setting is bugged in that the fluid in game does not appear when used.