Cocktail Puzzle: Liquid Sort is a casual puzzle game for iOS where users organize colored liquids into containers to match cocktail recipes.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Games
Sentiment
4.3
36 reviews
Nemesis
Water Sort Puzzle
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app for quick, low-stakes entertainment, but the lack of onboarding and settings prevents the app from fulfilling the job of stress-free relaxation.
For Casual mobile gamers seeking short-session puzzle challenges and stress-free entertainment.
What does it look like?
Key features
Core mechanic requiring users to organize colored liquids into containers to match specific cocktail recipes
Hundreds of sequential puzzle stages with increasing complexity
How much does it cost?
Monetization relies on ad-supported gameplay within a free-to-play model, consistent with the publisher's focus on ad-based revenue streams.
Velocity
Dormant developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: zombie.
Who built it?
MYAPPFREE S.R.L.
13+ apps tracked · Games
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads upset.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Absence of initial gameplay instructions leaves new players confused during their first session
2 of 2 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Cocktail Puzzle: Liquid Sort
How's the Games market?
The rivals identified
By IEC Global Pty Ltd
This app is the definitive market leader in the liquid-sorting genre, commanding over 1.3 million ratings and maintaining a high-frequency update cadence.
- Maintains a massive, established user base that creates a significant barrier to entry for new liquid-sorting titles.
- High-frequency release schedule ensures the core sorting mechanic remains polished and free of technical regressions.
- Dominates the search intent for 'water sort' through long-term organic growth and consistent store optimization.
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Key takeaways for Cocktail Puzzle: Liquid Sort
Where is it heading?
The liquid-sorting category is consolidating around established titles with high-frequency update cadences. Cocktail Puzzle remains exposed to churn because its maintenance-mode posture fails to address the basic utility gaps that drive casual player retention.
- The latest release failed to address fundamental usability gaps, which compounds the rating drag already visible in early user feedback.
- Missing settings and onboarding prevent the app from meeting basic casual-game standards, accelerating churn pressure into the next quarter.
The SWOT
- Cocktail-themed aesthetic provides visual differentiation from generic liquid-sorting utilities
- Implement tutorial overlays to reduce initial user churn
- Add settings menu to improve basic product utility
Next best moves
Ship a basic settings menu because users report inability to toggle audio or haptics → improve retention
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The cocktail theme is a liability rather than a strength…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Settings menu (available in Water Sort Puzzle but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive position is now defined by its failure to address basic usability, with new intelligence highlighting specific threats from established beverage-themed puzzle games.
Bottom line
The app fails to provide basic utility, because the lack of settings and onboarding drives immediate churn, so the PM must prioritize quality-of-life fixes over new content to stabilize the user base.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 2 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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