Last updated on February 9th, 2026 at 07:21 am
Twenty – Puzzle Game Review
Twenty is a Puzzle/Casual game from Stephen French, first launched in 13th March 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 493+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Twenty Stand Out
Twenty is a colorful arcade/puzzle game that starts at 5, looks easy until 10, gets fiendish at 15 and challenges you to get to 20. Anyone can learn it, but you'll have to concentrate to make it all the way.
Think you've got it mastered? Try one of the variations like Bubbles, Drop, Flip-Flop. Try Zen mode to relax, or Panic mode for a real challenge.
Take on a friend with TwentyTwo, a crazy two-player race to see who can get to Twenty first. Steal tiles from your opponent but be careful to guard your own.
Can you get to Twenty?
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Twenty is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th April 2022
Recent improvements include:
Dark mode setting now saves correctly.
Sound effects are automatically turned off when background music is playing.
Download & Availability
Twenty is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Can you guys add a zen for the Thirty mode it would basically be zen but it goes up to thirty instead.
The days are a blur. The last vestiges of our sanity have flown. There are only numbers now. But really- we have been very obsessed with Baldurs Gate 3 and even then we have not played nearly as many sessions of that game as we have with this. Twenty has completely taken over our life. We hold conversations while playing it. We have brainstorming sessions while playing it. Im on work calls while playing it. Really, Im writing this review as a confessional. Play it at your own risk, truly. Its too too good.
We love this game! It is so refreshing to have a game that doesnt require in app purchases. We did pay the $1.99 to unlock all modes of the game, though you dont have to. Its a super fun game.
Okay, so we play it almost everyday and it causes stress and relieves it at the same time for us- so we dunno how to explain it honestly.
We can enjoy playing this game in a variety of modes to keep things fresh. We can play while watching TV or while on a plane. Its a fun, captivating exercise that has only one drawback: your eyes may get dry from not remembering to blink.
Need to keep an overly energetic man-child quiet for extended periods of time? This will do the job.
Love this game! Honestly have nothing bad to say about it, no glitches, no ads, no in game pop ups, no annoying music. It requires focus and quick thinking but its quite fun and challenging and has several modes. We want to say it cost $2 (maybe $3?) to unlock the whole game but thats literally the only cost. It also unlocks dark mode which is nice because we like to play at night. Seriously, keep doing what youre doing! Such a great game.
Great game to be able to pick up and play.
When we download the game to our phone it says we are signed in as xyz user name (some name that is definitely not us) we love this game but that worries us so we delete the game.
It could be better if the developer disabled the ability to accidentally pull down the window like one does when trying to see if you have any new emails. Not sure what it is called maybe refresh window option? There are many times when Im playing that we toss down a tile too hard and the entire window scrolls down and is stuck until we pull it back up. The developer needs to disable that iOS feature as it is a bug in this game.
So Ive had this game for a while now, and we love it. Our only hangup is that when you are in late-game numbers, every loss forces you to trudge through all the easy stuff again. The menu does give you starting options once youve cleared them, but those options are all under 1x 20. The funnest part for us is when the board is stacked and its a genuine logical puzzle, every move must be calculated for time and the shape of your board. But getting to that point often means spending half an hour(sometimes 45 minutes, depending on our score) just to get to that point. Beating a high score is gratifying, but putting an hour into this game just to lose one 20 before our high score discourages us from wanting to chase that high score(we all have things to do, even moreso when your time-killer kills too much time). Even if it started you out at, say, 5 or 10 twenties once you hit those scores, it would improve the game experience significantly for us. Maybe thats just us though, Im sure for others the sheer time required to get to that point makes winning more gratifying.
If you want Zen to actually be peaceful, it would sure be nice if it would wait for you to finish all your matches, rather than just being like well let it go off the top of the screen and you just dont get eliminated.
Our kids love this game! They play it all the time. We really wish though, that there was a toggle switch where they could play zen versions of the alternate games (bubbles, flip, drop, etc.) we know they would enjoy playing those other variations but theres no way in heck theyd be able to play without it ending in tears right now. We think it would be fairly easy to turn off the score sharing mode and making zen versions – please consider this! Thank you.
Why is no one talking about how this app crashes every time you get to 17.
Fun app, been playing it for years but it now lowers background audio volume when in foreground so it's become unplayable.
Thanks for the game its good. Yep lol thats it we have to say.
Distilled essence of matching game, and a frenetic challenge.
Awesome game, just recommend making some of the other modes fun to play so that more people can have fun playing twenty.
Do you have long, boring calls that you need to be present for but kill more brain cells than the typical call? This game can be for you! You can get carried into another zone while you zone out the clever chatter and midweek banter on the other end of the line. The game has multiple versions of the number matching concept, but the OG is hands down our favorite. Seeing those blocks stack up and then fall into each other is so incredibly satisfying as we ignore the voices around us.
Ive been playing this game for months now and we never get bored of it! Can play it for hours on end.
Been playing this game for more than 5 years now. Its extremely satisfying the first time you get a 20.
We cant stop playing it we just cant. It is so fun and we think there is nothing wrong with it.
Our daughter introduced us to this game and we love it! ( we love playing on the website too!) we wanted to suggest that you put the other games like bubbles as a screen option to select. Just in case anyone wants to pick a different game to play that is similar. Thanks twenty guys.
THIS GAME IS SO ADDICTING AND FUN!! If you are thinking about getting it, get it. Honestly we play it so much it low key drives us insane it we love it, so, yea.
We like the game but we dont like that you have to pay for other game modes.
Simple addictive gameplay. Doesnt kill your battery. Not overrun by ads. Meaningful and fun modes on the other side of a low price one time in app purchase that is never pressured. Every other developer on the App Store should take notes from this game. Perfect design and execution. Please support these devs.
This is a great game, but sadly there are many knockoffs. We believe this is the original, and more people should play this game.
We love this game. We just wish it could go higher than 30.
We LOVE THIS APP! SO DOES MY MOM, GRANDMA, LITTLE SISTER, COUSINS! But we have a problem. Our mother was on a high of 20×7. She lost. And then it brings her to a high of 20×4! Like really? And then when she reached 20×6, it showed her 20×5 with a high of 20×4. Seriously? We love this game, but that is NOT fair. If this is a glitch, PLEASE FIX.
Our sister started playing this game and told the rest of our siblings and we to get it to. Our sisters highest was eighteen and we were determined to beat her. Our brother got 3, then 4 twentys. We eventually got 6 twentys. Our mom has also started playing and she along with our two sisters say that it is too stressful and our brothers screen time went up 92% and he deleted the app. We just recently bought the extra game types but we are probably the only on in our family willing to spend money on the app, despite the low price.our family and we are loving this game but we think it would be absolutely perfect if all of the extra games were completely free.
So addictive. Im in the top 1.1% in the world at 30. (Only 1.9% at 20 so still a long way to go) Totally worth all the lost years.
Been playing this game for over a year and Im constantly trying to get more twenties! Its the only game we really play anyone when we have a couple minutes to fiddle with our phone. Everyone should get this game.
We even paid for the premium version, even though we play the regular game 90% of the time. You will love this game.
We literally spent our whole Labor Day weekend playing this game. It took us all weekend to get 20. Finally got it, but Im still playing. We cant it put it down. We love it.
Im more than picky when it comes to phone games, and of every game Ive played, this is the only one Ive refused to delete. Its simple, its addicting, and its a great time filler. We not great at the times original version, but we love trying to get a super high score on the Zen mode. Id love to see more Zen mode type add-ons, kinda like the 30 mode, and maybe even higher. Maybe even a 2048 mode, Twenty style. We dunno. What we do know though is that we love this game, and we wont ever get rid of it.
We love this game!! We were at work last night with nothing to do so we went on the computer and looked up puzzle games and found this! We played for hours LOL.
Literally! We play this all the time! Its annoying there was knock offs made of this but this is the FIRST and 100% the BEST version. Doesnt even have ads!! Fantastically made. Just paid for the extra modes and theyre just as fun.
We play this game everyday. When Im on the bus when Im in a car. This is the app we use to past time. If we wasnt so focused on this game we could probably get a lot more work . We could never bring ourselves to deleting this game. This has been one of the few games that we havent gotten bored of. Great Job.
Love it and share it with all our friends.
Our grandson started us on the game. It is hard to stop playing the game. We say to ourselves one more time,but we keep on playing . Some times it two or three hours later .Good for the brain.
We love this game! Seriously addicted. One feature request though: could you add the iPad split screen feature, or add a zoom-out functionality? The game on a 13 iPad is just way too ridiculously large.
We spend more time than we should. You really have to fight yourself to stop playing it.
Very addictive, super well made, never want to put it down.
Literally so addicting! When Im not playing it (while Im in class) we end up mind-playing it, playing it in our head to try to get better. We love it, the timing is fast, but that just makes us move faster.
BUY THIS GAME! IT IS AMAZING AND we DON'T MIND THE ADS IN IT AND YOU SHOULD BUY IT BECAUSE IT WILL LITERALLY KEEP YOU ON YOUR PHONE FOR HOURS PLAYING THIS GAME OF STRATEGY AND SKILL. We THINK IT IS A GREAT GAME AND THAT YOU SHOULD BUY IT. TRUST ME, IT IS WORTH IT. (It is very addictive).
Great game very smooth graphics simple concept no annoying constant interruptions with ads. Never had any glitch problems. Works 100% of the time accurately.
We need a 12-step program for this game. We play it for a few days, for way longer than we should, and then we delete it and say we wont do that again. And then a day or two later, we repeat. Again, and again, and again. It is a very fun and pretty mindless game that we find both entertaining and satisfying, like a good dessert. As an indication of how much we have played it, we can tell you that we almost always get to 20 at least ten times, frequently more than 15 times, and our record is 21 times. We love it, AND we wish there were a way to never be able to load it again. We would get so much more done in our life if that were possible.
This game will test your reflexes and dexterity. It's a simple concept really combine like numbers until you get to 20. Time is always working against you so it becomes more challenging the more numbers get clogged on your screen.
Our favorite game. The best we have had in quite a while.
Love this game!! Can be difficult to beat (we've been playing for months and have only reached "20" twice) but very fun regardless.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.1
- Size: 91.79 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Stephen French
Last updated: 5th April 2022 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: Stephen French