Comparison

Blox 3D City Creator vs Dots & Boxes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Blox 3D City Creator

Design and populate your own vibrant cities with buildings, characters, and vehicles. Watch your creations come alive with animated people and dynamic weather. Share your unique urban landscapes with others.

Highlights
  • Build fully functional cities
  • Create and customize characters
  • Add cars, trucks, and trains
  • Animate people and actions
  • Dynamic weather and time of day
  • Create and share city movies
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***Editors Choice Award -90% Rating*** Excellence In Design, Children's Tech Review" ***Featured by Apple in Top Ten Apps for Creativity" Blox 3D City lets you create fully functional cities and towns from busy metros to sleepy towns and rain-swept docks. Create your own characters and populate your cities with hundreds of unique characters. Add shops, garages, bridges and trees to fully populate your world with no limit on time or creativity. Over 2 million different cities have been created and shared by kids worldwide since release. *Add cars, trucks, roads and people to watch your world come alive. *People walk into buildings, cops chase robbers and trains chug through the night. *Create turntable movies of your cities and share them via email . *Rain, fog and night conditions add different times of day to your creations. *Create your own characters and populate your city with hundreds of them...add costumes, hairstyles and clothes.

About

Dots & Boxes

Features
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DOTS & BOXES Do you like puzzle games and strategy games? Then you will like "Dots & Boxes". Dots and Boxes is a pencil-and-paper game for two players. It was first published in the 19th century by French mathematician Édouard Lucas, who called it la pipopipette. It has gone by many other names, including the game of dots, dot to dot grid, boxes, and pigs in a pen. The game starts with an empty grid of dots. Usually two players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots. A player who completes the fourth side of a 1×1 box earns one point and takes another turn. The game ends when no more lines can be placed. The winner is the player with the most points. FEATURES: - 3 different board sizes (4x4, 5x5 and 6x6) - Play versus the computer or versus a friend on the same device - Competitive Artificial Intelligence - Multi-language: English, Spanish, French More games: http://www.pegolandia.com

Screenshots

Blox 3D City Creator4 screens
Dots & Boxes3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dots & Boxes at Free against Blox 3D City Creator's $8.99. Blox 3D City Creator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Dots & Boxes is free to download; Blox 3D City Creator costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blox 3D City Creator ships an update every 4 months, Dots & Boxes every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Blox 3D City Creator versus Dots & Boxes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlox 3D City CreatorDots & Boxes
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size286 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArjun GupteJose Morato

In-app purchases

None

Blox 3D City Creator

No in-app purchases

None

Dots & Boxes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blox 3D City Creator free?
Blox 3D City Creator costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dots & Boxes free?
Dots & Boxes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Blox 3D City Creator or Dots & Boxes have ads?
Dots & Boxes shows ads; Blox 3D City Creator does not.
Which is updated more often, Blox 3D City Creator or Dots & Boxes?
Blox 3D City Creator ships an update every 4 months, and Dots & Boxes every 8 months. Most recently, Blox 3D City Creator was updated on November 2, 2026 and Dots & Boxes on October 26, 2026.

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