Stairway vs FourInLine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stairway
Guide a ball down a winding staircase, avoiding obstacles and spikes with precise timing. This addictive game offers simple controls and relaxing graphics for quick amusement. Improve your skills as the path becomes more challenging.
- Original gameplay concept
- Easy to learn simple controls
- Addictive and challenging
- Relaxing graphics
- Improvement tracking
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Guide a ball down a narrow staircase, navigating all kinds of crazy twists and turns and the odd spike along the way! You’ll need to tap with perfect timing to achieve a high score in this quick-paced, addictive game from the development company that brought you 360 Degree and Circlify. Fail and your ball either explodes or flies of the side of the stairway... The simple, original gameplay and shiny, relaxing graphics combine to give you a gaming experience that will draw you in within minutes of playing. Only the best will be able to keep the ball on track as it picks up speed and the stairway becomes more and more unpredictable, throwing just about everything at you to cause a mistake. Stairway is everything you’re looking for in an app that can keep you amused for however long you need to kill time. Get the ball rolling and download for free now! Features: Original new concept Easy to learn with simple controls Addictive and challenging See yourself improve within just a few plays! NOTE: • This app may require read and write permissions to your storage for score share feature
FourInLine
A classic two-player strategy game where players drop colored disks into a grid. The goal is to be the first to connect four disks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to win.
- Two-player gameplay
- Grid-based strategy
- Connect four in a line
- Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal wins
- Classic board game mechanics
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Two players take turns dropping red and yellow disks into a six-row, seven-column grid. The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own disks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FourInLine at 5.0 against Stairway's 4.3. FourInLine also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Stairway's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.5). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Stairway sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. FourInLine asks for nothing beyond the download.
FourInLine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stairway has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Stairway | FourInLine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 141 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Mascoteers | Vlad Feinstein |
Customer experience
Stairway
FourInLine
In-app purchases
Stairway
- Remove advertisements$0.99
- 1000 Rubies$0.99
FourInLine
No in-app purchases
