Comparison

12 orbits ○ premium vs Max Mannheimer

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

Head to head
About

12 orbits ○ premium

This game offers local multiplayer for up to 12 players on a single screen, featuring four distinct game modes. It's easy to learn but offers depth for competitive play, supporting various group sizes.

Highlights
  • Local multiplayer for 2-12 players
  • Single screen gameplay
  • Four unique game modes
  • Easy to learn, hard to master
  • Supports all group sizes
  • One button control per player
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The only local multiplayer game that lets you challenge 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... up to 12 players at once on just one screen. One smartphone or tablet is all you need. • Competitive local multiplayer for everyone at once. Anywhere. On anything. • 4 vastly different game modes to choose from • Setup takes seconds, even for 12 players at once • The basic mechanics are simple and can be taught to a group quickly • ...yet they provide you with a lot of room for mastery and competition • Works just as well for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6… players as it does for 12 You can choose from 4 very different game modes: ○ Arena Fill the arena with spheres of your own color and avoid those of your opponents. A bullet hell game that constantly grows more intense. ○ Multiball (Teams) Kind of like football, but with exploding goals and multiple balls at once, which change color all the time. Teamplay is more important than mastery. ○ Trails Collect spheres to grow longer than your opponents. Then block their path and pay attention to your own. And should the other players try to keep their distance, just fling your spheres at them. ○ Blizzard (Teams) Think tennis. But you have to defend against a whole shower of spheres at once, and send them right back where they came from. Whether you prefer playing local multiplayer versus or as a team, defensively or offensively, competitively or in utter chaos, anything is possible. Even so, 12 orbits requires only one button per player. This makes it easy to learn and teach others how to play it, yet it still provides a surprising amount of control for perfectionists. 12 orbits is a local multiplayer game for many players at once. But of course, you can also start off with a smaller group. All game modes automatically adjust to 2 players just as well as to any other number: 3 players, 4 players, 5 players, 6 players, 7 players, 8 players, 9 players, 10 players, 11 players, and of course 12 players can all easily compete with each other. By buying this ad-free version, you support me in the development of 12 orbits and my future projects. Thank you.

About

Max Mannheimer

Explore the life story of a Holocaust survivor through an interactive visual novel. Delve into his childhood, persecution, and post-war life by solving challenges and collecting memories. Hear his testimony once his story is complete.

Highlights
  • Interactive visual novel
  • Explore survivor's life story
  • Solve challenges
  • Collect memories
  • Hear survivor's testimony
  • Historical context
Features
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We stand in Max Mannheimer’s studio. From here we can delve into the chapters of his life via his pictures: his childhood in Nový Jičín in Czechoslovakia, the time of the commencing persecution and deportation by the national socialists, the imprisonment in different concentration camps and his life after the Second World War in Germany. In engaging images the visual novel tells his life story interactively. The players can comprehend his decisions, solve small challenges to advance and collect memories on the way which lead to further information. Once his whole life has been played the contemporary witness Max Mannheimer can be actually heard. The game was developed and realised by the Max Mannheimer Study Centre in Dachau together with the renowned game studio paintbucket games and the cartoon artist Greta von Richthofen. The project was funded by the foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation) as part of the line of funding [re]create digital history within the funding programme Young People Remember International, financed with resources from the German Foreign Office.

Screenshots

12 orbits ○ premium4 screens
Max Mannheimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Max Mannheimer at Free against 12 orbits ○ premium's $1.99. Max Mannheimer also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

Max Mannheimer is free to download; 12 orbits ○ premium costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 12 orbits ○ premium against 5.0 for Max Mannheimer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

12 orbits ○ premium ships an update every 6 weeks, Max Mannheimer daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
12 orbits ○ premium versus Max Mannheimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter12 orbits ○ premiumMax Mannheimer
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB822 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRoman UhligPaintbucket Games UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

Customer experience

12 orbits ○ premium

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Max Mannheimer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

12 orbits ○ premium

No in-app purchases

None

Max Mannheimer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 12 orbits ○ premium free?
12 orbits ○ premium costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Max Mannheimer free?
Max Mannheimer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 12 orbits ○ premium or Max Mannheimer?
12 orbits ○ premium and Max Mannheimer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do 12 orbits ○ premium or Max Mannheimer have ads?
Neither 12 orbits ○ premium nor Max Mannheimer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 12 orbits ○ premium or Max Mannheimer?
12 orbits ○ premium ships an update every 6 weeks, and Max Mannheimer daily. Most recently, 12 orbits ○ premium was updated on November 2, 2026 and Max Mannheimer on November 4, 2026.

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