Buildy Blocks vs Ascend The Tower
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buildy Blocks
Build towering structures by precisely stacking blocks. Compete for the highest score in various modes and challenge yourself to keep your tower from tumbling.
- Single tap gameplay
- Multiple tower types
- Normal mode
- Hardcore mode
- Game Center leaderboards
- Achievements
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In Buildy Blocks, the sky is the limit. You have to stack blocks on top of each other in order to build a tower. Let's see how high you can go before it tumbles down! Features : - Fun single tap gameplay - 5 different tower types - Normal and hardcore modes - Game Center leaderboards and achievements
Ascend The Tower
Navigate a treacherous tower, jumping and sliding through obstacles. Collect gems to unlock characters and boost your score. Compete with friends and players worldwide on the global leaderboard.
- Intuitive controls
- Gem collection
- Unlockable characters
- 100 challenges
- Global leaderboard
- Hard mode
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Jump from wall to wall and climb as high as you can. Ascend The Tower is a one tap wall jump game. Your character holds on to one wall of the tower and slowly slides down. Tap to jump across to the other wall. Spikes, saws and wall shooters guard the way up, and one hit ends the climb. HOW TO PLAY • Tap anywhere to jump to the other wall • Keep moving: you slide down while you hold on • Dodge spikes, saws and the bullets from wall shooters • Grab gems on the way up HARD MODE Want a harder climb? In Hard Mode you slide twice as fast, and saws and shooters appear sooner and closer together. COLLECT AND UNLOCK • 36 characters to collect, from Blobby and Ninja to Wizard and Mr. Roboto • Spend gems on new characters • 100 challenges, with special characters as rewards • Spin the prize wheel for free every 12 hours COMPETE • Normal and Hard Mode leaderboards • 19 achievements to earn • Share your high score and challenge your friends to beat it PLAY OFFLINE No wifi needed. Ascend The Tower plays offline, so it's ready for flights, road trips and waiting rooms. Easy to learn, hard to master, and made for one finger. How high can you climb?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Buildy Blocks at none against Ascend The Tower's shown. Buildy Blocks also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (30 vs 4). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Buildy Blocks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Ascend The Tower sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Buildy Blocks against 4.8 for Ascend The Tower. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buildy Blocks has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Buildy Blocks ships an update every 2 days, Ascend The Tower every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buildy Blocks | Ascend The Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Umbrella Games LLC | Power-Up Game Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Buildy Blocks
Ascend The Tower
In-app purchases
Buildy Blocks
- Tower Mode$0.99
- Rail Mode$0.99
- Ladder Mode$0.99
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- Mode 5$0.99
- No ads!$1.99
Ascend The Tower
- Remove Ads$1.99
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