Infrared Escape vs The Doctor's Time Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Infrared Escape
Navigate an infrared light beam through atmospheric layers, dodging greenhouse gases to escape into space. Learn about the greenhouse effect and climate change solutions as you progress through increasingly challenging levels.
- Dodge greenhouse gases
- Progress through atmospheric levels
- Unlock science facts
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Educational gameplay
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EarthGames is proud to announce Infrared Escape, a game that combines frantic arcade fun with... learning about the greenhouse effect!? You have to try it to believe it! You play the role of an infrared light beam, trying to make it out to space. Along the way you have to dodge pesky greenhouse gases by tapping left or right. Each collision with a greenhouse gas causes your beam to lose some energy. If you keep grazing the gases, it’s game over. Your journey through the air is divided into levels — each one an actual layer of the atmosphere. Making it through the Earth’s atmosphere and into space is a great accomplishment! It means your ray has done its part to cool down the Earth and offset global warming. The easiest mode is the year 1850, when there weren’t nearly as many greenhouse gases in the air to dodge. The hardest difficulty is set in a much more polluted future. Light-speed reaction times will be needed to conquer this mode, since greenhouse gases are so tightly packed in the air. When you escape to space, you prevent energy from warming the planet. You can spend that energy in the shop, unlocking science facts about the greenhouse effect and solutions to climate change.
The Doctor's Time Machine
Embark on an adventure through time, building and enhancing your own time machine. Explore the vastness of the past and future in this engaging game.
- Build time machine
- Upgrade time machine
- Travel to past
- Travel to future
- Infinite exploration
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This is a time travel game, you can build and upgrade your time machine, and travel through the infinite past and future.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Infrared Escape at none against The Doctor's Time Machine's shown. Infrared Escape also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). The Doctor's Time Machine's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Doctor's Time Machine holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Infrared Escape has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Infrared Escape | The Doctor's Time Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dargan M. Frierson | 俊杰 吴 |
Customer experience
Infrared Escape
The Doctor's Time Machine
In-app purchases
Infrared Escape
No in-app purchases
The Doctor's Time Machine
No in-app purchases
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