Comparison

Escape Team vs Rainbow Wander

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

Head to head
About

Escape Team

Transform your home into an escape room with printable missions and an interactive app. Solve puzzles, defuse bombs, and rescue friends in exciting scenarios. Perfect for team building, date nights, or family fun.

Highlights
  • Printable escape room missions
  • Interactive app integration
  • Collaborative puzzle solving
  • Team building activities
  • Custom mission editor
  • Immersive audio narration
Features
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Looking to create an escape room at home? With Escape Team, you‘ll be ready in minutes! 1. Print your mission. 2. Get the app. 3. Gather your friends - you‘re going to need them! Escape Team is a printable adventure, ready to take place in your living room. With Escape Team, the room will become the center stage of bomb defusals, elevator rescues and plenty of other exciting missions. It’s great for team building: exit the game and you‘ll be right where you left off - but you will have been brought a bit closer together. Do you enjoy co-op play? As a date night game or family activity, it provides a rich and immersive, collaborative experience. Work together to solve the puzzles in time. An adventure game to turn screen time into meaningful play together - with friends, family, and coworkers. Are you planning to make your own DIY escape room at home? Enter the Escape Team Mission Editor: The free Escape Team Mission Editor allows you to make Escape Team the game master of your own, custom escape room - use our free, pre-made DIY kit as a starting point, define the time limit of your room, along puzzle solutions and hints. To increase the immersion, you can even include your own MP3 recordings to be played upon the mission‘s beginning, finish, and after solving each phase. —————— • A live escape game experience • Designed for 2-4 players • Fast-paced audio narration and a thrilling soundtrack • FREE: Training Mission and Mission 1: »Central Station« • Missions 2-9 are available as In-App Purchases • Includes a (forever free) mission editor to create your own missions – for fun, business or education. Are you ready? We've got no time to lose – download your missions here: https://www.escape-team.com Good luck. To all of us.

About

Rainbow Wander

Transform your walks into a vibrant experience by coloring the real world map with every step. Discover treasures, claim favorite spots, and customize your map's appearance. Enjoy a pressure-free, creative journey that grows more beautiful as you explore.

Highlights
  • Walk to bloom the map
  • Collect coins and gems
  • Claim and bloom places
  • Unlock map customizations
  • Color the world together
  • Private map and shared colors
Features
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Rainbow Wander turns your everyday walk into a world of color. Every step you take blooms the real map around you in soft rainbow hue. Wander your neighborhood, your park, your city — and watch the gray streets you walk fill with color that stays. The more you explore, the more of your world comes alive. • Walk to bloom — every street you walk paints itself in rainbow • A cozy companion — a gentle friend who grows happier with every step • Treasures on the map — find coins and gems tucked along your path • Claim your places — linger somewhere you love and watch it bloom • Make it yours — unlock markers, trails, and dreamy map themes • Paint together — share one map with someone you love and color the world side by side There's no failing here. No timers, no pressure, no way to lose. Just you, a walk, and a world that grows more beautiful the more you wander. Your map stays private on your phone. When you paint together, only the colors are ever shared — never where you are. Lace up and go bloom something.

Screenshots

Escape Team4 screens
Rainbow Wander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rainbow Wander at none against Escape Team's 11. Rainbow Wander also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Escape Team's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (259 vs 1). On price 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

Both are free to download. Escape Team sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Rainbow Wander asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rainbow Wander holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Team has 259 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Escape Team's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rainbow Wander's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, Rainbow Wander every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Escape Team versus Rainbow Wander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape TeamRainbow Wander
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (259 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings259 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB161 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHemmert UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Adam Aragon

Customer experience

Escape Team

All ratings259 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative18.3%

Rainbow Wander

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

Bugs and requests

Escape Team

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • No sound on iPhone (works on iPad/Android)
  • App crashes when entering answers
  • App crashes when requesting clues
  • Redemption codes not working properly
  • Training mission code accepted but progress stuck
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  • App persists on phone after uninstall
  • Website unreachable on multiple platforms
  • Double charging when using Groupon codes
  • Code only works once on some devices
  • Buttons unresponsive or slow to react

Requested features

9 requests
  • Option to disable or extend timer
  • More missions and scenarios
  • Improved hint system with faster unlocking
  • Better narrative integration with puzzles
  • More diverse themes beyond bomb defusal
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  • Ability to purchase hints with time sacrifice
  • Better story progression and thematic connection
  • Native English voice acting
  • More detailed beginner instructions

Rainbow Wander

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Escape Team

One-time11
  • Mission 2: Terminal$2.99
  • Mission 3: Elevator$2.99
  • Mission 4: Rollercoaster$2.99
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  • Mission 5: Subway$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 6$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 7$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 8$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 9$2.99
  • Escape Team Mission Pack I$8.99
  • Escape Team: Mission Pack II$8.99
  • Escape Team Mission Pack I+II$15.99
None

Rainbow Wander

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escape Team free?
Escape Team is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rainbow Wander free?
Rainbow Wander is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Escape Team or Rainbow Wander?
Rainbow Wander is rated higher. Escape Team averages 4.7 out of 5 from 259 ratings, while Rainbow Wander averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Escape Team or Rainbow Wander have ads?
Neither Escape Team nor Rainbow Wander shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Escape Team or Rainbow Wander?
Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, and Rainbow Wander every 3 months. Most recently, Escape Team was updated on October 11, 2026 and Rainbow Wander on October 7, 2026.

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