Comparison

BQM vs ArcadeOS

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

Head to head
About

BQM

Design and share your own challenging RPG dungeons or test your skills against creations from players worldwide. Solve puzzles, overcome traps, and battle monsters in this instant-death adventure.

Highlights
  • Create custom RPG dungeons
  • Challenge player-made dungeons
  • Instant death RPG gameplay
  • Puzzle and action stages
  • Global player challenges
  • Dungeon editor with traps and gimmicks
Features
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### Create & challenge - new instant death RPG「BQM - BlockQuest Maker」is here ### Secret doors, falling stones, formidable monsters - fight them all and level up! Solve the mystery box and see what lies ahead! BQM is newest game from BlockQuest series, follow up to great hit, Dungeon of Gravestone, popular puzzle game with and instant death factor! This time, dungeons and gimmicks got major boost up. It's no longer, play only game, it is about creating, sharing and challenging players all around the world! Join global fever! ・ Challenge dungeons! Join worldwide battle royal and test your skills in dungeons created by other players! Puzzle stages, action stages, dungeons of various genres await you!  Bombs, arrows, boxes, magic, which will one will you choose to solve mysteries? ・Create your own dungeons! Now it's your turn to create dungeons! Use dungeon editor and challenge players all around the world. Everything dependson you: traps, gimmicks, use them to create complex mazes. Set admission fee for your dungeon and get gold! The more popular your dungeon gets the more gold will fall into your hand!

About

ArcadeOS

Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.

Highlights
  • 65 original retro-style games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Offline play with no internet required
  • Instant resume for all games
  • Authentic chip audio
  • New games added seasonally
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
Features
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Screenshots

BQM4 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BQM at 3.7 against ArcadeOS's 3.0. BQM also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). ArcadeOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BQM sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ArcadeOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BQM holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BQM has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BQM ships an update every 5 days, ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
BQM versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBQMArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (13 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews52.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS8.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB24 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperWonderland Kazakiri inc.RetroApps LLC

Customer experience

BQM

All ratings13 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive52.5%
Neutral10.2%
Negative37.3%

ArcadeOS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BQM

One-time3
  • PRO$4.99
  • Parts Pack$4.99
  • Pro and PartsPack$6.99
None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BQM free?
BQM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArcadeOS free?
ArcadeOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BQM or ArcadeOS?
BQM is rated higher. BQM averages 3.7 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while ArcadeOS averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do BQM or ArcadeOS have ads?
Neither BQM nor ArcadeOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BQM or ArcadeOS?
BQM ships an update every 5 days, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, BQM was updated on October 21, 2026 and ArcadeOS on October 19, 2026.

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