A.L.I.C.E vs Batting Hero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A.L.I.C.E
This retro-style 2D platformer educates players about common cyber security threats and countermeasures. Navigate through levels, solve puzzles, and use your wits to defeat cyber threats and retrieve your stolen identity.
- Retro 2D platformer gameplay
- Cyber security threat education
- Puzzle solving
- Avatar customization
- AI assistant for tips
- 5 challenging levels
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Our online presence is growing, making Cyber Security awareness more important. As new technologies emerge, cyber criminals also develop new ways to target individuals' and companies' data. Staying safe online isn’t just a slogan anymore, it’s a necessity. To encourage UNSW students to be more aware of their actions online, UNSW has built this app to further increase awareness of common Cyber Security threats and counter measures that can be taken. A.L.I.C.E is a retro style 2D platform side scrolling game, with enemies to zap, puzzles to solve, and an overall learning experience. Players choose their avatar, and the game begins with your identity being stolen. The player journeys through 5 levels, faces numerous cyber threats, and uses their wits to solve cyber puzzles. A friendly A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) will help the player through the game, and provide tips and hints on how to defeat the final Cyber Threat boss, to retrieve their identity back.
Batting Hero
Engage in an endless baseball arcade experience with a unique alien-fighting twist. Tap to swing, build combos for increased damage, and defeat challenging bosses. Upgrade your hero and unlock new bats to conquer tougher opponents and climb the leaderboards.
- Tap to swing the bat
- Combo-based damage increase
- Defeat alien bosses
- Unlock bat upgrades
- Strengthen hero in the gym
- Compete in Revenge Mode
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Hit hard or go home! Prepare for some endless baseball fun! Swing and miss or swing and hit a homerun and defeat alien invaders! Baseball arcade game with a fresh new twist, compete, upgrade, unlock bats and increase stats. > Tap to swing the bat and hit the ball! > Damage increases as combos increase! > Defeat powerful & challenging bosses! > Unlock upgrades & defeat tougher and tougher opponents! > Strengthen your hero in the gym, gain crystals that increase every 5 seconds! >Compete in Revenge Mode, use all bats, reach 1st place! Simple and perfect for killing time! Proven fun for baseball enthusiasts and non-baseball enthusiasts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: A.L.I.C.E at none against Batting Hero's 10. A.L.I.C.E also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (89% vs 80%). Batting Hero's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price 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. Batting Hero sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. A.L.I.C.E asks for nothing beyond the download.
Batting Hero holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Batting Hero has 78 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of A.L.I.C.E's written reviews are positive against 80% of Batting Hero's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
A.L.I.C.E ships an update every 3 months, Batting Hero monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A.L.I.C.E | Batting Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (14 ratings) | 4.7 (78 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 78 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 806 MB | 290 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The University of New South Wales | Maroru Games |
Customer experience
A.L.I.C.E
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In-app purchases
A.L.I.C.E
No in-app purchases
Batting Hero
- Thunder Bat$0.99
- Energy 25$0.99
- Coin 1000000$0.99
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- Get 3xCoins without playing ad$1.99
- Legend Bat$1.99
- Coin 2500000$1.99
- Coin Bat$1.99
- Special Bat pack$3.99
- Remove Ads pack$3.99
- Energy Infinite$3.99
Questions
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