Gladiator Rising vs Goo Gladiators
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gladiator Rising
Engage in strategic turn-based combat against procedurally generated opponents across five chapters. Equip and utilize a variety of items to hone your warrior skills and achieve ultimate victory in this challenging roguelike RPG.
- Procedurally generated gladiators
- Five chapters of progression
- Item buying and equipping
- Turn-based RPG combat
- Strategic gameplay
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Fight through five Chapters of constantly changing, randomly generated gladiators. Buy, equip and use items as you compete to become the ultimate warrior. Strategy is key to success in this mix of rogue-like and turn-based RPG mix.
Goo Gladiators
Collect and evolve unique goo creatures to battle in galactic arenas. Strategize team compositions and mutate your gladiators to climb the leaderboards. Play with friends in asynchronous online battles and become a Goo Master.
- Collect and mutate goo creatures
- Galactic arena battles
- Strategic team building
- Online asynchronous multiplayer
- Leaderboard progression
- Over 60 unique goos
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Journey to the far reaches of space in this free to play auto-battler. Experience arenas across the galaxy, where Queen Glob presides over the Goo Games. Enter the games, and evolve gladiators that were born and bred for victory! Begin your adventure with a pair of starter Goos. With each victory, gain items that will help you mutate your cast of goo friends into various different Goos. Each goo has their own powers and drawbacks! Pair your goos wisely to find the best combinations of goo types to rise up to the top of the leaderboard and become a Goo Master! Form groups with your friends and play online in asynchronous battles where you can take all the time you want to plot your next move. Collect 'Goolah' to level up your Goo Gang and become the most decorated gladiators in all of the galaxy! Learn how to harness over 60 hand drawn and animated goos each with their own abilities strengths and weaknesses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Goo Gladiators at 100% against Gladiator Rising's 65%. Goo Gladiators also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Gladiator Rising's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 13). On price, update cadence, 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. Gladiator Rising sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Goo Gladiators sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Goo Gladiators holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gladiator Rising has 2.6K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Gladiator Rising's written reviews are positive against 100% of Goo Gladiators's.
Gladiator Rising ships an update every 4 months, Goo Gladiators every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gladiator Rising | Goo Gladiators |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.6K ratings) | 4.9 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 216 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Happii Gamer Studios Inc. | SFS Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Gladiator Rising
Goo Gladiators
Bugs and requests
Gladiator Rising
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes when opening ad chests
- Unable to progress past 3rd or 4th fight
- Character instantly dying when sleeping
- Inventory and skill issues on reloading
Requested features
4 requests- More character classes and abilities
- Improved save/load system
- Better in-app purchase options
- Expanded post-game content
Goo Gladiators
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gladiator Rising
- Small Donation$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Medium Donation$2.99
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- Large Donation$8.99
Goo Gladiators
- Goolah Small$0.99
- Spooky Goos$1.99
- Desert Goos$2.99
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- Chilly Goos$2.99
- Spring Goos$2.99
- Electrik Goos$2.99
- Eggcellent Goos$4.99
- Goolah Mid$4.99
- Cryptid Goos$4.99
- Omni Goos$9.99
- Goolah Massive$19.99
- Lifetime Pass$19.99
Questions
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