Jail Run vs Roll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jail Run
Escape a prison after years of confinement by navigating challenging levels and outsmarting obstacles. Compete for the fastest times, discover hidden routes, and aim to become the world's top speedrunner.
- Prison escape gameplay
- Challenging levels
- Speedrun challenges
- Hidden paths and loopholes
- Beat friends' times
- Final boss battle
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After being stuck in prison years your are finally given the chance to escape. One day when you wake up your cell door is open. Now is your chance to escape. Move through challenging levels and beat the final boss. See what you can get as your best time and beat your friends. Find hidden paths and unsuspecting loopholes to cut down your time. Can you be the fastest in the world?
Roll
Engage in a relaxing dice-rolling experience where you aim to collect points by rolling dice and strategically upgrading them. This game blends elements of strategy, clicker, and roguelike deckbuilders for a unique dice-building system with deep strategic choices. Enjoy a meditative escape with its minimalistic design and peaceful atmosphere.
- Dice rolling for points
- Dice upgrading system
- Strategy and critical thinking
- Relaxing and meditative experience
- Unique dicebuilding synergies
- Highscore chasing
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In Roll, you have 2500 rolls to collect as many points as possible. Roll your dice to gain points, spend your points to upgrade your dice, and repeat. Borrowing gameplay elements from strategy, clicker, and roguelike deckbuilder genres, Roll creates a perfect balance of relaxation with critical thinking. While the "Clicker"/"Incremental" genre is not known for its variety or depth of game mechanics, Roll offers a unique dicebuilding system which allows you to explore different strategies and synergies between upgrades. Each run will present you with new and interesting decisions creating a huge depth of strategy and keeping the game feeling always fresh. Roll is designed to be a relaxing and meditative experience. Get lost in the satisfying sounds and effects as all your worries melt away. From the minimalistic UI to the slow peaceful music, everything was designed to create the perfect zen environment. If you enjoy building an engine and watching it grow, chasing down highscores, or just need to escape from your own thoughts, then I really hope you'll enjoy my game, Roll. :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Roll at none against Jail Run's shown. Roll also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (439 vs 26). Jail Run's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 78%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Jail Run sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Roll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roll holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roll has 439 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Jail Run's written reviews are positive against 78% of Roll's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Jail Run ships an update every 6 weeks, Roll weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jail Run | Roll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (26 ratings) | 4.6 (439 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 78.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 439 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 370 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Square Lion LLC | Joseph Anthony Distler |
Customer experience
Jail Run
Roll
Bugs and requests
Jail Run
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Roll
Reported bugs
4 issues- Upgrade shop issues
- Crashes and freezes
- Swiping/tapping issues
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline mode
- More dice skins and customization
- Sandbox mode with unlimited rolls
- Improved dice management UI
- More detailed stats and analytics
In-app purchases
Jail Run
- Remove Ads$0.99
- 5 Items$0.99
Roll
- Roll Premium$3.99
