Comparison

Boost Buddies vs Mineblast!!

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

Head to head
About

Boost Buddies

Engage in a hardcore action reflex game with deceptively cute visuals. Test your skills across numerous challenging levels and obstacles. Collect unique characters, each with their own music and level design, to climb the leaderboards.

Highlights
  • 81 Challenge Levels
  • Hundreds of obstacle challenges
  • Unique characters with themes and music
  • Pixel art visuals
  • Sticker pack
Features
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Boost Buddies is a hardcore action reflex game. Test yourself in this deceptively cute challenge and reach the top of leaderboards! Collect dozens of unique characters with their very own music and level design. Also featuring Cat Bird! Features: * 81 Challenge Levels. * 100's of deadly obstacle challenges! * Each character has a unique theme and music track! * Beautiful pixel visuals! * Boost Buddies Stickerpack! * End game cutscene(If you can reach that far).

About

Mineblast!!

Explore a dangerous mine and blast your way out using TNTs in this platformer destruction game. Utilize the fully destructible environments to create paths, uncover gems, and find hidden secrets. Enjoy hours of creative fun with pixel art graphics and chiptune music.

Highlights
  • Fully destructible environments and physics
  • Pixel art graphics and chiptune music
  • Hidden secrets and levels
  • Creative pathfinding with TNT
  • Gem collection
Features
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Explore a dangerous mine and blast your way out using TNTs. Mineblast!! is a platformer destruction game with fully destructible environments. Blast walls to open your way, blast soil and crates to find precious gems, blast wooden platforms to use them as a bridge, there is no limit to your creativity. Features: • Fully destructible environments and physics. • Quality pixel art graphics and chiptune music. • Lots of hidden secrets and levels. • Super Cat Tales characters. • Hours and hours of fun!

Screenshots

Boost Buddies4 screens
Mineblast!!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mineblast!! at 4.0 against Boost Buddies's 3.8. Mineblast!! also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Boost Buddies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mineblast!! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mineblast!! holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 58 and 153 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Boost Buddies's written reviews are positive against 56% of Mineblast!!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Boost Buddies ships an update every 4 months, Mineblast!! every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Boost Buddies versus Mineblast!!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoost BuddiesMineblast!!
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (58 ratings)4.0 (153 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.4% of reviews — better55.9% of reviews
Number of ratings58153 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB26 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperRaiyumi Inc.Gionathan Pesaresi

Customer experience

Boost Buddies

All ratings58 ratings
Positive69.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative24.1%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral10.4%
Negative30.2%

Mineblast!!

All ratings153 ratings
Positive70.6%
Neutral11.8%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews111 reviews
Positive55.9%
Neutral18.9%
Negative25.2%

User reviews

Boost Buddies

From 58 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 😍 Adorable characters and art
  • 🎵 Great music and soundtrack
  • 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay
  • ✨ Creative mechanics and rules
  • 👍 Simple controls, easy to learn

Room to improve

  • 💥 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🚫 Game won't open or start
  • 📉 Lag and performance issues
  • 💸 Ads interrupt gameplay
  • 🤷 Difficulty with certain levels

Mineblast!!

From 153 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth gameplay
  • 👍 Cute and charming visuals
  • 💡 Interesting story and background
  • 🚀 Challenging and engaging levels

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 💰 Excessive and intrusive ads
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🕹️ Unresponsive and clunky controls

Bugs and requests

Boost Buddies

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Game crashes on startup
  • Game won't open
  • Levels are unplayable due to no controls
  • Button mode for controls not available in levels
  • Progress reset after updates
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  • Ads appearing in paid version
  • Lag and game blacking out
  • Moving floors stop working in upper levels

Requested features

8 requests
  • Update with new features and levels
  • Add more levels
  • Add more characters
  • Make controls more accessible in levels
  • Allow choosing when to watch ads for continues
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  • Add music tracks to the game
  • Improve level design for extreme difficulty levels
  • Easier way to get coins

Mineblast!!

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Levels freezing or not loading properly
  • Inability to progress past certain stages
  • Saved data being lost after updates
  • Ads causing the game to crash or become unresponsive

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add checkpoint system to avoid restarting levels
  • Introduce more playable characters and customization options
  • Implement an option to remove ads for a one-time fee
  • Improve level design to reduce frustrating dead ends

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Boost Buddies

One-time1
  • Remove Ads + Lucky Kat + 300g$2.99
2 purchases

Mineblast!!

One-time2
  • Gate Ticket$0.99
  • Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Boost Buddies free?
Boost Buddies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mineblast!! free?
Mineblast!! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Boost Buddies or Mineblast!!?
Mineblast!! is rated higher. Boost Buddies averages 3.8 out of 5 from 58 ratings, while Mineblast!! averages 4.0 from 153 ratings.
Do Boost Buddies or Mineblast!! have ads?
Both Boost Buddies and Mineblast!! show ads.
Which is updated more often, Boost Buddies or Mineblast!!?
Boost Buddies ships an update every 4 months, and Mineblast!! every 3 months. Most recently, Boost Buddies was updated on September 19, 2026 and Mineblast!! on September 20, 2026.

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