Lab Escape vs Vampire Evolution
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lab Escape
Control a captured specimen that must consume meat to grow stronger. Choose random mutations to enhance your abilities and devour enemies in this rogue-like running game. Collect hats to further boost your specimen's power.
- Consume meat to grow
- Select random mutations
- Devour enemies
- Rogue-like gameplay
- Stackable mutation cards
- Collect hats for bonuses
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Welcome, little specimen! You're the unstable... thingy captured by scientist. Consume meats, select random Mutations, and Devour all bad guys in your sight! Every time you gain meat, you can select mutations to make your specimen stronger. Rogue-like style running game with dynamic mutation features. Every mutation cards can stack up to 3 times for better effects. Collect Set of hats to enhance your specimen.
Vampire Evolution
Combine mutant creatures to build a horde of blood-thirsty vampires. Discover new species, unlock stages, and enjoy a dark story with idle clicker gameplay. Keep your vampires fed to unlock more.
- Combine creatures to create new monsters
- Discover different vampire species and stages
- Idle clicker gameplay with coin generation
- Unlock a mind-blowing dark story
- Doodle-like illustrations
- Open-ended gameplay
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Vampires can be the most loyal friends - as long as you keep them well-fed! Combine different species of mutant, blood-thirsty creatures to create new and more ghoulish monsters for your vampiric horde! Some have pearly white fangs that look remarkably well with red stains, others like living in giant castles with lots of cellar space to store “wine”, and there are even those who like wearing bat costumes and posing as superheroes! Keep the blood flowing and the vampires will keep on coming! VAMPIRIC FEATURES - Pantheon: a new place for supreme beings to look down on us mortals and laugh at our misery - Impostors: watch out for impostors trying to steal the spotlight from the vampires. HOW TO PLAY - Drag and drop similar vampires to create new mysterious creatures - Use vampire eggs to earn coins, buy new creatures and make even more money - Alternatively, fiercely tap a vampire to make coins pop from their eggs HIGHLIGHTS - Different stages and many vampire species to discover - A mind-blowing story with dark twists! - The unexpected mix of creature evolution dynamics and incremental clicker games -Doodle-like illustrations -Open ended gameplay: enjoy the freedom! -No vampires were harmed in the making of this game, only developers (by the vampires) Isn’t it simply blood-stirring? Please note! This game is free to play, but it contains items that can be purchased for real money. Some features and extras mentioned in the description may also have to be purchased for real money.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vampire Evolution at every 6 weeks against Lab Escape's every 5 months. Lab Escape's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Lab Escape sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Vampire Evolution sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Lab Escape against 4.8 for Vampire Evolution. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 164 and 126 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Lab Escape's written reviews are positive against 100% of Vampire Evolution's.
Lab Escape ships an update every 5 months, Vampire Evolution every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lab Escape | Vampire Evolution |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (164 ratings) | 4.8 (126 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 126 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SeHyeon Im | TPG TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA |
Customer experience
Lab Escape
Vampire Evolution
Bugs and requests
Lab Escape
Reported bugs
8 issues- Boxes for hats not working
- Ads causing game crashes
- Screen resolution not fitting iPhone X+
- Lag at high scores (11700+ points)
- FPS drops at high scores (23000+ points)
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- Exceeded limit of 20 boxes glitch
- Right bottom button not registering on some phones
- Game stutters on iPhone 7 with 5000m+ distance
Requested features
8 requests- More boxes/hats drop rate
- Unlockable specimens with different skills
- Potions for speed/damage reduction
- Adjustable skill button position
- More frequent ad opportunities for boxes
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- Fix for purchased items not restoring
- More skills beyond just getting bigger
- iPad Pro version
Vampire Evolution
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lab Escape
- Tiny Supply$0.99
- Supply Bundle$1.99
- AD Devourer$1.99
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- Supply Tower$3.99
- Planetary Supply$7.99
Vampire Evolution
- Hard Currency Pack 1$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Alien Currency Pack 1$1.99
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- Hard Currency Pack Offer$1.99
- Shop Bundle 1$2.99
- Promo Bundles Very High$2.99
- Hard Currency Pack 2$4.99
- Alien Currency Pack 2$5.99
- Shop Bundle 2$5.99
- Promo Bundles High$5.99
- Starter Bundle Discount$9.99
- Trinket Bundle$9.99
- Hard Currency Pack 3$9.99
Questions
Is Lab Escape free?
Is Vampire Evolution free?
Which has better reviews, Lab Escape or Vampire Evolution?
Do Lab Escape or Vampire Evolution have ads?
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