Bulb Smash vs Devolver Tumble Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bulb Smash
Engage in a relaxing and fun game where you break bulbs using various hammers to achieve high scores. This stress-relieving experience challenges you to beat your personal best.
- Break various types of bulbs
- Use different hammers
- Score points
- Beat highest score
- Stress relief
- Relaxing gameplay
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Thinking of breaking bulbs? Want to use different kinds of hammers? Looking for a relaxing game? Then bulb smash is the ultimate game to do so. Bulb smash is an exciting and fun game, where you need to break bulbs, using different kinds of hammers, to score points. This game is a stress buster and helps you to relax. Have fun breaking, different kinds of bulbs in this smash game. Score as high as possible, by breaking as many bulbs as possible. Take up the challenge of beating your highest score.
Devolver Tumble Time
Engage in physics-based puzzle matching with characters from popular Devolver Digital games. Clear adorable heads, unleash special abilities, and create chain reactions. Unlock new characters and compete in daily challenges.
- Physics-based puzzle matching
- Collectible characters
- Character special abilities
- Daily challenges
- Unlockable content
- Virtual currency
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Devolver Tumble Time is the future's future of physics-based puzzle matching gameplay, elegant monetization, and strategic brand integration. Choose characters from a packed roster of your favorite Devolver Digital games and rack up big points matching and clearing their impossibly adorable heads from the tumbler. Get hyped enough and unleash each character's special ability to clear huge chunks and earn powerups to create chaotic chain reactions. Then maybe watch some entertaining ads. Earn and unlock new characters, compete in daily challenges, and buy stuff. Buying stuff is so great. Don't forget to keep an eye out for new character drops from your favorite Devolver Digital games and maybe even from ones you've never heard of in your life. Plus delicious ads. Watch 'em up real good. Physics-Based Fun! Matching-Based Fun! Baffling Amounts of Virtual Currency! Collectible Donuts, Flowers, & Socks! Microtransaction-Based Fun! Enjoyable Advertisements!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Devolver Tumble Time at 56% against Bulb Smash's 0%. Devolver Tumble Time also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 36 months). On price, ads, 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. Bulb Smash sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Devolver Tumble Time sells 17 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Devolver Tumble Time holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Devolver Tumble Time has 920 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Bulb Smash's written reviews are positive against 56% of Devolver Tumble Time's.
Bulb Smash ships an update every 36 months, Devolver Tumble Time fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bulb Smash | Devolver Tumble Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (920 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 920 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 36 months | Fortnightly — 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 | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 240 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | out thinking limited | Devolver Digital, Inc. |
Customer experience
Bulb Smash
Devolver Tumble Time
Bugs and requests
Bulb Smash
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Devolver Tumble Time
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timers and challenges not working properly after level 300
- Crashes and freezes during ads
- Inconsistent performance on older devices
Requested features
3 requests- More characters from Devolver's other games
- Endless mode or additional gameplay modes
- Improved progression and less grindy systems
In-app purchases
Bulb Smash
- Stars Pack$0.99
- 300 Stars$1.99
- 1000 Stars$2.99
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- 1500 Stars$3.99
- 2000 Stars$4.99
Devolver Tumble Time
- Beat the Boss$0.99
- 250 gems$0.99
- 250 Apples$0.99
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- 1100 Socks$0.99
- 250 Donuts$0.99
- 250 Flowers$0.99
- 250 Socks$0.99
- 650 Apples$1.99
- 650 Donuts$1.99
- 650 Flowers$1.99
- 999 years of unlimited hearts2 variants$2.99
- New User Bundle$2.99
- 1100 Donuts$2.99
- 1100 Gems$2.99
- 1100 Flowers$2.99
- 1100 Apples$2.99
- Super Deal!$4.99
Questions
Is Bulb Smash free?
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