Toon Blocks vs Pathogen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Toon Blocks
Unleash your creativity by building custom cartoon worlds without needing artistic skills. Combine and arrange various building blocks to construct anything from houses and castles to spaceships and robots. Add characters, landscapes, and effects to bring your comic scenes to life.
- Arrange, rotate, and combine building blocks
- Build diverse structures (houses, castles, ships, robots)
- Create comic scenes with characters and landscapes
- Add decorations and comic book effects
- Physics playground for interactive simulations
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Build your own cartoon world! You don't need to know how to draw or paint to free your creativity. • Arrange, rotate and combine building blocks. • Use bricks, stone or wood to build a house or a medieval castle. • Construct sailing ships, space vehicles or robots. • Draw comic scenes with pirates, dinosaurs, ancient warriors and more. • Add decorations, cartoon characters, background landscapes and comic book effects. • Try out how things fall, roll and bounce in the physics playground.
Pathogen
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Design a pathogen in your lab, release it on the world map and watch humanity fight back. YOUR LAB IS YOUR STRATEGY • 42 base pathogens in 7 families: viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions, bio-synthetic agents and worms. • Build your genome gene by gene, discover synergies and keep your best strains. • Every family plays differently: prions spread slowly but stay almost undetectable, fungi depend on the climate, parasites travel with their vectors, worms are very hard to cure. MUTATIONS YOU CHOOSE • Mid-run, pick 1 mutation out of 3: no lottery, real decisions. • Your strain's genes unlock active abilities on the map, such as dormancy or host jumps. A HUMANITY THAT REMEMBERS • Every strain you release leaves a mark: the world recognises the family and reacts faster next time. • Borders that close gradually, countries in panic, riots or collapse, news that reacts to your choices. The game always shows you why. FOR EVERY PLAYER • 3 difficulty levels, including a truly easy mode, and a step-by-step tutorial. • Runs of 3 to 6 minutes, playable offline. • Leaderboards per difficulty, a weekly leaderboard and Game Center achievements. • Optional cloud save and Sign in with Apple. A FAIR MODEL • Free, with no ads. • Viruses, bacteria and fungi are free: 25 pathogens, unlocked as your lab levels up. • The 4 other families are one-time purchases: 1 pathogen playable right away, the others unlock as your lab levels up. The “All families” pack makes 4 pathogens playable at once and includes future families. Available in English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese. Pathogen is a work of fiction and a strategy game. It provides no medical information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pathogen at none against Toon Blocks's shown. Toon Blocks's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Toon Blocks sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Pathogen sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Toon Blocks ships an update every 2 weeks, Pathogen weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toon Blocks | Pathogen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Marek Dobrowolski | Sebastien Girod |
Bugs and requests
Toon Blocks
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- Placement issues with certain objects
Requested features
4 requests- Add more block and object options
- Improve resizing and manipulation tools
- Introduce character customization and animation
- Implement save and share functionality
Pathogen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Toon Blocks
- Monster Pack$1.99
- Hero Pack$1.99
Pathogen
- Parasite Family$2.99
- Prion Family$2.99
- Bio-synthetic Family$2.99
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- Worm Family$2.99
- All Families$7.99
Questions
Is Toon Blocks free?
Is Pathogen free?
Do Toon Blocks or Pathogen have ads?
Which is updated more often, Toon Blocks or Pathogen?
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