Kolumno vs CityPainter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kolumno
Guide a ball through complex columns by timing your drops and utilizing special abilities. This puzzle game offers challenging mechanics, elegant graphics, and a relaxing soundtrack.
- Timing-based gameplay
- Special abilities
- Intricate column puzzles
- 75 challenging levels
- Elegant graphic and sound styles
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Wait for the right moment and make the ball fall through the intricate columns. Does it seem easy for you? It isn’t! Behind its apparent simplicity, Kolumno hides really challenging and fun game mechanics. Kolumno, as other puzzle games, requires intelligence, planning, and patience, but the challenge doesn’t stop there. It will also test your reflexes with puzzles that will require you to use special abilities such as: stopping mid-air, falling faster, making smaller or breaking the rings that make up the columns. Don’t let yourself be fooled by its minimalistic style and its relaxing soundtrack, Kolumno is one of the most elegant and challenging games in recent times. Features: - 4 different items that expand the complexity of the puzzles. - 75 levels full of challenges. - Elegant graphic and sound styles. - Easy to start, hard to master.
CityPainter
Race through famous cities worldwide, painting roads while evading police. Use oil cans to disable pursuers and jump over obstacles. Collect balloons to warp to new countries for bonus points and extra lives.
- Global city locations
- Police pursuit evasion
- Oil can combat
- Jumping mechanics
- Balloon collection bonuses
- Collectible oil cans
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Controls -------------- · GamePad MFI Compatible: Joystick, change car direction. Button A,B: oil shooting and jump (press short jump, press and hold large jump). · Screen Controls: Left Joystick, change car direction. Right Buttons, oil shooting and jump (tap short jump, tap and hold large jump). The Game -------------- Must paint all the road throughout countries, each taking place in a famous city from around the world (USA, Spain, UK, France, Australia,...). Your car is constantly under pursuit by police and taxi cars, which you can take out by launching oil cans at them, stunning them, and then ramming into them with your car. Your car can jump over large gaps to reach higher sections of the stage. By collecting oil cans found in each stage, the player can shoot these at other cars. If the player remains on the same stage for an extended period of time, spikes will extrude from the ground... be careful with spikes and cats. Balloons may appear in the stage. The player should collect three of these balloons, they will be warped to a new country and be granted with a large sum of bonus points. Extra life each 100.000 Points! Enjoy!!!!
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Verdict
Kolumno and CityPainter are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Kolumno costs $1.99 and CityPainter $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Kolumno against 5.0 for CityPainter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Kolumno ships an update every 21 months, CityPainter every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kolumno | CityPainter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | DevilishGames | Ivan Cerra de Castro |
Customer experience
Kolumno
CityPainter
In-app purchases
Kolumno
No in-app purchases
CityPainter
No in-app purchases








