Comparison

3D Marble Tracks vs Algae Bloom Dynamics

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

Head to head
About

3D Marble Tracks

Compete in thrilling marble races against up to 100 players on a global leaderboard. Strategize your throws to complete tracks faster than your opponents. Customize your marble with a built-in texture editor and enjoy realistic 3D graphics and physics.

Highlights
  • 100 player leaderboard
  • Marble race challenges
  • Texture editor for marble customization
  • Realistic 3D physics
  • Smooth 3D graphics
Features
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Challenge opponents from a 100 player leaderboard in a marble race! The game rules are simple: complete each track with less throws than your opponents. The built-in texture editor allows you to paint your marble with your favorite colors and make it stand out among the other marbles. Smoothly rendered 3d graphics, realistic 3d physics. Truly free: not a demo, no paid features.

About

Algae Bloom Dynamics

Experience algae blooms in augmented reality, learning about their causes and solutions in lakes and waterways. Explore animated 3D models of aquatic life and understand environmental threats from human activities and invasive species.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality environmental simulation
  • Learn about algae bloom causes
  • Explore aquatic life 3D models
  • Understand environmental threats
  • Global waterway focus
  • Educational game
Features
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Algae Bloom Dynamics (ABD) is an augmented reality art, science, and game simulation for experiencing how algae blooms occur, and where to find and fix their sources in lakes and waterways globally. Educate and inform people in an engaging augmented reality that is experienced in your own environment. Experience a clear-water lake that begins to have imbalances in phosphorus and nitrogen from human activities and threats from invasive species. Local, regional, and global threats are presented from: - agriculture - household waste - stormwater runoff - wastewater systems - road salt - invasive species - fossil fuels The project includes animated 3D models of: - Fish: Yellow Perch, Rainbow Smelt, and Bass - Zooplankton: Daphnia and Spiny Water Flea - Phytoplankton: Microcystis and Aphanocapsa - Mollusks: Zebra Mussels - Macroalgae: Nitella ABD is a project created by the Eco Resilience Global Games Research Group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The project is funded in part by the Jefferson Project. For more information, please see our website. Algae Bloom Dynamic AR: https://sites.google.com/view/algae-bloom-dynamics/algae-bloom-dynamics Eco Resilience Games: https://sites.google.com/view/eco-resilience/home Eco Resilience Games is creating virtual worlds that inspire us to preserve our actual ones. Whether we are enabling people to experientially see, hear and touch plankton in new ways in order to understand their vital importance to freshwater ecology, or making it possible to become a water droplet traveling through an entire watershed, we are using advanced game technology creatively to introduce people to new worlds, new perspectives, and new systems to help understand emerging environmental knowledge and the vital need to work together globally for a sustainable, eco resilient future.

Screenshots

3D Marble Tracks4 screens
Algae Bloom Dynamics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Algae Bloom Dynamics at 5.0 against 3D Marble Tracks's 4.2. Algae Bloom Dynamics also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 3D Marble Tracks's advantage is ratings volume (100 vs 4). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Algae Bloom Dynamics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3D Marble Tracks has 100 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of 3D Marble Tracks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Algae Bloom Dynamics's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
3D Marble Tracks versus Algae Bloom Dynamics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter3D Marble TracksAlgae Bloom Dynamics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (100 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings100 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsYes—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB470 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperA Trillion Games LtdKathleen Ruiz

Customer experience

3D Marble Tracks

All ratings100 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative38.1%

Algae Bloom Dynamics

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

3D Marble Tracks

No in-app purchases

None

Algae Bloom Dynamics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 3D Marble Tracks free?
3D Marble Tracks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Algae Bloom Dynamics free?
Algae Bloom Dynamics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 3D Marble Tracks or Algae Bloom Dynamics?
Algae Bloom Dynamics is rated higher. 3D Marble Tracks averages 4.2 out of 5 from 100 ratings, while Algae Bloom Dynamics averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.

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