Comparison

Ding Dong XL vs Dash Heroes

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

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About

Ding Dong XL

Bounce between the top and bottom of the screen, dodging obstacles and collecting points in this fast-paced arcade game. Master one-touch controls for endless survival challenges, with dual and infinite modes for advanced players. Customize your experience with unlockable skins.

Highlights
  • One-touch controls for sliding
  • Endless progressive difficulty
  • Dual Mode challenge
  • Infinite Mode for experts
  • Unlockable cosmetic skins
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Ding and Dong Your Way to Survival! Tap, dodge, and survive as you bounce between the top and bottom of the screen, avoiding obstacles, collecting points, and smashing power-ups. How long can you last in this fast-paced arcade challenge? Easy to Play, Hard to Master - One-Touch Controls – Tap to slide between the top and bottom of the screen. Time your moves carefully to avoid enemies! - Endless Arcade Action – The game gets progressively harder the longer you survive with more challenging obstacles. - Dual Mode – A two-touch challenge for a real brain teaser! - Infinite Mode – An extreme test for Ding Dong experts looking for the ultimate challenge. Unlock Unique Skins Customize your player with a variety of cosmetic skins, including some from other Adamvision Studios games! Sound & Music The in-game sound effects were created with my own voice and a consumer mic, mixed with royalty-free sounds from FreeSFX. The music features loops from Difourks - "It's Complextro & Dance." Now available in 10 languages: English, Russian, German, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean.

About

Dash Heroes

Embark on an epic quest through a vertical labyrinth, gaining the ability to scale walls. Navigate treacherous traps and enemies across 1000 levels, choosing from diverse heroes with unique skills. Compete in races, collect coins, and enjoy multiple game modes, including a level editor.

Highlights
  • Vertical labyrinth exploration
  • Wall-scaling abilities
  • 1000 challenging levels
  • Diverse roster of heroes
  • Level editor mode
  • Competitive racing
Features
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Swipe once and your hero dashes until it hits a wall. That single move is all it takes to play Dash Heroes, a pixel maze escape built for one thumb. Grab the key, reach the portal and get past every skull, spike and trap in the tower. The catch is that your hero does not stop halfway. Every swipe is a commitment: the dash keeps going until something gets in the way, so you read the maze before you move, not after. Speed along the arrows and time your run past turrets, flames, spears and patrolling skulls. In some stages you guide two heroes at once and swap between them to reach the exit. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY • Classic: hand-built stages across three towers of brick, ice and stone. Grab the key, open the portal and collect the gold to earn up to three stars on every stage. • Arcade: an endless climb through a maze that never runs out, with the water rising behind you. Your five best runs are saved, with the hero who set them and the day you did it. • Blitz: generated stages, one after another, with the water on your heels. • Race: 32 heroes race up the same tower. Get through two qualifying rounds and win the final. A MAZE ESCAPE THAT FIGHTS BACK • A key, a portal and gold in every stage, and traps that shoot, burn and patrol in between. • In Arcade the maze gets tighter the higher you climb, and the water does not wait for you to think. • Fast to read, easy to misjudge. It is a reflex game as much as a labyrinth. 60 HEROES, 10 POWERS • Collect 60 heroes, from common to mythic, and unlock them in the Hero Machine with the gold you pick up in the towers. • Every hero brings a power: more gold from every coin, a magnet that pulls coins in, a chance to start with a shield, slower rising water, a higher Arcade score and more. • Level your heroes up to make their powers stronger. • Take a team of two on every run. Both powers count, so the pair you choose changes the way you play. SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY • Nine daily missions, plus a bonus for finishing them all. • A daily reward that keeps growing as long as your streak lasts. • Arcade boosts to pick before a run: shield, slow water, magnet or double score. • 50 achievements, from your first stage to the very long haul, and a sheet with all your stats. ONE THUMB, NO INTERNET • Swipe controls made for one hand, in portrait. • No internet connection needed, so the maze comes with you anywhere. • Keyboard and gamepad work too. • Separate music and sound volume, and screen shake you can switch off. If you like a pixel maze game where one wrong swipe sends you straight into a spike, this is your kind of maze escape. Pick two heroes, swipe and see how high the water lets you get.

Screenshots

Ding Dong XL4 screens
Dash Heroes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dash Heroes at Free against Ding Dong XL's $0.99. Dash Heroes also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Ding Dong XL's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 39 months). On rating, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Dash Heroes is free to download; Ding Dong XL costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ding Dong XL against 5.0 for Dash Heroes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ding Dong XL has 99 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Ding Dong XL's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dash Heroes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ding Dong XL ships an update every 2 months, Dash Heroes every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Ding Dong XL versus Dash Heroes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDing Dong XLDash Heroes
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (99 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings99 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 39 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdamvisionCHORRUS GAMES S.L.

Customer experience

Ding Dong XL

All ratings99 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive98.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.7%

Dash Heroes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Ding Dong XL

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Leaderboard not working on iPhone 6s

Requested features

3 requests
  • More characters, modes, upgrades
  • Apple TV support
  • More power-up explanations

Dash Heroes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ding Dong XL

No in-app purchases

None

Dash Heroes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ding Dong XL free?
Ding Dong XL costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dash Heroes free?
Dash Heroes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ding Dong XL or Dash Heroes?
Dash Heroes is rated higher. Ding Dong XL averages 5.0 out of 5 from 99 ratings, while Dash Heroes averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Ding Dong XL or Dash Heroes have ads?
Dash Heroes shows ads; Ding Dong XL does not.
Which is updated more often, Ding Dong XL or Dash Heroes?
Ding Dong XL ships an update every 2 months, and Dash Heroes every 39 months. Most recently, Ding Dong XL was updated on October 26, 2026 and Dash Heroes on October 24, 2026.

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