Gate Escape vs Slime Labs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gate Escape
A first-person puzzle game with a retro aesthetic. Players use portals and shields to navigate challenging environments filled with hazards like conveyor belts, ice, and lava. Compete with friends on leaderboards for the fastest speed runs.
- Portal mechanics
- Shield usage
- Retro first-person perspective
- Hazardous environments
- Leaderboard competition
- Speed run challenges
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Gate Escape is a modern retro first person puzzle game where you are armed only with portals and the shields you can find. Navigate conveyor belts, ice, lava and more to solve complex puzzles that will melt your brain! With simple controls and complex puzzles the adventure never ends. Compete with your friends in the leader boards and set the fastest speed run!
Slime Labs
Control a blob of ooze in a physics-based platformer. Stretch, squish, and grow by absorbing other slime to navigate a lab filled with traps and collect hidden data-disks.
- Physics-based slime mechanics
- Collect data-disks
- Multiple endings
- Pixel art graphics
- Original music
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The slime is back! Venture through a laboratory full of traps and stretch your way to the goal. Slime Labs is a physics based platformer where you control a blob of green ooze that can squish, stretch, shrink, and get enormous by absorbing smaller bits of slime. Collect all the data-disks hidden in the levels and perfect all the stages. Features: • Super fun slime-physics • Addicting gameplay • Multiple endings • Slime-tastic pixel art • Groovy music tracks
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gate Escape at 4.6 against Slime Labs's 3.6. Gate Escape also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Gate Escape sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Slime Labs sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gate Escape holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 711 and 189 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Gate Escape's written reviews are positive against 59% of Slime Labs's.
Gate Escape ships an update fortnightly, Slime Labs every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Gate Escape | Slime Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (711 ratings) — better | 3.6 (189 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better | 59.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 711 — better | 189 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Floersch | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Gate Escape
Slime Labs
User reviews
Gate Escape
From 711 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Good game
- 👍 Fun and challenging
- 💡 Portal-like mechanics
- 🚀 Addicting gameplay
- 👍 Simple and awesome
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 🐛 Controls issues
- 🐛 Graphical problems
- 💰 Paywall for shields
Slime Labs
From 189 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Engaging and fun gameplay mechanics
- 🎨 Charming pixel graphics and visual design
- 😊 Cute and appealing slime character
- 🧩 Creative level design with varied obstacles
- 🔄 Good difficulty progression in most levels
Room to improve
- 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
- 🎮 Inconsistent and unresponsive touch controls
- ⚙️ Frequent bugs and glitches during gameplay
- 🔋 Severe battery drain and device overheating
- 😤 Difficulty spikes make game frustrating
Bugs and requests
Gate Escape
Reported bugs
3 issues- Buttons off-screen
- Portals not working properly
- Levels not requiring portals
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and content
- Vertical portals
- Level editor
- Boss battles
- Ability to look up and down
Slime Labs
Reported bugs
12 issues- X button on pop-ups doesn't respond
- Pause button functionality broken
- Game freezes on 'no ads' purchase pop-up
- Progress resets when exiting mid-level
- Unresponsive touch controls in tight spaces
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- Ads appear immediately after level completion blocking next level
- Game crashes on older devices (iPhone 6)
- Black screen on app restart
- Rotating platform collision detection issues
- Inconsistent jump height and timing
- Game softlocks when skin pop-ups appear
- Performance lag and stuttering during gameplay
Requested features
12 requests- More levels and additional content
- Easy mode or difficulty settings
- Level skip option with ad compensation
- Mute music button
- Controller support for better precision
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- Level editor or custom level creation
- Free cosmetic skins instead of paid-only
- Online multiplayer or co-op modes
- Sequel or continuation of the game
- Lives system instead of instant death
- Improved control scheme with joysticks
- Game available on Steam with co-op support
In-app purchases
Gate Escape
- Space Station Level Pack$0.99
- Extra Shields$0.99
- Disable Ads Forever$0.99
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- Extra Shields$1.99
- Extra Shields$2.99
Slime Labs
- Premium$1.99
Questions
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