Gate Escape vs Stretch Robot
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!
Stretch Robot
Control a robot with extendable arms to solve physics-based puzzles. Stretch, grab, and swing to overcome obstacles like spikes and gaps using smart thinking and elastic mechanics. Enjoy handcrafted levels with a casual pace, perfect for quick, engaging brain teasers.
- Physics-based puzzle gameplay
- Stretch mechanics
- Handcrafted levels
- Logic challenges
- Casual pace
- Intuitive physics
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Stretch your robot’s arms, grab objects, and solve clever physics-based puzzles. Every level challenges your logic, timing, and understanding of elastic mechanics. Simple controls, satisfying solutions, and a smooth difficulty curve. In Stretch Robot: Physics Puzzle, you control a small robot with extendable arms. Your goal is to stretch, grab, swing, and interact with the environment to overcome obstacles and reach the goal. Spikes, saws, gaps, and tricky layouts stand in your way — brute force won’t help, only smart thinking. The game is built around intuitive physics mechanics: elastic arms behave naturally, objects react realistically, and each puzzle has multiple possible approaches. Short levels make the game perfect for quick sessions, while increasing complexity keeps your brain engaged. Features: • Physics-based puzzle gameplay with stretch mechanics • Dozens of handcrafted levels with growing difficulty • Easy to learn, hard to master logic challenges • Casual pace with no timers or pressure • Clean visuals and smooth animations This is a casual puzzle game for players who enjoy thinking, experimenting, and finding elegant solutions. Stretch your limits, solve the puzzles, and help the robot reach its destination.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Gate Escape at none against Stretch Robot's shown. Gate Escape also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (71% vs 57%). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Gate Escape sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Stretch Robot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Gate Escape against 4.7 for Stretch Robot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gate Escape has 698 ratings behind it against 124, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Gate Escape's written reviews are positive against 57% of Stretch Robot's.
Gate Escape ships an update fortnightly, Stretch Robot every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gate Escape | Stretch Robot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (698 ratings) | 4.7 (124 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 698 — better | 124 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| 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 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Brian Floersch | Lunapp, TOO |
Customer experience
Gate Escape
Stretch Robot
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
Stretch Robot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Stretch Robot
- Remove Ads$0.99









