Comparison

Build Up!! vs Snowlore

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

Head to head
About

Build Up!!

Construct your tower as tall as possible by strategically placing building nodes. Collect more nodes as you ascend to reach crucial checkpoints and achieve new heights.

Highlights
  • Build structures high
  • Gather building nodes
  • Reach checkpoints
  • Ascend to new heights
Features
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Build your structure as high as you can! Gather additional building nodes along the way and reach the checkpoints!

About

Snowlore

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Ski down a mountain. Tilt your phone to steer, tap to jump, and try not to hit anything. Snowlore is a remake of a small game I made in 2010, rebuilt from nothing with the one feature the original never got: animals crossing the slope in front of you. A hare bolts. A deer stops dead and stares. A bear does not hurry for anyone. FORTY-TWO COURSES, SEVEN MOUNTAINS Work up a branching map from the nursery slope to the summit, and then on to the next mountain: the Himalaya, Fuji, Triglav, Jotunheimen, Aconcagua, Hekla, Kilimanjaro. Each course is the same every time you ski it, so a better line is something you can learn rather than something you are given. Stars come from your time, the energy you have left, and how close you dared to pass. A PAGE OF LORE FOR EVERY COURSE Finish one and it gives you something back: a short tale about the place, and underneath it one thing that is true. Why a deer freezes instead of running. What a whiteout actually does to your eyes. Where the word "abominable" came from, and the mistranslation behind it. ENDLESS No finish line. It keeps getting harder for as long as you last, and past a point something starts following you down — and once you have beaten the creatures of the seven mountains, it is not always the same one. HONEST ABOUT ITSELF No advertising. No in-app purchases. No analytics. The developer receives nothing about you at all. Your scores go to Apple Game Center so they can be ranked — to Apple, never to the developer — and everything else stays on your phone. It is free because it was made for the pleasure of making it, and there is nothing in it to buy. Plays in twelve languages, with tilt or touch controls.

Screenshots

Build Up!!3 screens
Snowlore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snowlore at none against Build Up!!'s 1. Snowlore also leads on ads (none vs shown). Build Up!!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price and update cadence 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. Build Up!! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snowlore asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Build Up!! ships an update fortnightly, Snowlore every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Build Up!! versus Snowlore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuild Up!!Snowlore
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (16K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews34.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings16K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB122 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperVoodooMITJA FORTUNA

Bugs and requests

Build Up!!

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Rivet counter malfunction
  • Levels regenerating incorrectly
  • Tower physics issues

Requested features

3 requests
  • More level variety
  • Ability to create custom maps
  • Removal of perfect triangle requirement

Snowlore

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Build Up!!

One-time1
  • Remove Ads.$2.99
None

Snowlore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Build Up!! free?
Build Up!! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snowlore free?
Snowlore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Build Up!! or Snowlore have ads?
Build Up!! shows ads; Snowlore does not.
Which is updated more often, Build Up!! or Snowlore?
Build Up!! ships an update fortnightly, and Snowlore every 9 days. Most recently, Build Up!! was updated on October 21, 2026 and Snowlore on October 9, 2026.

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