Allplay Games vs For Science!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Allplay Games
Experience digital versions of board games and companion apps for physical games. Play dice-rolling challenges, strategic auctions, and scoring aids for a variety of tabletop adventures.
- Digital board games
- Companion apps for physical games
- Dice rolling challenges
- Strategic auctions
- In-game scoring aids
- AI opponents
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Everything from the board game publisher Allplay. Two full games to play and another three companion apps for the physical boardgames. In Mountain Goats, roll dice and compete against the AI in five simultaneous games of king of the hill. In On Tour, make the most of the dice you roll to visit as many states as possible. In A Message from the Stars companion app, type in the clue words and the app will tell you their value to ensure you don’t make a calculation mistake. In Merchants of Andromeda, participate in auctions with all players. In Twinkle Twinkle, win some gaming time by using the scoring app to recognise the board and provide the score.
For Science!
Enhance your board game experience with this companion app. It provides immersive audio, sound effects, and voice acting to bring the game's theme to life. Customize game length and difficulty for a personalized challenge.
- Real-time timer
- Thematic music
- Sound effects
- Voice acting
- Customizable difficulty
- Adjustable game length
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For Science!" is a real time board game about saving the world from disease. This companion app provides a timer, music, sound effects, and voice acting to immerse you in the theme of the "For Science!" and allows you to customize your preferred difficulty by adjusting the frequency of Events and the length of the game to your liking. This companion app is not a game and must be used with a physical copy of the "For Science" board game - published by Grey Fox Games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: For Science! at every 2 weeks against Allplay Games's every 2 months. For Science! also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 31%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Allplay Games's advantage is rating (3.3 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Allplay Games holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Allplay Games's written reviews are positive against 50% of For Science!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Allplay Games ships an update every 2 months, For Science! every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Allplay Games | For Science! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 436 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 902a LLC | Grey Fox Games |
Customer experience
Allplay Games
For Science!
In-app purchases
Allplay Games
No in-app purchases
For Science!
No in-app purchases
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