Comparison

Barkeology vs Data Crash

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

Head to head
About

Barkeology

Embark on a paleontological adventure to unearth dinosaur bones and complete a museum collection. Explore diverse dig sites, solve engaging puzzles, and discover fossils from various prehistoric creatures.

Highlights
  • Dinosaur bone collection
  • Museum completion
  • Exploration of dig sites
  • Puzzle solving
  • Multiple dinosaur types
Features
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- Help Professor Mudpie fill out his museum with dinosaur bones. - Explore various dig sites and and solve puzzles collect bones from multiple types of dinosaurs.

About

Data Crash

Engage in a futuristic block puzzle game where strategic placement and game-changing upgrades help you crash a rigged system. Discover hundreds of mods and upgrades to create unique strategies and overcome escalating challenges.

Highlights
  • Strategic block placement
  • Game-changing mods
  • Hundreds of upgrades
  • Career mode
  • Escalating difficulty
  • Offline play
Features
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Enter the futuristic world of Data Crash, a fun and free block puzzle game where you can discover game breaking combos and upgrades. In this futuristic world, you work as an Android Trainer, who trains Androids by matching block data on a data grid. There's only one problem. The game is rigged! Companies use training bots and fire humans because they can't out perform bots. With the help of your hacker friend, you break all the rules by providing hundreds of upgrades that can crash the whole system. Why You'll Love Data Crash * More Than Just a Block Puzzle: Uncover the conspiracy, break the rules, and crash the system one block at a time. * Mods That Change Everything: Equip game-changing mods that alter how you score. Every combination creates a new strategy. * Hundreds of Upgrades: Discover powerful upgrades that transform your blocks and bend the rules in your favor. * Career Mode: Take on assignments from your company, complete projects, and earn credits as you climb the ranks. * Always a New Challenge: Each round introduces harder training challenges with unique twists (disabled shapes, limited moves, and more). Features of Data Crash * Strategic Block Placement: Drag and place shaped blocks onto the data grid to hit target scores and clear lines. * Escalating Difficulty: Survive standard training, then face off against advanced and expert challenges designed to give you all you can handle. * Boosts & Market System: Buy boosts before tough rounds and acquire upgrades at the market between challenges. * Multiple Block Shapes & Rotations: Master circles, triangles, squares, crescents, hearts, and stars across dozens of block types. * Offline Play: No connection needed. Train anywhere. How to Play * Drag blocks from your hand onto the data grid. * Clear full rows and columns to score points and free up space. * Hit the target score before you run out of moves to complete each training challenge. * Equip mods and upgrades between rounds to create powerful combos. * Complete your training and outsmart the system.

Screenshots

Barkeology4 screens
Data Crash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Data Crash at 5.0 against Barkeology's 4.3. Barkeology's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Barkeology sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Data Crash sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Data Crash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barkeology has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Barkeology versus Data Crash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkeologyData Crash
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size257 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMouse Potato Games LLCKick Flip Games

Customer experience

Barkeology

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

Data Crash

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Barkeology

One-time3
  • 50,000 Coins$0.99
  • 500,000 Coins$2.99
  • 5,000,000 Coins$5.99
4 purchases

Data Crash

One-time4
  • 150 Credits$1.99
  • 450 Credits$4.99
  • 750 Credits$9.99
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  • 1500 Credits$19.99

Questions

Is Barkeology free?
Barkeology is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Data Crash free?
Data Crash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Barkeology or Data Crash?
Data Crash is rated higher. Barkeology averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Data Crash averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Barkeology or Data Crash have ads?
Data Crash shows ads; Barkeology does not.

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