Comparison

Wave Balls vs Arena Zen

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

Head to head
About

Wave Balls

Guide a ball through levels by controlling wave physics. Navigate obstacles and reach the finish line in this intuitive puzzle game.

Highlights
  • Wave physics control
  • Ball navigation
  • Obstacle courses
  • Level progression
  • Intuitive gameplay
Features
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Control the wave to move the ball from start to finish

About

Arena Zen

Features
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Drop a handful of sand and watch it pile up grain by grain. Pour water and see it find its own level. Spark a flame and let it race through wood, hiss into steam, and settle as ash. Arena Zen is a living physics playground where every particle obeys real rules. HOW IT WORKS Choose a material, pick your brush size, and paint straight onto the canvas with a fingertip. A real-time cellular simulation takes over the instant you touch down: powders tumble and stack at their natural angle, liquids spread out and seek their own level, and gases drift upward before slowly fading to nothing. Speed the world up, pause on a single frozen frame to study exactly what happened, wipe the board clean with one tap, or keep layering material until your little world takes on a life entirely its own. REACTIONS THAT FEEL ALIVE Fire creeps along timber and flashes standing water into rolling clouds of steam. Molten rock fuses loose grains into smooth panes of glass, then hardens into solid stone the very instant it touches water. Acid eats patiently through stone, wood, and grit alike. Oil pools across the surface of water and roars to life when it catches a stray spark. Greenery creeps along damp edges and slowly blooms. Crystals of salt dissolve and melt away into the flow. Nothing here is scripted or faked; every outcome emerges naturally from the same handful of simple laws running thousands of times every second, so no two canvases ever unfold the same way. Drop in stone, walls, and glass to build barriers, carve channels, and steer the chaos exactly where you want it. THREE WAYS TO PLAY - Creative: a goal-free sandbox for pure, unhurried experimentation, with no score, no clock, and no pressure to be anything at all. - Challenges: 10 handcrafted physics puzzles that ask you to fill a vault with sand, cool molten rock into stone, burn a wooden bridge, dissolve a stubborn plug with acid, fuse grains into glass, grow a garden, or float a slick of oil and set it alight. - Daily Zen: one fresh, deterministic puzzle every single day, identical for everyone, waiting for you the moment you need a calm little break. It is the signature Arena Zen ritual. WHY IT RELAXES YOU There are no timers, no lives, and no way to lose in free play. The soft pixel glow, the twilight aqua palette, and the gentle motion of thousands of drifting particles turn this into a genuine antistress ritual, the visual and tactile equivalent of ASMR. Earn gems as you play and unlock eight soothing color palettes, then track your streak on a consistency heatmap and collect quiet achievements along the way. PERFECT FOR - Winding down after a long, draining day - Curious minds who love tinkering with cause and effect - Fans of oddly satisfying, meditative visuals - Anyone who finds slow, flowing motion calming - Quick creative breaks that leave you refreshed instead of wired Everything runs 100% offline, with no account, no sign-up, and no tracking required to play. Just open the canvas and let the particles fall.

Screenshots

Wave Balls4 screens
Arena Zen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Wave Balls at none against Arena Zen's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Wave Balls versus Arena Zen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWave BallsArena Zen
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApp Swim LLCFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

None

Wave Balls

No in-app purchases

None

Arena Zen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wave Balls free?
Wave Balls is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arena Zen free?
Arena Zen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wave Balls or Arena Zen have ads?
Arena Zen shows ads; Wave Balls does not.

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