Comparison

MarbleLoops vs Block'n'Roll

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

Head to head
About

MarbleLoops

Experience the strategic board game Surakarta on your mobile device. Play against an AI opponent or challenge a friend, making a portable game board available anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Play Surakarta board game
  • AI opponent
  • Local multiplayer with a friend
  • Portable game board on mobile
  • Play anytime, anywhere
Features
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With MarbleLoops you can play a little-known board game called Surakarta in two ways: - Against a computer opponent - With a friend. With MarbleLoops you have a portable game board with you all the time in your phone or tablet, and it's easy to start a game at any time.

About

Block'n'Roll

Features
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A drafting sheet, and blocks with grooves cut into them. Lay a route from the feeder to the catcher, then let the ball go and find out whether it works. Laying a route is not the same as finishing one: a climb costs speed and a drop returns some of it, but what you get back from coming down never pays for going up again. Height is spent, not borrowed. Corners cost speed too. Nothing is settled until the ball has rolled. WHAT IS IN IT Practice โ€” ten courses on small boards, where the rules are learned. Nothing is ranked. Open League โ€” twenty hand-built courses, free, ranked by the total number of pieces used across the whole set. Fewest wins. Finishing them opens the Pro League. Pro League โ€” twenty courses for people who have already finished twenty. Getting the ball home is assumed here; what is asked is how few pieces it took. Each course knows its own true minimum, so you can always see how far off you are. Drills โ€” pick a theme and a course is built on the spot. One is free each day; Pro removes the limit. Skill Trials โ€” Pro courses where the ball must pass through a fixed checkpoint before reaching the goal. A new course is made each time. Workshop โ€” place the start and the goal yourself and build whatever you like. Once it has actually rolled home, it can be given away with a share code. What arrives is the problem; the answer does not travel with it. After the other person has solved it themselves, they can look at how you did it. NO ACCOUNT, NO PERMISSIONS No sign-up, no camera, no location, and no advertising. To improve the app, we collect anonymous aggregate counts of fixed actions and the app version only โ€” never personal information, device identifiers, course content, or share codes. Generated courses rebuild from seven-character codes; your progress and hand-built courses stay on your device. No course content is uploaded to or stored on our servers. Block'n'Roll Pro is a one-time purchase โ€” not a subscription โ€” that opens Skill Trials and the Workshop, and removes the limit on drills. The Pro League becomes available after all 20 Open League courses are cleared.

Screenshots

MarbleLoops3 screens
Block'n'Roll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Block'n'Roll at Free against MarbleLoops's $0.99. Block'n'Roll also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). MarbleLoops's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Block'n'Roll is free to download; MarbleLoops costs $0.99 up front. Block'n'Roll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MarbleLoops asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
MarbleLoops versus Block'n'Roll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarbleLoopsBlock'n'Roll
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 31 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIiro ViitanenTakayuki Hamuro

In-app purchases

None

MarbleLoops

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Block'n'Roll

One-time1
  • Block'n'Roll Pro$12.99

Questions

Is MarbleLoops free?
MarbleLoops costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Block'n'Roll free?
Block'n'Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MarbleLoops or Block'n'Roll have ads?
Neither MarbleLoops nor Block'n'Roll shows ads.

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