Comparison

Afterplace vs McPixel 3

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

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About

Afterplace

Embark on an open-world adventure on your mobile device, exploring a vast landscape filled with hidden secrets, treasures, and quirky characters. Engage in combat, uncover mysteries, and forge your own path through a world without waypoints.

Highlights
  • Open world exploration
  • Hidden secrets and treasures
  • Combat with monsters
  • Interactive characters
  • No virtual buttons
  • Dynamic control adaptation
Features
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An open world adventure game filled with silly characters and terrible secrets. Afterplace is an adventurous indie game for mobile devices. It's a huge open world, full of hidden secrets, treasures, and creatures. You'll run around the woods, fight monsters, and talk to ostensibly shady characters! All from your pocket! Be warned though - you never know what the forest might be hiding, and not all trails are paved. Labyrinths and dungeons are tucked away in the most concealed nooks. There are no waypoints in Afterplace. You'll have to forge your own path. Afterplace has been designed from the ground up to be a fast, fluid, beautiful experience for mobile. There are no virtual buttons. You can move and attack by touching anywhere. You can tap objects directly to interact or attack, use two thumbs like a traditional controller, or control the game with a physical gamepad. The game will adapt dynamically to your play style. Pick up and set down the game at your own pace, it will always save your progress. Afterplace is made to feel like a full-fledged indie adventure game that fits in your pocket. About the Author: Afterplace is made by one person, Evan Kice. A former software engineer from Austin TX, Evan quit his job (to the dismay of his friends and family) and has been working full time on Afterplace since early 2019. The initial game released in December of 2022, but Evan plans on continuing to support and polish the game when he can!

About

McPixel 3

Embark on a chaotic adventure as a wannabe hero in over 100 levels and 20 minigames. Discover hilarious gags, interact with thousands of items, and use coins to unlock new areas and costumes. Explore the city of McBurg and find hidden challenges.

Highlights
  • 100 mind-blowing levels
  • Over 20 minigames
  • Thousands of hilarious gags
  • Interactive items
  • Unlockable levels and costumes
  • Explore McBurg city
Features
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's falling too fast to be either of those. It's McPixel! A wanna-be hero who keeps getting mixed up in the most unbelievable situations you can imagine. Levels One moment you're stuck in a speeding train headed towards the cliff; the other, you're in a falling plane. Sometimes you need to win an impossible-to-win soccer match, and the other, you're a dinosaur trying to hide from a meteorite. Stuck in a flaming house? Sandwiched between two battling armies? Certainly not a problem for McPixel! 100 levels of fast-paced action are waiting for you! Minigames Sometimes, the usual adventure style will get interrupted by genre-bending minigames. Ranging from racing, shooting, fighting, and sports to even platforming or FPS! The game offers over 20 minigames scattered around the world of McPixel! Coins and stamps McPixel is not all about just saving the day but having fun trying to come up with the craziest possible solutions. And for every solution, you will be rewarded with coins! Find all solutions in a level to get the gold prize and some extra coins! You can use them to unlock new levels! Also, everyone loves coins, right? They're shiny and golden and spinning! No reason not to have some more! McBurg The game takes place in the city of McBurg. Explore the city and find different adventures! Some of the paths in the city are blocked and will require you to spend coins to move forward and access new levels! The city will get populated with characters and items from the levels you already visited as you play. You will also be able to don some of the costumes you found while playing. On the edge of the city upon a grassy hill, you can see a Devolver vault, full of gold, looming over McBurg. So, if you ever need a lot of coins, maybe it's time to pay Fork Parker a visit? Steve Sometimes, during your adventures, you will find Steve. Steve can be in the weirdest and most unexpected of places, and finding him will transport you to the Steve level. Steve is not like McPixel and doesn't specialize in saving the day. He's just some guy, doing stuff. Like fishing, cooking, driving a car, or summoning demons. You know, just the average guy kind of stuff. McPixel Engine McPixel 3 runs on 100% software-rendered McPixel Engine, so in the age of unaffordable graphics cards, you can be sure you will be able to run McPixel 3 just fine! The engine has been written from scratch just for the purpose of running McPixel. That makes the game run smoothly even on the oldest computer, so make sure you install McPixel on your grandma's PC next time you visit! Additionally, that makes the game environment-friendly! McPixel 3 saves the planet (and battery life)! Key Features: 100 mind-blowing levels Nearly 1000 hilarious gags to discover Over 1500 interactive items Over 20 minigames in all imaginable genres Over 300,000,000 pixels Works on your mom's computer Steve A water level

Screenshots

Afterplace4 screens
McPixel 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Afterplace at 4.9 against McPixel 3's 4.5. Afterplace also leads on ratings volume (630 vs 8) and review sentiment (94% vs 78%). McPixel 3's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $6.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Afterplace costs $6.99 and McPixel 3 $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Afterplace holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Afterplace has 630 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Afterplace's written reviews are positive against 78% of McPixel 3's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Afterplace versus McPixel 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfterplaceMcPixel 3
Price$6.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.9 (630 ratings) — better4.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews94.1% of reviews — better77.8% of reviews
Number of ratings630 — better8
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#62 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size249 MB145 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperEvan KiceDevolver

Customer experience

Afterplace

All ratings627 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews253 reviews
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.6%

McPixel 3

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

Bugs and requests

Afterplace

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Crashes on certain devices
  • Saves not loading properly

Requested features

3 requests
  • Landscape mode support
  • Ability to restart or replay the game
  • More in-depth combat and progression systems

McPixel 3

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Afterplace

No in-app purchases

None

McPixel 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Afterplace free?
Afterplace costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is McPixel 3 free?
McPixel 3 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Afterplace or McPixel 3?
Afterplace is rated higher. Afterplace averages 4.9 out of 5 from 630 ratings, while McPixel 3 averages 4.5 from 8 ratings.
Do Afterplace or McPixel 3 have ads?
Neither Afterplace nor McPixel 3 shows ads.

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