Dissolve vs Pillar Pirates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dissolve
Engage in an endless arcade shooter where every hit transforms the vibrant background. Collect permanent power-ups and melt through waves of enemies with intuitive swipe controls. Unlock new ships and face diverse enemy types in this colorful, fast-paced experience.
- Infinite enemy waves
- Permanent power-ups
- Transforming background visuals
- Single-finger swipe controls
- Haptic feedback
- Unlockable ships
- Upgradeable power-up drops
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In Dissolve, melt your way through infinite waves of enemies and bullets collecting never-expiring power-ups! Every shot that hits an enemy transforms the background, igniting dazzling bursts of color and warp-speed alterations all controlled with just a finger swipe. Get ready to melt through an endless torrent of vector foes! Features - Simple controls: Play with just moving your finger around the screen - Haptic feedback for key moments - 7 unlock-able ships - 14 Enemy Types and power-ups - Upgradeable power-up drop rates
Pillar Pirates
Endurance game where you jump between pillars to escape a rising wave. Unlock new pirates and worlds by collecting coins. Compete on leaderboards for the longest survival time.
- Endurance gameplay
- Leaderboard competition
- Obstacle avoidance
- Unlockable pirates
- Themed levels
- Coin collection
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Choose from a variety of pirates to test your endurance. Reach the top of the leaderboard by surviving for as long as you can. Avoid obstacles jumping from pillar to pillar and escape the giant wave. Collect or earn coins to unlock new pirates and explore new worlds. Play a variety of themed levels tailored to different pirates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pillar Pirates at every 3 days against Dissolve's fortnightly. Pillar Pirates also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Dissolve's advantage is ratings volume (118 vs 5). 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. Dissolve sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Pillar Pirates sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pillar Pirates holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dissolve has 118 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Dissolve's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pillar Pirates's.
Dissolve ships an update fortnightly, Pillar Pirates every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dissolve | Pillar Pirates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (118 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 118 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 400 MB | 187 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BabyStar Games | Game Gene Studios, LLC |
Customer experience
Dissolve
Pillar Pirates
In-app purchases
Dissolve
- 5000 Diamonds$0.99
- 30,000 Diamonds$4.99
Pillar Pirates
- Night Pirate Skeleton$0.99
- Night Pirate Captain$0.99
- Night Pirate Frank$0.99
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- Night Pirate Zombie$0.99
- Night Pirate Squid$0.99
- Amazon Pirate Parrot$0.99
- Amazon Monkey Pirate$0.99
- Amazon Pirate Wolf$0.99
- Amazon Pirate Shark$0.99
- Amazon Pirate Tiger$0.99
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