Dissolve vs Unwanted Gray
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
Unwanted Gray
Explore a minimalist world of black and white particles and fight for survival. Collect stars, upgrade your character, and unlock new abilities and themes to become more powerful. Complete missions and choose your difficulty to conquer the game.
- 35 levels to complete
- 3 unique game modes
- 9 unlockable characters with special abilities
- 9 unlockable themes
- 10 in-game upgrades
- 20 missions with rewards
- Difficulty mode toggle
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Unwanted Gray is a minimal game with easy controls and a clean look. Explore a minimal world populated by black and white particles constantly fighting a war for dominance, where you are an unwanted character who's trying to stay the way he is. Your goal is to survive as long as you can while collecting stars and upgrading yourself to become more powerful. Features -35 levels to complete. -3 game modes with unique rules. -9 characters to unlock, and each character has a special ability. -9 themes to unlock and each theme has its own look and color palette. -10 Upgrades to choose from during gameplay. -20 Missions to complete and get rewards. -A difficulty mode toggle to choose between easy/hard. -A Night mode toggle for all themes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Unwanted Gray at none against Dissolve's shown. Unwanted Gray also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Dissolve's advantage is ratings volume (107 vs 8) and review sentiment (83% vs 71%). On price, rating, 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 Unwanted Gray sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Dissolve against 4.5 for Unwanted Gray. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dissolve has 107 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Dissolve's written reviews are positive against 71% of Unwanted Gray's.
| Parameter | Dissolve | Unwanted Gray |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (107 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 107 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 400 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | BabyStar Games | Carlos Saoud |
Customer experience
Dissolve
Unwanted Gray
In-app purchases
Dissolve
- 5000 Diamonds$0.99
- 30,000 Diamonds$4.99
Unwanted Gray
- 2000 Stars$0.99
- 5000 Stars$1.99
- 10000 stars$2.99
