Plastic Swim vs Need Escape
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plastic Swim
Experience an augmented reality world to understand the impact of plastic pollution. Navigate a treacherous aquatic environment, collect information on plastic consumption, and emerge with greater environmental awareness.
- Augmented reality experience
- Environmental awareness focus
- Interactive aquatic world
- Information on plastic consumption
- Lakeside terrain overlay
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Plastic Swim is an AR experience to raise awareness about the toll of plastics on the environment. The player begins by overlaying a lakeside terrain over their current location through their smart phone. While interacting with the app, the viewer will find themselves in a glimmering but treacherous game, swiping through an aquatic world dense with plastic. When they have accumulated enough information about plastic consumption by interacting with illuminating debris they can resurface buoyed by the specifics of their newly acquired environmental awareness.
Need Escape
Explore dungeons, defeat enemies, and rescue companions. Upgrade your character to overcome challenges and escape. Collect loot from cleared floors.
- Clear floors for loot
- Encounter new enemies
- Find and save friends
- Upgrade character
- Escape the dungeon
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Clear floors and obtain their loot! Encounter with new enemies on every floor! Find friends and save them! Upgrade yourself and escape!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plastic Swim at 5.0 against Need Escape's 3.3. Plastic Swim also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Need Escape's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plastic Swim holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Need Escape has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Plastic Swim ships an update every 6 days, Need Escape every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plastic Swim | Need Escape |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 295 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Meredith Starr | Any Games OU |
Customer experience
Plastic Swim
Need Escape
In-app purchases
Plastic Swim
No in-app purchases
Need Escape
No in-app purchases
Questions
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