Specimen Zero vs Paranormal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Specimen Zero
Awaken in a mysterious, dangerous location after a kidnapping. Explore dark environments, solve puzzles, and collect items to find your escape. Team up with friends in online multiplayer to survive the horrors.
- Explore dark environments
- Solve puzzles
- Collect and use objects
- Online multiplayer mode
- Create private rooms
- New Forest map
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You wake up in an unknown place and the last thing you remember is being kidnapped. But something has happened in that strange place, something out of the ordinary ... something dangerous. You must discover the way to escape. Because here, you will only find death. -Explore a large dark area: secret buildings, a creepy hospital and mysterious laboratories. -Solve puzzles and search, collect and use objects to escape from the place. -Escape with your friends in online multiplayer mode! (Alpha) INCLUDES: -New map: Forest -Create unlimited private multiplayer rooms -No ads
Paranormal
Experience intense survival horror in a haunted office. Solve puzzles with friends in first-person mode to escape a terrifying entity. Play solo or with up to four players online.
- Multiplayer horror gameplay
- Single player offline mode
- Online co-op with up to 4 survivors
- Solve complex riddles
- First-person perspective
- In-game chat with friends
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Play scary survival horror game and experience the phobia of escaping from the ghost. Paranormal Multiplayer Horror is an exciting game with complex riddles in a office haunted by the ghost. It will let you experience the thrill of horror films and you can play it in first person mode!. You and your friends are in the office working at night shift. Suddenly lights go out and a terrifying entity haunts the building. You must solve the puzzles wit your friends and escape from the ghost in this crazy survival action game. Game Features: - Play either Single Player offline or Multiplayer game mode - Online game mode with up to 4 survivors. - Play with friends. - Chat with your friends. Enjoy this classic horror environment. Connect with random friends or invite your friends and share exciting adventures. Install now!.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Paranormal at Free against Specimen Zero's $1.99. Paranormal also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 14) and ratings volume (879 vs 137). Specimen Zero's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (66% vs 43%). On rating, update cadence, device support 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
Paranormal is free to download; Specimen Zero costs $1.99 up front. Specimen Zero sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Paranormal asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Specimen Zero against 4.2 for Paranormal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paranormal has 879 ratings behind it against 137, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Specimen Zero's written reviews are positive against 43% of Paranormal's.
Specimen Zero ships an update every 4 months, Paranormal every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Specimen Zero | Paranormal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (137 ratings) | 4.2 (879 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.3% of reviews — better | 43.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 137 | 879 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #101 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 380 MB | 304 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cafe Studio Games AG | Sibi Chakravarthy |
Customer experience
Specimen Zero
Paranormal
Bugs and requests
Specimen Zero
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Paranormal
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to join private games
- Crashes when switching between maps
- Stuck in loading screens
Requested features
4 requests- More map variety
- Improved character customization
- Better optimization for older devices
- Multiplayer voice chat
In-app purchases
Specimen Zero
- Lisa characterFree
- Founders Pack$0.99
- Marco character$0.99
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- Manuel character$0.99
- Stephan character$0.99
- Jack character$0.99
- Elsa character$0.99
- James character$0.99
- Yellow menu color$0.99
- Gloria skin$0.99
- Jorge skin$0.99
- Daniel skin$0.99
- Red menu color$1.99
- Purple menu color$3.99
Paranormal
No in-app purchases
Questions
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