Mars 2055 vs Partywheel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mars 2055
Embark on a solo first-person adventure on Mars. Survive, search for clues, and repair systems to find your way home. MacGyver items and make critical choices to escape the desolate planet.
- First-person solo adventure
- Survival mechanics
- Clue searching and puzzle solving
- Item repair and system restoration
- Sandbox exploration
- Escape objective
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Loneliness is the only feeling you may ever know? You wake up, alone, on a planet that appears to be Mars. There is not much else I can tell you. The rest is up to you. In this first person solo game there are clues all around you but the only thing I can tell you is its time to start moving. While you still can. Finding your way home seems like the best option. What? You need something more than that? Mars 2055 is a first person solo adventure where you, as the player, find yourself in an unknown location, for unknown reasons, alone. In this sandbox you need to: • first and foremost: survive • search for clues left behind by other intelligence: human or artificial • use those clues to make good choices • use those clues to repair broken items • use those clues to restore damaged systems • use those clues to access secure areas • use those clues to MacGyver seemingly unrelated items into usable modules • be careful to not destroy the entire base with a single miscalculation When you have, and only when you have finally pieced together the entire puzzle, there will be an opportunity for you to escape, with nothing more than the suit on your back. Where does the adventure come from? Why it comes from the stories you tell yourself, alone, inside your head.
Partywheel
This app offers a fun and interactive way to enhance social gatherings with a variety of games and challenges. Spin a wheel to determine the next activity, from dance-offs to truth-or-dare, ensuring an engaging experience for all participants.
- Interactive game wheel
- Spin to determine actions
- Variety of challenges
- Easy setup and play
- Suitable for social events
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One spin picks what you play together next. Partywheel brings 14 group games to Apple TV, iPhone and iPad, with no player names to enter and no ads. The cropped wheel reveals your next game. Its rules stay on screen until you spin again, so you can jump straight into playing together. All 14 classics are included for free. A one-time purchase of Partywheel Premium lets you disable individual games and add, edit or delete your own games with a title, emoji and description. With iCloud, your personal game selection syncs across your devices. On iPhone and iPad, you can also save your own games locally without iCloud. Editing on Apple TV requires an available iCloud connection; games already saved there can also be played offline. One Premium purchase works on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV using the same Apple Account for purchases. If you previously purchased the ad-free option, Premium is included without another purchase. The interface and classic games are available in English, German, French and Spanish. Your own game descriptions stay just as you wrote them. Sound and supported haptics can be switched off separately.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Partywheel at 3.2 against Mars 2055's 2.3. Partywheel also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). Mars 2055's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 27.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Mars 2055 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Partywheel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Partywheel holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Mars 2055's written reviews are positive against 50% of Partywheel's.
Mars 2055 ships an update every 4 weeks, Partywheel monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mars 2055 | Partywheel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 3.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BurningThumb Software | Johannes Bauer |
Customer experience
Mars 2055
Partywheel
In-app purchases
Mars 2055
- Mars 2055$9.99
Partywheel
- Remove Ads$1.99
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