ALIVE vs PANIC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ALIVE
Experience a war game in augmented reality, featuring multiple arenas and VOIP communication. Engage in single-player practice, duel challenges, or multiplayer battles with up to eight players.
- Augmented Reality gameplay
- Multiplayer mode (up to 8 players)
- Duel mode
- Single player practice mode
- VOIP communication
- Multiple arenas
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the game is a war game, with wepons purchased through in app purchases ,with multiplayer capability mode for maximum of 8 pax, and duel mode for challenges, and a single player practice mode and VOIP coms, several arenas to choose from The entire game-play is based on Augmented Reality
PANIC
Engage in augmented reality combat against monsters that appear in your real world. Explore a city under siege, upgrade your weapons and gear, and rescue your pets. Experience a narrative that adapts to your performance.
- Augmented Reality combat
- Wave-based monster encounters
- 30 surreal Incidents
- Gun and gear upgrades
- Mutated pet upgrades
- Adaptive narration
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PANIC is a wave-based AR shooter set in Neo Jadu, a city collapsing under the effects of the Bloom—a mysterious energy that’s warping plants and creating monsters. Aliens are here to harvest it. A megacorp is trying to weaponize it. And you? You’re just trying to get your frog back. • Augmented Reality combat — enemies spawn in your real world • 30 surreal Incidents across 4 districts, from Frog Food Factories to Sunken Ruins full of cactus monsters • Upgrade your guns, gear, health, and mutated pets • Narration that tracks your wins and your humiliation • Face Bloom-twisted zombies, drones, orchids, beasts—and things with way too many teeth • Rescue Squish. Follow Void. Find Spitfire. Don’t get converted into an intern.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PANIC at every 2 days against ALIVE's every 5 months. PANIC also leads on ratings volume (380 vs 1). ALIVE's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ads 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. ALIVE sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and PANIC sells 7 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 — 5.0 for ALIVE against 4.9 for PANIC. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PANIC has 380 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of ALIVE's written reviews are positive against 84% of PANIC's.
ALIVE ships an update every 5 months, PANIC every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ALIVE | PANIC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (380 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 380 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.2 GB | 575 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Quantum Reflections Limited | Jadu AR, Inc. |
Customer experience
ALIVE
PANIC
Bugs and requests
ALIVE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PANIC
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes during tutorial
- Progression issues
Requested features
2 requests- Optimization for older devices
- Expanded content and levels
In-app purchases
ALIVE
- BitofNova$0.99
- SackofNova$5.99
- FullofNova$9.99
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- MightofNova$39.99
- LegendOfNova$79.99
PANIC
- Gift Pack $.99$0.99
- Gift Pack $2.99$2.99
- Gift Pack $4.99$4.99
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- Gift Pack $9.99$9.99
- Gift Pack $14.99$14.99
- Gift Pack $19.99$19.99
- Gift Pack $49.99$49.99
