Comparison

Ordle vs Virus Attack!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Ordle

A word-guessing game where players have six tries to find the correct word. It offers multiple difficulty levels and daily challenges, allowing competition with others on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Six tries to guess the word
  • Multiple difficulty levels (5, 6, 7 letters)
  • Daily word challenges
  • Global leaderboards
  • Word guessing similar to Mastermind
Features
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Guess the correct word in six tries. Ordle is a simple game, but it is not easy. It has many similarities with the classic game “Mastermind”, with the difference that you have to guess words instead of color combinations. Ordle has three levels of difficulty where you can guess words of 5, 6 or 7 letters. From easy to pretty challenging. You can guess all the words you want per day and compete with other players for the top of the rankings.

About

Virus Attack!

Features
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The viruses have taken over the flask. You have the pills. Let's go. Drop two-colour pills into a glass flask crawling with cartoon viruses. Line up four of a colour in a row or column and watch them pop. Clear every virus to win the level. Sounds simple. It isn't. ▸ 25 HAND-MADE LEVELS Every level packs more viruses into a fuller flask. Clear one to unlock the next, then go back and chase three stars by beating the par time with pills to spare. Your stars stay on the HUD so you always know what's left to earn. ▸ ENDLESS MODE No finish line. The viruses come in waves that grow bigger and faster, and the music races along with them. Survive as long as you can and set a wave record to beat. ▸ THREE WAYS TO PLAY CLASSIC: swipe to move, tap to rotate, flick down to drop. ONE-TOUCH: tap one of four suggested spots and the pill goes there. AUTO-ROUTE: place the marker anywhere and the pill finds its own way. ▸ SPECIAL PILLS METAL can't be destroyed, so plan around it. BOMB blows up everything next to it. WILDCARD matches any colour and rescues a bad drop. ▸ PICK YOUR PACE Play at LOW, MED or HIGH speed. Faster play multiplies every point you score. ▸ CHAIN REACTIONS Every pop drops the pieces above it. Set up a chain and one pill can clear half the flask, with the score doubling on every virus in the chain. ▸ MADE TO FEEL GOOD Glossy hand-drawn art, a flask that fills as you climb the levels, a pill you can feel land, and an original soundtrack that speeds up with the game. Every pop, ding and fanfare is tuned by hand. ▸ GAME CENTER Climb the leaderboards for levels and endless, and unlock achievements from your first clear to every star in the game. ▸ LEARN IN MINUTES A hands-on tutorial walks you through every move and every mode, one step at a time. Free to play, no ads, no timers, nothing to wait for. Just you, the flask, and a lot of very worried viruses. Grab your pills. The flask won't clear itself.

Screenshots

Ordle4 screens
Virus Attack!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Virus Attack! at none against Ordle's 1. Virus Attack! also leads on ads (none vs shown). Ordle's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ordle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Virus Attack! asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ordle versus Virus Attack!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrdleVirus Attack!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjacob nielsenGhassan Ghaleb

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ordle

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$5.99
None

Virus Attack!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ordle free?
Ordle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Virus Attack! free?
Virus Attack! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ordle or Virus Attack! have ads?
Ordle shows ads; Virus Attack! does not.

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