Snowball vs Disasteroids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snowball
Guide a penguin on a journey to collect snowflakes and build a giant snowball. Navigate treacherous crumbling floors with simple swipe or tilt controls. Enjoy an ad-free and purchase-free gaming experience.
- Collect snowflakes
- Build a snowball
- Crumbling floor mechanic
- Swipe controls
- Tilt controls option
- No ads
- No in-app purchases
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Snowball is easy to play, but hard to master. Play as a penguin trying to collect enough snowflakes to make his very own snowball, but watch out as the floor crumbles below! Simply swipe to move, or enable classic tilt controls via the options menu. The game contains no ads or in-app purchases. Snowball has been available exclusively for iPhone since 2008.
Disasteroids
Pilot a ship through swarms of incoming asteroids using device tilt for navigation and tapping to destroy them. Earn achievements and challenge friends, all while enjoying engaging visuals and sound.
- Tilt-based asteroid dodging
- Tap-to-destroy mechanic
- Achievement system
- Game Center challenges
- Visually appealing graphics
- Engaging sound effects
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You don't shoot the asteroids. You touch them. Tilt your device and your little ship drifts — really drifts, with the weight and momentum of the arcade original. Then you reach into the swarm with a finger and rocks burst under your touch. It is a strange and lovely feeling, and it gets its hooks in fast. Lean away from a rock closing on your left. Pop it. Pop the two pieces it becomes. Keep the chain alive and your multiplier climbs; miss and it's gone. Somewhere out in the dark a saucer notices you and starts making its way over. Push far enough and the sky fills up: splinters everywhere, a saucer's shots crossing the field, your ship sliding through a gap you're not sure was there. That's the good part. Game Center leaderboards and a pile of achievements, including one you're not going to find by accident. Built for iPhone and iPad, edge to edge, with the moody hum of deep space behind it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Disasteroids at 100% against Snowball's 48%. Disasteroids also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.9). Snowball's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 months vs every 52 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Disasteroids sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snowball asks for nothing beyond the download.
Disasteroids holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snowball has 185 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Snowball's written reviews are positive against 100% of Disasteroids's.
Snowball ships an update every 9 months, Disasteroids every 52 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snowball | Disasteroids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (185 ratings) | 4.8 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 52 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Paul Ewers | Kaolin Fire |
Customer experience
Snowball
Disasteroids
Bugs and requests
Snowball
Reported bugs
2 issues- Poker invite message appears every time
- Sound plays even on vibrate
Requested features
6 requests- Add levels
- Add mission mode
- Add unlockable characters
- Option to turn off sound
- Remove poker invite message
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- Option to revert to older version
Disasteroids
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Snowball
No in-app purchases
Disasteroids
- No Ads$0.99
