Snowball vs Rooftop Ramble
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.
Rooftop Ramble
An endless runner game with retro pixel art graphics where players lunge, jump, and slide between buildings. Collect power-ups and coins to unlock over 80 character customizations and compete for high scores on leaderboards.
- Endless running gameplay
- Retro pixel art graphics
- Building lunging, jumping, and sliding mechanics
- Power-up collection
- Character customization (80+ items)
- Leaderboard competition
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Rooftop Ramble is a fast-paced, easy-to-learn but hard-to-master endless runner game set in a retro-inspired pixel art city. Lunge from building to building while jumping over and sliding under obstacles to keep improving your best score. Collect power-ups to help you reach new heights as you compete against your friends on the leaderboards to see who can run the farthest! Gather coins to unlock over 80 character customizations including hats, trails, and skins!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rooftop Ramble at 100% against Snowball's 48%. Rooftop Ramble also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 months). Snowball's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). 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
Both are free to download. Rooftop Ramble sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Snowball asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rooftop Ramble holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snowball has 185 ratings behind it against 10, 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 Rooftop Ramble's.
Snowball ships an update every 9 months, Rooftop Ramble every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snowball | Rooftop Ramble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (185 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Ewers | Smashtoad Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Snowball
Rooftop Ramble
In-app purchases
Snowball
No in-app purchases
Rooftop Ramble
- 50,000 Coins$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- 125,000 Coins$1.99
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- 200,000 Coins$2.99
- 275,000 Coins$3.99
- 350,000 Coins$4.99
