Escape vs Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Escape
Engage in challenging puzzle-solving gameplay with numerous mechanics to overcome obstacles. Discover hidden paths and secrets across 50 levels, with more available through in-app purchases. This game encourages creative and innovative thinking to escape each unique scenario.
- Addicting gameplay
- Challenging puzzles
- Hidden passageways and secrets
- Variety of puzzle mechanics
- 50 initial levels
- Additional levels via in-app purchase
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Addicting gameplay and challenging puzzles make Escape a great game that will keep you occupied for countless hours. Use bombs, collect keys, pick locks, dodge shooters, push blocks,teleport around, and much more to escape from each puzzle. Make sure to keep an eye out for hidden passageways and other secrets, each level is designed to require creativity and innovative thinking. Escape comes with 50 levels with an additional 55+ levels available for in-app purchasing. "It has very addicting gameplay and will keep you occupied for countless hours. The sounds and music that accompany the game guarantee excitement with every passing level" - planet-iphones.com "Overall this is a fun game with a lot of really creative puzzles" - iphoneappreviews.net "It keeps you thinking and trying to solve each level, there is a wide array of different puzzle elements to play with, and difficulty progression is well handled." - Touchpodium.com Make sure to check out Nuclear Nova's golf game simulator, GL Golf and GL Golf Lite. GL Golf is a 3D golfing game for the casual gamer. With a realistic physics system and great simple graphics, you and up to four players can golf twenty+ unique courses for countless hours. Also make sure to check out Nuclear Nova's new golf game, Rocket Golf and Rocket Golf Lite. Rocket Golf gives golfing a new twist with its 2D gameplay and clean 3D graphics. Challenge yourself to 36 unique holes over two courses. Rocket Golf provides accurate game physics while maintaining an arcade feel. iphone golf game mac golf game http://nuclearnova.com/ http://nuclearnova.com/escapeiphone.php http://nuclearnova.com/escapeliteiphone.php
Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis
Build towering skyscrapers, manage diverse businesses, and earn profits. Expand your empire by creating your own city, inviting friends, and competing with others for the highest city rating. Explore for treasure and interact with players.
- Build and upgrade skyscrapers
- Manage businesses and staff
- Create and manage your own city
- Compete in city ratings
- Explore for treasure
- Interact with other players via chat
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The idea of the game is simple: You are building your dream skyscraper, developing businesses with it, earning profit, and competing with other players. Sounds great, but what if you think one skyscraper isn't enough? You're in luck! The developers have got you covered—more ambitious players can create their own cities and invite other players to live there and make theirs the greatest city ever. Want to know whose city is the snazziest? Check the best city rating. If you rank high enough, that will prove to everyone that you've got real business acumen and your city is the cream of the crop. Game features: • PLAY FOR FREE • BUILD the highest skyscraper to be the crown jewel of your city and earn you millions • ORGANIZE your enterprise however you like on every level of the skyscraper. Choose for yourself: Do you want coffee shops, beauty salons, maybe a barber shop or a tailor? • MANAGE your staff. Hire and fire workers, and find everyone's dream jobs, buy goods, and collect the proceeds • CREATE your very own city, become its mayor, and invite your friends to live in it and build a business empire together • ASSEMBLE a complete collection of stars and celebrities to visit your skyscraper and give you a real leg up on other businesses • EXPLORE a labyrinth in search of untold treasure • INTERACT using the chat, and make new friends Gameplay: The game sucks you in from the very first minute. When you enter the game, you are met by a small building of several floors with a few residents. They are dying to work, but pay close attention to them—each one has different preferences. Keep an eye on the elevator. Your skyscraper will occasionally be visited by clients with a VIP status, and their visits will make your wallet a bit thicker! There is also an entire floor of the skyscraper just for celebrities. The more of them who come there, the better your city's reputation will be. Earn your first profits and begin building new levels and opening stores, bars, salons, and shops. If your skyscraper reaches 10 levels, and you still want to do more—welcome to the city. You can ask to join someone else's or you can make your own and be its mayor. Invite other players to your city and work together to improve it. To make construction and development even more interesting, the game includes a general rating system. Do you have the best skyscraper out there? Then you win the gold medal! Is life in your city so amazing that the population is huge and your coffers are overflowing? You're on top of the world, and the other players will know all about it! No time to come and collect your profit? Overmobile has you taken care of; hire a personal manager who can look after things in your absence. Bonuses: The game has two kinds of daily tasks: special and city. When you complete them, you get cool bonuses that will help your business grow. Like keys to the labyrinth. If you open all 10 doors of the labyrinth and never hit a dead end, you'll get a spectacular reward: a chest full of gamer's treasure—gold coins, bucks, and other cool stuff you can use to expand your business. The developers frequently surprise the players with deals and events that make in-game coins and skyscraper and city upgrades a real bargain. Want to consult with more experienced entrepreneurs? Join the chat right in the game and talk with the whole game world. Pocket Tower will whisk you away from the drudgery of everyday life and immerse you in a thrilling world of business and economics, with stunning graphics, realistic interiors, and with a city and characters waiting just for you. Your childhood dreams come true! Build your own skyscraper and show the world that you are the best of the best!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis at Free against Escape's $0.99. Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). Escape's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (62% vs 48%). On in-app purchases 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
Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis is free to download; Escape costs $0.99 up front. Escape sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis has 1.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Escape's written reviews are positive against 48% of Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Escape ships an update every 9 months, Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Escape | Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better | 47.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 199 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Nuclear Nova Software | Overmobile |
Customer experience
Escape
Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis
Bugs and requests
Escape
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to contact technical support
- Disappearing purchases and lost progress
- Notification system not working as intended
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add more city tasks and events
- Allow mayors/deputies to manage city tasks
- Improve organization of citizens and businesses
- Provide more ways to earn premium currency
In-app purchases
Escape
- Escape Level Pack 1$0.99
- Escape Level Pack 2$0.99
Pocket Tower-Tiny Metropolis
- 750 bux$1.99
- 19th floor! Special offer!$2.99
- 29th floor! Special offer!$2.99
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- 39th floor! Special offer!$2.99
- Special offer for 9th floor!$2.99
- 1'500 bux$3.99
- 3'000 bux$6.49
- Diamond bonuses$6.49
- 5'000 bux$9.99
- 10'000 bux$19.99
- 20'000 bux$37.99
Questions
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