Monster Dash vs juicy trail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monster Dash
Embark on an action-packed adventure running and gunning through monster hordes. Master simple controls to blast enemies with powerful weapons across diverse worlds. Discover hidden awards and enjoy uninterrupted gameplay.
- Run and gun gameplay
- Powerful weapons
- Diverse worlds
- Unique enemies
- Hidden awards
- Simple controls
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Sprint, Jump and Blast your way through Monster Dash, an action-packed game by the creators of Jetpack Joyride and Fruit Ninja. Experience the classic game resurrected from the dead! With simple controls, just two buttons, making it easy-to-learn but hard to master. Join Barry Steakfries and his iconic Machine Gun Jetpack in a world full of menacing monster mayhem, as you run and gun your way through hordes of zombies, vampires and more with the most explosive and powerful weapons you can find! UNIQUE FEATURES: • Clear your path with punchy and powerful Weapons! • Uninterrupted gameplay without ads or in-app purchases • 5 different exotic worlds to survive • Unique enemies to defeat in each world • 62 Hidden Awards and Accolades to discover Download Monster Dash now and embark on an action-packed, monster-slaying, adventure… with a dash of nostalgia. Do the dash, do the Monster Dash! WHAT'S HALFBRICK+ Halfbrick+ is a mobile games subscription service featuring: ● Exclusive access to the highest-rated games ● No ads or in app purchases ● Brought to you by the makers of Award-winning mobile games ● Regular updates and new games ● Curated by hand - for gamers by gamers! Kick off your Guest Access with 60 minutes of gameplay! If you like what you see, start your One Month free trial and play all our games without ads, in app purchases, and fully unlocked games! Your subscription will auto-renew after 30 days, or save money with an annual membership! If you have any questions, please contact our support team https://support.halfbrick.com **************************************** View our privacy policy at https://halfbrick.com/hbpprivacy View our terms of service at https://www.halfbrick.com/terms-of-service
juicy trail
Race around tiny planets, leaving a trail of fruit. Avoid touching any trail, including your own, to be the last one running. Each animal has a unique ability to outsmart opponents.
- Leave fruit trails
- Avoid touching trails
- Unique animal abilities
- Play against bots
- Online multiplayer
- Play with friends
- No account required
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Cute animals. Tiny planets. One rule: do not touch the fruit. Juicy Trail is a party game about nerve. You race around a small tropical world and everywhere you go you leave a trail of fruit behind you. So does everybody else. Touch any trail — theirs or your own — and you are out. Last one still running wins the round. The planets are round, which changes everything. There are no walls to hug and no corners to hide in. A trail you left thirty seconds ago is waiting for you on the other side of the world, and the gap you are aiming for is over a horizon you cannot see past. SIX ANIMALS, SIX WAYS TO CHEAT Every animal has one trick, and each one changes what you dare to do. MOKO hurls a banana far ahead — a wall that lands where somebody else is already going. TANGO sprints, but turning gets harder the faster it goes. KAZOO glides, and trails pass harmlessly underneath. GLOOP leaps enormous distances, and lands on people. DOZER belly-flops, and every screen in the game gets a faceful of water. BAO barges straight through a trail and scatters fruit everywhere. PLAY HOW YOU LIKE Alone against bots that genuinely play — they look ahead, cut you off, and take the win if you let them. Online with strangers: one tap for a quick match, and a countdown that always ends in a four-player game. Online with friends: share a four-letter room code and they are in. NO ACCOUNTS, NO SIGN-UP There is no login, no email and no password. Pick a name, pick an animal, play. Your record is kept on your own phone and goes nowhere else. Seven planets. Six animals with different powers. Rounds that last about a minute and arguments that last longer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: juicy trail at 5.0 against Monster Dash's 4.4. juicy trail also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). Monster Dash's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Monster Dash sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and juicy trail sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
juicy trail holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Monster Dash has 2.1K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Monster Dash's written reviews are positive against 100% of juicy trail's.
Monster Dash ships an update every 3 weeks, juicy trail every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monster Dash | juicy trail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2.1K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Halfbrick | david shen |
Customer experience
Monster Dash
juicy trail
Bugs and requests
Monster Dash
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress and purchases disappearing after updates
- Game Center integration not working properly
- Spawning enemies too close to the player
Requested features
3 requests- Bring back the original pixel art style
- Add more unlockable weapons and gadgets
- Implement a classic mode without energy/stamina system
juicy trail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Monster Dash
- Halfbrick+$2.991 Month
- Halfbrick+ (Trial)1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Halfbrick+ (Early Adopter)6 Months trial$2.991 Month
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- Halfbrick+ (Yearly discount)$2.991 Month
- Halfbrick+3 variants$29.991 Year
- Halfbrick+1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Halfbrick+$99.99
juicy trail
- 100 Juicy Jewels$0.99
- Big Apple$4.99
- Lychee Lantern$4.99
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- 550 Juicy Jewels$4.99
- 1200 Jewels$9.99
Questions
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