Android Best Lode Runner vs Super Runner Classic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Android Best Lode Runner
Experience a fast-paced 2D platformer inspired by a classic. Collect gold, avoid enemies, and use bombs to dig traps. Features joystick controls, custom levels, and bonus fruit for endless fun.
- Joystick-like controls
- Large landscape levels
- Custom levels for endless play
- Collect gold and bonus fruit
- Dig holes and trap enemies
- Touchscreen controls
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Android is a fast-paced retro platformer in the spirit of the Lode Runner classics. Run, climb, hang from vines and dig holes to trap the robots hunting you down. Grab every bag of gold on the level, snatch the bonus fruit and reach the exit before the timer runs out. Easy to pick up, hard to put down. FEATURES - 20 handcrafted levels, from first steps to real head-scratchers - Level select: replay any stage you have already unlocked - Remastered artwork on a full widescreen playfield - Responsive on-screen d-pad with generous touch zones, plus a dedicated TNT button - Teleporters, trampolines, bumpers, ladders and vines to master - Custom levels for endless play - Original soundtrack and arcade sound effects - Plays offline, no account needed Dig a hole, drop a robot into it, walk over its head. That is the whole game, and it never gets old.
Super Runner Classic
Navigate challenging levels, collecting gold while outsmarting pursuing guards. Utilize digging mechanics to trap enemies and strategize your path through intricate brick platforms. Enjoy retro graphics and sound for an authentic classic gaming experience.
- 201 free and unlockable levels
- Customizable joystick or D-Pad controls
- Retro graphics and sound effects
- Digging mechanics to trap guards
- Platform traversal with ladders and bars
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Classic lode runner game. Collect all the gold while avoiding guards that try to catch you. Enjoy 201 classic levels—free and fully unlocked. [Feature] - 201 free and unlock levels - Choose the joystick or D-Pad, and you can also resize it to give you the best control experience - Retro game graphics and sound effects, let you relive the past experience [Control] - Joystick/D-Pad: move the player - A button: Dig a hole at the right side - B button: Dig a hole at the left side [Introduction] The player must collect all the gold in a level while avoiding guards who try to catch the player. After collecting all the gold, the player must touch the top of the screen to reach the next level. Levels feature a multi-story, brick platform motif, with ladders and suspended hand-to-hand bars that offer multiple ways to travel throughout. The player can dig holes into floors to temporarily trap guards and may safely walk atop trapped guards. Should a guard be carrying a bar of gold when he falls into a hole it will be left behind, and can be retrieved by the player. Over time, floors dug into will regenerate, filling in these holes. A trapped guard who cannot escape a hole before it fills is consumed, immediately respawning in a random location at the top of the level. Unlike guards, the player's character may not climb up out of a hole, and will be killed if it fills before he can escape by other means. Floors may also contain trapdoors, through which the player and guards will fall, and bedrock, through which the player cannot dig. The player can only dig a hole to the sides, and not directly underneath himself. This introduces an important strategy for when digging a hole x blocks deep, the player must first dig a gap at least x wide to be able to dig through it, as the number of spaces will shrink with each layer, and the player needs at least one free adjacent space to be able to dig. However, exceptions to this rule arise when the player digs from the position of standing on a ladder, or hanging from a hand-to-hand bar, which allows the player to repeatedly dig and descend one row. This kind of digging is involved in solving many of the levels. The player starts with five lives; each level completion awards an extra life. Should a guard catch the player, one life is subtracted, and the current level restarts. The player's character can fall from arbitrary heights without any injury but cannot jump, and players can trap themselves in pits from which the only escape is to abort the level, costing a life, and begin again. The player may come into contact with a guard directly from above, with the stick figure's feet touching the guard's head. This is what enables the player to walk over guards who are temporarily stuck in a hole that has been dug. It is also possible to make this contact while both the guard and the player are in free fall, since the player not only runs faster than the guards, but also falls faster; moreover, it is possible to survive the feet-to-head contact while a guard is standing on a platform and begins to move. Both forms of contact are necessary to solve some levels. Sometimes it is necessary to liberate a trapped guard by digging while standing on his head, but then moving rapidly in the opposite direction when the guard begins marching to freedom. In a few levels, it is necessary to use a falling guard as a bridge to reach an otherwise unreachable area. One subtlety is that if a down movement is initiated while standing on a guard's head, or briefly touching the guard's head during free fall, the consequences are fatal. In some levels, guards can be deliberately trapped in various ways. They can be lured into entering a part of the level from which there is no escape. In some situations, the player can liberate trapped guards by digging them out. In some levels, to collect some gold pieces, the player must exploit the guards into collecting gold pieces. Try to clear all the levels!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Android Best Lode Runner at 4.3 against Super Runner Classic's 3.3. Android Best Lode Runner also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 14 months). Super Runner Classic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (49% vs 33%). On price, ratings volume, monetization model 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. Android Best Lode Runner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Super Runner Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Android Best Lode Runner holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 21 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Android Best Lode Runner's written reviews are positive against 49% of Super Runner Classic's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Android Best Lode Runner ships an update every 6 weeks, Super Runner Classic every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Android Best Lode Runner | Super Runner Classic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better | 3.3 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 48.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julien meyer | ZIROTEK Corp. |
Customer experience
Android Best Lode Runner
Super Runner Classic
In-app purchases
Android Best Lode Runner
- Remove Ads forever$1.99
Super Runner Classic
No in-app purchases
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