Bubble Wars vs BLACKOUT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bubble Wars
Engage in a strategic bubble-popping war where you aim and shoot to match three or more same-colored bubbles. Conquer challenging levels by bursting bubbles on a spinning ring, adapting your strategy in real-time to defeat the expanding bubble army.
- Spinning bubble ring mechanics
- Attack and Defend game modes
- Match 3+ same-colored bubbles to burst
- High score tracking
- Fast-paced arcade gameplay
- Simple and accurate controls
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Bubble Wars – Played by over 10 million users across the world, is an epic bubble shooter game featuring amazing bubble busting levels and addictive gameplay with serious bubble shooting and popping fun. Get on a war with the colorful world of bubbles, literally. What’s more? This bubble shooting game is completely FREE! Make a combination of 3 or more bubbles with same color to make them explode! To make it more exciting, the entire army of bubbles sits on a spinning ring full of bubbles. Each time you shoot the bubbles, the bubble ring spins, thus changing the dynamics of your strategy in real time. Challenge your hunger and test your skills to shoot, pop and defeat the army of bubbles in Bubble Wars.. ## Challenging Game Modes ## Attack mode: Shoot colored bubbles at the bubble spinner circle and try to shrink it. If you get 3 or more colors in a row the bubbles burst and are destroyed. Otherwise the circle can grow again. Once it is large enough to hit you, the game ends. Defend modes: Shoot colored bubbles at a bubble spinning ring that surrounds you. If you get 3 or more colors in a row the bubbles burst are destroyed. Otherwise the ring can start shrinking around you. Once it reaches you, the game ends. ## Awesome Features ## -- Exciting Gameplay -- Exploding Bubbles – Just Point and Shoot -- Multiple Bubble Combinations -- High Scores to keep a tab and challenge yourself. -- Fast Paced Arcade Game -- Accurate and Simple controls -- Continuous updates -- And much much more... Original and widely played bubble shooter arcade game is back with serious fun and shooting challenges of course. Thanks for playing Bubble Wars and we would love to hear back from you!
BLACKOUT
A memory-based horror maze game where players must navigate in near-total darkness, relying on brief flickers of light to memorize paths. Move strategically to avoid threats, but standing still attracts danger.
- Memory-based maze navigation
- Brief light flickers for visibility
- Avoid moving threats (Watchers)
- Swipe-to-dash movement
- 500 challenging levels
- Endless hunt mode
- Level editor for custom mazes
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IT ONLY MOVES WHEN YOU'RE STANDING STILL. BLACKOUT is a memory-horror maze game played almost entirely in the dark. The light comes in brief flickers. Memorize what you can. Then swipe to dash — blind — and pray you remembered the walls right. You're not alone in here. The Watcher — a red, glitching presence — creeps toward you every second you stand still. Moving keeps you safe. Moving also means you can't see. Choose. HOW IT WORKS - Swipe to dash — you slide until you hit a wall - The lights flicker at random. That's all the sight you get - Spikes kill. The Watchers kill. Your own bad memory kills - Reach the portal. Instant retry when you don't THE WATCHERS They only move while you stand still. The closer one gets, the faster the lights stutter — the darkness itself warns you. Lure them. Bait them across spike fields. Slip past them in the dark. From level 101 they hunt in packs — up to six by the end. 500 LEVELS Every maze is provably fair: always beatable, never a dead end, always more than one way through. Earn stars for clean runs, collect coins by sound alone, and find rare flash pickups that light the whole maze. THE HUNT (ENDLESS) One maze. Every portal you reach wakes another Watcher — and they never leave. How many portals before the room fills up? LEVEL LAB Build your own mazes. The editor won't let you share an impossible level — every shared level is verified beatable. Share levels as codes with anyone. PROGRESS - Level up from "Lost" to "The Unseen" - Daily streak rewards - Star rewards: exclusive lights and trails you can't buy - Light colors, trails, and upgrades like Sixth Sense — a hint of where the Watcher is while you're blind.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BLACKOUT at 100% against Bubble Wars's 47%. BLACKOUT also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). Bubble Wars's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (625 vs 1). On price, ads and monetization model 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. BLACKOUT sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Bubble Wars asks for nothing beyond the download.
BLACKOUT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bubble Wars has 625 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Bubble Wars's written reviews are positive against 100% of BLACKOUT's.
| Parameter | Bubble Wars | BLACKOUT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (625 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 625 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Modular Dreams Inc | Roman Podolian |
Customer experience
Bubble Wars
BLACKOUT
Bugs and requests
Bubble Wars
Reported bugs
4 issues- Bubbles disappearing or passing through other bubbles
- Game resetting to level 1 after phone calls or app exits
- Screen going black or app crashing on certain devices
- Controls becoming unresponsive or inaccurate
Requested features
4 requests- Add level saving and progress tracking
- Provide color-blind accessibility options
- Implement an ad-free paid version
- Allow customization of background and visuals
BLACKOUT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bubble Wars
No in-app purchases
BLACKOUT
- 100 Coins$0.99
- 700 Coins$4.99
- 1800 Coins$9.99







