SpaceJong vs Plumber
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SpaceJong
A Mahjong-style matching puzzle game featuring animated 3D planets and moons as tiles. Compete for high scores by clearing the board and enjoy various visual and audio themes. Tap celestial bodies for informational pop-ups.
- Mahjong-style matching gameplay
- Animated 3D planets and moons
- High score leaderboards
- Multiple animation styles
- Variety of space backgrounds
- Informational celestial body pop-ups
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SpaceJong is a Mahjong styled puzzle matching game, with animated 3D planets and moons as the puzzle pieces. Select matching free objects to remove them for the board. Best time makes the high score board. Three different animation styles, several boards, music, sound effects and a variety of space background images (including an animated star field) make for hours of entertainment. Double tap one of the planets or moons, to popup an info box with information about the object. iPad only, Requires iOS 11.0 or later
Plumber
Connect pipes to guide water to a thirsty flower in this free puzzle game. Strategically rotate pipe pieces to create a complete path, requiring logic and quick thinking to solve over 120 levels. Enjoy HD graphics and intuitive gameplay designed to challenge your brain.
- 120 challenging levels
- Intuitive pipe rotation gameplay
- Helpful hint system
- High-definition graphics
- New items introduced per land
- Strategy-based pipeline fixing
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Plumber: Pipe Classic is a free puzzle game with really nice graphics in which you will have to save a nice little flower which needs water in the desert. Simply turn the different pipe pieces by touching them and connect all of them to make a complete pipe make the water reach the flower! HOW TO PLAY • Use all pipe on the board to connect them. • Touch to move. FEATURES - 120 levels - Intuitive gameplay - Hint system - HD graphics - New Item on Each Land This game is really fun and requires strategy to fix the pipeline in as few movements as possible to become the best Plumber in the desert!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plumber at 4.7 against SpaceJong's 4.1. Plumber also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 39 months) and ratings volume (56 vs 7). SpaceJong's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment and iOS requirement 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. Plumber sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. SpaceJong asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plumber holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plumber has 56 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 76% positive.
SpaceJong ships an update every 39 months, Plumber every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | SpaceJong | Plumber |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (7 ratings) | 4.7 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 75.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Wright | Flowriz LLC |
Customer experience
SpaceJong
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In-app purchases
SpaceJong
No in-app purchases
Plumber
- Pack 1$0.99
- Purchase Chicago$0.99
- Purchase New York$0.99
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- pack 2$1.99
- pack3$2.99
- pack4$9.99
- Remove Ads$9.99
- English$9.99
