SpaceJong vs PALINGENESIS
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
PALINGENESIS
Experience an album as an interactive music video game. Explore animated worlds, each tied to a song, and uncover a developing narrative through your journey. This unique application blends hand-crafted animation with interactive gameplay.
- Interactive animated worlds
- Music-driven environments
- Unfolding narrative
- Hand-crafted animation
- Visual sequences
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PALINGENESIS is a music video game. The album by GRIGS unfolds as a series of interactive animated worlds, with each environment built around a different song. Created entirely by animator and musician John Paul Grigsby, PALINGENESIS brings together hand-crafted animation, interactive environments, and visual sequences that appear as you move through each world. As you progress through the album, a larger story begins to take shape through the environments and the moments you come across along the way. Listen to PALINGENESIS by GRIGS wherever you stream music. www.johngrigsby.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PALINGENESIS at 4.8 against SpaceJong's 4.1. PALINGENESIS also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 39 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PALINGENESIS holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of SpaceJong's written reviews are positive against 100% of PALINGENESIS's.
SpaceJong ships an update every 39 months, PALINGENESIS every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpaceJong | PALINGENESIS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (7 ratings) | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 741 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Richard Wright | John Paul Grigsby |
Customer experience
SpaceJong
PALINGENESIS
In-app purchases
SpaceJong
No in-app purchases
PALINGENESIS
No in-app purchases
