Sticky Blocks vs FiveBubbleCrush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sticky Blocks
Experience a fresh take on block sliding puzzles with unique, wobbly shapes that stick together. Navigate over 600 challenging levels with beautiful graphics and engaging sound. Collect in-game items to purchase hints and power-ups.
- 600 challenging puzzles
- 6 difficulty levels
- In-game hints
- Beautiful graphics and animations
- Collect gems and items
- Unlock achievements
- Move undo
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Sticky Blocks takes the block slider into new territory with cute, challenging puzzles and a brand new gameplay twist. The most beautiful block slider yet! (see review!) Sticky Blocks(tm) makes block sliding even more fun and challenging! The new wobbling "Sticky" shape means you have to be careful. Sticky pieces that join together are then no longer sticky! Review: "With 600 levels, Sticky Blocks is absolutely enormous in size and will certainly provide a challenge no matter how persistent you are as a puzzle nut. ..it is the sheer pleasure and ease experienced when moving the blocks around and the addictiveness Sticky Blocks provides that will keep you coming back for more." - James Woodcock - Technology Journalist If you like puzzles such as "unblock me" then you will love this, as this is a genuinely new and innovative take on block sliders: A refreshing change from the countless similar block sliders with simple shapes that move in single directions. + 600 Challenging puzzles! + 6 difficulty levels + In-game hints to help you solve. + Beautiful graphics, animations and great voiceovers + Original music created for Sticky Blocks by artist James Higginson + Multiple backdrops + Ranking system through Game Center + Unlock achievements + Collect gems, frogs, moles and bugs and then buy hints and puzzle bombs! + Move undo + Automatic undo, so moving a pieces back does an intelligent undo Like us on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/stickyblocks Follow us on AI Factory Ltd at www.aifactory.co.uk An AI Factory / Tony Warriner collaboration
FiveBubbleCrush
Match five or more ores of the same color in horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines to eliminate them. This puzzle game challenges you to strategically arrange colorful ores to clear the board.
- Match same-colored ores
- Form horizontal, vertical, and oblique rows
- Eliminate five or more ores
- Stage challenges
- Strategic ore arrangement
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Try to arrange ores of the same color into a line in the form of horizontal, vertical and oblique rows. When five or more of same color ores arranged,these ores can be eliminated
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FiveBubbleCrush at 5.0 against Sticky Blocks's 4.6. FiveBubbleCrush also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Sticky Blocks's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
FiveBubbleCrush holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sticky Blocks has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Sticky Blocks's written reviews are positive against 100% of FiveBubbleCrush's.
Sticky Blocks ships an update monthly, FiveBubbleCrush every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Sticky Blocks | FiveBubbleCrush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AI Factory Ltd | 健 王 |
Customer experience
Sticky Blocks
FiveBubbleCrush
Bugs and requests
Sticky Blocks
Reported bugs
2 issues- Lock symbols appear unexpectedly on level select screen
- Unclear purpose of numbered locks on completion screens
Requested features
4 requests- Level builder for creating custom puzzles
- Ability to improve ratings on replayed levels
- More free starting credits
- Clearer explanation of scoring system
FiveBubbleCrush
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sticky Blocks
No in-app purchases
FiveBubbleCrush
No in-app purchases
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