Comparison

! Exploding Paintballs ! vs Samewise

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

! Exploding Paintballs !

A tilt-sensitive arcade game where players link and explode colored paintballs. Compete with friends on leaderboards for high scores and unlock more levels through in-app purchases. Experience realistic physics and varied explosion sounds.

Highlights
  • Tilt or touch controls
  • Physics-based gameplay
  • Link and explode colored paintballs
  • Realistic explosion sounds
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Unlockable levels via IAP
Features
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!Exploding Paintballs! is a tilt-sensitive arcade game with paintballs that float (blue and green) and paintballs that sink (red and yellow). When certain color combinations of paintballs touch they link together and, when the link is complete, explode with a loud realistic explosion noise. The color combinations that will explode vary with each Level. The Game Center records various scores on Leaderboards such as number of Levels completed, number of explosions, best times for certain Levels and best times for all Levels combined. Compete with your Game Center Friends to see who can make the most explosions or who can get 10 explosions on one or all Levels the fastest. Gravity is adjusted by tilting the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Alternatively, !Exploding Paintballs! can respond to touch moves rather than tilt. The exploding noise differs for the different color combinations that explode (e.g. gunshots, crashes, bombs). The sound can be turned off or made into a vibration. There are 8 free Levels - 4 with walls and 4 without walls. An In App Purchase expands the number of Levels to 66 - 33 Levels with walls and 33 Levels without walls. !Exploding Paintballs! is based on a kinetic simulation using the device's accelerometer and realistic principles of physics (buoyancy, inertia, viscosity, Hooke's Law and color confinement). For accuracy and stability it uses a half step modification to Euler's Algorithm as described by Feynman (Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1, Ch. 9, P. 5) and Cromer (Am. J. Phy. 49, 455 (1981)). The screen shots below are: 1) Free Level 1 - Red-Blue. A red-blue combination is shown exploding. 2) The Levels Table. The 4 free Levels are shown together with the Best Times and maximum number of Explosions. 3) Free Level 2 - Red-Blue, Yellow-Green. A red-blue (yellow-green for iPad) combination is shown exploding. 4) Free Level 3 - Blue-Yellow-Green. Some partial combinations are shown linked and one blue-yellow-green is shown exploding. 5) Free Level 4 - Red-Green-Green-Loop. Some partial combinations for the loop are shown linked and one red-green-green-loop is shown exploding.

About

Samewise

Features
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Samewise is a logic puzzle about discovering hidden rules. Every puzzle shows three examples: a small colored grid before and after a secret transformation. Work out the rule in your head, then apply it to a new grid yourself. No timers, no move limits — pure deduction. THE LADDER Climb an endless ladder of levels. Every level is a fresh, fairly generated puzzle: exactly one rule fits the examples, so correct reasoning is never rejected. New rule families unlock as you climb. THE DAILY One shared puzzle a day for everyone. Keep your streak, compare how you did, and share a spoiler-free result card. FAIR BY DESIGN Every puzzle is machine-verified so that only one rule fits the examples. If you can reason it out, you can solve it — no guessing, no trivia, no luck. ACCESSIBLE A colorblind mode adds distinct glyphs on top of every color, so the game never depends on color alone. Free to play. Works offline.

Screenshots

! Exploding Paintballs !4 screens
Samewise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Samewise at none against ! Exploding Paintballs !'s 1. Samewise also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). ! Exploding Paintballs !'s advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ! Exploding Paintballs ! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Samewise asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

! Exploding Paintballs ! ships an update every 2 months, Samewise every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
! Exploding Paintballs ! versus Samewise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter! Exploding Paintballs !Samewise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter KramerDmitrii Dimov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

! Exploding Paintballs !

One-time1
  • upgrade to play the Additional Levels$0.99
None

Samewise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ! Exploding Paintballs ! free?
! Exploding Paintballs ! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Samewise free?
Samewise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ! Exploding Paintballs ! or Samewise have ads?
Samewise shows ads; ! Exploding Paintballs ! does not.
Which is updated more often, ! Exploding Paintballs ! or Samewise?
! Exploding Paintballs ! ships an update every 2 months, and Samewise every 3 days. Most recently, ! Exploding Paintballs ! was updated on October 26, 2026 and Samewise on October 14, 2026.

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