Tarantula vs Snake vs Scribble Squabble
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tarantula vs Snake
Control a spider to build webs and capture territory while avoiding a hungry snake. This arcade-style game offers endless challenging levels and a global leaderboard. Enjoy cooperative two-player mode on a single device.
- Control a spider
- Build spider webs
- Evade a hungry snake
- Infinite challenging levels
- Global leaderboard
- Two-player co-op mode
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Do you remember classic games like Qix, JezzBall, Styx, or Xonix? Or maybe you're a fan of arcade games that require a strategic approach? If so, you've come to the right place. During the game the player controls the spider. On each level the goal is to create a sufficiently large spider web. However, this task is not easy because the hungry snake is just waiting for an opportunity to eat the spider. The game offers an infinite number of increasingly challenging levels, allowing you to enjoy hours of gameplay. A global leaderboard lets you compare your scores with friends. You can also join forces in two-player mode and play on one device, working as a team to defeat the snake that stands in your way.
Scribble Squabble
Engage in strategic paper warfare by building forts and launching hand-drawn attacks against friends or AI. Victory goes to the most skilled sketcher on a digital notebook page.
- Build forts on a digital notebook page
- Battle friends or AI opponents
- Launch hand-drawn bombs
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Play with 1-10 forts
- Unlockable themes via in-app purchase
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A few minutes of downtime is all you need to wage furiously scribbled warfare, battling friends or an evil artificial intelligence who knows exactly how to defeat you. The battlefield is a war-torn, crumpled sheet of notebook paper. Half the page belongs to you, half to your opponent. Build your forts, then brace for combat as you cross sharpened pencils, taking turns lobbing handdrawn bombs until their forts are mere scorched smudges. Victory belongs to the sketchiest player! It's all-out warfare. On digital paper, of course! • Play against a friend or a computer opponent on your device • Battle anyone with a network connection signed into Game Center • Three difficulty levels • Play with 1 to 10 forts • Choose from several themes. Classic and X-mas are free. Tanks, Subs, Space, and Planes are available for In-App Purchase • _Do not_ use an actual pencil on your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Scribble Squabble at 100% against Tarantula vs Snake's 56%. Scribble Squabble also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). Tarantula vs Snake's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 46 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Scribble Squabble sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Tarantula vs Snake asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scribble Squabble holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tarantula vs Snake has 74 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Tarantula vs Snake's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scribble Squabble's.
Tarantula vs Snake ships an update every 3 months, Scribble Squabble every 46 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tarantula vs Snake | Scribble Squabble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (74 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 46 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Mac, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 212 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Leszek Szary | Splasm Software, Inc. |
Customer experience
Tarantula vs Snake
Scribble Squabble
In-app purchases
Tarantula vs Snake
No in-app purchases
Scribble Squabble
- Subs Theme$0.99
- Space Theme$0.99
- Planes Theme$0.99
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- Tanks Theme$0.99
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