Jailhouse Jack vs Knock down with Fire Balls
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jailhouse Jack
Direct your own jailbreak movie, controlling actors and rewinding time to fix mistakes. Experience the thrill of movie making with an innovative timeline feature that makes any error reversible.
- Direct your own jailbreak movie
- Control actors
- Roll back time to undo mistakes
- 70 scenes to direct
- 3-star ranking system
- Game Center support
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Love watching video clips? Love playing games? Now you can do both, SIMULTANEOUSLY! JAILHOUSE JACK is an all-new game innovation from Donut Games, where you get to DIRECT YOUR OWN JAILBREAK MOVIE, direct the actors and even ROLL BACK TIME to undo mistakes. Enjoy all the dynamite exploding fun of real movie making, with one big exception... Any mistake is reversible by a drag on the timeline. Because honestly, time traveling shouldn't be harder than hi-speed scrubbing an online video! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * App Store placements early 2012: ### Top 100 Games USA ### ### Top 100 Games Canada ### ### Top 100 Games Scandinavia ### - "Brilliant, inventive, addictive" - "You'll have a hard time putting your iDevice down" - "Donut Games has done it again" - "iOS Game of the Day" -- MacWorld SE Highlighted in "10 New App Store Games To Watch" by TouchMyApps * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - 70 Scenes to direct and perfect - Donut Games' famous 3-star ranking system: Increased replay value! - Collectors Icon #30 - Game Center support - Universal App (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch support) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Enjoy another Donut Games release!
Knock down with Fire Balls
Hurl fireballs at structures to cause them to collapse and knock down targets. Earn rewards for saved fireballs to unlock new environments and weapons. Enjoy addictive gameplay with one-tap controls and stunning 3D visuals.
- Physics-based destruction
- Fireball launching mechanics
- Unlockable weapons and themes
- Diamond rewards system
- One-tap controls
- 3D environments
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Throw Fireballs at different structures to make them collapse and hit individuals to fall down, but be careful not to exceed the allowed limit of your weapons! Each saved Fireballs will count double at the next level and increase your diamonds, take advantage of it! Each Level can have different environments and structures to break down with Fireballs by unlocking themes with your diamonds! Knock Down each Structure with different weapons! This game contains different weapons and different environments, complete all levels and collect diamonds to unlock all weapons and Environment Themes! One-tap easy-to-learn controls with stunning visual effects, 3d environment and addictive gameplay mechanics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Knock down with Fire Balls at Free against Jailhouse Jack's $0.99. Knock down with Fire Balls also leads on update cadence (every 7 months vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (30 vs 9). Jailhouse Jack's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On rating and device support 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
Knock down with Fire Balls is free to download; Jailhouse Jack costs $0.99 up front. Knock down with Fire Balls sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Jailhouse Jack asks for nothing beyond the download.
Knock down with Fire Balls holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 30 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Jailhouse Jack's written reviews are positive against 50% of Knock down with Fire Balls's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Jailhouse Jack ships an update every 17 months, Knock down with Fire Balls every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jailhouse Jack | Knock down with Fire Balls |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (9 ratings) | 4.5 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Donut Games | 3MenStudio |
Customer experience
Jailhouse Jack
Knock down with Fire Balls
Bugs and requests
Jailhouse Jack
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game shrinking down on iPad Mini
- Incompatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and updates
- Free play mode
- Additional gameplay modes
Knock down with Fire Balls
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Jailhouse Jack
No in-app purchases
Knock down with Fire Balls
- 10 Diamonds$0.99
- 50 Diamonds$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
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- 200 Diamonds$2.99
- 500 Diamonds$3.99
- 2000 Diamonds$5.99
- Combo Pack!$9.99
Questions
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