Block vs The Dream
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block
Guide a chicken home by strategically moving vehicles to clear its path. Avoid a monster in later levels by blocking its movement before the chicken passes. This game helps young children develop problem-solving skills and spatial reasoning.
- Vehicle-based puzzle gameplay
- Monster avoidance challenges
- Develops problem-solving
- Enhances spatial reasoning
- Introduces directional concepts
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The chicken is trying to get home! Drag the cars, trucks and buses out of the way so the chicken can drive along the road. In the later levels watch out for the monster trying to eat the chicken! Move the vehicles to block the monster in before the chicken drives past. Great to introduce young children to problem solving and visualising positions, directions and movements.
The Dream
Experience a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" set in the world of celebrity magazines. This app provides the full script, song and dance tutorials, and professional performance videos to complement the live show.
- Full script access
- Song walk-through videos
- Dance move tutorials
- Professional performance films
- Modern celebrity magazine setting
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Each term, Perform 7-12s put together a specially written show with original music, high energy dance and lots of funny scenes to enjoy. From April, we're bringing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream bang up-to-date and setting in it the world of celebrity magazines, the tabloid press, footballers and pop-stars. Complete with funky music, energetic dance and hilarious dialogue, The Dream is the must-have ticket for the summer term. The children will join Oberon, Titania and a host of famous faces as they battle for the media spotlight in the cut-throat world of celebrity life. Who will make the cover of this week’s gossip mag, Livin’ The Dream? Will Bottom win No-One’s Got Talent? And is the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta a national celebration of love or a PR hoax masterminded by a ruthless svengali? This app is the ideal companion to the show. It contains a complete copy of the script (best viewed on iPad), special walk-through videos of the songs and dance moves to help you perfect your performances and full production films of professional actors performing the musical numbers. Find out more at www.perform.org.uk/thedream
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Dream at Free against Block's $0.99. The Dream also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Block's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
The Dream is free to download; Block costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Block ships an update every 33 months, The Dream every 34 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block | The Dream |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months — better | Every 34 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 329 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busy Things Limited | Perform |
Customer experience
Block
The Dream
In-app purchases
Block
No in-app purchases
The Dream
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Block or The Dream have ads?
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