Bad Piggies vs Alembic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bad Piggies
Build creative contraptions from various parts to guide pigs to their goal. Over 200 levels offer physics-based puzzle challenges with opportunities for creative engineering and piloting.
- Build makeshift contraptions
- Pilot pigs safely to the goal
- Over 200 levels
- 40+ special levels
- 9+ sandbox levels
- 42 buildable objects
- Mechanic Pig assistance
Read full descriptionHide full description
OiNk! Build makeshift contraptions from a huge collection of parts and make it to the goal without blowing your vehicle to pieces! IGN's "Best Mobile Game of 2012" Winner! "Extremely fun and very challenging" -- Kotaku “The best title Rovio has released yet” - IGN “4/4 - Must Have” -- Slide to Play "If you can’t enjoy watching a pig drive a badly constructed car off a cliff and onto a pile of dynamite, you probably don’t have a soul." - Yahoo/BGR Create the ultimate flying/crawling/rolling/spinning/crashing device and pilot the pigs safely to the eggs! The Bad Piggies are after the eggs again -- but as usual, nothing is going according to plan! Can you create the ultimate flying machine and steer them safely to their destination? Those tricky pigs have a few objects they can use, but they need your help to turn these into the perfect transportation! With more than 200 levels, and free updates coming up, you have hours and hours of pig-crashing, exploding, and flying fun! Get three stars to unlock over 40 more levels! HINT: Sometimes you need to play the level several times to achieve all the objectives -- try building a new device or steering in a different way to earn all the stars! Features: ● Over 200 levels crammed with flying/driving/crashing fun! ● 40+ special levels unlocked by getting three stars! ● Free updates! ● 9+ sandbox levels to stretch your creativity! ● Ultra-special, ultra-secret, ultra-difficult sandbox level to unlock by collecting ten skulls! Oh – guess it’s not a secret anymore... ● 42 objects to create the ultimate machine: motors, wings, fans, bottle rockets, umbrellas, balloons, and much more! Mechanic Pig ● Need help? This little piggy will build it for you! ● Mechanic pig pre-assembles transport for you! ● All you have to do is pilot it! ● Tweak his design to get all three stars! New Episode: The Road to El Porkado Embark on an archaeological adventure in an all new episode full of treacherously icy environments and spooky dark caves. Be sure to equip the trusty lamp to find your way in the darkness – or put the new Night Vision Goggles power-up to use! Get ready to see pigs fly! Become a fan of Bad Piggies on Facebook: http://facebook.com/badpiggies Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/badpiggies We may update the game periodically, for example to add new features or content or to fix bugs or other technical issues. Please note that the game may not function properly if you do not have the newest version installed. If you have not installed the latest update, Rovio will not be responsible for the game failing to function as expected. While our game is free to download and play, some game items can also be purchased for real money and the game may include loot boxes or other game mechanics with random rewards. Purchasing these items is optional but you can also disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings. Terms of Use: http://www.rovio.com/eula Privacy Policy: http://www.rovio.com/privacy Important Message for Parents This game may include: - Direct links to social networking websites that are intended for an audience over the age of 13. - Direct links to the internet that can take players away from the game with the potential to browse any web page. - Advertising of Rovio products and also products from select partners. - The option to make in-app purchases. The bill payer should always be consulted beforehand.
Alembic
Read full descriptionHide full description
Forty potions. Each one named, each one with a line of its own, and each one doing something no shop will sell you. Alembic is a colour-sorting puzzle where the sorting is the means and the codex is the point. Pour liquid from bottle to bottle until every colour stands alone, fill a reward chest, and watch a new potion take its place on your shelf. BREWING, NOT JUST SORTING Every fifth level fills a chest, and every chest brews a potion. Forty in all — and each is a dose you can actually drink. Foresight plays the next three moves of a real solution. Second Morning deals the level again, the same colours arranged anew. Spare Glass hands you an empty flask past what coin will buy. None of them duplicate what the shop sells, because a potion has to be worth brewing. NOT JUST A LONGER LADDER Three hundred levels, and the curve is a shape rather than a slope. Most sit at the baseline, some drop below it for a breather, and a few climb well above — those are badged Hard or Extreme on the tile before you tap them. Losing a level the game warned you about is a different feeling from losing one it did not, and every Extreme is followed by something gentle. GLASSWARE THAT ISN'T ALL THE SAME A colour always comes in a set of four, so a three-unit vial can hold liquid but can never be where a colour finally lives — it is somewhere to set things down. A five-unit retort is a roomier spare that can still finish a colour. That asymmetry turns "where does this go?" into a real question instead of a hunt for any empty tube. RULES THAT CHANGE THE BOARD Further in, the boards start keeping secrets. Clouded draughts hide their lower layers until you pour off what sits above. A bottle sealed in wax stays shut until you finish colours elsewhere. A labelled flask takes only the colour on its tag. And the alembic itself — a copper still joining two bottles — carries a colour over any other, one way only: the strongest move on the board, and one you will have to pay back. A REASON TO COME BACK Three brew orders every morning, filled by ordinary play rather than by visiting a screen. The Cauldron: one extra board a day, dealt from the date so every player in the world gets the same one, with its own streak and your own move count to beat. Chapters of twenty-five levels that pay out for the stars collected in them. And a login streak with milestones — plus freezes, so one busy Tuesday does not cost you a hundred days. AT YOUR OWN PACE No level timers. No ads between levels, and no banners — the only videos are the ones you choose to watch, for a free hint or extra coins. One finger, for a minute or an hour. ALSO • Every level is checked solvable before you ever see it • Three free undos on every level, and leave any time — your board waits exactly as you left it • No forced ads — videos only when you ask for one • Colour-blind symbols, VoiceOver and Dynamic Type throughout • 300 designed levels — the Hard and Extreme ones are marked before you start • Game Center achievements and leaderboards, and a Cauldron result to share • Glassware and workshops to buy with coins — they change the look, never the puzzle • Alchemist's Edition: every style, 2,000 coins, and every reward without a video — one purchase
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Alembic at every 3 days against Bad Piggies's every 6 weeks. Bad Piggies's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Bad Piggies sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Alembic sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bad Piggies ships an update every 6 weeks, Alembic every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bad Piggies | Alembic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 68.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rovio Entertainment Oyj | Vlad Berila |
Bugs and requests
Bad Piggies
Reported bugs
3 issues- Buttons and levers not functioning properly in some levels
- Crates and parts not loading or disappearing
- Game crashing when trying to use the camera feature
Requested features
4 requests- Expand sandbox mode with more building options
- Add new level themes and gameplay modes
- Improve matchmaking in the Cake Race mode
- Introduce a premium version with no ads
Alembic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bad Piggies
- Permanent Mechanic$0.99
- Mechanic x 10$1.99
- Super Mechanic x5$1.99
Show 7 moreShow fewer
- Small Snout Coin Pack$1.99
- Small Snout Gem Pack$1.99
- Field of Dreams$2.99
- Medium Snout Coin Pack$4.99
- Golden Crate$4.99
- Mechanic x 35$5.99
- Mechanic x 65$9.99
Alembic
- Pouch of Coins$0.99
- Jar of Coins$2.99
- Alchemist's Edition$4.99
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- Chest of Coins$5.99
- Vault of Coins$14.99








