Comparison

Elastic World vs Baseball Z!

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

Head to head
About

Elastic World

Control elastic shapes to guide a ball to a target in this challenging physics-based puzzler. Featuring 40 hand-built levels with a timer and star rating system, it offers an offline, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Physics-based gameplay
  • 40 hand-built levels
  • Offline play
  • Star rating and timer
  • Soft-body physics engine
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Get ready for a unique physics-based puzzler. Now completely free — no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. In Elastic World you don't control the ball. You control the weird elastic shapes around it. Expand and collapse these jelly blobs to make the ball bounce in different directions and heights, and guide it to the floating star. It sounds strange, but it takes about ten seconds to pick up. The physics engine is nice and responsive — it feels almost real. Each level gets more challenging than the last, and some of them need genuinely quick reflexes as you race the clock. The faster you reach the star, the better your rank. A FAIR WARNING This game is hard. Some levels will have you retrying for twenty minutes. If you are the sort of person who throws a phone across a room, please play something gentler on a bad day. You have been warned. WHAT'S IN IT • 40 hand-built levels, plus a tutorial • A star rating and a timer on every level — beat your own best • Soft-body physics and collision written entirely from scratch. No third-party engine • Hand-drawn shapes, authored in a custom level editor built for this game • Plays offline. No account, no sign-up, no ads BUILT IN 2012 REBUILT FOR TODAY Elastic World was six months of nights and weekends alongside a full-time job, and the game and its level designer run to more than 28,000 lines of code, back in the days where there was no AI helping out. More than a decade later it has been brought back to life for current phones and tablets: full-screen play with proper support for notches and gesture bars, and fixed layout and graphics on high-resolution screens. The levels are untouched. It used to be a paid game. Now it's free, for anyone who wants it. Please support independent game development — if you enjoy it, a rating goes a long way.

About

Baseball Z!

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With your baseball game rudely interrupted by the incoming horde of zombies, it's time to batter up! Hit balls, explosives and more at the ravenous infected to defeat the waves as they come! Experience high-stakes close-call encounters as the infected get ever closer to you - will you use a nail bomb? A barricade to slow them down? Or will you just whack them with the bat itself? Each round has increasing sizes of zombies fighting and crawling their way towards you, it's your job to defend yourself by any means necessary! Earn in-game coins by taking out the creatures, and then spend those coins in the shop to buy upgrades, new weapons & tools, and even airstrikes! Use your radar at the top right of the screen to check where the zombies are coming from, and the skull next to it, which allows you to know how many infected are left in this wave! HOW TO PLAY Drag your finger to aim, and then tap 'Hit' at the bottom of the screen and with a 'thwack!' you'll know your chosen ammunition to where you've aimed the reticule! Open your inventory to see what weapons you have by clicking the backpack icon in the bottom left, and the shopping cart icon next to it to spend your coins and unlock new weapons and defences. Tap the bottom right icon to choose your ammo - will you knock balls into the zombies, or will you go straight for a bomb? FEATURES A thrilling experience - destroy the zombies before they get to you! Spend in-game coins on upgrades and new weapons. Intense combat encounters with satisfying explosions! Lots of different weapons and upgrades to use to blow the zombies away! Free to Play with support for lots of devices. JOIN THE FULL FAT COMMUNITY Like: http://facebook.com/fullfatgames

Screenshots

Elastic World4 screens
Baseball Z!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Baseball Z! at none against Elastic World's 1. Baseball Z! also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Elastic World's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Elastic World sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Baseball Z! asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Elastic World versus Baseball Z!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElastic WorldBaseball Z!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB171 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMonkey I-Brow StudiosFull Fat Productions Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Elastic World

One-time1
  • Full Game$0.99
None

Baseball Z!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Elastic World free?
Elastic World is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Baseball Z! free?
Baseball Z! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Elastic World or Baseball Z! have ads?
Baseball Z! shows ads; Elastic World does not.

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