Prison Tower vs Buildy Blocks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prison Tower
Build a towering stack of heroes by strategically dropping them. Guide the princess to safety by climbing the tower. Experience a fresh take on classic block-stacking gameplay with engaging modes.
- Stack heroes vertically
- Rescue trapped princess
- Strategic tap-to-drop gameplay
- Prison Tower rescue mode
- Challenge Mode for high scores
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Stack ‘em up and clamber on up! Build a stack of heroes and help the princess climb to safety! An exciting new twist on block stacking games! === How to play === (1) Rules - Fairy spirits will carry in new heroes. - Tap the screen to drop a hero down. - Drop the heroes to form a stack – make sure it doesn’t topple! (2) Game Modes - Prison Tower: Rescue the trapped princess from the depths of the prison tower. - Challenge Mode: See how many heroes you can stack up. How high can you go?
Buildy Blocks
Build towering structures by precisely stacking blocks. Compete for the highest score in various modes and challenge yourself to keep your tower from tumbling.
- Single tap gameplay
- Multiple tower types
- Normal mode
- Hardcore mode
- Game Center leaderboards
- Achievements
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In Buildy Blocks, the sky is the limit. You have to stack blocks on top of each other in order to build a tower. Let's see how high you can go before it tumbles down! Features : - Fun single tap gameplay - 5 different tower types - Normal and hardcore modes - Game Center leaderboards and achievements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Prison Tower at 72% against Buildy Blocks's 32%. Prison Tower also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). Buildy Blocks's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume 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. Buildy Blocks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Prison Tower asks for nothing beyond the download.
Buildy Blocks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 30 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Prison Tower's written reviews are positive against 32% of Buildy Blocks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Prison Tower ships an update every 4 months, Buildy Blocks every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Prison Tower | Buildy Blocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (14 ratings) | 4.7 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.4% of reviews — better | 32.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masakazu Yonehara | Umbrella Games LLC |
Customer experience
Prison Tower
Buildy Blocks
Bugs and requests
Prison Tower
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game over at level 92 in challenge mode
- Start screen unresponsive
- Crashes frequently
- Fairies carrying people instead of princess
- People not stacking properly
Requested features
5 requests- New OS compatibility
- Improved start screen responsiveness
- More variety in gameplay
- Fix fairies carrying people instead of princess
- Fix fairies carrying people instead of princess
Buildy Blocks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prison Tower
No in-app purchases
Buildy Blocks
- Tower Mode$0.99
- Rail Mode$0.99
- Ladder Mode$0.99
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- Mode 5$0.99
- No ads!$1.99
