Comparison

Rooms vs Play a level

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

Head to head
About

Rooms

Create and explore unique 3D spaces in a retro-inspired world. Design your dream environments, from tranquil havens to quirky games, and share them with a vibrant community. Remix existing creations and participate in weekly challenges.

Highlights
  • Build and edit 3D spaces
  • Explore user-generated rooms
  • Drag-and-drop room editing
  • Extensive 3D model library
  • Create and edit 3D models
  • Camera mode for virtual photos/videos
  • Share creations with unique URLs
Features
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Unleash your inner creator and step into the world of 3D creation with Rooms – a free app for creative builders, cozy gamers and curious minds. Apple's editors recently described Rooms better than we could: - "Part blank canvas, part game, part 8-bit throwback, all imagination. Rooms is a collection of user-generated 3D spaces and a creative tapestry of quirky games, tranquil havens, and clever themes. Its best feature is its community element: You’re exploring real creations by real people." -"An incredible canvas for creativity, set in a nostalgic 8-bit world. Rooms is tough to categorize: It’s a blank slate for building imaginative scenes, a platform for cozy gaming, and a social space that lets you interact with thousands of other people’s creations. Quirky, compelling, and executed with a delightful retro twist." Why Rooms? - Boundless creativity: edit anything and everything - Design your dream space: from quirky games to tranquil havens, craft any space you can imagine - Endless: tens of thousands of user-generated rooms at your fingertips - Share your creations with others - Participate in fun weekly building challenges - Remix what others have built (full remix history visible on every room crediting the original authors) - Rooms can be anything: contemplative spaces, mini-games, cinematic stories with camera work, or anything else you can imagine - Free: no strings attached Features: - Rooms of all varieties: browse creative dioramas, cozy spaces, stories, mini-games, and more - Room editing: make your own room by dragging and dropping things and adjusting their properties - Thing Library: add from our library of >20,000 user generated 3D models - Thing Editor: use our built-in block editor to edit things, or make one of your own - Camera Mode: fly through rooms and take virtual photos and videos - Easy sharing: every room has a unique URL, and viewable on iOS and web

About

Play a level

Features
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Play a level is a collection of multiple gameplay decompression fun game, suitable for leisure games for users of all ages. In play levels, you can experience a very decompression gameplay, the level contains storage, elimination, puzzle, and so on gameplay, let play a levels open your fun and decompression leisure experience. Every level contains our careful design, your satisfaction is the driving force for us to bring happiness, play a levels integrates a variety of game styles together - to provide with endless fun, let you eliminate the pressure of work and daily life in the game, and bring a decompression and interesting experience.. The game uses a cartoon art style for all ages, interesting interface and design let users experience a simple and happy relaxed game experience. It allows you to experience happiness and pressure relief in the game, forget the troubles by work and daily life and release pressure. In the long work and life, play a few levels a day to relax the physical and mental stress brought by daily life. Paly a levels is a happy way to relieve stress and bring fun. We hope to bring more friendly game fun and experience to more players. Thank you for your, your choice prompts us to make more perfect progress, so that our development has infinite motivation.

Screenshots

Rooms4 screens
Play a level4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rooms at none against Play a level's 1. Rooms also leads on ads (none vs shown). Play a level's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence 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. Play a level sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rooms asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rooms ships an update every 2 weeks, Play a level every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Rooms versus Play a level: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoomsPlay a level
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB147 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperThings, Inc.锦中 甘

Bugs and requests

Rooms

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Rooms merging together when switching tabs during creation
  • Inability to save created rooms
  • Rooms not uploading properly
  • Difficulty moving and placing objects in rooms

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a way to remove likes on rooms
  • Implement a comment system for rooms
  • Improve mobile coding experience
  • Add a follow/friend system to connect with other users
  • Enhance search and discovery of rooms with tags/filters

Play a level

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Rooms

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Play a level

One-time1
  • unNextPage$0.99

Questions

Is Rooms free?
Rooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Play a level free?
Play a level is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rooms or Play a level have ads?
Play a level shows ads; Rooms does not.
Which is updated more often, Rooms or Play a level?
Rooms ships an update every 2 weeks, and Play a level every 3 weeks. Most recently, Rooms was updated on October 20, 2026 and Play a level on October 6, 2026.

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