Comparison

Rooms vs Ghostlight Relics

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

Ghostlight Relics

Features
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Ghostlight Relics is a cozy supernatural repair game about old objects, quiet stories, and a lamp that guides lost wishes home. You inherit a repair shop that opens only at night. Haunted mirrors, wedding clothes, ferry tickets, lamp wicks, and other relics arrive with unfinished memories. Gather and merge materials, restore each relic, complete orders, earn coins and jade, and unlock new chapters in the shop's codex. Features: -Merge materials to fulfill restoration orders. -Restore haunted relics, each with a short two-part story. -Complete main orders and side orders to grow your shop. -Unlock chapters, shop decor, daily goals, sign-in rewards, and codex entries. -Enjoy a folklore-inspired atmosphere with gentle mystery instead of jump scares. This shop restores more than old objects. Every repaired relic leaves a small light for a story that was waiting to be heard.

Screenshots

Rooms4 screens
Ghostlight Relics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rooms at none against Ghostlight Relics's 6. Rooms also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ghostlight Relics sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Rooms asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rooms ships an update every 2 weeks, Ghostlight Relics every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Rooms versus Ghostlight Relics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoomsGhostlight Relics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB66 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperThings, Inc.宏 邱

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

Ghostlight Relics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Rooms

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Ghostlight Relics

One-time6
  • Small Jade Pouch$0.99
  • Repair Supply Pack$1.99
  • Starlit Starter Pack$1.99
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  • Jade Box$2.99
  • Jade Coffer$4.99
  • Large Jade Chest$5.99

Questions

Is Rooms free?
Rooms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ghostlight Relics free?
Ghostlight Relics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rooms or Ghostlight Relics have ads?
Ghostlight Relics shows ads; Rooms does not.
Which is updated more often, Rooms or Ghostlight Relics?
Rooms ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ghostlight Relics every 3 weeks. Most recently, Rooms was updated on November 4, 2026 and Ghostlight Relics on October 31, 2026.

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