Rip Rope vs Patient Zero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rip Rope
Navigate a challenging descent down ropes, collecting coins and avoiding obstacles. Unlock new characters to enhance your journey and achieve greater distances. More characters are planned for future updates.
- Rope descent gameplay
- Coin collection
- Obstacle avoidance
- Unlockable characters
- High score chasing
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Collect coins, purchase new characters and travel as far down the ropes as possible without getting hit by obstacles. More characters coming soon!
Patient Zero
Simulate the creation and spread of a deadly plague in this realistic apocalypse simulator. Adapt your pathogen against global efforts to stop it and decide the fate of humanity. It's a strategic test of biology and survival.
- Hyper-realistic virus simulation
- Develop and adapt unique diseases
- Global infection across all countries
- Hundreds of evolving traits
- Respond to thousands of world events
- Built-in tutorials
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"Patient Zero" is a terrifyingly realistic virus simulator that combines strategic gameplay with a true-to-life global crisis. This is not just another virus game—it's a fully immersive pathogen game where every decision can alter the fate of humanity. Your virus infection has just begun with "Patient Zero." Now it's your mission to develop a deadly plague and adapt against everything humanity throws at you. This is the ultimate test of survival, cunning, and biology in one of the most intense pandemic games ever made. Features: ● Hyper-realistic, highly detailed world—experience the depth of a true virus simulation ● Flash controls and intuitive interface to guide you through global domination ● Unique types of diseases—each one mutates differently in this complex disease game ● Every country on Earth is available for infection—from major cities to remote islands ● Hundreds of traits to evolve, thousands of world events to respond to ● Built-in tutorials and help system for new players of biology games or infecting games Will you save the world or watch it fall? Become the ultimate bio-strategist in this pandemic plague game. Whether you’re stopping the outbreak or accelerating the virus infection, the fate of the planet is in your hands. If you love virus infection games, pandemic simulations, or strategic infecting games, this is the virus game you’ve been waiting for. Adapt. Survive. Infect. Download "Patient Zero" now – the most addictive and realistic pandemic and disease game experience on mobile!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rip Rope at 100% against Patient Zero's 27%. Rip Rope also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Patient Zero's advantage is ratings volume (5K vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Patient Zero sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Rip Rope asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rip Rope holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Patient Zero has 5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Rip Rope's written reviews are positive against 27% of Patient Zero's.
Rip Rope ships an update daily, Patient Zero every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rip Rope | Patient Zero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 26.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5K — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dale Foerster | Brightika, Inc. |
Customer experience
Rip Rope
Patient Zero
Bugs and requests
Rip Rope
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Patient Zero
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game progress deleted due to phone dying
- Forced ads without user permission
Requested features
2 requests- Ability to restart from the beginning
- More pathogens to unlock
In-app purchases
Rip Rope
No in-app purchases
Patient Zero
- Light Pack$0.99
- Medium Pack$3.99
- No Ads2 variants$4.99
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- Starter Pack2 variants$4.99
- Heavy Pack$9.99
- No Ads VIP2 variants$14.99
- Massive Pack$14.99
Questions
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