Comparison

LumeNova vs Waddle

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

Head to head
About

LumeNova

Engage in combat across various maps, aiming to survive, earn points, and acquire tools. Destroy enemies and enjoy the entertainment or find relaxation within the game.

Highlights
  • Map-based combat
  • Survival gameplay
  • Point collection
  • Tool acquisition
  • Enemy destruction
Features
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Fight for different maps, survive, collect points and get tools to enjoy the destroyed enemies, live the entertainment or relax in it!.

About

Waddle

Play classic Doom WADs on your iPhone or iPad. This app allows you to import your own game files and mods, offering customizable touch controls and full controller support. It comes bundled with two free games and is open-source.

Highlights
  • Play classic Doom WADs
  • Import your own WAD files
  • Customizable touch controls
  • Full game controller support
  • Bundled with Freedoom games
  • Open-source software
Features
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Play the classic-Doom-engine games you own, anywhere. Waddle is a WAD player for iPhone and iPad: a game library and touch controls built around Woof! - the modern continuation of the Boom and MBF ports that faithfully preserves original gameplay while supporting today's mods, up through the MBF21 standard. Ready to play out of the box. Waddle bundles Freedoom Phase 1 and Phase 2: two complete, freely licensed games built by the Freedoom project for this engine family. Tap and play - nothing to configure. Bring your own WADs. Import WAD files you own from the Files app, iCloud Drive, or the share sheet - commercial IWADs you've purchased, or any of thousands of community-made maps and megawads. Zip archives and DeHackEd patches are supported. Every map set is a game. Import a megawad and it lands on your shelf as its own game, already paired with the right base game. Add-ons and DeHackEd patches attach to any game from its page, where you also set the load order and compatibility level (vanilla, Boom, MBF, MBF21 - or auto) and find its saves, which are kept per game. Play your way. Touch controls with two schemes (classic twin-stick and modern drag-to-turn), adjustable feel, and buttons you can drag wherever your thumbs want them - plus full support for game controllers and hardware keyboards. Walk into doors and switches to use them, and pan and zoom the automap by touch. Open source. Waddle is free software under the GPL-3.0; the engine it descends from is GPL-2.0-or-later. Source code for the entire app is available on GitHub. Waddle includes no copyrighted commercial game content. Only the freely licensed Freedoom data is bundled; commercial WADs must be imported by you, from copies you own. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by id Software or Bethesda.

Screenshots

LumeNova4 screens
Waddle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Waddle at 5.0 against LumeNova's 2.0. LumeNova's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Waddle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
LumeNova versus Waddle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLumeNovaWaddle
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size426 MB67 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAbraham Eduardo Zarate MejiaTyler Vick

Customer experience

LumeNova

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Waddle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

LumeNova

No in-app purchases

None

Waddle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LumeNova free?
LumeNova is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Waddle free?
Waddle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LumeNova or Waddle?
Waddle is rated higher. LumeNova averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Waddle averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do LumeNova or Waddle have ads?
Neither LumeNova nor Waddle shows ads.

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