Comparison

Color Wave vs Penguin Elevator

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

Head to head
About

Color Wave

A relaxing color matching game where you tap tiles to change their color and connect adjacent tiles. The goal is to cover the entire board with a single color wave. Enjoy a simple, colorful, and fun puzzle experience.

Highlights
  • Color matching gameplay
  • Tile-tapping mechanics
  • Relaxing puzzle experience
  • Simple interface
  • Single-player mode
Features
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Take a moment to relax and enjoy a no-stakes color matching game. When the app launches you'll be immediately shown a colorful board of tiles and six color keys at the bottom. Tapping a color will change the top left tile to your new color and will link it with any adjacent tiles of the same color. Continue tapping until you've taken over the whole board with a wave of colors.

About

Penguin Elevator

A voxel stealth-puzzle arcade game where you strategically drop penguins from an elevator. Avoid being seen by other passengers to prevent panic and game over. Earn rewards and use cover to succeed.

Highlights
  • Voxel penguin characters
  • Directional vision mechanics
  • Cover system for stealth
  • Fish treat reward system
  • Gentle difficulty curve
  • Illustrated in-game tutorial
Features
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Penguin Elevator is a voxel stealth-puzzle arcade game. The elevator rises floor by floor, penguins board and take their spots, and your job is simple: make room by dropping passengers through the trapdoor — but only when nobody's watching. HOW TO PLAY • Each penguin faces a direction and watches ahead of itself — 3 tiles forward, a shorter glance to each side, and it's completely blind directly behind • Tap a penguin to drop it, but only from a blind spot — get seen and every witness panics, jumping and screaming, and it's game over • Use a standing penguin as cover — vision is blocked by whoever's in the way • Earn a fish treat every 10 floors and place it to pull every penguin's attention at once • Let the elevator fill up completely with nowhere for new penguins to stand, and it's game over too FEATURES • Charming voxel penguins with directional turnaround sprites and funny push/wobble/dizzy animations • A gentle difficulty curve — relaxed and readable on the first floors, faster and more chaotic the higher you climb • Built-in illustrated tutorial explaining vision, blocking, and the fish treat • No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no data collection — score is saved on your device How high can you climb before someone notices?

Screenshots

Color Wave4 screens
Penguin Elevator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Color Wave at 10 against Penguin Elevator's 1. Penguin Elevator's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Color Wave against 5.0 for Penguin Elevator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Wave has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Color Wave versus Penguin Elevator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor WavePenguin Elevator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDylan PearceVLADIMIR CHOPINE

Customer experience

Color Wave

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Penguin Elevator

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

In-app purchases

None

Color Wave

No in-app purchases

None

Penguin Elevator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Color Wave free?
Color Wave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Penguin Elevator free?
Penguin Elevator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Color Wave or Penguin Elevator?
Color Wave and Penguin Elevator are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Color Wave or Penguin Elevator have ads?
Neither Color Wave nor Penguin Elevator shows ads.

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