PALINGENESIS vs Melldows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PALINGENESIS
Experience an album as an interactive music video game. Explore animated worlds, each tied to a song, and uncover a developing narrative through your journey. This unique application blends hand-crafted animation with interactive gameplay.
- Interactive animated worlds
- Music-driven environments
- Unfolding narrative
- Hand-crafted animation
- Visual sequences
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PALINGENESIS is a music video game. The album by GRIGS unfolds as a series of interactive animated worlds, with each environment built around a different song. Created entirely by animator and musician John Paul Grigsby, PALINGENESIS brings together hand-crafted animation, interactive environments, and visual sequences that appear as you move through each world. As you progress through the album, a larger story begins to take shape through the environments and the moments you come across along the way. Listen to PALINGENESIS by GRIGS wherever you stream music. www.johngrigsby.com
Melldows
Design and color your own miniature world in this relaxing sandbox game. Spread forests, create paths, and add structures in a goal-less, creative experience.
- Creative land design
- Goal-less sandbox experience
- Forest and path creation
- Place tents and ruins
- Cozy and carefree gameplay
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Melldows is a tiny, cozy world-building toy with no goals, scores, or pressure. Shape a small piece of land into your own peaceful place. Sculpt the terrain, grow forests and flowers, draw winding paths, and build a quiet little village. Watch the world come alive with changing light, gentle wildlife, and seasonal colors. There is nothing to win and no correct way to play. Create a wild garden, a hidden settlement, or simply relax and see where your ideas take you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PALINGENESIS at Free against Melldows's $1.99. PALINGENESIS also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, 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
PALINGENESIS is free to download; Melldows costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Melldows holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PALINGENESIS has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
PALINGENESIS ships an update every 9 days, Melldows every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | PALINGENESIS | Melldows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 741 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Paul Grigsby | Łukasz Cichecki |
Customer experience
PALINGENESIS
Melldows
In-app purchases
PALINGENESIS
No in-app purchases
Melldows
No in-app purchases
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