Comparison

Sorcerer Escape vs Heliowake

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

Head to head
About

Sorcerer Escape

Embark on a magical adventure to escape a perilous dungeon. Solve intricate puzzles using a spell book, unlocking new spells and abilities to overcome challenges and progress through the levels.

Highlights
  • Spell book puzzle solving
  • Unlock new spells
  • Gain new abilities
  • Dungeon exploration
  • Multiple puzzle levels
Features
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Use your spell book to solve multiple puzzles, unlock new spells and abilities to cruise your way through the dungeon !

About

Heliowake

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Draw a spaceship and fly it to the stars. Sketch any ship you can imagine, and Heliowake turns your drawing into a 3D ship you fly through space, land on alien worlds and step out of to explore. DRAW YOUR SHIP Draw with your finger or Apple Pencil in the hangar. Your lines and colors become your ship, with engines and landing feet. Save up to six designs, or start from nine starter ships: fighters, a saucer, a lunar lander and the Megalift heavy-lift rocket. Change your ship any time from the pause menu. FOLLOW THE SIGNAL The optional First Contact adventure leads you through Lacuna, Serein, and Pyre. Discover resonance puzzles, redirect beams of light, and face a guardian whose warning pulses test your timing. Earn new abilities as you explore. MAKE EACH EXPEDITION YOUR OWN Use the star chart to choose a destination. Walk and jump across alien landscapes, recover relics, then return to your ship and take off again. Follow the adventure or simply enjoy the journey. A NEON SPACE ESCAPE Explore vivid oceans, ice, and ember worlds beneath atmospheric skies, accompanied by an original spacey synth soundtrack. Music and sound effects have independent controls. BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Play in landscape with touch controls. Compatible game controllers are optional. No player account or internet connection is needed for gameplay. No ads. No in-app purchases. Progress and ships are saved locally on each device; there is no cross-device cloud sync.

Screenshots

Sorcerer Escape3 screens
Heliowake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Heliowake at none against Sorcerer Escape's shown. Sorcerer Escape's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sorcerer Escape versus Heliowake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSorcerer EscapeHeliowake
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (237 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings237 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB18 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperYso CorpSub Rosa Industries

Bugs and requests

Sorcerer Escape

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Game restarts progress
  • Game resets to first level
  • Game keeps crashing
  • Reset all levels
  • Ads after every level
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  • Starts as girl, need to fix

Requested features

3 requests
  • More spell book pages
  • Remove ads after every level
  • Fix starting character gender

Heliowake

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sorcerer Escape

No in-app purchases

None

Heliowake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sorcerer Escape free?
Sorcerer Escape is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Heliowake free?
Heliowake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sorcerer Escape or Heliowake have ads?
Sorcerer Escape shows ads; Heliowake does not.
Which is updated more often, Sorcerer Escape or Heliowake?
Sorcerer Escape ships an update every 2 months, and Heliowake every 2 months. Most recently, Sorcerer Escape was updated on November 7, 2026 and Heliowake on November 6, 2026.

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