Comparison

Snowball Blitz AR vs Retro

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

Head to head
About

Snowball Blitz AR

Features
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Prepare for an amazing AR snowball fight, but without the snow or the frozen hands, all in immersive instant shared AR gameplay! Battle the snowball hurling Snowman in the warmth, anywhere. Using your candy-cane lazer, stop him before he gets you with his barrage of icy projectiles. Best of all, get friends to help you by scanning a QR code to instantly join them, and compete for top spot on the leaderboard. Download Snowball Blitz now and let the sub zero fight begin!

About

Retro

Navigate a treacherous pyramid maze, collecting treasures and avoiding deadly creatures. Use your gun to defend yourself against ghosts, mummies, vampires, and skeletons. Discover helpful cheats to aid your escape.

Highlights
  • Pyramid maze navigation
  • Treasure collection
  • Enemy avoidance and combat
  • Multiple enemy types
  • In-game cheats (POKEs)
  • 6 levels of increasing difficulty
Features
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Escape from the pyramid and discover its treasures. Find the exit at the top level of the maze while avoiding deadly creatures and collecting objects. You can shoot your gun to scare ghosts away, make mummies disappear and kill vampires and skeletons. Press back to access the in-game menu and enable helpful cheats (POKEs). Fred was originally developed for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in 1983 by Fernando Rada, Paco Menéndez and Carlos Granados and distributed by Indescomp. It was licensed, together with Bugaboo (The Flea) by Quicksilva near the end of 1983. It was initially published in the United Kingdom, and shortly after in Spain by Investrónica. Retro-Fred is a modern port of Fred. It aims to replicate the original game as closely as possible. A version developed in Scratch is also available. Retro-Fred is free software, distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is available for free. It does not store any user data and it does not need any usage permissions. Visit https://www.8bitfred.com and https://github.com/8bitfred/retro-fred for more information. The game The objective of the game is to reach the exit of the pyramid, located in the top level. The game has 6 levels of increasing difficulty. Each level has more and more difficult enemies: * Ghosts: they can go through the maze walls. They cannot be killed, but when they are shot they change the direction of movement. * Rats: they move laterally. Fred must jump vertically to avoid them. They cannot be killed. * Acid drops: run quickly to avoid getting hit by them. * Mummies: they walk slowly on the horizontal passages and fall quicky down the vertical corridors. They disappear when they get hit by a bullet, and reappear in a different location. * Chameleons: they walk on the side of the vertical corridors and jump from one side to the other. * Vampires: they fly in the maze and change directions randomly. They can be killed by shooting them. * Skeletons: they walk on the horizontal corridors and climb up and down the ropes, trying to follow Fred. They die when hit by a bullet. Objects There are different types of objects that Fred can collect inside the maze: * Treasures: they are worth 500 to 1500 points, plus extra bonuses when you reach the exit. * Power-up: increases the power level. * Ammo-up: recharges the number of bullets to the maximum level. * Map: shows a map of the section of the map near Fred. The corridors are shown in white and the walls in blue. After finishing a level you will get 5000 points, and 1000 bonus point for each treasure collected during the game.

Screenshots

Snowball Blitz AR3 screens
Retro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Snowball Blitz AR at daily against Retro's every 3 days. Snowball Blitz AR also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, 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

Snowball Blitz AR ships an update daily, Retro every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Snowball Blitz AR versus Retro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnowball Blitz ARRetro
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB7 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAuki Labs LimitedMiguel Catalina

In-app purchases

None

Snowball Blitz AR

No in-app purchases

None

Retro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snowball Blitz AR free?
Snowball Blitz AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Retro free?
Retro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snowball Blitz AR or Retro have ads?
Neither Snowball Blitz AR nor Retro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Snowball Blitz AR or Retro?
Snowball Blitz AR ships an update daily, and Retro every 3 days. Most recently, Snowball Blitz AR was updated on November 4, 2026 and Retro on November 4, 2026.

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