Comparison

Going Up vs Kaiju Attack 2

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

Head to head
About

Going Up

A strategy game where you manage skyscraper elevators to efficiently deliver diverse passengers. Optimize lift movement through increasingly complex systems and unique character behaviors to achieve high scores.

Highlights
  • Manage skyscraper elevators
  • Deliver passengers efficiently
  • Adapt to complex lift systems
  • Deal with unique passenger characters
  • Compete on global leaderboards
  • Discover different skyscraper environments
Features
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"The vibes here are impeccable" —Vice "Fast, simple, solid, and challenging" —PocketGamer Going Up is a strategy game where you control groups of lifts in a skyscraper to deliver passengers before they lose their patience. Optimise elevator movement as you deal with a fussy cast of passengers—impatient CEOs, mean soldiers and confused tourists. There is no one solution to elevator optimisation: every stage will have its unique bottlenecks, passengers and problems. Can you keep people moving, or will they have to take the stairs? • Deliver your passengers: manage elevators in a skyscraper to deliver passengers up and down to their destinations as efficiently as possible. • Adapt to complex situations: learn to manage increasingly complicated systems of lifts, from multiple lifts, to lifts that operate on different sets of floors, to lifts that completely skip floors. • Placate fussy characters: deal with a cast of seven unique characters, from impatient CEOs to mean soldiers to confused tourists. Learn their behaviours to score the greatest number of points from each of them. • Rack up high scores: compete on a global leaderboard to gain the most points in each level. • Ascend the mysterious skyscraper: discover different environments on each level, playing with different sets of lifts as you climb to the very top. • Play on the go: play one handed, while commuting, queuing in line, or waiting for the lift. Every round lasts at most a few minutes.

About

Kaiju Attack 2

Lead Earth's defense against a renewed alien invasion. Command powerful secret weapons and face intelligent alien bosses in this intense sequel. Your strategic decisions will determine humanity's fate.

Highlights
  • Faster-paced gameplay
  • New currency tiles
  • Deploy multiple secret weapons
  • Nine new alien bosses
  • Eight new secret weapons
  • Super robots with splitting/combining abilities
Features
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To wash away the shame of defeat two years ago, Chaos has gathered an alien coalition, attacking Earth once more, citing humanity's sins as justification. Even the once-defending superhero now turns against us. As the commander, how will you resolve this crisis? What lies ahead for humanity and Earth? Game Intro Kaiju Attack 2, the sequel to our critically acclaimed title released two years ago, builds upon the strengths of the first installment while addressing its shortcomings. We've introduced numerous new features and enhancements, including: - Faster-paced and more intense gameplay. - Introduction of currency tiles alongside the existing three types. - Ability to deploy multiple types of secret weapons simultaneously. - Nine new alien bosses with smarter, more cunning behavior AI for increased challenge. - Eight new secret weapons, including super robots capable of splitting into three separate units and combining.

Screenshots

Going Up4 screens
Kaiju Attack 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Going Up at fortnightly against Kaiju Attack 2's every 13 months. Going Up also leads on price ($1.99 vs $2.99). Kaiju Attack 2's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On review sentiment, 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

Going Up costs $1.99 and Kaiju Attack 2 $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kaiju Attack 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 43 and 56 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Going Up's written reviews are positive against 76% of Kaiju Attack 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Going Up ships an update fortnightly, Kaiju Attack 2 every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Going Up versus Kaiju Attack 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoing UpKaiju Attack 2
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.3 (43 ratings)4.5 (56 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews76.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4356 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 13 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB154 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNapping RaccoonGUAN LING WU

Customer experience

Going Up

All ratings43 ratings
Positive79.1%
Neutral11.6%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative5.0%

Kaiju Attack 2

All ratings56 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral8.9%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral14.7%
Negative8.8%

In-app purchases

None

Going Up

No in-app purchases

None

Kaiju Attack 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Going Up free?
Going Up costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kaiju Attack 2 free?
Kaiju Attack 2 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Going Up or Kaiju Attack 2?
Kaiju Attack 2 is rated higher. Going Up averages 4.3 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while Kaiju Attack 2 averages 4.5 from 56 ratings.
Do Going Up or Kaiju Attack 2 have ads?
Neither Going Up nor Kaiju Attack 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Going Up or Kaiju Attack 2?
Going Up ships an update fortnightly, and Kaiju Attack 2 every 13 months. Most recently, Going Up was updated on September 28, 2026 and Kaiju Attack 2 on September 19, 2026.

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