Comparison

Going Up vs Bitmap Bay

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

Bitmap Bay

Embark on a retro pirate adventure with a handcrafted pixel art world. Engage in skillful cannon battles, face legendary captains, and recruit your crew in this roguelite experience. Enjoy endless replayability with a full save system, playable completely offline.

Highlights
  • Handmade pixel art
  • Challenge legendary pirates
  • Endlessly replayable voyages
  • Skillful cannon battles
  • Recruit your crew
  • Full save and load system
Features
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"A bold new retro take... quite the intriguing one" – Pocket Gamer. Welcome to Bitmap Bay - a pixel-art pirate adventure. Explore the low-res high seas, build your legacy, and test your cannon-firing reflexes against legendary historical captains. • Authentic Pixel Art: A charming, low-res retro world created by an artist. • Legendary Pirates: Challenge over 40 real historical captains, each with unique, hand-drawn portraits. • Tactical Cannon Battles: Combat is simple to learn but hard to master. Time your shots perfectly to claim victory. • Recruit Your Crew: Hire a loyal crew of sailors, specialists, and scoundrels. • Endlessly Replayable: Encounter a wide range of random events – duels, storms, thieves, and mysteries. • Premium Experience: Playable completely offline with zero ads and zero in-app purchases. About the Developer: Bitmap Bay is the creation of Grandom Games, the solo dev studio of a visual artist and designer. It is built with a passion for classic retro gaming and offered as a true premium mobile experience.

Screenshots

Going Up4 screens
Bitmap Bay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bitmap Bay at every 4 days against Going Up's fortnightly. Bitmap Bay also leads on price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Going Up's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Going Up costs $1.99 and Bitmap Bay $0.99 up front. 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 — 4.3 for Going Up against 4.3 for Bitmap Bay. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Going Up has 43 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Going Up's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bitmap Bay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Going Up ships an update fortnightly, Bitmap Bay every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Going Up versus Bitmap Bay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoing UpBitmap Bay
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.3 (43 ratings)4.3 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews82.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB102 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNapping RaccoonNICHOLAS GENTRY

Customer experience

Going Up

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

Bitmap Bay

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive82.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative11.4%

In-app purchases

None

Going Up

No in-app purchases

None

Bitmap Bay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Going Up free?
Going Up costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bitmap Bay free?
Bitmap Bay costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Going Up or Bitmap Bay?
Going Up and Bitmap Bay are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 43 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Going Up or Bitmap Bay have ads?
Neither Going Up nor Bitmap Bay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Going Up or Bitmap Bay?
Going Up ships an update fortnightly, and Bitmap Bay every 4 days. Most recently, Going Up was updated on September 28, 2026 and Bitmap Bay on September 26, 2026.

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