Comparison

Going Up vs Eco Power Towns

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

Eco Power Towns

A strategy puzzle game where you build sustainable energy sources to power a town. Manage resources, research upgrades, and solve handcrafted levels to light up cozy homes.

Highlights
  • Icon-driven gameplay
  • Build solar, wind, tidal, biomass energy
  • Resource management
  • Research and upgrade production
  • Handcrafted levels
  • Haptic feedback
  • Game Center achievements
Features
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Can you power a tiny town.. sustainably? Eco Power Towns is a thoughtful strategy puzzle where every placement matters. Generate clean energy using solar, wind, tidal and biomass technologies; all while managing your limited resources. Upgrade, research, and optimize your layout to reach the energy goal and light up all the cozy homes. What to expect? - Contains no text at all: the entire game is icon-driven and intuitive. - Build solar panels, windmills, biomass plants, tidal generators and more. - Hints are available in case you get stuck on a level. - Reach energy goals before you run out of resources - Light up cozy houses across forests, swamps, hills, and rocky terrain - Unlock research upgrades to improve your production efficiency - Explore handcrafted levels of increasing challenge - Solve satisfying puzzles that reward careful planning - Enjoy peaceful lo-fi beat vibes and a clean, minimalist art style - A paid game: no ads, no tracking, no distractions, no data collected - Haptic Feedback - Game Center & Achievements I'm a solo game developer who made this game with a lot of care and love. I hope Eco Power Towns brings you a little joy, a little challenge, and a lot of cozy energy.

Screenshots

Going Up4 screens
Eco Power Towns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Going Up at fortnightly against Eco Power Towns's every 3 months. Going Up also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 58%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Eco Power Towns's advantage is chart position (#186 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 Eco Power Towns $1.99 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 — 4.2 for Going Up against 4.3 for Eco Power Towns. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 90 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Going Up's written reviews are positive against 58% of Eco Power Towns's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Going Up ships an update fortnightly, Eco Power Towns every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Going Up versus Eco Power Towns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoing UpEco Power Towns
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating4.2 (44 ratings)4.3 (90 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better58.3% of reviews
Number of ratings4490 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#186 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNapping RaccoonTepes Ovidiu

Customer experience

Going Up

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

Eco Power Towns

All ratings90 ratings
Positive82.2%
Neutral4.4%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral10.4%
Negative31.3%

Bugs and requests

Going Up

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Eco Power Towns

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Level 3 is very difficult to understand
  • Randomly placing solar panels is not fun

Requested features

2 requests
  • More levels please!
  • Tutorial or reference to explain the chart

In-app purchases

None

Going Up

No in-app purchases

None

Eco Power Towns

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Going Up free?
Going Up costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eco Power Towns free?
Eco Power Towns costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Going Up or Eco Power Towns?
Eco Power Towns is rated higher. Going Up averages 4.2 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Eco Power Towns averages 4.3 from 90 ratings.
Do Going Up or Eco Power Towns have ads?
Neither Going Up nor Eco Power Towns shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Going Up or Eco Power Towns?
Going Up ships an update fortnightly, and Eco Power Towns every 3 months. Most recently, Going Up was updated on November 4, 2026 and Eco Power Towns on November 7, 2026.

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