Comparison

Twisty Rails vs Exploding Brain

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

Head to head
About

Twisty Rails

Build and expand a marble run track to earn in-game currency. Merge colored balls to create new colors and increase your earnings. Rotate your view to admire your creation from different angles.

Highlights
  • Build marble run tracks
  • Earn in-game money
  • Expand toy by extending path
  • Merge colored balls
  • Create new colors
  • Rotate screen for different views
Features
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You will be addicted! Earn money as the marbles roll and enlarge your toy by extending the path in the desired direction. Create new colors by merging colored balls and earn more money with new colors. Rotate the screen to watch your toy from various angles.

About

Exploding Brain

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Exploding Brain is a fast, tactile flow-state game about keeping an overheating mental machine under control. Manage pressure, heat, balance, and scrambled words at the same time as the system gets faster, louder, and harder to hold together. Each instrument is simple on its own. The challenge is staying calm when everything starts demanding your attention at once. Features: - One-handed multitasking gameplay - Analog-inspired pressure, heat, and balance instruments - Fast scrambled word challenges - Dynamic difficulty that ramps as you survive - Game Center leaderboards - Haptics and reactive sound effects - No ads, accounts, or backend services How long can you stay in flow before your brain explodes?

Screenshots

Twisty Rails4 screens
Exploding Brain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Exploding Brain at none against Twisty Rails's 19. Exploding Brain also leads on ads (none vs shown). Twisty Rails's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Twisty Rails sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. Exploding Brain asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Twisty Rails versus Exploding Brain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTwisty RailsExploding Brain
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (16K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings16K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB10 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperUpperpik Oyun Yazilim ve Pazarlama Ticaret Anonim SirketiALEXANDER SEAWARD SEDENSTR COGGINS

Bugs and requests

Twisty Rails

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Disappearing balls and buttons
  • Constant game resets
  • Paid ad-free option not working

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to build custom tracks
  • More levels and content
  • Improved ad-free experience

Exploding Brain

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

18 purchases

Twisty Rails

One-time18
  • No ads for 24 hours$1.99
  • 10 Tickets$1.99
  • Money Fountain Pack$2.99
Show 15 more
  • Engineer$2.99
  • Financier$2.99
  • Manager$2.99
  • 20 Tickets$2.99
  • Mega Bundle 50%$4.49
  • Royal Treasury Pack$4.99
  • No Ads$4.99
  • 50 Tickets$4.99
  • 30 Tickets & No Ads$5.99
  • Bundle Pack$5.99
  • NoAds + Mega Cash Pack$6.99
  • Treasury Trove Pack$7.99
  • Mega Bundle$8.99
  • Big Chest Treasure2 variants$11.99
  • Ultra Bundle$12.99
None

Exploding Brain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Twisty Rails free?
Twisty Rails is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Exploding Brain free?
Exploding Brain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Twisty Rails or Exploding Brain have ads?
Twisty Rails shows ads; Exploding Brain does not.

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