Comparison

Rock Pusher vs Xenobloom

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

Head to head
About

Rock Pusher

Hire workers to help you push a massive boulder to its designated location. Despite the difficulty, successfully moving the rock yields valuable rewards.

Highlights
  • Hire workers
  • Push a boulder
  • Earn rewards
  • Idle gameplay
Features
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Can you push the rock? Hire workers to push the boulder to its destination. This rock is very hard to move, but it can give you nice rewards!

About

Xenobloom

Features
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An alien spore fell to Earth. You are the bloom. Pick a strain, pick a response level, then pick a single hex anywhere on the planet to land on. From there the bloom spreads on its own — hex to hex, along coastlines, through airports and shipping lanes — and you spend Biomass to push it somewhere it would not have reached alone. Then humanity notices. That is the whole game: spreading fast gets you seen, and getting seen starts the clock on your own extinction. A REAL MAP The world is not decorative. 2,450 land hexes carry their actual country, climate band, coastline and a share of that nation's real population. 144 countries, 121 transit hubs built from real cities, and 554 air and sea routes. Bangladesh really is the densest ground on the map. Greenland really is a problem. HUMANITY FIGHTS BACK Countries raise their alert level, seal borders, quarantine hexes and fund purge teams that burn your colonies back — including ground you had fully consumed. Every wealthy, functioning nation pours money into Cure Research. Hit 100% and you are gone. Saturate all 2,450 hexes first and the planet is yours. SIX STRAINS, SIX DIFFERENT GAMES Vector-7 is the balanced one. Mycelia is slow and nearly impossible to purge. Grey Cascade rides transit networks and guts cities but starves in open country. The Hollow is almost undetectable and barely feeds. Static gives the labs nothing to sequence, so the cure stalls — but it crawls. Null Bloom voids ground permanently, and every lab on Earth is working on you. 46 MUTATIONS Three branches — Transmission, Resilience, Virulence — bought with Genome you earn by infecting and by catching floating pickups. Airborne spread, cold tolerance, quarantine bypass, transit latency, and a lot of ways to make yourself harder to notice. THE LAB Between outbreaks the Lab cultures Xenite in real time, including while the app is closed, up to 12 hours banked. It buys permanent upgrades that carry into every future run. ALSO: - Daily Outbreak — one fixed seed, everyone plays the same world - Cascade — endless waves - 37 awards - Runs survive being force-quit; resume exactly where you left off - Every sound is synthesised at launch. The soundtrack tracks how close the cure is to finishing. No ads. No in-app purchases. No premium currency. No accounts, and it never needs a connection.

Screenshots

Rock Pusher4 screens
Xenobloom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Xenobloom at none against Rock Pusher's 16. Xenobloom also leads on ads (none vs shown). Rock Pusher'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. Rock Pusher sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Xenobloom asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rock Pusher versus Xenobloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRock PusherXenobloom
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews24.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings10K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 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
Size327 MB2 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperRollic GamesAmir Ghaemi

Bugs and requests

Rock Pusher

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Unable to unlock Atlas after meeting gear power requirement
  • Merge quest gets stuck after evolving workers
  • Gear inventory freezes and becomes unusable
  • Prestige timer resets incorrectly
  • Energy system not functioning as expected
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  • Progression blocked at certain levels
  • Glitches when using multiple maps
  • Inability to upgrade gear past gold tier

Requested features

7 requests
  • Increase prestige frequency
  • Improve energy system and offline progression
  • Add more content and progression beyond current roadblock
  • Implement better quest and progression tracking
  • Improve merging and upgrading mechanics
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  • Add more ways to earn resources and progress
  • Provide better communication channels with developers

Xenobloom

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Rock Pusher

One-time16
  • Rune Pack$1.99
  • Small Gem Pack$2.99
  • Medium Gem Pack$4.99
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  • Starter Pack 2$4.99
  • Starter Pack With Prestige$6.99
  • Small Skip-It Pack$7.99
  • Energy Bundle$7.99
  • No Ads$7.99
  • Large Gem Pack$9.99
  • Starter Pack$12.99
  • Ice Island Pack$14.99
  • Fire Island Pack$19.99
  • Epic Gem Pack$19.99
  • Large Skip-It Pack$30.99
  • Legendary Gem Pack$39.99
  • Ultimate Gem Pack$99.99
None

Xenobloom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rock Pusher free?
Rock Pusher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Xenobloom free?
Xenobloom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rock Pusher or Xenobloom have ads?
Rock Pusher shows ads; Xenobloom does not.

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