Comparison

Rockhopper vs TR

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

Head to head
About

Rockhopper

This retro-style indie game offers challenging platform puzzles with two distinct modes: infinite survival and timed levels. Master various platform types and overcome numerous obstacles and enemies to achieve high scores and gold medals. It's a completely free experience with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Infinite survival mode
  • 20 timed levels
  • Multiple platform types
  • Various enemies and obstacles
  • Power-ups
  • Global leaderboards and achievements
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Indie developed, super difficult, retro style game. NO ADVERTS and NO IAPs, absolutely 100% FREE. Rack up a high score on the INFINITE survival mode, or test your dexterity with 20 infuriating TIMED levels. You're going to need some serious skill to finish every level, followed by the impossible challenge of beating the gold medal times. FEATURES: > Two game modes. SURVIVAL and LEVELS. > Spring, rock, ice and moving PLATFORMS. > Spikes, saws, fire and bird ENEMIES. > Avalanches, snowmen & snowballs. > Rocket & helmet POWERUPS to help you survive. > Global leaderboards & achievements. CONTROLS: > Hold left or right side of screen to float in that direction.

About

TR

Uncover a WWII-era mystery by navigating a vast archive of obscure texts. Communicate with a handler through an interactive audio drama to find a stolen book and unravel the secrets of the machine's creators before it's too late.

Highlights
  • Narrative deduction gameplay
  • Interactive audio drama
  • Archive exploration
  • Link obscure texts
  • Uncover creator secrets
  • Dynamic dialogue system
Features
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A voice is saying your name. A WWII-era machine, long hidden in a church basement, whirs to life. Through a crackling speaker a man asks you to find a stolen book. He only knows the title. Time is running out. The machine, created by Bletchley Park engineers Cecil Caulderly and Beatrice Dooler, contains a vast archive of obscure books, letters, and journals fed in over the span of fifty years in an attempt to crack the code of reality. As their lives fell apart, the machine kept working. Navigate the computer’s archive. Link its obscure texts and uncover its creators’ secrets. Communicate with the man behind the speaker to figure out your role in this mystery. Destroy the book at the core of the machine — before it’s too late. NARRATIVE DEDUCTION - Deduce links through the archive to locate hidden sources. - Unravel the stories and unearth the secrets of the books’ authors and the machine's creators. - Map the archive and find the book that will rewrite the world. INTERACTIVE AUDIO DRAMA - Talk with your handler at any time, creating a dynamic audio drama that responds as you explore. - Featuring the voices of Rebekah McLoughlin (The SCP Archives, Eternal Threads), Paul Warren (A Highland Song, Viewfinder, The Séance of Blake Manor) and Phillipe Bosher (Baldur's Gate 3, Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). - Original soundtrack by Laurence Chapman (A Highland Song, Heaven's Vault, The Mask of the Rose). INSPIRATIONS TR-49 takes inspiration from narrative deduction games like The Roottrees are Dead and The Return of the Obra Dinn, and from audio dramas like The Magnus Archives and ars PARADOXICA. Written and created by the award-winning team behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Overboard!, and A Highland Song.

Screenshots

Rockhopper4 screens
TR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rockhopper at Free against TR's $6.99. Rockhopper also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). TR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (37 vs 2). On rating, update cadence, ads and device support 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

Rockhopper is free to download; TR costs $6.99 up front. Rockhopper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TR asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Rockhopper against 4.5 for TR. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TR has 37 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Rockhopper's written reviews are positive against 67% of TR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rockhopper ships an update weekly, TR every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Rockhopper versus TR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRockhopperTR
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.5 (37 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings237 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#88 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB527 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperRonald Battyinkle

Customer experience

Rockhopper

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TR

All ratings37 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Rockhopper

One-time1
  • Unlock ALL Levels$2.99
None

TR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rockhopper free?
Rockhopper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TR free?
TR costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Rockhopper or TR?
Rockhopper and TR are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 37 ratings respectively.
Do Rockhopper or TR have ads?
Neither Rockhopper nor TR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rockhopper or TR?
Rockhopper ships an update weekly, and TR every 6 days. Most recently, Rockhopper was updated on October 10, 2026 and TR on October 16, 2026.

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