Comparison

Lightbot vs LEGO® Bricktales

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

Head to head
About

Lightbot

This game teaches programming logic through engaging puzzles. Players guide a robot using commands to solve levels, fostering an understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals. It's an excellent introduction to coding for kids and puzzle enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Programming logic puzzles
  • Robot guidance with commands
  • Teaches procedures, loops, conditionals
  • 50 levels and 20 challenge stars
  • Multiplayer progress tracking
  • Multiple language support
Features
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Featured by Apple in over 100 countries *Best New Apps and Games* *Best for Learning to Code* *Best in Hot Educational Games* Get kids hooked on coding within minutes! Lightbot is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming logic to solve levels. Simply guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels using commands, Lightbot cultivates a real understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals. Educators around the world are choosing to use Lightbot first when introducing their students to programming, coding and Computer Science. Lightbot features 50 levels and 20 challenge stars to collect and is a must-have for puzzle enthusiasts. This version of Lightbot can be played in English, French, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Indonesian, German, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Hindi, Swedish, Finnish and Hungarian! Just hit the associated flag icon on the main screen to select a language. Lightbot features multiple save slots and separate progress tracking for multiple players. Multiple players can advance at their own pace in their own save slot, and also compete on number of levels finished, number of stars collected and number of overall commands used to complete the game. There are NO in-app purchases in Lightbot.

About

LEGO® Bricktales

Design and build creative solutions using intuitive brick-by-brick mechanics in a charming LEGO world. Solve physics-based puzzles and aesthetic challenges across diverse diorama biomes to help characters and restore an amusement park.

Highlights
  • Brick-by-brick building mechanic
  • Physics-based puzzles
  • Aesthetic creation challenges
  • Globetrotting LEGO adventure
  • Beautiful diorama worlds
  • Amusement park customization
Features
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In LEGO® Bricktales, discover an innovative brick-by-brick building mechanic to design puzzle solutions from your own imagination. See your creations brought to life in a beautiful LEGO world where every problem has a constructive resolution. Embark on an epic adventure across a world of beautiful LEGO diorama biomes crafted brick by brick as you search for inspiration to help your grandfather reinvigorate his rundown amusement park with your little robot buddy in tow. Your journey will take you to the deepest jungle, sun-drenched deserts, a bustling city corner, a towering medieval castle, and tropical Caribbean islands. Help the minifigures of these worlds by solving puzzles and unlock new skills throughout the story to further explore these worlds and uncover the many secrets and mysteries they contain. From purely aesthetic creations, such as a market stand or music box, up to functional physics-based puzzles like building a crane or gyrocopter - each diorama offers a variety of construction spots with the freedom of intuitive brick-by-brick building. In each spot you are given a set of bricks and it’s up to you to figure out a unique build that will work. On top of specific puzzles and quests, there are additional builds in the amusement park so you can customize the rides to make them your own! The Story Your grandfather, a genius inventor, has called you for help! His beloved amusement park is about to close as the mayor is threatening to shut everything down and seize the land if the necessary repairs aren’t made to bring it up to code. With the help of your powerful little robot buddy, you can restore it using a mysterious device based on alien technology. As a source of power, the device needs happiness crystals, which you can harvest by making people happy and solving their problems. With the aid of a portal, travel to different locations all around the world to help people and collect their happiness crystals. Strap in for the ultimate building adventure and save your grandfather’s amusement park! Features - A globetrotting LEGO adventure: Experience a whimsical and epic adventure around the world, packed with charming dialogue and fun secrets to unravel. - Beautiful diorama worlds: Explore five varied story world biomes and the amusement park hub, all fully built out of LEGO bricks. - Build like never before: Discover the most intuitive brick-by-brick building in a LEGO video game, as you see your creations come to life in a three-dimensional world. - Test your skills with varied puzzles: Different types of puzzles will test your building skills. Use your engineering brain in functional physics-based puzzles to build a bridge for a digger to get across a river, put your designer hat on to build a stunning new throne for the King, or customize the rides in the amusement park. - Master your builds in Sandbox Mode: Unlock the Sandbox Mode upon completing a construction spot, then you go back in and improve your build with a huge selection of additional bricks from different themes. - Heaps of items to collect and unlock: Find collectables in the different dioramas and use them to buy cool new items for your wardrobe or new brick color sets for the sandbox mode. - Build your unique character: Create your own minifigure character from a huge selection of parts and unlock more options inspired by the worlds you visit as you progress through the story.

Screenshots

Lightbot4 screens
LEGO® Bricktales4 screens

Verdict

The call

Lightbot and LEGO® Bricktales both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Lightbot's written reviews are positive against 38% of LEGO® Bricktales's. Lightbot also leads on price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 17.0). LEGO® Bricktales's advantage is ratings volume (256 vs 38). On rating, update cadence, 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

Lightbot costs $2.99 and LEGO® Bricktales $4.99 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 — 4.5 for Lightbot against 4.4 for LEGO® Bricktales. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LEGO® Bricktales has 256 ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Lightbot's written reviews are positive against 38% of LEGO® Bricktales's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightbot ships an update every 2 months, LEGO® Bricktales every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Lightbot versus LEGO® Bricktales: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightbotLEGO® Bricktales
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.5 (38 ratings) — better4.4 (256 ratings)
Positive reviews84.7% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings38256 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB1011 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpriteBox LLCThunderful Publishing AB

Customer experience

Lightbot

All ratings38 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive84.7%
Neutral5.1%
Negative10.2%

LEGO® Bricktales

All ratings250 ratings
Positive85.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative11.2%
Written reviews120 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral11.7%
Negative50.8%

User reviews

Lightbot

From 38 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for learning programming
  • 💡 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • 🧠 Thought-provoking puzzles
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Good for kids and adults
  • ✨ Well-designed and polished

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • ⏳ Game is too short
  • ❌ Difficulty spikes
  • 🎧 Cannot listen to music while playing
  • 🐞 Some levels have bugs

LEGO® Bricktales

From 256 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Highly creative and innovative gameplay
  • 🧩 Engaging physics-based puzzle mechanics
  • 🎮 Fun and entertaining experience
  • 📱 Works well on various Apple devices
  • 🎯 Good balance of difficulty progression

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Critical tutorial-blocking bugs
  • 🐛 Bridge building simulation not completing
  • 🐛 Objectives not registering as complete
  • 🐛 Built structures not appearing on map
  • 🐛 Game crashes on portal transitions

Bugs and requests

Lightbot

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes on open/startup
  • App crashes during gameplay/levels
  • Conditional level 2 bug
  • Play button covers code in Conditional level
  • Not loading due to iOS version
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  • English levels not working on iPod 4th gen
  • Crashing on 4th gen iPod/iPad

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels
  • Puzzle editor/user-created levels
  • Hint system
  • Ability to listen to music while playing
  • Unlockable content/robot customization
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  • More reward for completing challenges
  • More levels to reinforce concepts
  • Solutions page

LEGO® Bricktales

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Robot crosses bridge but objective doesn't mark complete
  • Built structures not recognized or displayed
  • Lego pieces blocking path with no workaround
  • Game kicks players out unexpectedly
  • Simulation never completes for builds
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  • Flag button turns green but structure doesn't spawn
  • Two-goal levels not completing properly
  • Robot gets stuck or goes wrong direction
  • Game crashes when entering jungle portal
  • Stuck in sandbox mode with no exit
  • Checkpoint and flag triggers not working on iPad

Requested features

9 requests
  • Skip or auto-build option for construction sequences
  • Improved camera angle controls in explore mode
  • In-game to-do list for level objectives
  • Better directional guidance for tasks
  • Controller sensitivity adjustment option
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  • Smoother loading animations
  • Larger action buttons
  • Exit option from sandbox mode
  • Tutorial hints and construction guidance

In-app purchases

None

Lightbot

No in-app purchases

None

LEGO® Bricktales

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightbot free?
Lightbot costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is LEGO® Bricktales free?
LEGO® Bricktales costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lightbot or LEGO® Bricktales?
Lightbot is rated higher. Lightbot averages 4.5 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while LEGO® Bricktales averages 4.4 from 256 ratings.
Do Lightbot or LEGO® Bricktales have ads?
Neither Lightbot nor LEGO® Bricktales shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lightbot or LEGO® Bricktales?
Lightbot ships an update every 2 months, and LEGO® Bricktales every 6 weeks. Most recently, Lightbot was updated on October 12, 2026 and LEGO® Bricktales on October 12, 2026.

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