Ultimate Level Maker / Builder vs Lava Runner Arcade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Design and build your own 2D platforming levels with a wide variety of tools and assets. Create intricate obstacle courses, adventure maps, or anything you can imagine, then share your creations online and explore those made by others.
- Create 2D platforming levels
- 13 level themes
- Hundreds of blocks, enemies, and objects
- Foreground and background block placement
- World map creation
- Online level sharing and downloading
- Challenge mode with unlockable hats
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This app gives you the tools you need to create fantastic 2D platforming levels and share them with everyone. Build tricky obstacle courses, crazy contraptions, or even longer adventure-style levels. The choice is yours! Features: • Make all sorts of levels, big or small! • Select from 13 different level theme options to suit your mood. • Hundreds of blocks, enemies, and objects to place in each level. • Decoration blocks and sloped ground tiles to create more detailed environments. • Several powerups including upgrades to the player's armor and jump height. • Place blocks in the foreground and background. • Add a sub-area to your levels. • Electricity can be conducted by metal blocks to power pistons and more. • Dynamic fire spreading (wooden blocks can burn, and ice blocks melt!) • Create world maps to compile your levels into a story or adventure! • Share your levels and world maps online, and download those uploaded by other players. • Tackle the classic challenge mode to unlock cool new hats to wear!
Lava Runner Arcade
Navigate a house filled with molten lava by jumping and sprinting across furniture. Master precise timing to overcome obstacles and collect coins. Unlock new character skins to customize your runner.
- Arcade-style stage runs
- Collect and spend coins
- Unlock epic skins
- Heart and checkpoint systems
- Automatic saves
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The ultimate "Floor is Lava" challenge is taking over the house! Your living room has been flooded with roaring, molten magma. Your only hope of survival? Leap, sprint, and boundary-hop across ordinary household furniture before you take a scorching dip! Tap to jump and double-tap to perform gravity-defying maneuvers over sprawling kitchen islands, towering dressers, fallen bookshelves, and rogue washing machines. Every obstacle requires perfect timing—one wrong step will cost you a life! GAME FEATURES: Arcade-Style Stage Runs: Progress through escalating, custom-crafted levels. Each stage brings tighter gaps, faster hazards, and ultimate room chaos! Collect & Spend Coins: Grab floating gold coins scattered precariously across the burning terrain as you run. Unlock Epic Skins: Take your hard-earned coins to the Shop! Swap your classic runner for elite styles like the cosmic Astronaut, the stealthy Ninja, or the legendary blazing Phoenix. Heart & Checkpoint Systems: Found a heart? Grab it for an extra life! Keep your eyes peeled for checkpoints to save your progress mid-run. Automatic Saves: Your progress, total wealth, and unlocked apparel are safely stored locally so you can jump right back into the heat anytime. The room is collapsing, the heat is rising, and the floor is strictly off-limits. Download now and prove you are the ultimate Lava Surfer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lava Runner Arcade at none against Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's shown. Lava Runner Arcade also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's advantage is ratings volume (69 vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lava Runner Arcade holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Level Maker / Builder has 69 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Ultimate Level Maker / Builder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lava Runner Arcade's.
| Parameter | Ultimate Level Maker / Builder | Lava Runner Arcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (69 ratings) | 4.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 188 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Bellmyer | Brandon Egnarski |
Customer experience
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Lava Runner Arcade
Bugs and requests
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
Reported bugs
8 issues- Did not get hat after completing 5th year 2nd time
- Glitch with magnet on giant potion
- Lose a life when restarting a level
- Colors are too dark and don't match image
- Username glitch (SOMEBODYCOOL vs SOMEBODYCOOL XD)
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- Cannot add a Sonic level
- New update not on iOS
- Restarting level loses a life
Requested features
37 requests- Add multiplayer and friends list
- Add more bosses
- Add more cosmetics and pets
- Add chat for multiplayer
- Allow replaying levels
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- Add gravity switching like GD
- Add friends to play with
- Add a story mode
- Allow uploading levels without completion
- Add different kinds of coins
- Add more characters to play as
- Add playable character maker
- Add a family or friends for Carbo
- Add a girl version of Carbo or a dog/little brother
- Add lily pad blocks
- Add search functionality in the level editor
- Add more blocks and items
- Add multiplayer mode
- Add ability to color Carbo
- Add NPCs for storytelling
- Add a view creator button with profiles
- Add more lore for Carbo
- Add side scrolling
- Fix jet pack power up
- Add plane power up
- Add a bat boss
- Add comments on user games
- Add rating for user games
- Add custom music for levels
- Add more bone enemies
- Add new bosses (Giga Beetle, Mansion Bat, Huge Riko)
- Add mod support
- Add level rating system
- Improve lighting and shadows
- Add playable character maker
- Add boss maker
- Add more world parts
Lava Runner Arcade
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ultimate Level Maker / Builder
No in-app purchases
Lava Runner Arcade
No in-app purchases
Questions
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