Comparison

BALL x PIT vs GNOSIA

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

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About

BALL x PIT

Engage in a brick-breaking, ball-fusing roguelite adventure. Battle enemies with ricocheting projectiles, gather resources, and build a new city. Recruit heroes and explore diverse realms in this fast-paced fantasy quest.

Highlights
  • Brick-breaking gameplay
  • Ball fusion system with 60+ randomized balls
  • Base building with 70+ unique structures
  • Hero recruitment and upgrades
  • Exploration of diverse realms
  • Roguelite progression
Features
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BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes. BALL x PIT is a fast-paced fantasy roguelite where heroes must find the balls to plunge deeper into a seemingly bottomless pit of monsters. Develop arcane ammunition and resources in pursuit of treasure, recruiting additional heroes to aid you in your perilous quest. Ballbylon has fallen. After a meteoric and completely unexpected event annihilated the great city, all that remains is an ominous, yawning pit. Treasure hunters from far and wide flock to the city’s tomb to seek their fortune, plumbing the depths in search of Ballbylon’s scattered riches. Few return. The pit plays host to armies of barbaric creatures, hellbent on ending your quest before it even begins. Armed with a growing arsenal of magic-infused projectiles, batter your way through multiple levels of increasingly challenging obstacles to claim the ultimate prizes and rebuild New Ballbylon. Fuse Your Balls The Ball Fusion system encourages explosive experimentation with over 60 randomized balls to equip and combine during your journey. Discover overpowered combinations and unexpected synergies from hundreds of possible outcomes. Build New Ballbylon Expand New Ballbylon with over 70 unique buildings that provide gameplay bonuses and unlock further power-ups, new characters, and more! As your community grows, task homebound heroes with automated tasks to keep the resources coming while you dive deeper into the pit. Discover New Realms Face legions of diverse enemies within the pit, battling through barren deserts, frozen caverns, savage forests and more. Each region offers its own unique set of hazards on top of hordes of increasingly challenging foes and mighty, screen-filling bosses. Recruit Fellow Hunters As you explore the pit you’ll encounter fellow treasure hunters eager to add their skills to your expedition. Each character has unique, upgradable mechanics that totally change the way you play the game. Experimentation and adaptation are crucial to the success of New Ballbylon!

About

GNOSIA

Engage in a Sci-Fi Social Deduction RPG aboard a drifting spaceship. Discuss with unique characters to identify and eliminate the alien Gnosia before they eliminate you. Unravel mysteries through repeated playthroughs and develop your character's abilities.

Highlights
  • Social deduction gameplay
  • Character discussion and voting
  • Unravel mysteries through loops
  • Unlock new commands
  • Develop character builds and stats
  • Engaging cast of characters
  • Randomly triggered events
Features
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The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time... The crew of a drifting spaceship, facing off against a mysterious and deadly threat known as the “Gnosia” and having no idea who among them is really the enemy, formulate a desperate plan for survival. The most suspicious among them will be put into “cold sleep” one by one, in an effort to rid the ship of Gnosia. Gnosia is a Sci-Fi Social Deduction RPG in which you will engage in discussion with a variety of unique characters, with the aim of identifying the Gnosia among the group. Players will have to use what information they can gather during the discussions to ascertain whom they think is Gnosia and then vote to put them into cold sleep. As you progress, your abilities will improve - but so will those of the crew. As the numbers of crew members, Gnosia, and various “roles” increase, it will become increasingly difficult to determine who is telling the truth. Work in collaboration with or against other crew members to ensure your survival until the end. ・Repeatedly play through “loops”, triggering special events to unravel mysteries in a uniquely original narrative. Certain events will unlock new commands for you to use during discussions. ・Step into a variety of roles to develop different character builds. Your stats will determine how effectively you can sway the group’s opinion or lie, and will also affect your likelihood of being selected for cold sleep. ・Engage with an engrossing and eclectic cast of characters and experience randomly triggered events, each one unique to its subject. Character events will reveal information about your crewmates in the form of special “Notes”.

Screenshots

BALL x PIT4 screens
GNOSIA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BALL x PIT at Free against GNOSIA's $24.99. BALL x PIT also leads on ratings volume (4.2K vs 12) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). GNOSIA's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (89% vs 70%). 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

BALL x PIT is free to download; GNOSIA costs $24.99 up front. BALL x PIT sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. GNOSIA asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for BALL x PIT against 4.8 for GNOSIA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BALL x PIT has 4.2K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of BALL x PIT's written reviews are positive against 89% of GNOSIA's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BALL x PIT ships an update weekly, GNOSIA every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
BALL x PIT versus GNOSIA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBALL x PITGNOSIA
PriceFree — better$24.99
Rating4.9 (4.2K ratings) — better4.8 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews70.3% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.2K — better12
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#183 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size457 MB536 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperDevolver Digital, Inc.ACTIVE GAMING MEDIA Inc.

Customer experience

BALL x PIT

All ratings3,626 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews404 reviews
Positive70.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative18.8%

GNOSIA

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative5.6%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

BALL x PIT

One-time2
  • Full Game$14.99
  • Full game$14.99
None

GNOSIA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BALL x PIT free?
BALL x PIT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GNOSIA free?
GNOSIA costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BALL x PIT or GNOSIA?
BALL x PIT is rated higher. BALL x PIT averages 4.9 out of 5 from 4.2K ratings, while GNOSIA averages 4.8 from 12 ratings.
Do BALL x PIT or GNOSIA have ads?
Neither BALL x PIT nor GNOSIA shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BALL x PIT or GNOSIA?
BALL x PIT ships an update weekly, and GNOSIA every 9 days. Most recently, BALL x PIT was updated on October 31, 2026 and GNOSIA on October 30, 2026.

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