PANIC vs RelativityRush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PANIC
Engage in augmented reality combat against monsters that appear in your real world. Explore a city under siege, upgrade your weapons and gear, and rescue your pets. Experience a narrative that adapts to your performance.
- Augmented Reality combat
- Wave-based monster encounters
- 30 surreal Incidents
- Gun and gear upgrades
- Mutated pet upgrades
- Adaptive narration
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PANIC is a wave-based AR shooter set in Neo Jadu, a city collapsing under the effects of the Bloom—a mysterious energy that’s warping plants and creating monsters. Aliens are here to harvest it. A megacorp is trying to weaponize it. And you? You’re just trying to get your frog back. • Augmented Reality combat — enemies spawn in your real world • 30 surreal Incidents across 4 districts, from Frog Food Factories to Sunken Ruins full of cactus monsters • Upgrade your guns, gear, health, and mutated pets • Narration that tracks your wins and your humiliation • Face Bloom-twisted zombies, drones, orchids, beasts—and things with way too many teeth • Rescue Squish. Follow Void. Find Spitfire. Don’t get converted into an intern.
RelativityRush
Race through a physics-inspired arcade adventure on a luminous spacetime grid. Utilize unique scientist abilities and gadgets to overcome cosmic obstacles and gravity changes. Compete in daily expeditions and challenge friends.
- Physics-inspired arcade gameplay
- Four scientists with unique abilities
- Unlockable characters and outfits
- Cosmic obstacles and changing gravity
- Collectible and upgradeable gadgets
- Daily and weekly expeditions
- Share route challenges with friends
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Space is your racetrack. Gravity keeps changing the rules. Run across a luminous spacetime grid in a physics-inspired arcade adventure. Choose from four scientists as you unlock them through gameplay, each with a unique ability. Swipe between lanes, leap over rifts and slide beneath obstacles as the pace builds. FOUR SCIENTISTS. FOUR UNIQUE ABILITIES. Start with Albert Einstein and unlock three more scientists through gameplay: Albert Einstein - Dash: Race forward with a protected lightspeed burst. Hugh Everett - Portal: Open a shortcut and jump ahead along the course. Marie Curie - Extend: Double the remaining time of your active power-ups with two free uses each run. Unlock a permanent third use for 5,000 Quanta. J. Robert Oppenheimer - Nuclear strike: Launch a missile that clears nearby obstacles with an expanding blast. Choose your scientist, master their ability and push your personal best farther. Preview characters and outfits in the Wardrobe and choose your field equipment. A CHANGING COSMIC COURSE Navigate narrowing wormholes, gravity bends, asteroid showers and cosmic-string obstacles. Choose a multiverse path and watch the road climb into a different landscape. Race through black-hole encounters beneath a moving universe of stars. GADGETS FOR THE NEXT CLOSE CALL Draw in Quanta with the Magnetar, protect a run with a Quantum shield or slow the action with a Time dilator. Aim the Photon lance at breakable barriers. Collect gadgets on the course and use earned Quanta to upgrade them. ONE MORE EXPEDITION Build a clean-action chain, complete missions, take on Daily and weekly expeditions, and share a route challenge with friends. Practice previews let you explore the cosmic encounters without risking earned progress. YOUR PACE, YOUR SETTINGS Adjust graphics quality, ambient motion and sound. Save and export your earned progress from Settings. Optional in-app purchases offer Quanta and a cosmetic outfit. Quanta have no cash value. Purchases and purchased-wallet services require an internet connection. Earned progress and purchased items use separate recovery systems; see in-game support for details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PANIC at none against RelativityRush's shown. PANIC also leads on ratings volume (379 vs 5). RelativityRush's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. PANIC sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and RelativityRush sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PANIC against 5.0 for RelativityRush. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PANIC has 379 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of PANIC's written reviews are positive against 100% of RelativityRush's.
PANIC ships an update every 2 days, RelativityRush daily. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PANIC | RelativityRush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (379 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 379 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 575 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jadu AR, Inc. | Brian Baker |
Customer experience
PANIC
RelativityRush
Bugs and requests
PANIC
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes during tutorial
- Progression issues
Requested features
2 requests- Optimization for older devices
- Expanded content and levels
RelativityRush
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PANIC
- Gift Pack $.99$0.99
- Gift Pack $2.99$2.99
- Gift Pack $4.99$4.99
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- Gift Pack $9.99$9.99
- Gift Pack $14.99$14.99
- Gift Pack $19.99$19.99
- Gift Pack $49.99$49.99
RelativityRush
- Pocket of quanta$1.99
- Cosmic violet suit$2.99
- 3 continues$2.99
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- Cosmic starter$3.99
- Quanta constellation$4.99
- Quanta galaxy$9.99
- Cosmic voyager$10.99
- Quanta vault$19.99









