Shrobik vs Ringdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shrobik
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The main character of the game is a small, clumsy robot named Shrobik with a big, kind heart, whose energy has been stolen. The goal is to embark on a journey across mysterious planets and laboratories with a unique atmosphere and full freedom of movement, featuring exclusive mechanics, venture into space, survive ancient ruins, save a rock concert, and experience many other adventures, finding the right path using interactive objects, collecting energy, evading and defeating the Boss’s soldiers, to battle the Boss in the final showdown and reclaim your energy. Install the game now and start your adventure! Genre: Platformer, Arcade, Adventure, Stylized, Monsters Style: Sony PlayStation, Sega, Xbox, PC, Nintendo, Gameboy, 8bit, 16bit, 32bit Family-friendly game Easy controls Suitable for all ages High-quality graphic detailing No internet connection required Music "Cruising for Goblins", "Airship Serenity", "Brightly Fancy", "Carefree", "Equatorial Complex", "Feelin Good", "Floating Cities", "Goblin Tinker Soldier Spy", "Happy Bee - Surf", "In a Heartbeat", "Island Meet and Greet", "Life of Riley", "Our Story Begins", "Pixelland", "Return of the Mummy", "Trouble", "Truth in the Stones", "Unholy Knight", "Who Likes to Party" 1. Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 2. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 3. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ IGRS Rating: 3+ (Indonesia Games Rating System)
Ringdown
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Ringdown is a premium, tactile, no-ads switchboard puzzle game where you race to connect calls using coloured cables before callers lose patience and hang up. You’re the operator and the calls won’t stop. Featured in PocketGamer, who said: “It's rare you get such an excellent combination of simple gameplay and an interesting theme as Ringdown: Switchboard Puzzler… It's a simple but challenging offering that's a pretty exciting new launch". Ringdown is a beautifully crafted switchboard puzzle game about speed, focus, and controlled chaos. A brass lamp lights up. It shows two things: a colour and a number. Grab the matching cable, drag it to the right jack, and make the connection before the shrinking patience ring turns red. Answer fast and you build a combo. Pick the wrong port or let a caller hang up, and the shift starts slipping away. The longer you last, the harder it gets. The board fills up. Priority calls expire fast but pay double. Held calls tie up a line until they clear. And on squeeze shifts, there are more callers than cables, forcing you to free old lines before the next lamp turns red. Compete every day. Take on the Daily Challenge: the same board for everyone, every day. Chase your best score, climb the leaderboard, and compete with friends and players worldwide. Built to feel like the real thing. Ringdown isn’t a grid of flat buttons. The boards are richly detailed, the cables have weight, and every plug lands with a click you feel in your fingers, backed by period sound and haptics. What you get: • The 1960s Campaign: timed shifts that climb from quiet evenings to controlled chaos. • The Blitz: a second campaign set during the London air raids of 1940, with blackouts, bomb blasts, and things scuttling across the switchboard. An atmospheric thriller of a campaign. • Endless: one shift that keeps ramping until you crack. • Daily Challenge: the same board for everyone, every day. • Game Center leaderboards. • A trophy cabinet of career milestones. More campaigns are coming soon. Only one in-app purchase is required to unlock the full Ringdown experience, including premium campaigns, daily challenges and special limited-time events. Pay once. It’s yours. No ads. One in-app purchase. Nothing locked behind more money.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ringdown at Free against Shrobik's $4.99. Ringdown also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Shrobik's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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
Ringdown is free to download; Shrobik costs $4.99 up front. Ringdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shrobik asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shrobik ships an update every 3 weeks, Ringdown every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Shrobik | Ringdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dmytro Morozov | Ironic Thought ltd |
In-app purchases
Shrobik
No in-app purchases
Ringdown
- Ringdown — Full Version$3.99









