Comparison

Block Escape vs Boxpush

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

Head to head
About

Block Escape

Slide blocks to their matching doors on a crowded grid before time runs out. Navigate challenging puzzles with new pieces and mechanics that introduce strategic depth. Utilize helpful boosters to overcome obstacles and clear the board.

Highlights
  • Timed block sliding puzzles
  • Variety of block shapes
  • Dynamic gate mechanics
  • Special block types (Star, Pointer)
  • Boosters (Freeze, Hammer, Magnet)
  • Offline play
  • Competitive Dragon's Treasure mode
Features
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A crowded grid, blocks wedged against each other, and somewhere on the edge a door in each block's color. Block Escape: Puzzle Jam is a timed block puzzle: hold a block, drag it freely until something stops it, and steer it to its door so it slides off the board. A door only lets a block through if it spans the full side touching it, and the pieces run from single squares to Ls, Ts, crosses and 3×3 slabs. Clear the grid before the countdown hits zero. The clock waits for your first drag, so the order can be worked out before anything moves. You can lose a level to the clock, to a bomb, or to the gates. Every time a block leaves, all the gates on the board switch at once, open to shut and shut to open, and if that leaves no remaining block a way out, the level is over. Bomb Blocks count down their own seconds next to the main timer, and the level ends if one of them gets there first. As you go further, new pieces arrive with a quick explanation and soon start sharing boards with the old ones. Star Blocks leave only through a Star Door of their color, though a Star Door will take ordinary blocks too. Colorful Paths let one color cross and act as walls to the rest. Pointer Blocks slide only horizontally or only vertically, which makes them the piece everything else has to work around. If time is short, Freeze halts the countdown and the bombs for a while; if one block is holding everything up, Hammer clears it; and if one color is scattered all over the board, Magnet removes every block of it in a single tap. Choosing a Hammer or Magnet target pauses the clock. Boosters unlock gradually and can be topped up with coins. Even a lost level can often be rescued: add time, give a bomb more seconds, or flip the gates once more, and press and hold on the fail screen to study the board first. Main levels work offline, progress stays on your device, and everything plays in portrait with one finger. Once you are far enough in, Dragon's Treasure also opens at regular intervals: one hundred players start, you need seven wins in a row, one loss puts you out, and whoever lasts splits the coin pool. It needs a connection to join, and so does the leaderboard, which ranks by levels cleared. Add a seven-day reward cycle with bonuses for total days, a profile with avatar, frame and nickname, and HARD LEVEL warnings before the toughest boards.

About

Boxpush

Features
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Push every box onto its target. That is the whole game — and it is harder than it sounds. 500 hand-verified levels Every level in Boxpush was built by a solver working backwards from the finished position, which means two things no other puzzle pack can promise: every level definitely has a solution, and the game knows the shortest one. The "best" counter next to your score is the real optimum, not a guess. Difficulty that actually ramps Levels are not sorted by how long they take. They are sorted by how many ways there are to ruin them — the legal moves that quietly leave a level unsolvable. Five bands, each measurably harder than the last, each introducing exactly one new idea. Two mechanics, introduced one at a time - One-way tiles: a box standing on an arrow can only be pushed that way. - Typed boxes: a marked box only counts on the target bearing the same mark. Built to be read Every piece on the board is distinguished by shape as well as colour. The whole game is playable in a black-and-white screenshot. Text scales with your system setting. Nothing is hidden behind a gesture. No timers. No lives. No streak to lose. Unlimited undo, because changing your mind is the mechanic. Works completely offline. Your progress stays on your phone. Free with ads. One optional purchase removes them — it unlocks nothing, because all 500 levels are free from the start.

Screenshots

Block Escape4 screens
Boxpush4 screens

Verdict

The call

Block Escape and Boxpush are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Block Escape sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Boxpush sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Block Escape versus Boxpush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlock EscapeBoxpush
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer杭州玩梦网络有限公司Sergio Diaz Marcos

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Block Escape

One-time10
  • Gold Pack1$1.99
  • Revive Pack$2.99
  • Gold Pack$3.99
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  • Energy Pack$3.99
  • Prop Pack$3.99
  • Gold Pack2$7.99
  • Gold Pack3$14.99
  • Gold Pack4$29.99
  • Gold Pack5$49.99
  • Gold Pack6$99.99
1 purchases

Boxpush

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Block Escape free?
Block Escape is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Boxpush free?
Boxpush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Block Escape or Boxpush have ads?
Both Block Escape and Boxpush show ads.

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