Block Story vs DEADGRID
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Story
Explore vast 3D landscapes, build anything you can imagine, and embark on an epic quest. Ride dragons, battle monsters, craft powerful items, and discover new biomes in this role-playing sandbox adventure.
- 3D block building and sandbox exploration
- Role-playing game elements
- Dragon and creature riding
- Questing and biome exploration
- Crafting system for weapons and artifacts
- Building mechanisms and vehicles
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Build a world of vast landscapes where you have ultimate control. You decide where to go and what to build. Fly on dragons and other creatures as you embark on an epic quest to save the world. Block Story® combines popular 3D block building, sandbox exploration gameplay with exciting and addictive role playing game elements. Complete quests to conquer diverse biomes and become the greatest warrior in the realm. Build strongholds, encounter a wide variety of creatures, battle boss monsters, and mine valuable resources to upgrade weaponry, access better equipment and create artifacts to summon monsters of all sorts -- including dragons! The first chapter of your story begins... Key Features • Discover several totally new and exciting quests • Learn from a wise Wizard on how to discover the many wonders of Block Story • Ride on dragons and many other creatures • Earn free diamonds for playing four days in a row • Infinite hours of RPG exploration game play • Explore numerous biomes from desert wastelands to arctic mountain ranges and even space! But look out for the dragons • Encounter numerous supporting characters that will assist you on your quests • Level up your hero with customized stats and attributes • Use the crafting system to forge a slew of magical items – from lighting swords, mystical staves and rare artifacts that summon dragons and other creatures that will aid you in battle • Build different mechanisms with the new electrical system • Create a variety of mechanical vehicles from a simple boat and railroad to an airplane that will allow you to soar through the skies • Solve complex mysteries • And much more! https://blockstory.net/community/
DEADGRID
Experience intense arcade zombie survival with endless waves and permadeath. Master an arsenal of 33 weapons, strategically deploy defenses, and choose dynamic upgrades to conquer the apocalypse. Customize your survivor and enjoy pure, optimized gameplay.
- Endless zombie waves
- Permadeath runs
- 33 unlockable weapons
- Strategic deployables and turrets
- Dynamic upgrade system
- Four zombie types with advanced AI
- Customizable survivor skins
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DEADGRID is a minimalist zombie arena shooter — pure, intense arcade action with real multiplayer. THE CLIMB A campaign ladder thousands of levels deep, and no two rungs are alike. Every level rolls its own horde, its own weather, its own rule and its own goal: one-hit-point runs, total blackouts, meteor storms, assassination contracts. Two modes break the pattern — INFECT, where you ARE the outbreak and hunt the survivors down, and FREE FOR ALL, where everyone carries the same gun and only one walks out. 1,080 WEAPON FINISHES Thirty collectable liveries — GOLD, ONYX, SYNTHWAVE, NOSFERATU, VOIDLINE, RAINBOW and more — across all 36 weapons. Every third rung of the Climb pays one out. Locked finishes stay secret until you earn them. TWELVE HANDCRAFTED ARENAS Fight through Times Square, Shibuya Crossing, the Champs-Élysées, Copacabana, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, Chichén Itzá and Terreiro do Paço — plus four arenas of our own: The Garden, Sporewood, Rustyard and Cindermaw. Lava rivers, container mazes, neon crossings. Every layout is placed by hand, never generated. SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE Endless waves of the undead. Every run is permadeath — beat your best in kills, waves and time survived. RANKED 1v1 — THE ARENA Duel real opponents in last-one-standing combat. Buy rage zombies and send them hunting your rival, earn a random upgrade every round, and climb 8 divisions to the top of the global ladder. DUO CO-OP Team up with a friend or matchmake with a stranger. Shared horde, shared glory — revive each other and see how deep two survivors can go. ARSENAL OF 36 WEAPONS Pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, snipers, launchers, energy weapons, flamethrowers and wilder things — each with its own 3D model. Loot weapon crates mid-run and build your loadout on the fly. NINE ZOMBIE TYPES Walkers, runners, tanks, boomers, jumpers that vault your walls, fire-spitters, bladesmen who cut bullets from the air, gaolers with hooked chains and summoners who raise the dead. Smart pathfinding routes them around cover — they hunt, they don't just shamble. TURRETS & DEPLOYABLES Three turret types, barriers, claymores, explosive barrels and the legendary clapping monkey. Build choke points, then watch the horde walk into them. PROGRESS THAT LASTS • GAME PASS: a 101-tier season track with exclusive skins, chests and emotes • MISSIONS: endless ladders that pay pass XP with bonus chests on every claim • SPECS: permanent lifetime upgrades that make every future run stronger • 42 SKINS to unlock — from the humble Rookie to floating war gods • 32 EMOTES to talk trash in style COMPETE WITH THE WORLD Global leaderboards, a top-1000 board, friends list with live presence, duo invites and player profiles. Daily streaks keep your fire burning. PURE PERFORMANCE Optimized for smooth 60fps. All game audio is synthesized in real time — zero audio files, tiny download. Free to play. Endless waves, thousands of levels. Just pure arcade zombie survival. Any coin pack removes ad breaks forever. Download DEADGRID and see how long you survive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Block Story at none against DEADGRID's 6. Block Story also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). DEADGRID's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (53 vs 1). On price, review sentiment 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. DEADGRID sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Block Story asks for nothing beyond the download.
Block Story holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DEADGRID has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Block Story's written reviews are positive against 93% of DEADGRID's.
| Parameter | Block Story | DEADGRID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 426 MB | 384 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Big Cube Interactive, LLC | Afonso Quinaz |
Customer experience
Block Story
DEADGRID
In-app purchases
Block Story
No in-app purchases
DEADGRID
- Scrap$0.99
- Cache$4.99
- Crate$9.99
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- Pallet$19.99
- Container$49.99
- Motherlode$99.99









