Comparison

Swarm Dodge vs Orbit Pop

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

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About

Swarm Dodge

A minimalist survival game where players must evade swarming enemies and environmental hazards. Survive for as long as possible, master movement, and adapt to changing rules with unique modifiers. Features 100 levels, daily challenges, and customizable skins.

Highlights
  • Evasion-based survival gameplay
  • Dynamic rule-changing modifiers
  • 100 challenging levels
  • Daily challenges with leaderboards
  • Collectible and customizable skins
  • Global Game Center leaderboards
Features
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YOU ARE THE PREY. THE ARENA IS YOUR WEAPON. Swarm Dodge is a minimalist survival game where homing enemies hunt you down — and the only way to fight back is to make them chase you somewhere they should not go. Drag your finger to move. That is the whole control scheme. Simple to learn, nearly impossible to master. THE ARENA IS ON YOUR SIDE Spinning blades, electric fields, crushing walls, bounce bumpers and bottomless pits fill the arena. None of them can touch you. Every one of them will destroy anything that follows you in. Lure the swarm through a blade and you score. Chain kills together and the multiplier climbs to 5x. Hiding in a corner will keep you alive for a while. Hunting will win. THE RULES KEEP CHANGING Every 20 seconds the game stops and offers you three cards. Some are gifts — a shield that eats one hit, a shockwave that throws the swarm off you, a slow that brings them to a crawl. Some make life harder — fog, a swarm that clumps, blades that widen their reach. You have to take one. 100 LEVELS A hundred hand-tuned levels, each with its own layout of hazards and its own enemy count. Every level rates you out of three stars: clear it, hit the kill target, do it without a second chance. Blocked by a level you cannot beat? Stars you have already earned will open the way past it. You are never stuck for good. ENDLESS No levels. No timer. No end. Waves build, hazards multiply, and the run only stops when you do. Scored in points, so the best runs actually rank. DAILY CHALLENGE One arena, the same for every player on earth, changing every day at midnight UTC. Compete on the daily leaderboard, then come back tomorrow for a new one. LEADERBOARDS Prove you are the last one standing. COLLECT AND CUSTOMISE Eleven skins, each with its own trail and its own death. The rabbit kicks up dust. The fish blows bubbles. The bee sparks yellow. Buy them with coins you earn by playing, unlock them by reaching milestone levels — or earn the last two through pure skill: a 50-kill chain, and thirty stars. FAIR BY DESIGN No subscriptions. No energy meters. Swarm Dodge is free to play with ads. One single purchase removes them forever.

About

Orbit Pop

Features
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Orbit Pop is a pure one-touch arcade game. A single ball orbits a glowing core while bubbles and bombs rush in from every direction. Your only control is touch: a quick tap flips your direction, holding accelerates with a boost. Easy to start, hard to master. POP, DODGE, SURVIVE Pop incoming bubbles before they reach the core. Touch a bomb and you lose a life — but skim past one and you score a DODGE that feeds your combo. CHAIN COMBOS, UNLOCK ABILITIES Every bubble raises your multiplier and lifts the music up a semitone. Hit milestones to trigger real powers: • Combo 25 — Auto-Shockwave: pops automatically blow up the nearest bomb for 10s • Combo 50 — Immunity: bombs pass right through you for 60s Rare Golden Stars ignite a ×25 points storm for 10 seconds. EVERY RUN IS DIFFERENT A Director System rolls new modifiers across five escalating phases, so no two runs play the same. MAKE IT YOURS Unlock palettes, ball styles and core styles by mastering the game. Lo-fi chill soundtrack and fully synthesized sound effects. Plays in your language — English and Italian. Free to play. One thumb. Endless flow.

Screenshots

Swarm Dodge4 screens
Orbit Pop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbit Pop at none against Swarm Dodge's 1. Swarm Dodge's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Swarm Dodge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Orbit Pop asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Swarm Dodge versus Orbit Pop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwarm DodgeOrbit Pop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKridaLLCPauls Martins Evertovskis

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Swarm Dodge

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Orbit Pop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swarm Dodge free?
Swarm Dodge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Pop free?
Orbit Pop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Swarm Dodge or Orbit Pop have ads?
Both Swarm Dodge and Orbit Pop show ads.

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