Data Crash vs Genesis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Data Crash
Engage in a futuristic block puzzle game where strategic placement and game-changing upgrades help you crash a rigged system. Discover hundreds of mods and upgrades to create unique strategies and overcome escalating challenges.
- Strategic block placement
- Game-changing mods
- Hundreds of upgrades
- Career mode
- Escalating difficulty
- Offline play
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Enter the futuristic world of Data Crash, a fun and free block puzzle game where you can discover game breaking combos and upgrades. In this futuristic world, you work as an Android Trainer, who trains Androids by matching block data on a data grid. There's only one problem. The game is rigged! Companies use training bots and fire humans because they can't out perform bots. With the help of your hacker friend, you break all the rules by providing hundreds of upgrades that can crash the whole system. Why You'll Love Data Crash * More Than Just a Block Puzzle: Uncover the conspiracy, break the rules, and crash the system one block at a time. * Mods That Change Everything: Equip game-changing mods that alter how you score. Every combination creates a new strategy. * Hundreds of Upgrades: Discover powerful upgrades that transform your blocks and bend the rules in your favor. * Career Mode: Take on assignments from your company, complete projects, and earn credits as you climb the ranks. * Always a New Challenge: Each round introduces harder training challenges with unique twists (disabled shapes, limited moves, and more). Features of Data Crash * Strategic Block Placement: Drag and place shaped blocks onto the data grid to hit target scores and clear lines. * Escalating Difficulty: Survive standard training, then face off against advanced and expert challenges designed to give you all you can handle. * Boosts & Market System: Buy boosts before tough rounds and acquire upgrades at the market between challenges. * Multiple Block Shapes & Rotations: Master circles, triangles, squares, crescents, hearts, and stars across dozens of block types. * Offline Play: No connection needed. Train anywhere. How to Play * Drag blocks from your hand onto the data grid. * Clear full rows and columns to score points and free up space. * Hit the target score before you run out of moves to complete each training challenge. * Equip mods and upgrades between rounds to create powerful combos. * Complete your training and outsmart the system.
Genesis
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Genesis: Bioforge -- Grow every creature that ever lived! Genesis is a cozy, clever hex puzzle wrapped in the greatest story ever told — the story of life on Earth. Snap glowing gene-cells together so their edges match, and when the genome hums into place, something wakes up: a spark, a cell, a swimmer, a climber… one hundred creatures in all, waiting across four billion years. Your guide is Pip — a tiny, cheerful spark of life who's been around since the very beginning and has opinions about trilobites. Pip teaches as you play, celebrates your wins, and nudges (never nags) when you're stuck. The puzzle is gentle to learn and genuinely satisfying to master Every chapter adds one new idea — rotating cells, choosy sockets, cracked pieces that need extra care — taught with a friendly demo, never a wall of text. Early levels are a warm bath. Later levels will make you put your tea down. What makes Genesis different - A living collection — every level you clear wakes a new creature for your album. Watch your menagerie grow from the first glimmer of light toward the first curious mind. - Deep time, warmly told — 100 levels across 20 eras of Earth's history, from Primordial Dawn through ancient seas, great forests, and beyond, with true bits of science tucked into every chapter. - Cozy on the outside, cerebral on the inside — gooey, glossy cells, a board that glows back at every snap, and puzzles with real "aha" underneath the charm. - Generous by design — the whole 100-level journey is free to finish. No energy meters, no timers ticking while you think, no walls. Optional extras (a hint, a little Genome, a fancy board skin) are there if you want them — never required. - Made for every player — colorblind assist, reduced motion, high contrast, and simple one-handed portrait play. - Chase mastery — earn up to three stars on every level with cleaner, smarter solves, and keep a daily streak going. No account. No reading required to play. Just you, Pip, and the slow, wonderful business of becoming. And Genesis keeps growing — new worlds, creatures, and modes are on the way in free updates. Your album has room to spare. Life never stops becoming. Let's begin!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Data Crash at every 5 days against Genesis's every 2 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume and 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
Both are free to download. Data Crash sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Genesis sells 6 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 — 5.0 for Data Crash against 5.0 for Genesis. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Data Crash ships an update every 5 days, Genesis every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Data Crash | Genesis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kick Flip Games | Aly Shehata |
In-app purchases
Data Crash
- 150 Credits$1.99
- 450 Credits$4.99
- 750 Credits$9.99
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- 1500 Credits$19.99
Genesis
- Small Genome Pack$0.99
- Medium Genome Pack$1.99
- Pure Genesis$2.99
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- Large Genome Pack$4.99
- Founder's Pack$4.99
- Mega Genome Pack$9.99
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