GridSmash Deluxe vs Block Blast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GridSmash Deluxe
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GridSmash is a block puzzle game about patience, planning, and the deeply satisfying moment when everything clicks into place. Place pieces on an 8x8 grid, fill rows and columns to clear space, and build huge combo chains to push your score higher and higher. There’s no timer, so every move is yours to think through. Easy to pick up, hard to master, and endlessly satisfying when the perfect placement opens up the board. In Classic mode, you drag pieces from the tray onto the grid and make every move count. When all three pieces are used, a new set appears. The game ends when none of the remaining pieces can fit, so success depends on smart planning, careful spacing, and knowing when to play safe or chase a massive combo. Scoring is all about momentum. Clear multiple lines at once for bigger bonuses, then keep the streak alive with consecutive clears to build powerful combo multipliers. As your score rises, you’ll also earn rotation tokens that let you rotate a piece at exactly the right moment. One good turn can save a run, rescue a crowded board, or unlock a huge scoring play. GridSmash also features a cast of wildly different characters you can choose from, each with their own personality, voice lines, visual style, and difficulty. Some are calm and focused, others loud, theatrical, chaotic, or completely unhinged. Your character doesn’t just change the look and feel of the game, but also the challenge itself. Easier characters give you more forgiving piece sets, while harder characters demand tighter play and reward bigger scoring potential. Whether you want a friendly companion, a smug showman, a dramatic chef, or a mad scientist cheering on your biggest clears, there’s a persona to match your style. For players who want a more structured challenge, Adventure Mode includes 15 hand-crafted levels with unique objectives, star ratings, and special board obstacles. Clear lines, hit score targets, survive long enough to win, or wipe the board clean while adapting to levels that change how you think about every move. Features: - Relaxed, no-timer block puzzle gameplay - Satisfying row and column clears - Deep combo-based scoring - Rotation tokens for strategic recovery plays - 15 handcrafted Adventure levels - A roster of distinct playable characters with unique personalities, voices, and difficulty levels - Game Center leaderboard support - Automatic high score saving
Block Blast
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A block puzzle built so that every piece of information reaches you three ways at once - visual, audio and haptic. Lose any one of those channels and the board is still fully readable, and still fully playable. Eight by eight grid. Three pieces at a time. Fill a row or a column to clear it. THE IDEA • Colour is never the only signal. All seven block colours carry a distinct pattern - dots, horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, crosshatch, diagonals, checkerboard, waves - and the pattern is always drawn, never an opt-in extra. • The board can be heard. Every cell has a pitch from its row and a place in space from its column, rendered through a spatial audio environment. Scan by ear and build a map of the board. • Nothing requires dragging. Drag, tap-tap and dwell all drive the same game state, so you can switch between them in the middle of a run. • Mistakes are cheap. Undo is earned as you play, near-misses snap to a legal spot, and Zen mode has no game over at all. BLIND AND LOW VISION Every cell and every tray slot is a labelled VoiceOver element: "Row 3, column 5, red with dots, fits here, clears 2 lines." Piece descriptions lead with size, because size is what decides whether a piece still fits. Audio explore turns the board into a direct-touch surface: drag a finger to hear each cell as you cross it, lift to hear it described, triple-tap to place the piece in hand. This is the mode for playing with Screen Curtain on. Every sound is synthesised on your device as it plays, so the pitch mapping used for navigation stays exact. COLOUR BLIND Seven colours, seven patterns, always drawn. Deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia simulation can be switched on for the whole game rather than a preview swatch, so you can check a palette in the situation you actually play in. Block borders thicken automatically under Increase Contrast, and a block key lists every colour with its pattern name. MOTOR AND SWITCH CONTROL • Drag and drop - the piece floats above your finger and a near-miss snaps to a legal spot. • Sticky drag - tap a piece, every legal landing spot lights up, tap one. • Dwell control - tap a piece, rest on a cell, and it places itself. Works with Switch Control, adjustable from 0.4 to 4 seconds. Plus optional confirm-before-placing, full Reduce Motion support, and a one-tap maximum accessibility preset that sets high contrast, patterns, tap-to-place, spatial audio, haptics and verbose speech together. HAPTICS A looping heartbeat while a piece is in hand, a sharp tick when it crosses a cell where it fits, a dull thud where it does not, and a burst that grows with the number of lines cleared. MAKE IT YOURS • Six themes: Classic, Neon Glow, Pastel Soft, High Contrast, Nature, and Minimal - which paints every block the same white, because pattern carries all the identity a block needs. • Four sound packs: Synthetic, Organic, Retro and Nature. • Four clear effects, three levels of speech detail, and score announcements on or off. TWO MODES Classic keeps score, grows a combo up to five times over, and ends when nothing fits. Zen never ends - when no piece fits, the fullest rows dissolve and play carries on. PRIVACY No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No network calls of any kind. Your settings and your best score stay on your device, and nothing else is ever collected. English and Indonesian throughout, including VoiceOver labels and spoken feedback. Siri knows both: "Start Block Blast" and "Mulai Block Blast". I kept the app's British spelling ("colour") since that's what the UI strings use. If you'd rather match US storefront convention, swap to "color" in the description — the keyword field already uses "colorblind".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: GridSmash Deluxe at 16.0 against Block Blast's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | GridSmash Deluxe | Block Blast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 165 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | POMACS | Muhammad Fadhil Abidin |
In-app purchases
GridSmash Deluxe
No in-app purchases
Block Blast
No in-app purchases
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