Comparison

The Last Spark vs Haptic Arcade

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

Head to head
About

The Last Spark

Features
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The beacons are going out. You are the last spark. Tap anywhere and your spark hops to the next beacon. Each beacon sits in a housing with one swinging opening: arrive while it is open and you thread through. Arrive on the tick, the instant it swings home, and you are paid double and the dark rising from below is pushed back. Arrive wrong and the housing holds. There is no aiming. The only thing you decide is when. KEY FEATURES • ONE TAP, ONE DECISION Tap anywhere to hop. No drag, no line to draw. Every run is a question of timing, and the answer is always on screen. • ON THE TICK The field ticks with sound and a haptic. Land on the tick and the opening's edges turn white, the Embers double and the dark falls back. • OUTRUN THE DARK A black front climbs from below and never stops. Every clean landing buys you ground. When your luck runs out, it is waiting. • THREE ZONES, THREE KEYSTONES Climb through the Low Shroud, the Resonant Rift and the Zenith Core. Every ten ranks a Keystone freezes the field and lets you draft a relic or a boon. Beat rank 30 and climb on past it. • NEW DANGERS, NEW HELP Dark bands to cross, shutters that open and shut on your flight line, wisps to touch for an Ember. Supernova and Arc beacons, and gift beacons that hold the dark back or pay extra Embers. • LUMENS AND FLARE String clean landings together to light your Lumens, then swipe up to Flare: a surge forward that pushes the dark back and shatters what stands in your way. • ENDLESS AND LONG SHOT Endless is the climb. Long Shot spaces every row wider, so each throw hangs longer and each landing counts for more. • YOUR EMBERLING Earn Embers by playing and unlock Bodies and Wings in the Armory. Choose how your moth looks and how it flies. • DAILY CONSTELLATIONS AND THE SKY ATLAS Light three stars a day to draw a constellation. Each lit night joins your Sky Atlas, galaxy by galaxy. • YOUR PROGRESS TRAVELS Your saves sync through Game Center, so a new phone picks up where the old one stopped. • FAIR, ALWAYS No ads. No energy timers. No paid revives. Everything is earnable by play, and it plays offline with instant restarts. Optional Ember packs only save time.

About

Haptic Arcade

Features
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Play fun games built around haptic/audio effects. Made with VoiceOver accessibility in mind to accommodate for visually impaired gamers. CURRENT GAMES - Sequence: A simple haptic based memory game with a monthly leaderboard UPCOMING GAMES - Additional minigame: Concentration - Additional minigame: Odd one out

Screenshots

The Last Spark4 screens
Haptic Arcade3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Haptic Arcade at none against The Last Spark's 5. Haptic Arcade also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Last Spark sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Haptic Arcade asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
The Last Spark versus Haptic Arcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Last SparkHaptic Arcade
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB135 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNika TopuriaGavyn Ezell

In-app purchases

5 purchases

The Last Spark

One-time5
  • Handful of Embers$0.99
  • Pouch of Embers$2.49
  • Vesper$2.99
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  • Choir$2.99
  • Chest of Embers$4.99
None

Haptic Arcade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Last Spark free?
The Last Spark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Haptic Arcade free?
Haptic Arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Last Spark or Haptic Arcade have ads?
Neither The Last Spark nor Haptic Arcade shows ads.

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