Comparison

Nuke Brainjot vs WICK

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

Head to head
About

Nuke Brainjot

Master spear throwing and nuke obstacles in this action-packed game. Collect funny characters, upgrade your skills, and race to become the ultimate throwing champion. Enjoy fast-paced, meme-filled gameplay with exciting rewards.

Highlights
  • Spear throwing and nuking gameplay
  • Obstacle smashing
  • Character collection
  • Upgrade system
  • Rainbow Races
  • Memerot-filled rewards
Features
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Master spear throwing, nuke obstacles, catch rewards, and collect hilarious Brainrot characters in this action-packed adventure! Game features: - 2 modes: Spear Training Throw & Nuke for Brainrots - Nuke walls and smash obstacles - Train, upgrade, and master spear throwing - Win exciting Rainbow Races - Collect dozens of funny Brainrot characters - Fast-paced memerot-filled gameplay and rewards system Download now, unleash your spears, nuke for Brainrots, and become the ultimate throwing champion!

About

WICK

Features
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The last sun has gone out. What is left of the light is a single burning thread, and it is held between your two fingers. You do not control a character. You control the rope. Both ends of the thread are your fingertips, and its total length never changes — so the distance between your fingers is the only input the game has. Bring them together and the thread sags into a basket: cold, dim, and able to cradle a falling ember and carry it across the room. Spread them apart and it snaps taut: hot enough to light a lantern, hot enough to burn through the gloom, and expensive enough to kill you. Because fuel is both your health and your light. Every second you burn bright is a second closer to the dark, so the room you can see is the room that is killing you. Lift one finger and that end pins itself in place, leaving the other free to sweep — one of several tactics the game never tells you about. WHAT YOU DO · Light the lanterns before the gloom snuffs them out · Cradle embers in the slack and ferry them to the brazier · Pull taut and sear the gloom before it eats your fuel · Find the oil pods, because nothing else will refill you NOTHING ELSE PLAYS LIKE THIS The taut blade and the slack basket are not two modes with a button between them. They are the same rope, and the only difference is how far apart your hands are. Nothing snaps to anything either: embers are loose particles that roll and settle wherever the rope happens to sag, so every catch is a placement problem rather than a timing test. Nothing in here is trying to sell you light. There is no advertising to sit through and nothing to buy — the thread you are handed at the start is the whole game, and no purchase will lengthen it by an inch. WICK asks for no account and no sign-in; your longest run is written down on your device and nowhere else, because the game simply carries no code with which to reach a network, so there is nothing to track you and nothing to report you. Every texture is drawn from scratch each time you launch and every sound is synthesised in the instant it is heard, which leaves the whole thing a couple of megabytes wide and perfectly content in a place with no signal at all. Two fingers. One thread. However far you get before the dark takes it back.

Screenshots

Nuke Brainjot4 screens
WICK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: WICK at none against Nuke Brainjot's shown. Nuke Brainjot's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Nuke Brainjot versus WICK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNuke BrainjotWICK
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (727 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings727 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size469 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTrang VuWON SEOK OH

In-app purchases

None

Nuke Brainjot

No in-app purchases

None

WICK

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nuke Brainjot free?
Nuke Brainjot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WICK free?
WICK is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nuke Brainjot or WICK have ads?
Nuke Brainjot shows ads; WICK does not.
Which is updated more often, Nuke Brainjot or WICK?
Nuke Brainjot ships an update monthly, and WICK monthly. Most recently, Nuke Brainjot was updated on October 2, 2026 and WICK on September 14, 2026.

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