Chernobyl 3D vs Waddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chernobyl 3D
Experience intense single-player arena combat with escalating waves of enemies and a variety of weapons. Utilize power-ups and a portal gun for strategic traversal and boss elimination. Compete on a global leaderboard with replay functionality.
- Wave-based arena combat
- 18 enemy types
- Four distinct weapons
- Portal gun for traversal
- Power-ups (QUAD damage, SPEED, BERSERK)
- Global leaderboard with replays
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Chernobyl is a frenetic single-player FPS built from the ground up in C with raylib. Ten waves of escalating chaos, a roster of 18 enemy types, and four weapons (shotgun, machine gun, rocket launcher, tesla cannon) — plus a portal gun for fast traversal. Power up with QUAD damage, SPEED boost, or grab the BERSERK pack to delete bosses with a single tesla discharge. Public global leaderboard. Submit your initials on death and your run lands on chernobyl.ximg.app/scores.html alongside an input replay anyone can watch back at full fidelity. No ads, no in-app purchase, no tracking. Built by one developer.
Waddle
Play classic Doom WADs on your iPhone or iPad. This app allows you to import your own game files and mods, offering customizable touch controls and full controller support. It comes bundled with two free games and is open-source.
- Play classic Doom WADs
- Import your own WAD files
- Customizable touch controls
- Full game controller support
- Bundled with Freedoom games
- Open-source software
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Play the classic-Doom-engine games you own, anywhere. Waddle is a WAD player for iPhone and iPad: a game library and touch controls built around Woof! - the modern continuation of the Boom and MBF ports that faithfully preserves original gameplay while supporting today's mods, up through the MBF21 standard. Ready to play out of the box. Waddle bundles Freedoom Phase 1 and Phase 2: two complete, freely licensed games built by the Freedoom project for this engine family. Tap and play - nothing to configure. Bring your own WADs. Import WAD files you own from the Files app, iCloud Drive, or the share sheet - commercial IWADs you've purchased, or any of thousands of community-made maps and megawads. Zip archives and DeHackEd patches are supported. Every map set is a game. Import a megawad and it lands on your shelf as its own game, already paired with the right base game. Add-ons and DeHackEd patches attach to any game from its page, where you also set the load order and compatibility level (vanilla, Boom, MBF, MBF21 - or auto) and find its saves, which are kept per game. Play your way. Touch controls with two schemes (classic twin-stick and modern drag-to-turn), adjustable feel, and buttons you can drag wherever your thumbs want them - plus full support for game controllers and hardware keyboards. Walk into doors and switches to use them, and pan and zoom the automap by touch. Open source. Waddle is free software under the GPL-3.0; the engine it descends from is GPL-2.0-or-later. Source code for the entire app is available on GitHub. Waddle includes no copyrighted commercial game content. Only the freely licensed Freedoom data is bundled; commercial WADs must be imported by you, from copies you own. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by id Software or Bethesda.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chernobyl 3D at 16.0 against Waddle's 26.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chernobyl 3D against 5.0 for Waddle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Chernobyl 3D ships an update every 3 days, Waddle every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chernobyl 3D | Waddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Richard Blundell | Tyler Vick |
Customer experience
Chernobyl 3D
Waddle
In-app purchases
Chernobyl 3D
No in-app purchases
Waddle
No in-app purchases








