Comparison

Gridlock vs Spellbound Grimoire

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

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Gridlock

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Free. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just pure gameplay. Draw flight paths, land aircraft, and keep the terminal alive in a fast-paced air traffic control arcade game. The terminal is open. The sky is already too busy. In Gridlock: Terminal, you control a crowded airspace where every aircraft needs a safe route home. Draw flight paths, guide aircraft to the correct runway, avoid hazards, and survive as the skies become increasingly chaotic. One bad route can cause a crash. One missed hazard can end the run. One more landing can beat your high score. Simple to learn. Difficult to master. NEW: Daily Dispatch Take on one official challenge every day. You get one attempt, one score, and one chance to climb the leaderboard before tomorrow's dispatch arrives. Compete on Game Center, unlock achievements, and become Terminal Master. Features - Draw flight paths with one finger - Land planes, jets, heavy aircraft, and helicopters - Match aircraft to the correct runway or helipad - Avoid birds, turbulence, screen edges, and mid-air collisions - Survive increasingly busy airspace - Take on the Daily Dispatch challenge - Compete on Game Center leaderboards - Unlock achievements and milestones - Chase your personal best - Quick arcade sessions built for "one more try" - Free to play Every landing counts. Every decision matters. How long can you keep the terminal alive?

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Spellbound Grimoire

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Open the grimoire. Spell words from a hand of letter tiles, clear each round's score threshold, and build a vocabulary engine that snowballs out of control. Every run is a fresh draft. Collect charms that bend the rules โ€” quadruple your rare letters, multiply palindromes, gild a vowel โ€” then stack them into combos that turn a five-letter word into thousands of points. Level your favorite word lengths with Codices. Aim tile packs at the exact letters you want. And inscribe your OWN words into the dictionary, where they score for the rest of the run. Then face the Reckoning. Twelve bosses bend the rules โ€” vowels score nothing, your hand shrinks, a letter is forbidden โ€” and you see each one coming from the start of the chapter, so you can build against it. FEATURES โ€ข A deep word-roguelike: 50+ charms, 12 bosses, and dozens of synergies to find โ€ข Five deck archetypes that reshape your run from the very first tile โ€ข Inscribe custom words โ€” the one thing only you can do โ€ข Seeded runs with shareable codes โ€” race a friend on the exact same deal โ€ข Ascension stakes and an Endless mode for the score-chasers โ€ข Designed for one hand, in portrait NO NONSENSE โ€ข No ads. No in-app purchases. No timers, no energy, no daily-streak guilt. โ€ข No accounts, no login, no tracking, no data collection. โ€ข Opens straight into a game. It's a word game with the depth of a roguelike deckbuilder. Spell something spectacular.

Screenshots

Gridlock4 screens
Spellbound Grimoire4 screens

Verdict

The call

Gridlock and Spellbound Grimoire are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Gridlock versus Spellbound Grimoire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGridlockSpellbound Grimoire
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size57 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYusuf YasinKHADEM KADE BADIYAN

In-app purchases

None

Gridlock

No in-app purchases

None

Spellbound Grimoire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gridlock free?
Gridlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spellbound Grimoire free?
Spellbound Grimoire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gridlock or Spellbound Grimoire have ads?
Neither Gridlock nor Spellbound Grimoire shows ads.

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