Comparison

NeonVortex vs Blocknado

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

Head to head
About

NeonVortex

Experience a psychedelic arcade survival game with fast-paced action and high score challenges. Rotate the vortex to aim enemies, collect power-ups, and survive increasingly chaotic waves. Enjoy a unique visual and audio experience with a tracker soundtrack.

Highlights
  • Rotation-based arcade survival gameplay
  • Psychedelic vector visuals
  • Shape-shifting playfields
  • Power-ups and bonus rounds
  • Tracker soundtrack playback
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
  • Controller-friendly
Features
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Enter Neon Vortex, a psychedelic vector arcade survival game built for quick runs, high scores, and screen-filling chaos. Rotate the vortex to line enemies into your firing lane. Chain perfect shots, collect power-ups, survive bonus rounds, and push deeper as the geometry shifts around you. Every run ramps into faster waves, heavier projectiles, brighter explosions, and bigger score opportunities. Features: • Fast arcade survival built around rotation, timing, and positioning • Psychedelic vector visuals with shape-shifting playfields • MOD/XM/S3M tracker soundtrack playback • Audio-reactive music visualizer mode • Power-ups including slow-mo, rapid fire, nukes, shields, and twin sweeps • Game Center leaderboards and achievements • iPhone and Apple TV support • Controller-friendly gameplay

About

Blocknado

A retro falling block puzzle game where the floor rotates, challenging you to fill rings instead of rows. Enjoy vibrant visuals, satisfying animations, and an offline experience with multiple game modes.

Highlights
  • Rotating floor mechanic
  • Ring-based block clearing
  • Endless marathon mode
  • Authored level challenges
  • Offline gameplay
  • Replay functionality
  • Retro pixel art and sound
Features
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Blocknado is a retro falling block puzzle with a twist, literally! The floor rotates and you fill in rings instead of rows. It has vibrant retro colours, satisfying animations and really rewarding payoffs, and I would love for you to give it a go. WHAT YOU GET There is an endless marathon to get lost in, a run of authored levels to work through, and your best games are saved so you can sit back and watch them again. The whole game runs on your own device, so it plays offline on the bus, on a plane, or anywhere the signal gives up. No wifi needed once it is installed. Blocknado is free, and it shows ads. One purchase removes them permanently, and that is the only thing on sale in the whole app. HOW IT PLAYS Blocks fall toward a small square core in the middle of the board. Drag them across, tap to rotate them, flick to send them down. Fill a whole ring and it collapses, everything outside it falls inward, and if that fills another ring the rest of the board comes tumbling in behind it. Flick a piece hard and it slams home and torques the floor a quarter turn, so the wall you built up one side arrives along the bottom. If you grew up with one of those little handheld brick games, the stacking will feel familiar right away. CLASSIC Endless, scored, and faster every few minutes. The world's top ten sit on the home screen, and you can watch the runs that got them there. PUZZLE Authored levels in four difficulty bands: Easy, Medium, Hard and Wild. If you fill all the goal blocks you get one or two stars, and three stars for an identical match. SIGHT AND SOUND Pixel art icons, a chunky pixel display font, and light and dark themes that follow whichever one your phone is set to. The originally 8bit soundtrack adds another layer as your board fills up, and collapses land on the beat. NEW TO IT A short tutorial shows you the ropes: drag, tap to rotate, flick to drop. It takes a couple of minutes and then the board is yours.

Screenshots

NeonVortex4 screens
Blocknado4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: NeonVortex at 100% against Blocknado's 50%. NeonVortex also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.1) and ads (none vs shown). Blocknado's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ratings volume, 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. NeonVortex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Blocknado sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NeonVortex holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of NeonVortex's written reviews are positive against 50% of Blocknado's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NeonVortex ships an update weekly, Blocknado every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
NeonVortex versus Blocknado: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeonVortexBlocknado
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (18 ratings) — better4.1 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better9
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB78 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJeff CurtisReto CA

Customer experience

NeonVortex

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Blocknado

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

NeonVortex

One-time1
  • Full Game Unlock$0.99
1 purchases

Blocknado

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99

Questions

Is NeonVortex free?
NeonVortex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blocknado free?
Blocknado is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NeonVortex or Blocknado?
NeonVortex is rated higher. NeonVortex averages 4.9 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Blocknado averages 4.1 from 9 ratings.
Do NeonVortex or Blocknado have ads?
Blocknado shows ads; NeonVortex does not.
Which is updated more often, NeonVortex or Blocknado?
NeonVortex ships an update weekly, and Blocknado every 3 days. Most recently, NeonVortex was updated on October 31, 2026 and Blocknado on October 31, 2026.

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