NeonVortex vs Blocknado
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- Rotating floor mechanic
- Ring-based block clearing
- Endless marathon mode
- Authored level challenges
- Offline gameplay
- Replay functionality
- Retro pixel art and sound
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
NeonVortex ships an update weekly, Blocknado every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | NeonVortex | Blocknado |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (18 ratings) — better | 4.1 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff Curtis | Reto CA |
Customer experience
NeonVortex
Blocknado
In-app purchases
NeonVortex
- Full Game Unlock$0.99
Blocknado
- Remove ads$2.99








