Comparison

Pocket Arcade Retro Games vs BlockFall

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Arcade Retro Games

Experience a collection of 26 original retro arcade games on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing and shooters to puzzles and pinball, with intuitive controls and offline play. Unlock all games with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • 26 original arcade games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Controller support for iPhone/iPad
  • Offline play
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
  • Single purchase to unlock all games
Features
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Pocket Arcade packs 26 original arcade games into one beautifully crafted app — for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No ads, no nonsense: pick a game and play in seconds. From a neon maze chase and a brick-breaker to a pseudo-3D arcade racer, a tube shooter, a snake game, a physics pinball with four tables, falling-block, sliding-number and match-3 puzzles, an asteroids-style drifter, a boss-battling sky shooter, table tennis and more — every game is hand-built with its own controls, music, and high-score table. FEATURES • 26 original games across Arcade, Pinball, Shooters, Puzzle, Racing and Board • Big, clear on-screen touch controls tuned per game — plus Apple Watch Digital Crown support • Play with a game controller on iPhone and iPad — Xbox, PlayStation and MFi pads, 23 of the 26 games • Plays on iPhone, iPad AND Apple Watch — your high scores sync across all three over iCloud • Game Center leaderboards and achievements • Filter games by category and star your favorites • High scores, attract demos, and a clear how-to-play guide for every game • The maze chaser evolves as you climb — split mazes and rotating biomes over a deep-space sky • Original artwork and sound — no third-party trackers, fully playable offline FREE TO PLAY Four games are free forever — a maze chaser, tic-tac-toe, a brick-breaker, and a snake game. Unlock the full collection — every current and future game — with a single one-time purchase. No subscriptions, ever. THE GAMES Arcade — a neon maze chase, a road-and-river crossing dash, a snake, a flag-grabbing maze rally, table tennis, and a maze-bombing blast-'em-up. Pinball — a real-physics table with flippers, ramps and multiball across four distinct playfields. Shooters — defend against a swarm, dodge a diving fleet, drift-and-blast through a rock field, ride a geometric tube, loop a dream world blasting bosses, and storm an isometric gauntlet of floor mazes and six towering bosses. Puzzle — stack falling blocks, pop color-matched bubbles, break out a wall of bricks, chain match-3 gem cascades, catch and clear tumbling tiles, and merge tiles to 2048. Racing — race an endless circuit, choose your route to the coast, carve an endless downhill, and run a fugitive off the road in a siren-blaring pursuit. Board — tic-tac-toe, connect-four, and a full game of solitaire, vs the device or a friend. Designed for quick play on the go: grab your iPhone or iPad, or glance at your Apple Watch, and dive into a game in seconds.

About

BlockFall

Features
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BlockFall is the classic falling-block puzzle, rebuilt for iPhone and iPad with the feel of a modern game: precise controls, glossy blocks, particle effects and a campaign that keeps giving you new goals. ONE PRICE. NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Buy once, play forever. No energy meters, no coins, no video ads between rounds, no account. FIVE WORLDS, FORTY LEVELS Aurora, Ember, Canopy, Neon and Cosmos – each world has its own atmosphere and eight levels with a real goal: • clear a number of lines • reach a score • dig through rubble rows • survive at high speed • make Quads (four lines at once) • chain combos Earn up to three stars per level. Finish a world to unlock the next. ENDLESS MODE The classic marathon: speed rises every ten lines, and your best score, best level and longest run are saved. TWENTY-FOUR ACHIEVEMENTS From your first line to a perfect clear, a 10Ɨ combo and every star in the game. CONTROLS THAT FEEL RIGHT • Swipe on the board to move, tap to rotate, drag down to soft-drop, flick down to hard-drop, swipe up to hold • Or use the on-screen buttons with auto-repeat • Hardware keyboards on iPad: arrow keys, Z / X, Space, C • Ghost piece, hold slot, five-piece preview, wall kicks, lock delay – the rules serious players expect • Scoring with T-spins, back-to-back bonuses, combos and perfect clears PRIVACY Nothing leaves your device. No tracking, no analytics, no account. BlockFall is made by BABALA Studio in Switzerland.

Screenshots

Pocket Arcade Retro Games4 screens
BlockFall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket Arcade Retro Games at Free against BlockFall's $1.99. BlockFall's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Pocket Arcade Retro Games is free to download; BlockFall costs $1.99 up front. Pocket Arcade Retro Games sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BlockFall asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 6 level
Pocket Arcade Retro Games versus BlockFall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Arcade Retro GamesBlockFall
PriceFree — better$1.99
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size188 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPascal PeltriauxAres Ege Oezdemir

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pocket Arcade Retro Games

One-time1
  • Unlock All Games$3.99
None

BlockFall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Arcade Retro Games free?
Pocket Arcade Retro Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlockFall free?
BlockFall costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pocket Arcade Retro Games or BlockFall have ads?
Neither Pocket Arcade Retro Games nor BlockFall shows ads.

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