Comparison

SplitLight vs Pixly Go

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

Head to head
About

SplitLight

Features
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You are the only light. There is a corridor in the dark, and your beam is what shows the way. Sweep the light and you see what waits ahead and to the sides โ€” a wall, a gap, a column. Two thumbs. The left one moves you, the right one aims the light. The rest is down to you and your reflexes: dodge the walls, use the pickups. THREE WAYS TO PLAY CLASSIC โ€” endless, no upgrades, no mercy. Your record is yours alone. DAILY โ€” one world a day, the same one for everybody on earth. Same corridor, same obstacles, one leaderboard โ€” but the streak breaks the moment you skip a day. A new world at midnight UTC. ROGUE โ€” the run that keeps something. Metres become a bank, the bank buys a longer or a wider beam, and every upgrade costs more than the last. Your beam upgrades stay with you โ€” always. WHAT THE DARK DOES BACK Pickups change the beam mid-run: wider, narrower, longer, shorter โ€” and two that change the world instead, speeding it up or slowing it down. Glass columns let the light through and kill you anyway. The dimmed strip behind one is your only warning. Fog eats the reach of your beam metre by metre; inside it you see less than you did a second ago. And every few hundred metres the world turns inside out: black becomes white, white becomes black. TWO SCREENS, ONE DARK SplitLight ships for iPhone and Apple Watch. On the phone you play with two thumbs; on the watch the Digital Crown is your hand and the beam sweeps on its own. The watch version is not a companion widget โ€” it is the same game, rebuilt for a screen the size of a fingertip, and one of the few real arcade games on the platform. BUILT SMALL ON PURPOSE Two colours. No text on the field. No tutorial โ€” the first run is the tutorial. No ads. No subscription. No timers, no energy, no accounts, nothing to watch and nothing to wait for. The game does not collect your data โ€” there is no analytics SDK inside, and your progress lives on your device. Free the whole way through: classic, daily and rogue, all of it, from the first metre to the last. One optional purchase unlocks endless beam upgrades past the fifth level in rogue โ€” buy it only if you have already hit that ceiling and want more. That single purchase is the entire business model. Game Center leaderboards and achievements on both platforms. Turn off the lights. Turn on the flashlight.

About

Pixly Go

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Guide your pixel through a scrolling tunnel and see how far you can get before the walls catch up with you. Pixly brings an old C game to iPhone and iPad. What began as an ASCII game in an 80-by-25 console lives on in two playable versions: โ€ข Pixly 1.0: the classic console-style game, with stepped tunnel walls and simple tap controls. โ€ข Pixly 2.0: smooth movement and physics, with the same pixel-sized challenge. Choose a theme, change your avatar, and chase your best score.

Screenshots

SplitLight4 screens
Pixly Go3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixly Go at none against SplitLight's 1. SplitLight's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. SplitLight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pixly Go asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SplitLight ships an update weekly, Pixly Go every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
SplitLight versus Pixly Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplitLightPixly Go
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPavel GagarinJan Huber

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SplitLight

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99
None

Pixly Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SplitLight free?
SplitLight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixly Go free?
Pixly Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SplitLight or Pixly Go have ads?
Neither SplitLight nor Pixly Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SplitLight or Pixly Go?
SplitLight ships an update weekly, and Pixly Go every 2 weeks. Most recently, SplitLight was updated on October 3, 2026 and Pixly Go on October 17, 2026.

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