Comparison

SplitLight vs Crown Arcade Lite

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.

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Crown Arcade Lite

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Crown Arcade Lite is the free way into Crown Arcade: ten retro neon mini-games with a full Apple Watch companion where the Digital Crown is the controller. Three games are free, the other seven open with a single purchase. PLAY FREE - CROWN BREAKER: neon brick breaker with power-ups, combos and multi-ball - CROWN PADDLE: two fingers, one screen, two players; crown-steered on Apple Watch - NEON SNAKE: grow, don't bite UNLOCK ALL TEN GAMES (one-time purchase) FLUX, DRIFT, ECHO, STACK, REFLEX, ORBIT and MAZE join the free three, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Buy once, restore anywhere with the same Apple ID. IPHONE DUO READY - Built to resize live for iPhone Duo: the layout re-fits itself when you open or close the phone, on the outer and the inner display. EVERY GAME - One screen, one input: drag on iPhone and iPad, turn the Digital Crown on Apple Watch - Procedural chiptune audio and haptics on every hit - CRT scanlines and a neon glow that adapts to any screen, including split and folding displays - Best scores per game, stored on the device No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Fully offline.

Screenshots

SplitLight4 screens
Crown Arcade Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Crown Arcade Lite at 17.0 against SplitLight's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 and Crown Arcade Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
SplitLight versus Crown Arcade Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplitLightCrown Arcade Lite
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPavel GagarinFixPixel

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SplitLight

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99
1 purchases

Crown Arcade Lite

One-time1
  • Unlock All Ten Games$2.99

Questions

Is SplitLight free?
SplitLight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crown Arcade Lite free?
Crown Arcade Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SplitLight or Crown Arcade Lite have ads?
Neither SplitLight nor Crown Arcade Lite shows ads.

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