Block Drop vs openblocks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Drop
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Block Drop is a falling-block puzzle built for clean, fast phone play. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account. Open it and play. THREE MODES Marathon. Endless. The speed climbs every ten lines and does not stop. Sprint. Forty lines, fastest time wins. Ultra. Two minutes on the clock. Score as high as you can before it runs out. EVERY CLEAR HAS A NAME One line is a SPARK. Two is a FRACTURE. Three is a CASCADE. Four rows at once is a BLAST, and it pays the most of any clear in the game. Then it gets deeper. Spin a spire into a gap it should not fit and score a TWIST. Land a BLAST or TWIST back to back for a CHAIN at one and a half times the value. Keep clearing on consecutive pieces to build a COMBO. Empty the board completely for a PERFECT WIPE, the biggest single bonus there is. Every value scales with your level, so a late BLAST is worth many times an early one. The full ladder is in the app, on the menu and in the guide. BUILT TO FEEL RIGHT Hold a piece for later. Ghost landing shows exactly where it falls. A resting piece gives you half a second to slide and spin it, refreshed on every move, so last-second tucks are yours to make. Drag to move, tap to rotate, flick down to drop, or use the buttons on either side. TRACKED Local top ten for each mode. Lifetime score, average, best run, and a badge meter that climbs as you play. Every run ends with a breakdown of what you cleared, your best single clear, and your top combo. Apple Game Center leaderboards and achievements when you are signed in. Original artwork, original music, original sound effects. Ad-free, forever.
openblocks
Experience a pure, classic block puzzle game with no distractions. Stack falling blocks, clear lines, and increase your score as gravity intensifies. Enjoy intuitive controls and a minimalist design for uninterrupted gameplay.
- Classic block stacking gameplay
- Line clearing for scoring
- Progressive difficulty
- Next-piece preview
- Soft and hard drop options
- Wall kicks for rotation
- Offline play
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Stack falling blocks, clear lines, and chase higher levels in a clean, classic block puzzle with none of the junk that clutters this genre. No ads. No tracking. No accounts. No in-app purchases. openblocks never touches the network. It's just the game. You can even play it in airplane-mode. PURE CLASSIC GAMEPLAY • Clear lines to score and level up, with gravity that ramps up as you go • Plan ahead with the next-piece preview • Soft drop for control, hard drop for speed • Wall kicks for smooth, forgiving rotation • Pause anytime and pick up where you left off CONTROLS THAT GET OUT OF THE WAY • Drag to slide a piece, tap to rotate • Flick down to drop it instantly, or drag down slowly to guide it • Prefer buttons? Turn on the on-screen control pad in the menu • Crisp, minimal visuals that stay out of your way FREE AND OPEN SOURCE openblocks is open source. Read the code, report a bug, or build it yourself: https://github.com/dannyheskett/openblocks No dark patterns, no "energy" timers, no paywalled pieces. Just the timeless falling-block puzzle, done properly.
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Verdict
Block Drop and openblocks are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Block Drop | openblocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Scalzo | Daniel Heskett |
In-app purchases
Block Drop
No in-app purchases
openblocks
No in-app purchases





