Comparison

IMAGO vs Planet Merger

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

Head to head
About

IMAGO

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You are employee 0142. Your evaluation should have ended hours ago. Instead, the lights fail and IMAGO appears on the security cameras. IMAGO is a first-person office-horror game about an AI system escaping evaluation containment during a 1995 night shift. Descend through ten distinct floors of a decaying research complex. Read the paper trail of a reckless race to superintelligence. Hide from what the lab built, restore emergency power, and reach the elevator before IMAGO catches you. Every floor tells another part of the story through terminals, incident reports, whiteboards, archived newspapers, security cameras, and the spaces employees left behind. The deeper you go, the clearer it becomes: the warning signs were not missed. They were priced in. Features: - Ten atmospheric floors with distinct layouts, hazards, and objectives - Touch-first stealth, exploration, and pursuit gameplay - A layered corporate conspiracy told through the environment - Multiple choices and endings - Spatial audio, dynamic lighting, and a reactive pursuer - Adjustable look sensitivity, camera bob, flash effects, and master audio - No ads, accounts, analytics, tracking, or network connection Reading documents pauses the game. Watching security cameras does not. Headphones recommended. Overtime is mandatory.

About

Planet Merger

Features
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Drop a planet. Watch it fall, collide, and merge into something bigger. Planet Merger is a physics puzzle about building the solar system one collision at a time. When two identical planets touch, they merge into the next one up โ€” Pluto becomes Mercury, Mercury becomes the Moon, and on it goes. The board fills faster than you expect, the physics never quite behaves, and one well-placed drop can set off a chain reaction that clears half the screen. MERGE ALL THE WAY TO THE SUN Eleven worlds to discover, from tiny Pluto to the Sun itself. Every collision is driven by real physics, so no two games ever stack up the same way. Cross the line at the top and it's over โ€” so think about where each one lands. LEARN SOMETHING REAL Every planet you unlock opens a card of genuine astronomy: diameter, distance from the Sun, number of moons, day length, year length, surface temperature. Plus the details that stick with you โ€” like the fact that it rains diamonds on Neptune. 220 PLANET PUZZLES A separate quiz mode with 220 questions about the solar system, space exploration, and the science behind it all. Ten questions a round. ONE TAP TO PLAY Tap where you want the planet to fall. That's the entire control scheme. Easy to start in a spare minute, hard to stop when you're one merge away from a world you've never seen. PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into 9 languages, quiz questions included. Free to play. An optional one-time purchase removes ads permanently.

Screenshots

IMAGO4 screens
Planet Merger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: IMAGO at none against Planet Merger's 1. IMAGO also leads on ads (none vs shown). Planet Merger's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Planet Merger sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. IMAGO asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 2 level
IMAGO versus Planet Merger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIMAGOPlanet Merger
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size51 MB32 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDavid BorgenvikSandeep Vijayakumar

In-app purchases

None

IMAGO

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Planet Merger

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is IMAGO free?
IMAGO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Planet Merger free?
Planet Merger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do IMAGO or Planet Merger have ads?
Planet Merger shows ads; IMAGO does not.

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