Comparison

Chain Duel vs Bloomstream

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

Head to head
About

Chain Duel

Features
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Steer a chain formation of unique heroes. Move to attack, stop to unleash abilities. Outdraft your rival and break their chain!

About

Bloomstream

Features
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Water always finds its way. Your job is to show it where to go. Bloomstream is a cozy water-flow puzzle. Tap a mound of earth to dig it out and the spring pours through the gap — down, sideways and up again, filling every space it can reach, just like real water. Tap open ground to build a wall and hold the flood back. One finger, two moves: dig or dam. Everything else is the water. WHAT THE WATER IS FOR • Seedlings bloom the moment the water reaches them. Every one has to bloom. • Fish need their pool filled before you can finish. • Cats must stay dry. Flood the cat and the level is over — so wall it off before you open the channel that would soak it. • Frost spreads along any water it touches and turns it solid. Ice levels are races: dig your route before the cold gets there. Built a wall too late? Build another. Cutting a pool off from the spring drains it away again, the blooms fold back into seedlings, and you can try a different line. Nothing is wasted, nothing is punished. NO PRESSURE, EVER • No timers. • No move limits, no par, no star ratings. • No lives, no energy, no waiting to play again. • Play offline, anywhere, for as long as you like. You lose a round only by making a genuinely wrong move, and you can start it over instantly. Most levels come apart in a minute or two, once you spot the one dig that routes the water around the thing you were trying to protect. That moment — "oh, THAT's where the channel goes" — is the whole game. HAND-BUILT LEVELS, EVERY ONE PROVED SOLVABLE Over fifty levels, ordered so the gardens grow with you: a tiny board and two taps at the start, then bigger gardens, cats to protect, and finally the frost. Every level has been checked by a solver before release, so there are no impossible boards and none that solve themselves by accident. GENTLE ON THE EYES AND EARS A warm little garden diorama, soft toy-like blocks, water that sweeps across each tile as it arrives, and the small sounds of digging, splashing and blooming — each dig a step up a scale as you carve a channel. Sound and vibration can be switched off in settings. A PUZZLE GAME FIRST No farm to decorate, no story to sit through, no meters to refill. Just a garden, a spring, and the question of where to dig. Something calm for the end of the day that still makes you feel clever. Grab a level. Let it flow.

Screenshots

Chain Duel4 screens
Bloomstream4 screens

Verdict

The call

Chain Duel and Bloomstream 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 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Chain Duel versus Bloomstream: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChain DuelBloomstream
PriceFreeFree
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size217 MB143 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperLucky Kat StudiosPixel Envision Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

Chain Duel

No in-app purchases

None

Bloomstream

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chain Duel free?
Chain Duel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bloomstream free?
Bloomstream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chain Duel or Bloomstream have ads?
Both Chain Duel and Bloomstream show ads.

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