Comparison

Block'n'Roll vs Prism Expanse

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

Head to head
About

Block'n'Roll

Features
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A drafting sheet, and blocks with grooves cut into them. Lay a route from the feeder to the catcher, then let the ball go and find out whether it works. Laying a route is not the same as finishing one: a climb costs speed and a drop returns some of it, but what you get back from coming down never pays for going up again. Height is spent, not borrowed. Corners cost speed too. Nothing is settled until the ball has rolled. WHAT IS IN IT Practice โ€” ten courses on small boards, where the rules are learned. Nothing is ranked. Open League โ€” twenty hand-built courses, free, ranked by the total number of pieces used across the whole set. Fewest wins. Finishing them opens the Pro League. Pro League โ€” twenty courses for people who have already finished twenty. Getting the ball home is assumed here; what is asked is how few pieces it took. Each course knows its own true minimum, so you can always see how far off you are. Drills โ€” pick a theme and a course is built on the spot. One is free each day; Pro removes the limit. Skill Trials โ€” Pro courses where the ball must pass through a fixed checkpoint before reaching the goal. A new course is made each time. Workshop โ€” place the start and the goal yourself and build whatever you like. Once it has actually rolled home, it can be given away with a share code. What arrives is the problem; the answer does not travel with it. After the other person has solved it themselves, they can look at how you did it. NO ACCOUNT, NO PERMISSIONS No sign-up, no camera, no location, and no advertising. To improve the app, we collect anonymous aggregate counts of fixed actions and the app version only โ€” never personal information, device identifiers, course content, or share codes. Generated courses rebuild from seven-character codes; your progress and hand-built courses stay on your device. No course content is uploaded to or stored on our servers. Block'n'Roll Pro is a one-time purchase โ€” not a subscription โ€” that opens Skill Trials and the Workshop, and removes the limit on drills. The Pro League becomes available after all 20 Open League courses are cleared.

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Prism Expanse

Features
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Match energy. Restore the stars. The Expanse has gone dark. Derelict stations, silent reactors and rifts in space wait along a route that stretches across thousands of levels. Swap neighbouring energy pieces to line up three or more, and bring each region back to light. MATCH, CASCADE, OVERCHARGE Every swap can set off a chain reaction. Deep cascades fill the Overcharge meter, and a full meter unleashes Vector Shift or Reactor Pulse to turn a hard board around without spending a move. FORGE SPECIAL DEVICES Match four for a Pulse Capacitor that clears a whole row or column. Build a Nova Reactor, a Singularity Core or an Orbit Drone, then swap two devices together for an even bigger blast. A GALAXY OF CHALLENGES Charge reactors, seal rifts, clear the spreading void, guide drifting debris to safety and blast beacons awake. New mechanics arrive as you travel, from caged devices to conveyor lanes, so the puzzles keep changing. EXPLORE AN ILLUSTRATED ROUTE Scroll a winding map through nebulae, ringed worlds, capital ships and waterfall cities. Earn up to three stars on every route and track your progress region by region. PLAY YOUR WAY โ€ข Thousands of levels, with difficulty that rises and eases in rhythm โ€ข Boosters and tools to help when you choose to use them โ€ข Every level can be completed without paying โ€ข Reduced motion setting, sound and music controls โ€ข Plays offline Prism Shards can be earned in play or bought as optional in-app purchases. The game shows optional rewarded ads, which you only ever see if you choose to watch one.

Screenshots

Block'n'Roll4 screens
Prism Expanse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Block'n'Roll at none against Prism Expanse's shown. Prism Expanse's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Block'n'Roll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Prism Expanse sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Block'n'Roll versus Prism Expanse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlock'n'RollPrism Expanse
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 10 days
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS18.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB157 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakayuki HamuroJohn Kusion

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Block'n'Roll

One-time1
  • Block'n'Roll Pro$12.99
4 purchases

Prism Expanse

One-time4
  • 1,000 Prism Shards$0.99
  • 5,500 Prism Shards$4.99
  • 12,000 Prism Shards$9.99
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  • 25,000 Prism Shards$19.99

Questions

Is Block'n'Roll free?
Block'n'Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prism Expanse free?
Prism Expanse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Block'n'Roll or Prism Expanse have ads?
Prism Expanse shows ads; Block'n'Roll does not.

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