Comparison

DOT vs Seaside Stacks

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

Head to head
About

DOT

Features
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DOT is a one-thumb arcade game about a single idea: keep your dot alive. Press and hold anywhere, then glide your finger to steer. Weave between the dots drifting across the screen. Lift your finger and it's over - so don't. Easy to pick up, genuinely hard to master, and built to be played in short bursts or long streaks. No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Just you and the dots. TWO WAYS TO PLAY • Classic — Survive the dots while collecting stars to stack your score multiplier, and grab power-ups to bend the run in your favor. The longer you last, the faster it gets. • Simple Survival — The dots multiply. Some speed up, some chase you, some leave trails. How long can you avoid every last one? FIVE POWER-UPS TO MASTER (Classic) • Clear - sweep away half the dots in a shockwave • x2 - double your score while it's active • Shield - destroy dots on contact instead of dying • Freeze - stop the whole board for a breath • Magnet - push dots away and pull stars toward you MORE • Unlockable themes - earn new looks by playing, and a few hidden ones for the curious • Satisfying haptics and sound, or turn them off in Settings • Plays completely offline • Free Think you can beat your best? Hold on and find out.

About

Seaside Stacks

Features
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Build a tower above the sea, one floor at a time, and see how high it can climb. Five coasts each raise their own kind of tower: sun-warmed stone, red brick, a lighthouse, a sandcastle and a stack of beach huts. A floor swings above your tower. Tap, click, press Space, or use Select on your Apple TV remote to drop it. Line it up and it settles perfectly; miss the edge and the overhang breaks away and tumbles into the sea, leaving a smaller floor to build on. FIVE COASTS The Harbour Rock: stone and plaster on a sunlit rock above a Mediterranean harbour, with olive terraces and terracotta roofs. Brick & Buoys: red brick above the wharf and the steeples, past copper rooftops and through the harbour fog. Beacon Point: the keeper's tower, banded red and white, whose light sweeps the sea after dark. Sandcastle Cove: round floors packed bucket by bucket, with turrets, flags and shells, before the tide comes in. Beach Hut Bay: hut upon hut in every colour of summer, with striped awnings and deckchairs facing the sunset. Choose a coast with the arrows on the title screen. Each has its own shore, its own roofs and its own names for the heights along the way. CHASE THE PERFECT DROP Land a floor exactly and it keeps its full size. String perfect drops together and the tower grows back, with a flourish of light and a chime that rises with every streak. A TOWER THAT COMES TO LIFE Every floor is decorated as it lands, with windows and doorways, balconies, lanterns, stairways and railings to suit its coast. Gulls wheel past, boats cross the bay, and the wind rises as you climb. FROM AFTERNOON TO STARLIGHT Climb past the rooftops and through the clouds, into golden hour and sunset, until the lights come on and the stars come out. MADE TO PLAY AGAIN One tap to start, one tap to drop, one tap to build again. Runs take a minute or two, and your best tower is always there to beat.

Screenshots

DOT4 screens
Seaside Stacks4 screens

Verdict

The call

DOT and Seaside Stacks are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
DOT versus Seaside Stacks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDOTSeaside Stacks
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian WinsnesZachary Moore

In-app purchases

None

DOT

No in-app purchases

None

Seaside Stacks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DOT free?
DOT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Seaside Stacks free?
Seaside Stacks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DOT or Seaside Stacks have ads?
Neither DOT nor Seaside Stacks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DOT or Seaside Stacks?
DOT ships an update every 2 days, and Seaside Stacks every 2 days. Most recently, DOT was updated on October 31, 2026 and Seaside Stacks on November 6, 2026.

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