Comparison

Bloomstream vs Voxel Orbit

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

Head to head
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.

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Voxel Orbit

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A toy sculpture floats in space, and every one hides a surprise inside. Color-coded UFOs wait in your hangar. Tap one and it lifts off, circles the sculpture on a glowing ring and blasts every cube of its own color it can see. Your job: pick the right UFO and turn the sculpture so each one finds its color before its tank runs dry. TAP, SPIN, BLAST • Tap any UFO in the hangar to launch it. You choose which color goes next. Prefer to watch? Switch on AUTO and they launch themselves. • Drag anywhere to rotate the sculpture in 3D. Bring the hidden side round and a starving UFO opens fire at once. • Every UFO carries exactly enough ammo for its color. Feed it well and it flies home clean. • A UFO that ends its lap with ammo left lands on a hangar pad. Tap it to send it straight back up when its color comes into view. PRESS TURBO • Charge the meter with every pop, then hit TURBO: four times the fire, a machine-gun rake, the whole ring lights up. • Every saucer carries two side blasters, and every pop bursts into crackling cubes. • Clear most of a color and its saucer rakes the last cubes in one rapid volley. Clear the last cubes of a layer and the rest goes in one wave. • Boosters: Recall, Turbo Charge and Meteor, bought with coins you earn in play. 60 LEVELS, 60 SURPRISE SCULPTURES • Every sculpture hides a surprise: pop the outside to find what is inside. An egg hatches a chick, a galleon hides its treasure, a castle hides a dragon. • Whales, robots, dinosaurs, dragons, castles and more, up to a grand finale: a dragon guarding a golden trophy. • Follow your path on the HOME map, sector by sector. • Three stars for skill, not speed: how many UFOs landed clean, never how fast you were. MADE TO RELAX • No timers, no lives, no energy. Play a level in a minute or sit with a big one. • The sculpture slowly turns like a little planet while you think. • Chunky toy-box look: soft plastic cubes, a glowing orbit ring, a hangar full of little saucers, confetti when you win. PLAYS FAIR • Free to play. No ads and no purchases in this version. • No account, no sign-in. Your progress stays on your phone. • Works offline. Portrait, one hand, on the couch or on the bus. Tap a UFO. Turn the sculpture. Watch it disappear one color at a time.

Screenshots

Bloomstream4 screens
Voxel Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Voxel Orbit at none against Bloomstream's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Bloomstream versus Voxel Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloomstreamVoxel Orbit
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB298 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperPixel Envision Ltd.Deniz Ozkan

In-app purchases

None

Bloomstream

No in-app purchases

None

Voxel Orbit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bloomstream free?
Bloomstream is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Voxel Orbit free?
Voxel Orbit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bloomstream or Voxel Orbit have ads?
Bloomstream shows ads; Voxel Orbit does not.

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