Red Bit Escape vs Super Waves
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Red Bit Escape
Navigate a red square through a hazardous environment, avoiding blue enemies and laser fields. Compete for the highest survival time and share your score on the Game Center Leaderboard.
- Drag to control red square
- Avoid blue enemies
- Dodge blue laser force fields
- High score survival
- Game Center Leaderboard integration
- Tron-style graphics
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Escape the space blue squares and make the Red Bit survive as long as possible! [How to play] - Drag the RED square with your finger - Avoid the BLUE enemies, they kill you! - Don't touch the BLUE laser force field Survive as long as possible and compare and share your time score with other players or your friends with Game Center Leaderboard! Enjoy the new impossible Tron style game and... become the Red Bit Escape master!
Super Waves
Test your retro gaming skills in this arcade action classic. Jump and smash to survive against hordes of sea creatures with your boat and paddle. Collect gold, recruit mermaids, and upgrade your abilities for an endless challenge.
- Boat and paddle combat
- Classic platformer controls
- Collect gold and treasures
- Recruit mermaids
- Upgrade health and super moves
- Procedurally generated waves
- Game Center achievements and leaderboards
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BATTLE THE WAVES. SURVIVE THE OCEAN. Super Waves is a hardcore endless action-platformer played across an ocean that never stands still. Paddle across moving waves, time your jumps and fight off relentless sea creatures while staying ahead of the hungry shark. Collect coins and valuable items, upgrade Johnny and unleash your Super Beam when the battle becomes overwhelming. The ocean is always moving. The enemies keep coming. How long can you survive? MASTER THE MOVING WAVES The ocean is your platform. Paddle across its constantly changing surface, leap over danger and adapt your timing and attacks as the waves rise and fall beneath you. FIGHT THROUGH ENEMY WAVES Battle sea creatures with your paddle, defeat them by landing on them and use powerful Super Shots to escape dangerous situations. FIRE THE SUPER BEAM When enemies close in, unleash a powerful laser to turn the fight in your favor. Upgrade the beam’s size and duration, and increase the number of Super Shots you can carry. CLAIM MERMAID REWARDS Carolina the mermaid is there to help—but you still need the skill to reach her. Defeat sea creatures and collect coins to earn opportunities for valuable items and extra health. Carolina delivers the rewards, but retrieving them safely is up to you. COLLECT, SELL AND UPGRADE Collect coins and valuable items during each run. Sell your treasure and use your earnings to upgrade Johnny’s maximum health, strengthen the Super Beam and carry more Super Shots into battle. Every gameplay upgrade can be unlocked by playing. SMASH THROUGH BONUS ROUNDS Break open treasure and collect additional coins between enemy waves to power your next upgrades. ESCAPE THE HUNGRY SHARK Keep paddling and keep fighting. Fall too far behind and the shark will claim its next meal. CHASE YOUR HIGHEST SCORE Improve with every attempt, earn Game Center achievements and climb the leaderboards. Discover hidden interactions and unexpected ways to boost your score. Built for players who love old-school arcade action, demanding platforming, beat ’em up combat and games that reward genuine mastery. Originally launched for iPhone 3G as Waves: Survivor in 2010 and remade as Super Waves Survivor in 2014, this HD rebuild is the definitive version for modern devices—preserving its uncompromising arcade spirit with support for 60 FPS and 120 FPS ProMotion displays. PADDLE. JUMP. FIGHT. UPGRADE. SURVIVE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Red Bit Escape at none against Super Waves's 10. Red Bit Escape also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 68 months). Super Waves's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 57%). On price, rating and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Super Waves sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Red Bit Escape asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Red Bit Escape against 4.1 for Super Waves. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Red Bit Escape has 1.5K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Red Bit Escape's written reviews are positive against 75% of Super Waves's.
Red Bit Escape ships an update every 9 days, Super Waves every 68 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Red Bit Escape | Super Waves |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1.5K ratings) | 4.1 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 68 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 5.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 217 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tiny Games | Renown Entertainment |
Customer experience
Red Bit Escape
Super Waves
Bugs and requests
Red Bit Escape
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes after a few rounds
- Glitch allows player to go outside the box
- Compatibility issues on newer devices
Requested features
3 requests- Different difficulty levels
- Ability to listen to own music
- Larger game area
Super Waves
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Red Bit Escape
No in-app purchases
Super Waves
- Handful of 2,500 Coins$0.99
- Coin Multiplier$0.99
- Bucket of 6,000 Coins$1.99
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- Upgrade Pack$1.99
- Chest of 14,000 Coins$2.99
- Auto Reload Supers$4.99
- Boatload of 31,000 Coins$4.99
- Maximum Johnny$4.99
- Maximum Supers$6.99
- King of the Seven Seas$14.99
Questions
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