Brain Wars vs Brain Dots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Wars
Engage in real-time competitive brain training against players worldwide. Solve simple puzzles to outscore opponents, climb global rankings, and challenge friends. Improve your mental concentration and adaptability through continuous, intuitive challenges suitable for all ages.
- Real-time global battles
- Challenge friends
- Worldwide rankings
- Simple brain teasers
- Intuitive training
- Adaptable challenges
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Over 20 million downloads! ◇◆Competitive Brain Training Game◆◇ Increase your brain power and compete against players from around the world! Experience the heated battle that will keep you on your toes! Highly rated by players who enjoy Puzzles Crosswords, Sudoku, and other brain teasers! ▼The Rules ・Outscore your opponents with simple brain teasers! ・Defeat them and climb the worldwide rankings! ・Challenge your friends with real-time matches! ・Increase your Brain Power through continuous challenges! ◆Real-Time Battle Experience Compete with worldwide challengers―LIVE! Test your opponents and push your brain to its limit! ◆Play With Friends! Invite your friends for double the fun! Connect through FaceBook and challenge everyone! ◆Strive For World-class Rankings The stage is the world―Play against players from around the globe and place on the worldwide ranking! ◆Simple & Intuitive Brain Training! Easy to understand mental training rules and concepts suitable for all ages! ◆The key to matches? Brain Teasers don't contain certain subjects or languages! Train your brain and easily adapt through repetition! ◆New and Updates ・Official FaceBook Page https://www.facebook.com/brainwars ・Official Twitter https://twitter.com/brainwars_jp ▼Details BrainWars is a mental concentration battle game for players from around the world. Players of all ages can participate in this through simple brain teasers and compete with each other. Brain Teasers do not require special knowledge so everyone can improve their brain function through repetition and adaptation.
Brain Dots
Draw lines and shapes to make two colored dots collide in this relaxing brain-training puzzle game. Flexible thinking is key to finding the best solution among multiple possibilities. Enjoy a free gaming experience suitable for all ages.
- Draw lines and shapes
- Make dots collide
- Flexible thinking puzzles
- Multiple solutions
- Hint system
- Free to play
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Let's draw lines and bump dots! This is a brain-training game that everyone from children to grown-ups to relax and brainstorm. ◆ How to play: Draw lines and shapes freely to move and roll the balls. Flexible thinking is going to become the key to victory. Make the blue and red dots bump. Multiple ways to solve each puzzle, can you find the best solution ◆ Features: Hint: helps you to resolve the level. Video: views video to get hints. Restart: starts over the level. All free, just play and relax. As this game includes the elements of riddle and “Escape the Room” type of games, we would recommend Brain Dots to who enjoy brain-type puzzles, cards and strategy games. I hope you enjoy brain dots - draw line game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brain Dots at none against Brain Wars's 8. Brain Dots also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Brain Wars's advantage is ratings volume (2.5K vs 23). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Brain Wars sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Brain Dots asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Brain Wars against 4.5 for Brain Dots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Wars has 2.5K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Brain Wars's written reviews are positive against 69% of Brain Dots's.
Brain Wars ships an update every 6 weeks, Brain Dots every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Brain Wars | Brain Dots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.5K ratings) — better | 4.5 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Translimit, Inc. | Fine Monkeys, LLC |
Customer experience
Brain Wars
Brain Dots
Bugs and requests
Brain Wars
Reported bugs
4 issues- Challenges not working properly
- Crashes when exiting ads
- Freezing and loading issues
- Incorrect scoring/stats updates
Requested features
4 requests- Offline practice mode
- Clearer explanation of ranking/scoring system
- More game variety
- Ability to challenge friends asynchronously
Brain Dots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brain Wars
- Heal Heart$0.99
- 20 Coins$1.99
- Remove Ads Option$3.99
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- 50 Coins$4.99
- 120 Coins$11.99
- 240 Coins$23.99
- 480 Coins$47.99
- 750 Coins$74.99
Brain Dots
No in-app purchases
Questions
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