Brain Wars vs Nine Race
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.
Nine Race
A competitive puzzle game where players slide color panels to match a target arrangement. Challenge friends online or play solo to complete the 3x3 grid. It's a race against time and opponents to solve the puzzle.
- Slide color panels to empty space
- Rearrange 3x3 grid
- Match target panel arrangement
- Online multiplayer mode
- Play against friends
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▼HOW TO PLAY 1. Slide the color panel to the empty space and rearrange it! 2. It is complete if you can line up the central 3x3 9 cells in the same arrangement as the upper target panel! 3. You can also play online against your friends!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nine Race at none against Brain Wars's 8. Nine Race also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (83% vs 65%). Brain Wars's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (2.5K vs 22). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Nine Race asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brain Wars holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Wars has 2.5K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Brain Wars's written reviews are positive against 83% of Nine Race's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brain Wars ships an update every 6 weeks, Nine Race every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain Wars | Nine Race |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.5K ratings) — better | 4.1 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Translimit, Inc. | TATSUYA MONOI |
Customer experience
Brain Wars
Nine Race
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
Nine Race
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
Nine Race
No in-app purchases
Questions
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