Build N Explode vs Ultimate Chicken Horse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Build N Explode
Design and construct imaginative structures using a vast array of items. Then, unleash destruction through various forces like explosions, stomping, or water. Share your unique creations and destructive scenarios with friends.
- Build fantastical structures
- Hundreds of build items
- Destroy creations with explosions
- Destroy creations with stomping
- Destroy creations with water
- Share creations with friends
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By popular demand, create fantastical structures and watch them explode, get stomped, blown and washed away! Choose from over hundreds items to build from in your fantasy land. From neon candy canes to angry bombs, allow your creativity to Build N' Explode. Share your creations with your friends and create masterpieces over and over again!
Ultimate Chicken Horse
A party platformer where players collaboratively build obstacle courses as they play. Strategically place traps and platforms to reach the finish line before your friends, or hinder their progress to score points. Enjoy online or local multiplayer with a variety of animal characters and creative level design tools.
- Online and local multiplayer for up to 4 players
- Collaborative level building with traps and platforms
- Unique game flow combining strategy and platforming
- 17 diverse levels with unique features
- Build and share custom levels
- Play as various animal characters
- Customizable rule sets and game modes
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*NOTICE - TRY BEFORE YOU BUY* - Play the beginning for free. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks the full game. No ads. Ever wish you were a wall-jumping, arrow-dodging, trap-setting horse, besting your animal pals in a race through a peril-laden obstacle course that you all built together? Wish Granted! Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer where you and your friends build the level as you play, placing deadly traps before trying to reach the end of the level. If you can make it but your friends can't, you score points! Play online or locally with your animal buddies and experiment with a wide variety of platforms in all sorts of strange locations to find new ways to mess with your friends. Key Features - Online and local play for up to 4 players - Unique game flow, from strategic block placement to twitch control platforming - 17 levels with different features - Build and share custom levels - Additional Controller Support (please note not all controllers are support at this time) - Compete for global best times on Challenge levels across all platforms - Shared controller mode to play multiplayer with one controller - Huge library of blocks to create an infinite variety of levels - Customizable rule sets and game modes - Play as a chicken, horse, sheep, raccoon and other wonderful animals - Fun, cartoony art style - Sweet funky soundtrack Please note: this is primarily a multiplayer game. Challenge levels can be created and played alone, but unlocking characters and levels requires playing one of the main game modes (like Party Mode) which are only multiplayer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Build N Explode at 100% against Ultimate Chicken Horse's 50%. Build N Explode also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Ultimate Chicken Horse's advantage is ratings volume (1.3K vs 6) and device support. On price 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. Ultimate Chicken Horse sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Build N Explode asks for nothing beyond the download.
Build N Explode holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Chicken Horse has 1.3K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Build N Explode's written reviews are positive against 50% of Ultimate Chicken Horse's.
| Parameter | Build N Explode | Ultimate Chicken Horse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 49.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 825 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | IMRepublic Inc. | Noodlecake |
Customer experience
Build N Explode
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Bugs and requests
Build N Explode
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game won't load locally
- Game kicks out when loading
Requested features
3 requests- Add free chat
- Add ability to view scoreboard during game
- Add controller support
In-app purchases
Build N Explode
No in-app purchases
Ultimate Chicken Horse
- Unlock Full Game$1.99
- Unlock Full Game$9.99







