Comparison

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX vs Micro Battles 3

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

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About

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX

Create and play your own action game stages with a simple tap interface. Design levels using various items, test your creations, and share them with friends. Discover and play stages made by other users worldwide.

Highlights
  • Create custom action game stages
  • Play a variety of user-created levels
  • Simple tap-based item placement
  • Test stages during creation
  • Search for popular and random stages
  • Share stages with friends via URL
  • Retro pixel graphics
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[PLAY] [MAKE] [SEARCH] The Power of imagination can touch the sky! Make your very own action game stages and share them with your friends & family! You can play this game absolutely free! This game is perfectly suited for everyone including KIDS. -Basic Instructions- There are [PLAY], [MAKE] and [SEARCH] option buttons on the main menu. Tap [PLAY] button: Play the games all you want! You have a variety of stages to choose from. The range of stage levels are widely prepared, from beginners to advanced level,including the extreme levels that are crazy difficult! Tap [MAKE] button: Make your own stages. You become the game creator! Simple tap controls make it easy! Select from 30 types of items you can place anywhere you want. Tap an item on the list and then tap on the position where you want to place it. (Squares like a chess board are shown in a stage screen in order to make this process simpler.) Once an item is placed, you can place the same item continuously by alternating between tapping the position (square) in a stage and the "PLACE" button. You can also tap an item you've already placed to see additional options. (e.g. You can choose specific settings for the speed of cannon shell movements and the moveable range of blocks!) Play & find out if you can complete the stage you made! You can even do the test play during the process of making a stage by using the "TEST" button in the upper right corner of the screen. Try your own brand-new stage right away! Tap [SEARCH] button: Find popular stages -- stages made by other users and more. -Random: Search for random stages made by players using this App. -History: Look through stages you've already played. (You can also check if you've completed a stage or not.) -Official Website: Open this App’s official website to start the search. When you have found the one you want to play, tap on the stage and use "START" button. -Enter ID: Paste the GameID and tap "Enter ID" button, if you are unable to start the stage after using "START" button in the official website. (32 alphanumeric characters shown on the official website is the GameID.) Now, you're ready to start the game you found. Enjoy! [Send your original stage to friends & family] If you want to share your original stage with someone, send them the copy of your stage's URL via email! (Downloading this App is required in order to play your stage.) Post your original stage on Twitter, Facebook and LINE are also available! You can also have fun searching online for "PicoPicoMaker" in your free time! Enjoy finding new stages other users have made! Everyone loves the retro-looking pixel graphics games they grew up with! Connect with people from all over the world with PicoPicoMaker! Start your global action game adventure!

About

Micro Battles 3

Engage in head-to-head 8-bit style battles with friends on a single device. Relive classic arcade fun with games like Snakes, Cars, Robots, and Samurais. New challenges are added daily for endless entertainment.

Highlights
  • Head-to-head battles
  • 8-bit retro style
  • Single device multiplayer
  • Daily changing battles
  • Classic game themes
Features
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Whoop your friends in HEAD-TO-HEAD battles, 8-BIT STYLE! Picking up where the glorious 2-player based video games of the 1970-1980s left off, it's time to bring back SNAKES, CARS, ROBOTS and SAMURAIS to once again settle the score between players. HOW TO PLAY Using two buttons (one for each player) on a single device, you can place your portable battleground anywhere. Grab a friend, neighbor, dog or anyone who's up for a battle, pick a strategy and LAUGH OUT LOUD as you chase, whack, bump into or outsmart your opponent. Battles are changed on a daily basis, so be sure to open the app every day for another fun challenge. - - - - - - - - - - - - * Micro Battles 3 is free from ads and playable at no cost. A premium upgrade is provided as an optional one-time in-app purchase, allowing players to access mini-games outside the daily scheme. * Friend not included ;)

Screenshots

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX3 screens
Micro Battles 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX at none against Micro Battles 3's 1. Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 45 months) and rating (4.2 vs 3.9). Micro Battles 3's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Micro Battles 3 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 251 and 152 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX's written reviews are positive against 56% of Micro Battles 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX ships an update monthly, Micro Battles 3 every 45 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX versus Micro Battles 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMake Action! PicoPicoMakerEXMicro Battles 3
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (251 ratings) — better3.9 (152 ratings)
Positive reviews72.6% of reviews — better55.7% of reviews
Number of ratings251 — better152
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 45 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB4 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperGlobalGear Co. Ltd.Donut Games

Customer experience

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX

All ratings251 ratings
Positive79.7%
Neutral6.4%
Negative13.9%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive72.6%
Neutral7.8%
Negative19.6%

Micro Battles 3

All ratings152 ratings
Positive72.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative21.7%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive55.7%
Neutral11.4%
Negative32.9%

User reviews

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX

From 251 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy-to-use level editor
  • 🎮 Fun and engaging gameplay
  • 🆓 Free-to-play with no WiFi required
  • 🎨 Creative level building mechanics
  • ⏰ Nostalgic experience for long-time players

Room to improve

  • 📺 Excessive and intrusive advertisements
  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and force closures
  • 📱 Poor touch controls and responsiveness
  • 🎮 Inconsistent jump mechanics
  • 🔧 Broken wide/horizontal mode compatibility

Micro Battles 3

From 152 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and enjoyable gameplay
  • 👍 Small file size
  • 👍 Good multiplayer control
  • 👍 No advertisements (even when free)
  • 👍 Simple, two-button controls

Room to improve

  • 💸 Pay to play more games
  • 💸 Forced to buy premium
  • 💸 Expensive for small games
  • 👎 Limited to one game daily (free)
  • 👎 Randomizer issues

Bugs and requests

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes on startup and during gameplay
  • Force closure on iPhone 15 and newer iOS versions
  • Wide version incompatible with latest iOS
  • Touch controls not registering properly
  • Direction keys becoming unresponsive mid-game
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  • Black rectangles obscuring gameplay
  • Inconsistent jump height and movement
  • Loading screen appearing too frequently
  • Levels with missing goals causing errors
  • Buttons not responding on certain devices
  • Spelling error: 'Backguoind' instead of 'Background'
  • Translation issues after recent update

Requested features

16 requests
  • More enemy types and variety
  • Additional power-ups and items
  • Boss battles and boss creation
  • Wider/longer level designs
  • Custom block creation tools
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  • Moving breakable blocks
  • Disappearing and appearing blocks
  • Mushroom power-up for damage protection
  • Checkpoints in levels
  • Race mode
  • World/level selection system
  • Avatar customization
  • Ability to name exported levels
  • Music selection options
  • Improved physics and movement mechanics
  • Persistent coin collection tracking

Micro Battles 3

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Cannot play any minigame you want (premium only)
  • Game needs money to play more than 1 game
  • Only battle daily, wants money for anything else
  • Only one game available
  • Game is hard to control
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  • Player chooses game for you
  • Frozen app due to hack/exploit
  • Keeps giving snakes even if deleted
  • Cannot get the snakey game
  • Only one match per day without paying
  • Randomizer lands on the same game
  • Racing game has no use for button
  • Totem game struggles with single button

Requested features

8 requests
  • Make more Micro Battles games
  • Add Micro Battles 4
  • Add cooperative 2 player vs AI
  • Add hunger games
  • Make all games free
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  • Add a 'best of' compilation
  • Add Bluetooth/wifi for multiplayer
  • Add thief town game mode

In-app purchases

None

Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Micro Battles 3

One-time1
  • Premium$1.99

Questions

Is Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX free?
Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Micro Battles 3 free?
Micro Battles 3 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX or Micro Battles 3?
Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX is rated higher. Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX averages 4.2 out of 5 from 251 ratings, while Micro Battles 3 averages 3.9 from 152 ratings.
Do Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX or Micro Battles 3 have ads?
Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX shows ads; Micro Battles 3 does not.
Which is updated more often, Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX or Micro Battles 3?
Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX ships an update monthly, and Micro Battles 3 every 45 months. Most recently, Make Action! PicoPicoMakerEX was updated on October 16, 2026 and Micro Battles 3 on October 15, 2026.

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