Armadillo Gold Rush vs Ball Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Armadillo Gold Rush
Guide a rolling armadillo through challenging levels to collect gold while avoiding obstacles and enemies. Utilize a variety of tools and your wits to solve puzzles and achieve high scores in this arcade puzzler.
- 75+ unique levels
- Obstacles, enemies, and traps
- Bombs, blocks, tunnels, and rockets
- Star system for replayability
- Combo meter for high scores
- Unlock new levels
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Best-selling arcade puzzler now on the App Store! Life’s tough when you’re an armadillo who can roll but can’t stop—especially when you’re trying to strike it rich in the Wild West! Position the armadillo so you can scoop up the gold while avoiding snakes, scorpions, spikes, and other dangers. Armadillo Gold Rush has 75+ levels of obstacles, enemies, and traps standing between your armadillo and precious gold. Puzzle out a path that rolls your armadillo over the coins without losing its life. To grab all the gold you’ll need to get clever with bombs, blocks, tunnels, one-way doors, rockets, switches, and most of all your brain! A mobile best seller for 10+ years, Armadillo Gold Rush has been recreated for iPhone & iPad with updated graphics and easy-to-learn touch controls. Features: • 75+ unique levels test your reflexes and challenge your puzzle solving skills • Roll through forest mazes, rocky deserts, underground caves, dark canyons, and more with progressively harder puzzles • Built-in star system offers many hours of replay • Clever solutions will increase your combo meter and yield huge scores • Challenge yourself to solve levels in fewer moves and the fastest possible time • Unlock new levels as you beat different parts of the game
Ball Connect
Connect matching colored balls to create seamless lines and solve intricate puzzles. This game offers hundreds of challenging levels to test your logic and strategy. Enjoy beautiful visuals and a calming soundtrack for an engaging puzzle experience.
- Connect matching colored balls
- Hundreds of challenging levels
- Brain-training puzzles
- Intuitive gameplay
- Beautiful visuals
- Calming soundtrack
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Ball Connect: Color Dot Puzzle is a vibrant puzzle game where you connect matching balls to create seamless connections. Challenge your brain with hundreds of fun and increasingly difficult levels designed to test your strategy and logic. Enjoy smooth, intuitive gameplay, beautiful visuals, and a calming soundtrack as you unlock new challenges. Whether you're looking for a quick puzzle break or aiming to master the toughest levels, Ball Connect offers endless hours of entertainment. Can you complete every puzzle and become the ultimate puzzle master?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Armadillo Gold Rush at none against Ball Connect's shown. Armadillo Gold Rush also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 30%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Ball Connect's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (4.8K vs 9). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Armadillo Gold Rush sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Ball Connect sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Armadillo Gold Rush holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ball Connect has 4.8K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Armadillo Gold Rush's written reviews are positive against 30% of Ball Connect's.
Armadillo Gold Rush ships an update every 9 months, Ball Connect every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Armadillo Gold Rush | Ball Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.6 (4.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 30.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 4.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 279 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppAbove Games LLC | Fun Fun Oyun Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi |
Customer experience
Armadillo Gold Rush
Ball Connect
Bugs and requests
Armadillo Gold Rush
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ball Connect
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game freezes at high levels
- Unable to download game
Requested features
2 requests- Fix glitches and freezes
- Reduce intrusive ads
In-app purchases
Armadillo Gold Rush
- Unlock All Levels$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
Ball Connect
- No Ads$3.99
Questions
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