Platform Panic vs Zombie Goes Up
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Platform Panic
Pit iconic platform game heroes against each other in a procedurally generated retro challenge. Master simple controls to climb the leaderboards and unlock all characters in this addictive pixel-art adventure.
- Hero battles
- Leaderboard challenges
- Procedurally generated levels
- Simple swipe controls
- Retro pixel graphics
- Chiptune soundtrack
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Platform game heroes through the ages have been abducted! Pit them against each other in order to settle, once and for all, which one is the best! • Can you unlock them all and become king of the leaderboard? • Endlessly addictive, procedurally generated retro platformer! • Super simple controls. Swipe left, right & up is all you need to move around. • Pumping chiptune music by Eirik Suhrke, composer of Ridiculous Fishing and Super Crate Box. • Cutting edge retro pixel graphics! Important Message for Parents This game may include: - Direct links to social networking websites that are intended for an audience over the age of 13. - Direct links to the internet that can take players away from the game with the potential to browse any web page. - In-app purchases. - Advertising of Nitrome products.
Zombie Goes Up
Guide a zombie out of its grave and through a spooky cemetery, collecting bones and avoiding enemies. Unlock different skeletons with funny hats in this casual arcade game featuring retro graphics and one-hand controls.
- One-hand controls
- Collect scattered bones
- Avoid spooky enemies
- Unlock skeletons with hats
- Retro graphics and music
- Casual arcade gameplay
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Zombie wants to get out of its grave and start the zombie apocalypse! Help the zombie reach the cemetery while avoiding all the enemies and obstacles. Zombie Goes Up is a super fun casual game to play at Halloween or any time. Warning: spoopy content inside! In Zombie Goes Up you'll face giant cockroaches, snakes, werewolf moles, mines, and many others spooky creatures crawling in the dark, ready to block your path to the top. In each level you'll have to collect all the bones scattered in the cemetery in order to complete the skeleton. Each level features a different skeleton with a funny hat on its skull. Play Zombie Goes Up alone or with friends while you spend a nice Halloween together. Zombie Goes Up features easy one hand controls, lovely retro graphics, cool chiptunes, spooky levels, and genuine casual arcade fun. Features: • Simple one hand controls • Addicting gameplay • Retro graphics and music • Skeletons to unlock • Spoopy content!
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Verdict
Platform Panic and Zombie Goes Up both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Zombie Goes Up's written reviews are positive against 69% of Platform Panic's. Platform Panic's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (124 vs 11). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Platform Panic sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Zombie Goes Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Platform Panic against 4.5 for Zombie Goes Up. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Platform Panic has 124 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Platform Panic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Zombie Goes Up's.
Platform Panic ships an update every 4 months, Zombie Goes Up every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Platform Panic | Zombie Goes Up |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (124 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 11.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Nitrome | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Platform Panic
Zombie Goes Up
Bugs and requests
Platform Panic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Coins lost after using extra life
- Laser beams not functioning properly
- Falling through the floor and getting stuck
- Ads not removing after purchase
Requested features
4 requests- More characters and abilities
- Level editor and sharing
- Difficulty settings
- Cloud save support
Zombie Goes Up
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Platform Panic
- 250 coins$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- 1000 coins$1.99
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- 5000 coins$3.99
Zombie Goes Up
- Premium$2.99
Questions
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