Arcane Tower vs The Grid Platformer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arcane Tower
Embark on a challenging roguelike adventure as a brave wizard. Explore randomly generated maps, compete in daily challenges with global leaderboards, and learn from top player replays to defeat evil and uncover ancient secrets.
- Randomly generated maps
- Challenging roguelike mechanics
- Daily challenge mode
- Global leaderboards
- Watch top player replays
- Single-player adventure
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Evil reigns throughout the kingdom, darkness obscures the landscape. A brave wizard is determined to put an end to all of this. But there's only one way. The Arcane Tower keeps the powers and secrets required to defeat all the evil. Arcane Tower is a roguelike game with mechanics carefully designed to make every run challenging, interesting and incredibly fun. Key features: * Maps are randomly generated, meaning every run you play will be different from every other run you've played. * Daily Challenge! Every day a special map is generated, the same for everyone in the world. Compete in the daily leaderboards! * Watch other players: after playing a Daily Challenge, you can watch replays of the top players to see how they got their score.
The Grid Platformer
Embark on a retro-style 2D side-scrolling adventure as a transformed automotronic man. Run, jump, and smash through 12 action-packed levels to escape a strange digital world. Experience fast-paced gameplay with amazing retro graphics.
- 2D side-scrolling adventure
- Retro graphics
- 12 action-packed levels
- Run, jump, and smash mechanics
- Fast-paced gameplay
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The Grid is an amazing action packed 2D side-scrolling adventure game from Ape Apps. It combines retro platformer action with amazing retro graphics for a fast paced gaming experience that is out of this dimension! After a long days work in his lab, an unsuspecting computer scientist falls to sleep at his keyboard. He wakes up to find himself transformed into a glowing automotronic man trapped in a strange world known as The Grid. He must now run, jump, and smash his way through 12 action packed levels as he tries to escape from The Grid. **Special Credit** The music for The Grid came from Kevin MacLeod at incompetech. Search for him online, he's got some awesome tracks!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Grid Platformer at Free against Arcane Tower's $1.99. The Grid Platformer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Arcane Tower's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume 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
The Grid Platformer is free to download; Arcane Tower costs $1.99 up front. The Grid Platformer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Arcane Tower asks for nothing beyond the download.
Arcane Tower holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Arcane Tower's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Grid Platformer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Arcane Tower ships an update every 3 weeks, The Grid Platformer every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arcane Tower | The Grid Platformer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Diego Cathalifaud | Brandon Stecklein |
Customer experience
Arcane Tower
The Grid Platformer
In-app purchases
Arcane Tower
No in-app purchases
The Grid Platformer
- Advertising Removal$1.99
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