Brickies vs Axe Champ!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brickies
Experience a vibrant and addictive twist on the classic brick-breaking genre. Launch balls, unleash power-ups, and blast through over 100 levels filled with action, puzzles, and challenging bosses. Compete with friends and unlock new abilities for endless fun.
- Colourful and addictive breakout gameplay
- Fast-paced action
- Over 100 levels
- Power-up combinations
- Creative and challenging levels
- Endless mode
- Achievements
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Fast, colourful, simple, and addictive, break the brickies and bounce your way to victory. Brickies is a fresh take on the classic breakout game, with fast paced levels that will leave you thirsty for more action. Use the paddles to launch the ball and unleash a variety of power ups upon the brickies, but don’t worry if you miss the ball! In Brickies missing a shot doesn’t mean the game is over, it deactivates the ball until you bounce it again and then you’re back in action! Explode, shoot and cut your way through over one hundred levels featuring, action, puzzles and tricky bosses. Unlock new exciting powers as you progress through the levels, beat the timer and collect three stars. Earn achievements and compete for the highest score with your friends! • Colourful and addictive breakout game • Fast paced fun gameplay • Over 100 levels to complete • Combine power-ups for epic destruction • Creative and challenging levels • Endless mode for endless action • Achievements • Colourful and modern graphics ‘A twist that least had us saying, "Huh, that's neat." ...Which doesn't happen often in the world of brick breakers’ - Touch Arcade
Axe Champ!
Experience the thrill of axe throwing in this addictive game. Aim and hurl axes to smash targets and achieve the highest score possible. Enjoy cool graphics and engaging gameplay.
- Axe throwing gameplay
- Smash targets
- High score challenges
- Addictive gameplay
- Cool graphics
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The Original Axe Throwing Game! Axe Champ! Throw axes and smash the targets! Crush those targets and go all out for the best score! Cool graphics, extremely addictive game-play, amazingly fun ! Play Axe Champ now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Brickies at none against Axe Champ!'s shown. Brickies also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). Axe Champ!'s advantage is ratings volume (24K vs 19) and review sentiment (47% vs 34%). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Brickies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Axe Champ! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 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 Brickies against 4.6 for Axe Champ!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Axe Champ! has 24K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 34% of Brickies's written reviews are positive against 47% of Axe Champ!'s.
Brickies ships an update every 2 weeks, Axe Champ! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brickies | Axe Champ! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (19 ratings) | 4.6 (24K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.6% of reviews | 47.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 24K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| 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 | 8.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 149 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noodlecake | Entity3 Limited |
Customer experience
Brickies
Axe Champ!
User reviews
Brickies
From 19 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay
- 🎨 Cute and simple graphics
- 👍 Addictive and challenging
- 💡 Unique take on classic brick breaker
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- ⏱️ Overly strict time limits
- 🎟️ Intrusive ads
- 🔋 Performance issues on older devices
Axe Champ!
From 24K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤒 Awsome
- 🤒 Fun
- 🤒 Addictive
- 🤒 Entertaining
- 🤒 Good quality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Too many ads
- 🐛 Repetitive levels
- 🐛 Glitchy/Crashes
- 🐛 Progression issues
- 🐛 Lack of challenge
Bugs and requests
Brickies
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels not loading properly
- Power-ups not functioning as expected
- Ball physics acting erratically
Requested features
4 requests- Option to remove ads
- Adjustable time limits
- More power-ups and level variety
- Ability to save progress across devices
Axe Champ!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress/purchases being lost
- Ads not working properly
- Crashes/freezes during gameplay
Requested features
4 requests- Add more weapons/upgrades
- Ability to turn off sound
- More game modes/difficulty options
- Ability to pause and resume games
In-app purchases
Brickies
- Remove Ads$1.99
Axe Champ!
- No ADs$2.99
- Premium - No Ads$2.99
