Prune vs RPS Lizard Spock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prune
Cultivate a digital tree in a hostile world by guiding its growth towards sunlight. Uncover a hidden story and bring life to a forgotten landscape with this meditative and beautiful game.
- Grow and shape trees
- Minimalist art and interface
- Meditative music and sound
- No in-app purchases or monetization
- Share tree creations
- iCloud progress synchronization
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~ Apple Game of the Year 2015 ~ ~ TIME Magazine Game of the Year 2015 ~ Prune is a love letter to trees. A game about the beauty and joy of cultivation. With a swipe of a finger, grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil. • A unique digital plant for your pocket • Beautiful, minimalist art and a super clean interface—it's just you and the trees • Meditative music and sound design for you to zen out to • No IAP, no monetization strategy, no currencies • Share screenshots of your unique tree creations with friends • Synchronize progress across all your devices using iCloud ----- RECEPTION ----- "Unlike anything I've played before... the kind of experience I want to pull out to show my friends." - The Verge "Wildly creative, totally addictive, and oddly soothing" - Entertainment Weekly "Prune is a gorgeous and unique experience." - 5/5 TouchArcade "Prune is an awe-inspiring work of digital poetry that transcends its initial subject material to explore a much larger, much more complex theme, in an articulate and powerfully moving manner" - 10/10 Pocket Gamer "A collaboration that feels more like a dance than puzzle-solving." - Kill Screen ----- AWARDS ----- • Winner - Best Upcoming Game - 11th International Mobile Gaming Awards • Finalist - IndieCade Festival 2015 • Official Selection - Brazil's FILE Festival • Runner-Up - IndiePlus "Make Something Great" Contest • Official Selection - Out of Index Experimental Games Festival
RPS Lizard Spock
Engage in the classic Rock Paper Scissors game with the added strategic elements of Lizard and Spock. Challenge friends and family in live multiplayer matches directly within your iMessage conversations. This simple yet fun application helps resolve group decisions with an entertaining game.
- Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock gameplay
- Live multiplayer challenges
- iMessage integration
- No account required
- Decision-making tool
- Simple rules
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Play the classic game Rock Paper Scissors and add 2 extra options: Lizard and Spock. Challenge friends and family. With this multiplayer app you can play live. No accounts needed. It's super easy, and integrates nicely in your iMessage conversations. Download the app now and start challenging your friends! Make group decisions fun and let a game of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock decide: - who will do the dishes - who gets the last piece of pie - who will take out the garbage - who gets to pick first - who can control the remote - ... What our users say: "Fun extension on the classic game" - Mark "Great app to use with friends, easy to use" - Jhon "We now play this game for each decision we need to make" - Carmen The app is super easy to use: 1) Select a start move 2) Opponent selects a countermove 3) View who won Not familiar with the game? No problem, the rules are simple. Start the game by selecting a move, which can be Rock, Paper Scissors, Lizard or Spock. Your opponent also selects a move. The moves are compared to check who won. Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory explains how the moves are compared: "Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors." It's a tie when both players select the same move. Have fun! Want to remove the app? Follow the instructions here: www.bit.do/del-app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RPS Lizard Spock at 4.8 against Prune's 4.3. RPS Lizard Spock also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99). Prune's advantage is review sentiment (66% vs 29%) and ratings volume (568 vs 6). On ads, 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
Prune costs $4.99 and RPS Lizard Spock $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RPS Lizard Spock holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prune has 568 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Prune's written reviews are positive against 29% of RPS Lizard Spock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Prune ships an update every 6 weeks, RPS Lizard Spock every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prune | RPS Lizard Spock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (568 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.2% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 568 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #35 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 123 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joel McDonald LLC | Fanatic Development |
Customer experience
Prune
RPS Lizard Spock
Bugs and requests
Prune
Reported bugs
2 issues- Progress reset after updates
- Unresponsive controls at times
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content updates
- Zen mode with no time constraints
- Level editor and sharing capabilities
- Improved tutorials and explanations
RPS Lizard Spock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Prune
No in-app purchases
RPS Lizard Spock
No in-app purchases









