Comparison

School Days vs Water Physics Simulation

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

School Days

Experience school life in a challenging environment where survival and academic success are key. Navigate classes, answer questions, and manage your popularity among students. Explore an interactive city and master various in-game controls to achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Real-time school simulation
  • Interactive city exploration
  • Academic challenges and subjects
  • Popularity contest mechanics
  • Diverse in-game controls
  • Customization options
Features
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The prison has closed down and re-opened as a school, but the challenge to survive and thrive remains the same! Live every hour of every day in real-time - from getting out of bed in the morning to attending a timetable full of classes, as you explore a city filled with interactive props. Picking up knowledge from each class helps you answer real questions in 10 different subjects, as you work towards the grades you need to graduate. But with over 100 fellow students walking the halls, an equally important popularity contest decides whether your days are filled with fun or fear. Although the game is mostly free to play, you can upgrade to a "Private" education to remove ads and make the school your own - starting with a student of your own creation and saving your changes to all 10 classes as well as the teachers and civilians. Private students also benefit from a more continuous experience that never ends until you want it to. BASIC CONTROLS: In-game tutorials explain in more depth, but the basic controls are as follows: A = Attack (on its own to kick, with a direction to punch) G = Grapple / Throw R = Run P = Pick-Up / Drop (with a direction to prioritize objects, without to prioritize furniture) T = Taunt (interact with props) OTHER CONTROLS - Press ATTACK and RUN together to launch a powerful attack. - Press any button with any direction (or none) in a grapple to trigger different moves. - Press RUN and PICK-UP together to set fire to a small object (which can then be used to set fire to a large object). - Touch the clock or health meter to pause the game for more options. - Tap the speech bubbles to speed through conversations. PERFORMANCE - If you find your device struggles to display lots of characters, considering keeping the "Population" option low. - Head to the "Display" options to tone down other features. To learn more about this and other games, join the debate at: www.facebook.com/MDickieFans @MDickieDotcom

About

Water Physics Simulation

Explore three distinct physics simulations: build and navigate ships, experiment with bomb explosions and water behavior in a sandbox, or observe the interactions of various elements. This free app offers creative building and destructive fun.

Highlights
  • Water and liquid simulations
  • Ship building and raft survival
  • Bomb explosions and destruction sandbox
  • Real-time sandbox with powder/dust particles
  • Build and control custom boats
  • Create and destroy structures
Features
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Do you like liquid simulations? Do you like the flow behavior of water? Do you like bomb explosions? If yes, then you will have much fun with the Physics Sandbox app. [by gaming-apps.com] Three physics simulations in One: 1. Shipping / Raft Survival: You can build your own ship or use a pre-builted boat and try to survive, if you go on a raft trip with your boat now. 2. Powder Game: If one use the real-time sandbox, then you can play with our bomb simulator or simulate diverse states of waterbody under different influences in every areas of the room. Furthermore you can build for example a house and let it explode later. 3. Liquid simulator: One can watch various structures, ships, buildings, dust etc. and they interact together in different forms, if you insert prefabricated user-actions like a spawner... into the Simulation. Features: - this game is free! - a) sandbox, build for examle a wall and throw bombs to it (Powder Game) - b) raft survival (shipping mode) - c) 24 prefabricated level designs (simulation mode) - construct your own boat with 13 different single parts of a ship - 6 prefabricated levels in the section "shipping" - one can add to a own constructed boat 4 prefabricated - furthermore: 5 bombs types + 5 upgrades per bomb with different explosions - 4000 water particles (soft bodies /powder/ dust) - watch the general behavior of fluid, e.g. pressure, flow behavior, spread in the observation room, special effects, etc. - build and control your boat - create various structures like a house, a seesaw, a tower ... be creative And now have fun with our free physics game everybody! by gaming-apps.com This game is free, but shows ads.

Screenshots

School Days4 screens
Water Physics Simulation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: School Days at none against Water Physics Simulation's shown. School Days also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). Water Physics Simulation's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 67%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. School Days sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Water Physics Simulation sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for School Days against 4.2 for Water Physics Simulation. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.3K and 4.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of School Days's written reviews are positive against 76% of Water Physics Simulation's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Days ships an update every 3 months, Water Physics Simulation every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
School Days versus Water Physics Simulation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool DaysWater Physics Simulation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (3.3K ratings)4.2 (4.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.3% of reviews75.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.3K4.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB60 MB
Age rating+179+
DeveloperMDickie LimitedLukas Oertel

Customer experience

School Days

All ratings3,276 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative16.0%
Written reviews400 reviews
Positive67.3%
Neutral13.8%
Negative19.0%

Water Physics Simulation

All ratings4,574 ratings
Positive80.4%
Neutral3.7%
Negative15.9%
Written reviews915 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative19.3%

Bugs and requests

School Days

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Water Physics Simulation

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Ships not sinking properly
  • Spawned objects floating upwards
  • Connectivity issues causing crashes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more disaster tools (e.g., lava, fire, earthquakes)
  • Increase water capacity for free users
  • Implement realistic ship sinking mechanics
  • Add more customization options (e.g., background, color schemes)
  • Improve camera controls and zooming

In-app purchases

1 purchases

School Days

One-time1
  • Private Education$2.99
5 purchases

Water Physics Simulation

One-time5
  • No Ads$0.99
  • Increase waterlimit by 10000$3.99
  • Increase waterlimit by 20000$5.99
Show 2 more
  • Pro Package$8.99
  • Increase water by 50000$12.99

Questions

Is School Days free?
School Days is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Water Physics Simulation free?
Water Physics Simulation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, School Days or Water Physics Simulation?
Water Physics Simulation is rated higher. School Days averages 4.1 out of 5 from 3.3K ratings, while Water Physics Simulation averages 4.2 from 4.6K ratings.
Do School Days or Water Physics Simulation have ads?
Water Physics Simulation shows ads; School Days does not.
Which is updated more often, School Days or Water Physics Simulation?
School Days ships an update every 3 months, and Water Physics Simulation every 2 months. Most recently, School Days was updated on October 17, 2026 and Water Physics Simulation on October 13, 2026.

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