Vault! vs Picnic Penguin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vault!
Experience thrilling pole vaulting with intuitive tap-and-hold controls. Navigate challenging environments, collect coins to unlock characters, and compete for the highest score. Enjoy endless arcade fun with physics-based challenges.
- Intuitive single-touch pole vaulting
- Physics-based arcade action
- Unlockable unique characters
- Game Center support for competition
- Coin collection for upgrades
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Pole vaulting has never been so fun! Cascading cliffs, huge bouncy springs and those infuriating red balls! How far can you go? How long will you last? Can you get the highest score? Classic intuitive physics arcade action with easy to use, hard to master tap and hold controls, mean that things aren't as simple as they seem. Features: - Intuitive single touch pole vaulting gameplay. - Simple concept that anyone can grasp! - Collect coins to unlock unique characters - Full game centre support to compete with friends and foes Important information This game contains third party advertising which can be removed via a one time IAP. This game contains coins which can be collected within the game for free, bought with real money or via earned via promotions. This game contains cross promotion for other Nitrome games and this is not removed with the IAP for removal of ads.
Picnic Penguin
Guide a penguin to push food items onto a picnic blanket by strategically moving blocks. Solve increasingly complex puzzles across multiple worlds, collect coins to unlock cosmetic skins, and enjoy a charming pixel art and low poly visual style with arcade-inspired music.
- Push multiple blocks simultaneously
- Rearrange blocks to clear paths
- Unlockable worlds and puzzles
- Coin collection for cosmetic skins
- Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics
- Arcade-inspired music
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It's picnic time! Help the penguin to push tasty treats onto the picnic blanket. In Picnic Penguin you can push multiple blocks at a time and rearrange them to open the path and complete the levels. Picnic Penguin is a real treat to enjoy in your spare time! Picnic Penguin features several worlds to unlock with a huge variation of puzzles to solve while finding coins to collect all the skins on the gashapon machine. Features: • Simple and addicting gameplay • Neat puzzles to solve • Multiple skins to unlock • Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics • Arcade inspired music!
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Verdict
Vault! and Picnic Penguin are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Vault! sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Picnic Penguin sells 4 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 Vault! against 4.4 for Picnic Penguin. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 34 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Vault!'s written reviews are positive against 74% of Picnic Penguin's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vault! | Picnic Penguin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (77 ratings) — better | 4.4 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 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 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nitrome | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Vault!
Picnic Penguin
Bugs and requests
Vault!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Pole glitching out after continuing from an ad
- Respawning in unwinnable positions after continuing
- Invisible walls causing unexpected deaths
Requested features
4 requests- More playable characters with unique abilities
- Different game modes (e.g., time trial, challenges)
- Varied environments and level designs
- Customization options for the vaulting pole
Picnic Penguin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vault!
- Buy Coins 1$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Buy Coins 2$2.99
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- Buy Coins 3$3.99
Picnic Penguin
- Ice Pop Ticket$0.99
- Cheesecake Ticket$1.99
- Premium$2.99
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- Chicken Ticket$2.99
