Totes the Goat vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Totes the Goat
Hop your goat across platforms, revitalizing them as you go. Avoid various animal hazards in this vibrant voxel art arcade game. Leap down cliffs for an endless journey of jumps.
- Classic arcade gameplay reimagined
- Vibrant voxel art style
- Easy-to-use swipe controls
- Platform hopping mechanics
- Hazard avoidance (wolves, crows, bears)
- Revitalize platforms
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"Crossy Road meets Qbert!" - AppAdvice.com How totes is your goat? I think this'll totes float your boat! Happily hop your little goat through this modernized vision of classic and beloved arcade gameplay. Totes the Goat is a charming game with vibrant voxel art and easy-to-use swipe controls. It will have you leaping down a cliff like a kid in no time! Jump from platform to platform – bringing each one back to life – while avoiding hazardous Wily Wolves, Cranky Crows, and Bully Bears – oh my! Once a cliff tier is fully rejuvenated, hop down the cliff to the next tier for an endless journey of jumps! How low can you leap? How totes is your goat?
Visual Pinball
Experience the full virtual pinball simulator with realistic physics, lighting, and sound. This open-source app offers a redesigned interface, enhanced table management, and the complete desktop experience for mobile devices. Enjoy a vast library of tables without ads or in-app purchases.
- Realistic physics, lighting, and sound
- Redesigned interface with Liquid Glass
- Full in-game menu for graphics and controls
- Support for various backglass and display types
- Easy table import and management
- Optimized memory usage
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The official Visual Pinball app. Built by volunteers since 2000 and open source since 2010, Visual Pinball is the simulator the virtual pinball community has been playing for over two decades. More than 70 people have contributed to it, and this app runs the same engine as the desktop version, so every table plays with the physics, lighting and sound its creator intended. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Made by volunteers. Two years of work from the Visual Pinball volunteers, in one update. Thank you for your patience, and for playing! A FRESH NEW LOOK • Redesigned for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass • Favorites and recently played tables at the top of your list • Search, sorting and three tile sizes • Light, Dark or System appearance • New loading screen that shows progress THE FULL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE • The complete Visual Pinball in-game menu for graphics, sound, controls and table options • Remap every button on keyboards and game controllers • Save settings for every table, or just the one you're playing MORE TABLES, LOOKING BETTER • Show the backglass and score display (DMD, alphanumeric or reels) on screen, right where you want them • Support for PUP packs, FlexDMD, B2S backglasses, video playback and VNI colorizations • All the latest physics and rendering improvements from the desktop version • Much lower memory use: textures are compressed on first load, then cached EASIER TABLE MANAGEMENT • Import .zip files, along with .vpx and .vpxz • Share any table as a single .vpxz file • The web file manager can now upload whole folders, extract archives, edit scripts and settings, and show the log live AND MORE • Many stability and memory fixes This version requires iOS 26.6 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Visual Pinball at none against Totes the Goat's 10. Totes the Goat's advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 79%) and ratings volume (228 vs 74). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Totes the Goat sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Totes the Goat against 4.3 for Visual Pinball. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 228 and 74 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Totes the Goat's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Totes the Goat | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (228 ratings) — better | 4.3 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 228 — better | 74 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Atooi LLC | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Totes the Goat
Visual Pinball
User reviews
Totes the Goat
From 228 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Excellent Q-Bert inspired gameplay mechanics
- 😊 Cute and charming character designs
- ⏱️ Perfect for quick gaming sessions
- 🎨 Clean, colorful graphics
- 🧠 Simple yet addictive gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent freezing and control lag issues
- 💰 Difficult character progression without spending money
- 🐛 Enemies spawn in unfair positions
- 🐛 Enemy AI can jump more than one block
- ⏰ Free gift timer doesn't work properly
Visual Pinball
From 74 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome way to play virtual pinball on the go
- 👍 Super easy to set up with minimal file prep time
- 👍 Insane that I can play favorite pins on just my phone
- 👍 Fantastic portable implementation of VPX
- 👍 Fun and exciting to archive the history of pinball
Room to improve
- 🔧 More ability to adjust table settings needed
- 🔧 Struggling to manage camera angle
- 🔧 No fullscreen on iPad, plunger and outlanes cropped
- 🔧 Some tables don't work or have issues
Bugs and requests
Totes the Goat
Reported bugs
10 issues- Controls freeze when enemies are approaching
- Game freezes and crashes frequently
- Free gift timer stuck and not resetting properly
- Duplicate characters unlocked from buddy time
- Earn coins button doesn't function
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- Enemy AI jumps more than one block distance
- Sprite rendering issues on some characters
- Enemies spawn in positions that trap the player
- Cutscenes have animation stuttering
- Inconsistent jump response timing
Requested features
6 requests- Character-specific abilities or special powers
- More complex gameplay mechanics like Q-Bert's color-change system
- Hover boards or power-ups to enhance gameplay
- Catchable enemies for additional mechanics
- Fix board generation for narrow 2-tile wide levels
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- Improved character unlock system without duplicates
Visual Pinball
Reported bugs
2 issues- Tables don't load for some users
- Certain complex/intensive tables error out or run at low FPS
Requested features
6 requests- List of most played tables
- Ability to reposition DMD
- Option to skip startup checks for some tables
- Ability to edit table scripts on the app
- Direct link to table depository
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- iPad version with more screen space
In-app purchases
Totes the Goat
- Blockhead$0.99
- Chick$0.99
- Hat$0.99
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- Mantis Lizard$0.99
- Penguin$0.99
- Tabby Cat$0.99
- Lucky Cat$0.99
- Ghoul$0.99
- J Rod$0.99
- Max$2.99
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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