Comparison

Cursor vs Pixel Pigeon

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

Head to head
About

Cursor

Use your mouse cursor to hunt down and destroy digital infections in this retro-style arcade game. Eradicate viruses quickly to save your system and achieve Super Cursor status for faster elimination.

Highlights
  • Retro-style arcade gameplay
  • Virus hunting and eradication
  • Tap and hold controls
  • Combo system for power-ups
  • Score-based competition
  • Suitable for short and long play sessions
Features
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Your computer has been infected. Become the Cursor and dive into a retro digital battlefield where viruses swarm across the screen in a fast-paced arcade shooter inspired by classic computer systems. Tap and hold to fly upward. Release to descend. Destroy viruses. Protect the system. The more enemies you eliminate in rapid succession, the stronger Cursor becomes. Build massive combos, grow into SUPER CURSOR mode, and wipe out entire waves of corrupted data before the system crashes. ■■ FEATURES ■■ • Unique mouse cursor spaceship gameplay • Retro computer & digital virus aesthetic • Fast arcade action with combo mechanics • Simple one-touch controls • Endless score-chasing gameplay • Explosions, pixel chaos, and satisfying destruction • Classic old-school arcade feeling • Optimized for short quick sessions or long play runs Can you clean the system before total shutdown?

About

Pixel Pigeon

Play as a pigeon in a stealth game where you sneak, steal, and cause mischief in various urban environments. Enjoy offline play with no ads or subscriptions, and customize your bird.

Highlights
  • Stealth gameplay
  • Offline play
  • Customizable bird
  • Multiple environments
  • Mission-based objectives
  • Shareable mugshots
Features
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You are a pigeon. Everybody on the street would rather you were somewhere else. Pixel Pigeon is a stealth game about a small grey bird with a plan. Case a place from the wires above it. Watch a shopkeeper's back, count the seconds a cat keeps its eyes shut, then drop in, take what you came for, and be three roofs away before anyone works out where the noise came from. NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM Download it once and the whole game sits on your phone. Every city, every level, every crumb. It plays exactly the same in a plane seat, in a tunnel, on the tube, in a queue at the airport, with the phone in airplane mode and nothing at all in the bars. Nothing to stream, nothing to sign into, no account to make. Open it and it is there. WHERE YOU WORK A city rooftop at dusk. A Bangkok weekend market at full volume. A cliff above the sea, an Irish bog, the great stones of the Pyramids, a neon backstreet in Hong Kong, a night train running dark. Every place has its own crowd, its own weather and its own way of catching you. WHAT YOU DO Read a street before you cross it, then take your moment Slip past cats, work a crowd, mind the wires, ride the wind Peck, poop, topple, and generally make yourself the problem Take the day's jobs, one of which names the exact piece of mischief it wants Keep a case file of what you have pulled off in every place Get booked: pull your pigeon's mugshot and charge sheet, then share it Kit out your bird and make the nest your own Play the golf tour through Venice, the Pyramids and Bangkok THE STREET ANSWERS BACK Lamps, statues, market stalls, temple bowls: touch almost anything and something has a word to say about it. Knock one thing over and the street notices. Keep going and it starts looking for you. Some of the faces turn up again in the next city, and they remember you. BUY IT ONCE Start free. One purchase opens the rest of the game and it stays yours. No subscriptions, no ads, no timers counting down while you wait, nothing that needs a connection. A wry little story about making it through, one feather at a time. Privacy Policy: https://dro1d.org/pixelpigeon.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Cursor4 screens
Pixel Pigeon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cursor at 88% against Pixel Pigeon's 0%. Cursor also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Pixel Pigeon's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 14 months). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pixel Pigeon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cursor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cursor ships an update every 14 months, Pixel Pigeon weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cursor versus Pixel Pigeon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCursorPixel Pigeon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB25 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCogoo Inc.DRO1D LABS LIMITED

Customer experience

Cursor

All ratings15 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.1%

Pixel Pigeon

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cursor

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Pigeon

One-time1
  • Pixel Pigeon Lifetime Access$1.99

Questions

Is Cursor free?
Cursor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pixel Pigeon free?
Pixel Pigeon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cursor or Pixel Pigeon have ads?
Neither Cursor nor Pixel Pigeon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cursor or Pixel Pigeon?
Cursor ships an update every 14 months, and Pixel Pigeon weekly. Most recently, Cursor was updated on November 2, 2026 and Pixel Pigeon on November 5, 2026.

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