Zoo Battle vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zoo Battle
Engage in a strategic board game set in a zoo, where players move animals across various terrains to trap opponents. Customize your game board and choose your opponent, from human players to AI.
- Animal-themed gameplay
- Customizable game board size
- Multiple opponent types (human, AI)
- Themed game board backgrounds
- Online multiplayer mode
- Game Center leaderboards
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ZOO BATTLE - ISOLATION Moving the classic strategy board game Isolation (Isola) to the animal kingdom. Well, I mean the zoo. Battle with your favorite animal through forest, hill, desert and legend castle. Trap the opponent to win the match. New in 2.0.0: - Added online game mode and Game Center leader board. - Re-designed the UI. HOW TO PLAY On one player’s turn, do two actions: - Moving the character to a neighboring (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) position. - Remove an idle grid on the game board. Player cannot move to the removed grid. The player who cannot perform any move lose the game. FEATURES - 10 adorable animals - Customized game board from 5X5 to 10X10 - 3 opponent selections, human, easy AI and hard AI - 4 game board themes SUPPORT https://www.facebook.com/ZooBattle bolei.game@gmail.com
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 rating: Zoo Battle at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.3. Zoo Battle also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.6). Visual Pinball's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 23 months) and ratings volume (75 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Zoo Battle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 75 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Zoo Battle's written reviews are positive against 78% of Visual Pinball's.
Zoo Battle ships an update every 23 months, Visual Pinball fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zoo Battle | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.3 (75 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 75 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Bolei Fu | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Zoo Battle
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Zoo Battle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Zoo Battle
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
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