脱出ゲーム vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
脱出ゲーム
Solve puzzles and use items to escape a warehouse where you're trapped. This game is designed for beginners and offers a straightforward escape room experience.
- Warehouse escape scenario
- Puzzle solving
- Item usage
- Beginner-friendly design
- Intuitive gameplay
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I was trapped in the warehouse by the pranked punishment. Please escape superbly from here with your ideas and items. It is a escape game that even beginners can enjoy. If translation is wrong please tell me the correct translation.
POOLS™
This app offers a slow, reflective, and immersive experience focused on exploration and atmosphere. It evokes feelings of unease and curiosity through its unique environments, inspired by liminal spaces and internet phenomena. Discover changing worlds and subtle narratives without traditional gameplay mechanics.
- Slow, reflective exploration
- Atmospheric and immersive environments
- Inspired by liminal spaces
- Unfolding narrative through exploration
- Six distinct chapters
- Unique sound design
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Explore, admire and listen. That’s it. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. POOLS isn’t a traditional game. it’s slow, reflective, and intentionally uneventful, perhaps a bit like virtual museum. So take your time. Breathe. POOLS unfolds slowly, rewarding patience and quiet attention. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen. Yet it can feel oppressive at times by invoking quiet fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and the strange beauty of liminal space architecture. There's no typical story. But as you explore and advance further, you start to notice that the game's world changes around you, deeper you go… Rooms look and feel… different. Base game features six chapters, each lasting 10-30 minutes. Inspired by the internet phenomena Liminal spaces, Found footage and The Backrooms, especially the Poolrooms concept. One of the original artists behind the Poolrooms concept is Jared Pike.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 脱出ゲーム at none against POOLS™'s 1. 脱出ゲーム also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). POOLS™'s advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 11) and review sentiment (80% vs 66%). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 脱出ゲーム asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for 脱出ゲーム against 4.5 for POOLS™. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.7K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of 脱出ゲーム's written reviews are positive against 80% of POOLS™'s.
脱出ゲーム ships an update every 10 days, POOLS™ monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 脱出ゲーム | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 4.5 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews | 79.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 1.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | poco craft works | Tensori |
Customer experience
脱出ゲーム
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
脱出ゲーム
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
POOLS™
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to move on iPad Pro
- Glitches reported
Requested features
3 requests- Expand to different Backrooms-inspired themes
- Add a multiplayer mode
- Introduce more interactive elements (e.g., monsters, items to discover)
In-app purchases
脱出ゲーム
No in-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99
