Comparison

Eye Patch Clash vs Visual Pinball

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

Head to head
About

Eye Patch Clash

Features
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You need to protect your tower from the pirates. They are hiding in the buildings and surrounding areas waiting for the perfect time to attack. You need to find the pirates in each level and destroy them. Once you clear out all the pirates from one level, you will unlock the next level. Each level gets harder as you venture into new territories. Wood structures are easiest to knock down, followed by stone and then steel. Looking at each level and figuring out an attack strategy is key to winning. Most levels have coins which you can collect by shooting them. You can use the coins to buy extra cannonballs to continue playing a level. In later levels, there are explosive cannonballs, which you will need to use wisely to complete them. + Tower Cannon + Enemy Pirates + Destroy Buildings + Explosive Cannonballs + Collect Coins + Pirate Theme

About

Visual Pinball

Enjoy a realistic pinball simulation with hundreds of community-created tables. Experience immersive haptic feedback and customize your gameplay with intuitive settings and controller support. Advanced options are available for power users.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of community-developed tables
  • Haptic feedback for immersive gameplay
  • Customizable settings and POV adjustments
  • Game controller support
  • External DMD and AltColor/AltSound support
  • Touch overlay and instructions
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Eye Patch Clash4 screens
Visual Pinball3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Pinball at Free against Eye Patch Clash's $0.99. Visual Pinball also leads on update cadence (every 12 months vs every 38 months). Eye Patch Clash's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.6). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Visual Pinball is free to download; Eye Patch Clash costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Eye Patch Clash ships an update every 38 months, Visual Pinball every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Eye Patch Clash versus Visual Pinball: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEye Patch ClashVisual Pinball
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.3 (74 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings—74 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 12 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.6
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB120 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperMike HempflingJason Millard

Bugs and requests

Eye Patch Clash

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

None

Eye Patch Clash

No in-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Eye Patch Clash free?
Eye Patch Clash costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Eye Patch Clash or Visual Pinball have ads?
Neither Eye Patch Clash nor Visual Pinball shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Eye Patch Clash or Visual Pinball?
Eye Patch Clash ships an update every 38 months, and Visual Pinball every 12 months. Most recently, Eye Patch Clash was updated on October 18, 2026 and Visual Pinball on October 22, 2026.

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