Escape Game vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Escape Game
Solve intricate puzzles and crack codes to find a way out of a dangerous black and white environment. This challenging escape game requires logic and the use of various tools to overcome obstacles and achieve freedom.
- Solve puzzles
- Crack codes
- Use logic
- Utilize tools
- Escape ASAP
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Escape Game : Quarantine is a hand-drawn escape-room adventure in black and white. The doors are sealed, the clock is running, and whatever moved through this building is still moving. Search every room. Pick apart a vending machine, lockers, fuse boxes and a wall of drawers. Work out the codes, bring the power back and open the last door before your time runs out. WHAT'S INSIDE - A full escape-room campaign across connected rooms, each with its own chain of puzzles - Striking black-and-white artwork, drawn by hand, with blood-red accents - Codes, wiring, hidden mechanisms and logic puzzles built into the rooms - A blood timer that keeps the pressure on - Stuck? Tap "?" for a hint to your next step FREE TO PLAY - The whole game is free, with ads between rooms. - PRO (one-time purchase): every hint instant, the illustrated Escape Guides, and no ads. - Unlimited Time (one-time purchase): removes the blood timer for good. - Plays offline. No account, no sign-up. If you enjoy point-and-click escape rooms and puzzle games that respect your patience, the quarantine is waiting.
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 review sentiment: POOLS™ at 80% against Escape Game's 33%. POOLS™ also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). Escape Game's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Escape Game sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
POOLS™ holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Escape Game's written reviews are positive against 80% of POOLS™'s.
Escape Game ships an update fortnightly, POOLS™ monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Escape Game | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 80.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 旭 梁 | Tensori |
Customer experience
Escape Game
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
Escape Game
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
Escape Game
- Upgrade to PRO$2.99
- Unlimited Game Time Activations$2.99
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99









