Roll The Block vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roll The Block
A challenging 3D puzzle game where players must strategically flip a wooden block to guide it into a hole. It requires significant thinking and problem-solving skills to overcome its difficult levels.
- 3D wooden block puzzles
- Strategic block flipping
- Challenging level design
- Simple operation
- Requires critical thinking
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This is a very difficult game. This is a three-dimensional small wooden block and various organs. You can pass the level by flipping the wooden block and making it fall into the hole. The operation is very simple, but there are not many people who pass it. You need to give full play to your thinking. Come and challenge it and see if you can pass the level!
POOLS™
Explore, admire, and listen in this slow, reflective experience. It's an intentionally uneventful journey through uncanny and eerie environments, rewarding patience and quiet attention. Discover a world that subtly changes as you advance, inspired by internet phenomena like liminal spaces and The Backrooms.
- Exploration-focused gameplay
- Relaxing and reflective atmosphere
- Eerie and uncanny environments
- Slow-paced, uneventful experience
- World changes as you advance
- Six chapters, 10-30 minutes each
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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: Roll The Block at none against POOLS™'s 1. Roll The Block also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). POOLS™'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 19 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Roll The Block asks for nothing beyond the download.
Roll The Block ships an update every 19 months, POOLS™ every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roll The Block | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | 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 | 22 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 亚州 王 | Tensori |
Customer experience
Roll The Block
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
Roll The Block
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
Roll The Block
No in-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99









