Comparison

Roll The Block vs POOLS™

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 3D wooden block puzzles
  • Strategic block flipping
  • Challenging level design
  • Simple operation
  • Requires critical thinking
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Roll The Block4 screens
POOLS™4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Roll The Block asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Roll The Block versus POOLS™: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoll The BlockPOOLS™
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—1.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB1.9 GB
Age rating4+9+
Developer亚州 王Tensori

Customer experience

Roll The Block

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

POOLS™

All ratings1,795 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral3.2%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews674 reviews
Positive80.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative13.6%

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

None

Roll The Block

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

POOLS™

One-time1
  • POOLS: Full Game$9.99

Questions

Is Roll The Block free?
Roll The Block is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is POOLS™ free?
POOLS™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Roll The Block or POOLS™ have ads?
Roll The Block shows ads; POOLS™ does not.
Which is updated more often, Roll The Block or POOLS™?
Roll The Block ships an update every 19 months, and POOLS™ every 4 weeks. Most recently, Roll The Block was updated on November 6, 2026 and POOLS™ on November 12, 2026.

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