Blocky Pirates vs HeliHopper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blocky Pirates
Embark on an action-packed adventure in a cursed world filled with pirates, skeletons, and sea monsters. Explore dangerous locations, collect treasure, and avoid deadly traps in this humorous swashbuckling game.
- Fun gameplay and style
- Explore perilous worlds
- Avoid deadly traps and hazards
- Sail the treacherous ocean
- Discover gold and treasure caves
- Astounding audio and voice over
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Shiver me timbers! Enter a cursed world filled with action, adventure and humor. Meet pirates, skeletons and monstrous sea creatures, discover gold and legendary treasure, as you avoid deadly traps and hazards in an unforgettable swashbuckling game. Travel the ocean, unlock captains and commandeer new ships. Explore dangerous beaches, Aztec jungles and mysterious caves. Batten down the hatches! FEATURES • Fun gameplay and style • Explore perilous worlds • Avoid deadly traps and hazards • Sail the treacherous ocean • Discover gold and treasure caves • Astounding audio and voice over facebook.com/fullfatgames
HeliHopper
Pilot a helicopter across vibrant worlds, completing missions or testing your skills in endless levels. Master a unique slingshot control system to hop between helipads, collect items, and unlock new helicopters and environments. The game features a progression system that rewards players with more challenges as they level up.
- Slingshot helicopter hopping mechanism
- Unlockable helicopters and levels
- Mission-based gameplay
- Endless mode levels
- Player level up system
- Collectables and achievements
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Helihopper is a fun game where you hop from a helipad to another. Master the helicopter controls and become a master pilot! Pilot your way across the beautiful and colorful world, made for jumping and hopping around! Complete the missions or try your skills in the endless levels. Earn valuables and invaluable experience to unlock large selection of different helicopters and levels. Everything you do in the game increases your player level, increase it enough and you can unlock even more challenges. Start hopping now! Features: - Simple & fun slingshot mechanism for hopping the helicopters - 10 different helicopters - Three different themes: City, Desert and Snow - Parachuting collectables - A lot of achievements - Player level up system - 85 missions - 9 endless mode levels - Original music by Hukka - GameCenter leaderboards and achievements - iCloud saving - iMessage Stickers - Haptic support
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Verdict
Blocky Pirates and HeliHopper both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Blocky Pirates's written reviews are positive against 16% of HeliHopper's. HeliHopper's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Blocky Pirates sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and HeliHopper sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Blocky Pirates against 4.2 for HeliHopper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HeliHopper has 651 ratings behind it against 122, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Blocky Pirates's written reviews are positive against 16% of HeliHopper's.
Blocky Pirates ships an update every 5 months, HeliHopper every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blocky Pirates | HeliHopper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (122 ratings) | 4.2 (651 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 15.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 122 | 651 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| 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 |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Full Fat Productions Ltd | Oddrok Oy |
Customer experience
Blocky Pirates
HeliHopper
Bugs and requests
Blocky Pirates
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HeliHopper
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game progress not saving
- Crashes on launch or during gameplay
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
Requested features
3 requests- Add difficulty settings
- Improve controls and responsiveness
- Implement cloud save/sync
In-app purchases
Blocky Pirates
- #John$0.99
- Emergency Spades$0.99
- Small Pack of Coins$0.99
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- #Pirates$0.99
- Lifetime Spades$1.99
- Medium Pack of Coins$1.99
- #Aztec$1.99
- Large Pack of Coins$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Enormous Pack of Coins$19.99
HeliHopper
- Few Coins$0.99
- A Diamond$0.99
- Set of Coins$1.99
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- Pile of Coins$1.99
- Diamond Pack$1.99
- Double Pack$2.99
Questions
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