CatPunchCrash vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CatPunchCrash
Engage in a thrilling and adorable game where you use cat punches to defeat waves of enemies. Collect coins to purchase and equip a variety of items to power up your character. Explore 96 levels plus a daily challenge, with new content added regularly.
- Cat punch combat
- Enemy variety
- Coin collection
- In-game shop
- Item power-ups
- 96+ levels
- Daily levels
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Beat up your enemies with cat punches! "CatPunchCrash" is a super cutea and thrilling game where you beat enemies who appear one after another with cat punches. ・A variety of characters make their appearance. A variety of characters make their appearance. When you take down an enemy, a coin appears. You can buy things at the shop with the coins you collected. ・64 items in all. Go to the shop and buy items. Power up by equipping your favorite item. ・There are 96 levels plus a daily level. There is a total number of 96 stages. Complete the game while having fun! There's also a new level appearing every day! ・BGM by MusMus
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 rating: POOLS™ at 4.5 against CatPunchCrash's 4.0. POOLS™ also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 4). CatPunchCrash's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). 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. CatPunchCrash sells 5 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.6K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of CatPunchCrash's written reviews are positive against 79% of POOLS™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CatPunchCrash ships an update every 5 months, POOLS™ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CatPunchCrash | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better | 79.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — 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, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | HIROYUKI TANI | Tensori |
Customer experience
CatPunchCrash
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
CatPunchCrash
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
CatPunchCrash
- Coin A set$0.99
- Coin B set$2.99
- Coin C set$4.99
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- Advertisement display off$4.99
- Coin D set$9.99
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99









