Boost Buddies vs Picnic Penguin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boost Buddies
Engage in a hardcore action reflex game with deceptively cute visuals. Test your skills across numerous challenging levels and obstacles. Collect unique characters, each with their own music and level design, to climb the leaderboards.
- 81 Challenge Levels
- Hundreds of obstacle challenges
- Unique characters with themes and music
- Pixel art visuals
- Sticker pack
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Boost Buddies is a hardcore action reflex game. Test yourself in this deceptively cute challenge and reach the top of leaderboards! Collect dozens of unique characters with their very own music and level design. Also featuring Cat Bird! Features: * 81 Challenge Levels. * 100's of deadly obstacle challenges! * Each character has a unique theme and music track! * Beautiful pixel visuals! * Boost Buddies Stickerpack! * End game cutscene(If you can reach that far).
Picnic Penguin
Guide a penguin to push food items onto a picnic blanket by strategically moving blocks. Solve increasingly complex puzzles across multiple worlds, collect coins to unlock cosmetic skins, and enjoy a charming pixel art and low poly visual style with arcade-inspired music.
- Push multiple blocks simultaneously
- Rearrange blocks to clear paths
- Unlockable worlds and puzzles
- Coin collection for cosmetic skins
- Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics
- Arcade-inspired music
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It's picnic time! Help the penguin to push tasty treats onto the picnic blanket. In Picnic Penguin you can push multiple blocks at a time and rearrange them to open the path and complete the levels. Picnic Penguin is a real treat to enjoy in your spare time! Picnic Penguin features several worlds to unlock with a huge variation of puzzles to solve while finding coins to collect all the skins on the gashapon machine. Features: • Simple and addicting gameplay • Neat puzzles to solve • Multiple skins to unlock • Pixel art and 3D low poly graphics • Arcade inspired music!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Picnic Penguin at 4.4 against Boost Buddies's 3.9. Picnic Penguin also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 59%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Boost Buddies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Picnic Penguin sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Picnic Penguin holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Boost Buddies's written reviews are positive against 74% of Picnic Penguin's.
Boost Buddies ships an update every 4 months, Picnic Penguin every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boost Buddies | Picnic Penguin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (60 ratings) | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.4% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raiyumi Inc. | Gionathan Pesaresi |
Customer experience
Boost Buddies
Picnic Penguin
Bugs and requests
Boost Buddies
Reported bugs
8 issues- Game crashes on startup
- Game won't open
- Levels are unplayable due to no controls
- Button mode for controls not available in levels
- Progress reset after updates
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- Ads appearing in paid version
- Lag and game blacking out
- Moving floors stop working in upper levels
Requested features
8 requests- Update with new features and levels
- Add more levels
- Add more characters
- Make controls more accessible in levels
- Allow choosing when to watch ads for continues
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- Add music tracks to the game
- Improve level design for extreme difficulty levels
- Easier way to get coins
Picnic Penguin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Boost Buddies
- Remove Ads + Lucky Kat + 300g$2.99
Picnic Penguin
- Ice Pop Ticket$0.99
- Cheesecake Ticket$1.99
- Premium$2.99
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- Chicken Ticket$2.99
