Run Squish vs Craft Skills
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Run Squish
Tap cartoon monsters to squish them in a burst of color and goo. Score bonuses by squishing as many as possible quickly, but be aware that the monsters will fight back. Unlock new environments and experiences as you play.
- Tap to squish monsters
- Score bonuses for speed
- Monsters fight back
- Unlockable Halloween experiences
- Fun combo system
- Easy to learn gameplay
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An assortment of Halloween monsters have gotten loose! Visit unique environments and squish them to curb the outbreak! Tap a monster to squish in a cartoon burst of color and goo. Squish as many as possible in the shortest amount of time to score bonuses. But watch out, because the monsters will fight back! - Don't let the Gooey Ghosts slime you! - These Vampire Bats have been feeding... and they bite! - See the creatures of Eyeball Land bounce to the music hypnotically, and attack your mind! The Ghosts, Eyeballs, and Vampire levels have returned for Halloween. And now, they fight back! • Three squishable halloween monsters and environments • Fun combo system to earn insanely high scores • Balance your high score with survival as monsters attack you • Many small game balancing, graphics updates, and other improvements • Tutorial for new players • Easy to learn gameplay • Get ridiculously high scores as your skill improves • Unlock three "Hall-o-ween" experiences as you play. Thank you for playing, and please let us know of any issues, questions, or ideas you have! More content coming soon, including a never-before-released Winter course, and the return of Springtime levels.
Craft Skills
Engage in a casual room-clearing adventure, combining ingredients to craft unique skills and battle evolving monsters. Discover artifacts, upgrade your abilities, and face challenging bosses in a post-apocalyptic world.
- Ingredient mixing for unique skills
- Evolving enemies and challenging bosses
- Room-based progression with random upgrades
- Artifact collection for power-ups
- Post-apocalyptic setting with trash can shops
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Craft skills is a casual game where you have to clear rooms full of monsters and improve your skills by mixing ingredients! UNIQUE SKILLS Obtaining new ingredients and mixing them will allow you to get unique skills and participate in a challenging experience against monsters! ARTEFACTS AND DNA Completing a room will get you a random upgrade which will help you become stronger against your foes! VARIOUS ENEMIES Enemies inside the rooms evolve and gain new abilities, which increases your reward after completing a room! BOSSES Each boss has a unique behavior that allows you to get an amazing challenge! TRASH CANS In the post-apocalyptic world, only trash cans remained protected, which you can purchase in the game and get ingredients to mix! Key Features: - many different skills - a large number of enemies - various bosses - cool visual - a large number of ingredients - each room contains surprises
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Verdict
Run Squish and Craft Skills both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Run Squish's written reviews are positive against 0% of Craft Skills's. Run Squish also leads on ads (none vs shown). Craft Skills's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On rating, in-app purchases 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
Craft Skills is free to download; Run Squish costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Run Squish against 4.9 for Craft Skills. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Craft Skills has 131 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Run Squish's written reviews are positive against 0% of Craft Skills's.
Run Squish ships an update every 2 months, Craft Skills fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Run Squish | Craft Skills |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (17 ratings) — better | 4.9 (131 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 131 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 235 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | MetroplexWeb.com | Raman Kamarou |
Customer experience
Run Squish
Craft Skills
In-app purchases
Run Squish
No in-app purchases
Craft Skills
No in-app purchases
