Machinal Instinct vs Boom Pilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Machinal Instinct
Engage in fast-paced mech battles in a global tournament where animal pilots command powerful machines. Customize your fighting style with various weapons and upgrade your mech with unlockable parts to climb the global leaderboard.
- Select from 6 mech pilots
- Customize melee and ranged weapons
- Win supply boxes for rewards
- Unlock and combine upgradable mech parts
- Battle in 3 different arenas
- Climb the global leaderboard
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Fight your way to the top of the food chain, and watch your enemies become the prey! Machinal Instinct is a fast-paced fighting game, set in a world where animals pilot powerful mechs to compete against each other in a worldwide tournament. Unleash your inner beast and reach the top of the global leaderboard! Features: * Select from 6 cute but fearless mech pilots!. * Customize your fighting style: ** 3 different types of melee weapons: ax, fist, or chain. ** 2 different types of ranged weapons: grenade or rocket. ** And more coming soon! * Win supply boxes and get rewards to pump up your mech. * Unlock and combine dozens of upgradable mech parts. * Play in 3 different astonishing battle arenas. * Fight, loot, upgrade and climb that leaderboard! Join more than 22 million players from all over the world who enjoy our games!
Boom Pilot
Engage in a vibrant air battle against rogue robots in this top-down shooter. Navigate through five distinct worlds, utilizing power-ups and aircraft upgrades to overcome challenging boss encounters. Experience both campaign and endless modes with a variety of unlockable planes and achievements.
- One-finger control mechanic
- Airplane stat upgrades
- 24 handcrafted tracks
- Campaign and Endless modes
- 6 Boss battles
- 10 unlockable airplanes
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Boom Pilot is a top down shooter, you manoeuvre your little airplane into a heated air battle against malfunctioning robots! Fly through five beautiful worlds full of surprises! Use special items and upgrade your airplane to beat the boss at the end of every world. Hop into your plane and conquer the skies in BOOM PILOT. Features: * Simple one finger controlling mechanic: Move by dragging your finger around the screen. Use special items by double tapping the screen. * Upgrade you stats and become the Boom Pilot! * 24 handcrafted and challenging tracks * Two game modes, Campaign and Endless * 6 Boss battles * 10 Airplanes * Achievements * Leaderboard for Endless mode * Cloud Saving Game has advertisements and in-app-purchases. You can remove advertisement by remove ads purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Boom Pilot at none against Machinal Instinct's shown. Boom Pilot also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Machinal Instinct's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Machinal Instinct sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Boom Pilot sells 4 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 — 4.6 for Machinal Instinct against 4.5 for Boom Pilot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 707 and 1.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 51% of Machinal Instinct's written reviews are positive against 44% of Boom Pilot's.
Machinal Instinct ships an update every 3 weeks, Boom Pilot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Machinal Instinct | Boom Pilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (707 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.4% of reviews — better | 43.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 707 | 1.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| 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 | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 337 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pomelo Games | Oddrok Oy |
Customer experience
Machinal Instinct
Boom Pilot
User reviews
Machinal Instinct
From 707 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth animations
- 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
- 🕹️ Accessible controls
- 💎 Great fighting game fundamentals
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent attack targeting
- 🔧 Buggy mechanics and controls
- 🕰️ Short match duration
- 🤖 Mostly playing against bots
- 📺 Excessive ads and monetization
Boom Pilot
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay
- 👍 Fun and addictive
- 💡 Challenging levels
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unresponsive controls
- 🔋 Excessive ads
- 🔒 Privacy concerns
Bugs and requests
Machinal Instinct
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on startup
- Freezing at loading screens
- Matchmaking issues
- Inconsistent performance
Requested features
5 requests- Longer match duration
- Real-time multiplayer mode
- More character and weapon variety
- Customizable controls
- Additional game modes (e.g. endless, team battles)
Boom Pilot
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes and freezes
- Loss of upgrades after updates
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and content
- Customizable controls
- Offline mode
In-app purchases
Machinal Instinct
- Gems x80 pack$0.99
- Starter Pack$3.99
- Gems x500 pack$4.99
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- Starter Pack$5.99
- Starter Pack$7.99
- Gems x1,200 pack$9.99
- Gems x2,500 pack$19.99
- Gems x6,500 pack$49.99
- Gems x14,000 pack$99.99
Boom Pilot
- Starter Pack$0.29
- Pack of Coins$0.29
- Large Pack of Coins$0.49
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- Unlock All$0.99
Questions
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