Hoppia Tale vs Pico Hero
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoppia Tale
Embark on an action-adventure journey across fantastic worlds, battling monsters and exploring mysterious portals. Customize your character, build your own levels, and challenge friends in exciting game modes. Create a cozy home and express your style with numerous accessories.
- Travel through amazing worlds
- Build and play user-created levels
- Challenge friends in Time Attack
- Build and visit player homes
- Customize character with accessories
- Rideable elements
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Hop on this never-ending adventure with fantastic worlds, a bunch of WOOFS, MEOWS and much more! Hoppia Tale is an action-adventure game that you can play with one hand. Mixing old classics like Zelda, Goof Troop and Bomberman, it brings a brand new experience on mobile. The inhabitants of Hoppia live around mysterious portals built by an old society and for long, these have been used to travel to other worlds. For centuries, everything was in perfect balance, but a discovery on the fields around the capital of Hoppia breaks the harmony of the entire universe. An evil force is trying to replicate the portal's technology to invade the city. Features: ● Travel through amazing worlds with a unique character customized by you. ● Play levels made by other players and build your own in Workshop. ● Challenge your friends in a global dispute on Time Attack mode. ● Build a cozy home and visit your friend’s houses. ● Tons of accessories and clothes to choose. ● Rides!
Pico Hero
Embark on an action-packed adventure to rescue kidnapped friends in this retro pixel puzzle-shooter. Master over 100 challenging levels, collect weapons, and even create and share your own levels.
- Puzzle-shooter gameplay
- Over 100 challenging levels
- Retro pixel graphics
- Weapon and item collection
- Level editor
- Share custom levels
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The friends of Pico has been kidnapped! Do you have what it takes to rescue them in this action packed Puzzle-Pixel-Shooter? Show your skills in adventure and training mode! Tackle exciting challenges, solve tricky puzzles, plant trees and master the boss battles! More than 100 challenging level cards with nice retro pixel graphics are waiting for you. Collect crucial weapons and items. Create your own level cards with the level editor and share them with your friends. Get more level cards by importing them from your gallery or scanning them with your camera.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hoppia Tale at Free against Pico Hero's $0.99. Hoppia Tale also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 16). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Hoppia Tale is free to download; Pico Hero costs $0.99 up front. Hoppia Tale sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Pico Hero sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pico Hero holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoppia Tale has 1.1K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Hoppia Tale's written reviews are positive against 89% of Pico Hero's.
Hoppia Tale ships an update every 11 days, Pico Hero weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hoppia Tale | Pico Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.1K ratings) | 4.9 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 368 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ludic Side Tecnologia da Informacao LTDA | Jan Jaschke |
Customer experience
Hoppia Tale
Pico Hero
Bugs and requests
Hoppia Tale
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to enter Infinity Dungeon or Workshop
- Clothes/items getting stuck or unable to remove
- Freezing and crashing when testing levels
- Duplication glitches in the Workshop
- Levels not loading or saving properly
Requested features
5 requests- More playable characters and animal types
- Additional worlds and levels
- Improved level editor with more tools
- Multiplayer and co-op modes
- Ability to edit and update published levels
Pico Hero
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hoppia Tale
- Fistful of Gems$0.99
- Welcome Pack$1.99
- Unlimited Energy$1.99
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- Value Pack for First Purchase$1.99
- Pouch of Gems$4.99
- Treasure Pack$4.99
- Unlock badges of all worlds$4.99
- Welcome Pack$4.99
- Bowl of Gems$9.99
- Gem Pack$9.99
Pico Hero
- Unlimited lives$0.99
