Smash the Dummy vs Hand Strike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smash the Dummy
This game allows you to relieve stress by attacking a virtual rag-doll with various weapons and magic spells. Engage in a brutal, interactive experience where the dummy fights back, adding an element of challenge to your payback. Collect coins to unlock new tools for your virtual vengeance.
- Attack virtual rag-doll with weapons
- Use magic spells for combat
- Dummy fights back
- Collect coins to unlock items
- Unlock items by watching videos
- Variety of weapons and spells
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Relieve your stress and give payback to people who annoy you through our punching game! Punch face, beat up, shoot, and kick the dummy or the virtual voodoo doll. Use any weapons you can or use your magic wand to defeat the rag-doll and kick the boss. If you feel like you want to kick buddy or beat boss, just play this punching game as stress relievers. Just be aware that this is a very brutal game where you can hurt & give payback to your enemies! Have you ever felt upset and angry with someone? Maybe you want to kick buddy or beat boss. Of course, you can’t do it on real life. You will need stress relievers to channel your aggression and violent urge. The best thing about our punching game is that the enemy is not a passive kick the dummy, rag-doll or voodoo doll! It can FIGHT BACK! If you don’t hurry up and kill it, it will destroy you first and you will lose. This mechanic will fire you up to continue to punch face, shoot, throw, and beat up your enemy or kick the boss. The more you play and defeat your virtual enemies or kick the boss, the more coins you can collect. What can you do with coins? You can use it to unlock Weapons or Magic Spells you can use. You can even unlock Weapons or Magic Spells for FREE by watching short videos. What you can do to the rag-doll/ dummy with weapons: -Punch face or other parts of the rag-doll. - Throw cubes. - Hit with baseball bat - Throw basketball / soccerball - Use slap machine - Throw Jelly cannon - Spray red - Throw air grenade - Use elastic ball - Shoot with nerf gun - Shoot with paintball gun - Throw cloud rain or whirlwind - Strikes with various weapons - Use bombs, shockers, axes, and other weapons. - Throw flowers, tomatoes, pumpkins, and watermelon - Shoot with bows and arrows. - Nunchaku, shurikens, grand pianos. What Magic Spells can do: - Wave hands - Spins - Ride the bull - Robo taunt - Rodeo dance - Clap hands - Shadow boxing - Shoulder Wave - Shake the behind You can also use the magic wand to randomly throw, beat up, shock, and hurt the rag-doll. It’s an awesome stress relievers because you don’t have to think of which spell or weapons to use. So, whenever you feel like you want to kick buddy, beat boss, or give any kind of payback to your enemies, simply open our app and deliver your payback to the virtual voodoo doll and kick the dummy! --- Disclaimer: this is a gore brutal game intended for adult only. Parents need to be responsible and keep their children off from this brutal game.
Hand Strike
Control a powerful hand to grab and interact with robots in a fun, physics-based environment. Explore levels with freedom, use various traps and weapons, and enjoy hilarious animations. Earn rewards through bonus levels.
- Grab and interact with robots
- Physics-based environment
- Freedom in level approach
- Choose traps and weapons
- Hilarious animations
- Bonus levels
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Are you sure about two hands better than one? Lets meet with a hand capable of everything? CATCH THEM IF YOU CAN! Grab bad robots from their heads and interract them with anything placed in the environment. It will be fun to poke your nose into their business. Earn extra money and gain more with FREE Bonus Levels! == GAME FEATURES == ◉ Lots of fun content for FREE! ◉ Super easy to navigate! ◉ Freedom in how you approach levels. ◉ Choose whichever trap you want! ◉ Hilarious animations and face reactions! ◉ Fun weapons and glorious hand skins at your disposal!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hand Strike at weekly against Smash the Dummy's every 13 months. Hand Strike also leads on ratings volume (87K vs 445). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Smash the Dummy sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hand Strike sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 Smash the Dummy against 4.5 for Hand Strike. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hand Strike has 87K ratings behind it against 445, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Smash the Dummy's written reviews are positive against 62% of Hand Strike's.
Smash the Dummy ships an update every 13 months, Hand Strike weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smash the Dummy | Hand Strike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (445 ratings) — better | 4.5 (87K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 62.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 445 | 87K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 395 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Raffaele Derosa | Rollic Games |
Customer experience
Smash the Dummy
Hand Strike
User reviews
Smash the Dummy
From 445 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Loves the game
- 👍 Good game
- 👍 Lots of weapons
- 👍 Boxing gloves are best
- 👍 Amazing
Room to improve
- 🤢 Terrible
- 😠 No sandbox
- 🐛 Can't grab dummy
- 🐛 Ads not working
- 🐛 Can't buy anything
Hand Strike
From 87K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and entertaining game
- 🚀 Well-made animations and graphics
- 😊 Helps relieve stress
- 💡 Variety of ways to kill the characters
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🔋 Too many ads interrupting gameplay
- 🤔 Concerns about the game's appropriateness for young kids
- 👎 Stiff and difficult controls
Bugs and requests
Smash the Dummy
Reported bugs
5 issues- Ads not working
- Can't grab dummy
- Game won't load
- Glitch
- Background looks like water
Requested features
11 requests- Add more levels
- Add more stages
- Add healing items
- Add skins
- Add more weapons
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- Make earnings bigger
- Add maps
- Make dummy talk
- Make it more ragdolly
- Make it official
- Lower item prices
Hand Strike
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game gets stuck on loading screen
- Unable to progress past certain levels
- Inability to exit the review page
Requested features
5 requests- Add more levels and gameplay variety
- Improve hand/character control and responsiveness
- Reduce the number of ads or make them less intrusive
- Provide options to change the character design/skin
- Add sound effects and character voices
In-app purchases
Smash the Dummy
- Bunch of Coins$0.99
- Pinch of Gems$0.99
- Boost 2x$0.99
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- Pile of Coins$1.99
- Bunch of Gems$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Bag of Coins$3.99
- Pot of Gems$3.99
- Chest of Coins$7.99
- Chest of Gems$7.99
Hand Strike
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
Is Smash the Dummy free?
Is Hand Strike free?
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