Comparison

CASE vs Poppy Playtime Chapter 3

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CASE

A first-person stealth horror game where you play as a detective trapped in a hacked police department. Survive the night against terrifying animatronics and uncover the truth behind the chaos.

Highlights
  • First-person stealth horror
  • Challenging gameplay
  • Investigate a hacked police department
  • Survive against animatronics
  • Uncover a mystery
Features
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CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror. Control of the police department is in the hands of an anonymous hacker. All the exits are locked. The power has been shut off. There are metallic thumps getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop? Welcome to the police department, where working late can lead to tragic consequences. You're John Bishop, a overworked detective who tirelessly carries out investigations late into the night. You’re torn from yet another night of fitful rest and nightmares by a strange call from an old friend, turning your whole world upside-down. Your police department is cut off from the power grid. The security system has been hacked. All the exits are locked. But that’s not the real problem. Someone, someTHING, is following you. Red eyes shine from dark corners, and the sound of shifting, clanking metal echoes through once-safe halls. You know them simply as animatronics, but something unknown and horrifying is driving them. Figure out what’s going on, survive the night, and find the one responsible for this madness.

About

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3

Explore a haunted orphanage beneath a toy factory, solving puzzles and evading terrifying creatures. Uncover dark secrets and survive the nightmares lurking in the shadows. This chapter introduces new horrors and enhanced exploration tools.

Highlights
  • Explore haunted orphanage
  • Solve new puzzles
  • Evade terrifying creatures
  • Upgraded GrabPack
  • New hand abilities
  • Gas mask for red smoke
Features
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A decrepit orphanage known as Playcare sits beneath the once magical toy factory. You must make your way through this haunted place, solving new puzzles and avoiding the nightmares that lurk within the dark. Answers lie between the blood-stained bed sheets and screaming echoes... If you can survive. This is Poppy Playtime's biggest and most terrifying chapter yet. More lies ahead than you might expect… • New horrors await, and they're much more than just simple toys. • Playcare is Playtime's own massive, fantastical orphanage, and you get to explore it. • The GrabPack gets an upgrade! • New hands permit unique and creative ways to explore. • A gas mask is the only way to safely explore through the red smoke that fills the air. • Answers will finally be revealed. Lies can only stay buried for so long... Much awaits you in the chapter ahead... a bit of playtime never hurt anyone, right?

Screenshots

CASE4 screens
Poppy Playtime Chapter 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CASE at weekly against Poppy Playtime Chapter 3's every 12 months. CASE also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 63%) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). Poppy Playtime Chapter 3's advantage is ratings volume (4.4K vs 53) and chart position (#25 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

CASE costs $2.99 and Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for CASE against 4.2 for Poppy Playtime Chapter 3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 has 4.4K ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of CASE's written reviews are positive against 63% of Poppy Playtime Chapter 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CASE ships an update weekly, Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
CASE versus Poppy Playtime Chapter 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCASEPoppy Playtime Chapter 3
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.3 (53 ratings) — better4.2 (4.4K ratings)
Positive reviews87.8% of reviews — better63.1% of reviews
Number of ratings534.4K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#25 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB2.2 GB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperWalnut LLCMob Entertainment, Inc

Customer experience

CASE

All ratings52 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral7.7%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive87.8%
Neutral7.3%
Negative4.9%

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3

All ratings4,289 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral5.0%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews1,300 reviews
Positive63.1%
Neutral11.2%
Negative25.8%

User reviews

CASE

From 53 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Awesome game
  • 👍 Great quality
  • 👍 Fun to play
  • 👍 Scary and suspenseful
  • 👍 Good graphics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🐛 Game freezes
  • 🐛 AI is weird
  • 🐛 Wolf AI stuck
  • 🐛 Doors locked

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3

From 4.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth gameplay
  • 👍 Immersive horror experience
  • 🎮 Engaging puzzles and boss fights
  • 💎 High-quality graphics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 📉 Performance issues on older devices
  • 🤯 Frustrating camera controls
  • 💤 Lack of optimization for mobile

Bugs and requests

CASE

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Game freezes
  • Doors were locked
  • Cannot open drawer for batteries
  • Wolf AI is weird/stays in one place
  • Cannot rotate device/screen is stuck
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  • Fox is stuck by archives
  • Animatronics get stuck in places
  • Bug with menu when killed
  • Animatronics can get stuck in corner
  • AI system is dumb
  • Cannot get to Ben's office
  • Battery for radio not found
  • Animatronics catch in closet even if not seen

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ghost mode
  • Add case 2 on mobile
  • More stories or levels
  • Better graphics
  • Fix AI

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game crashes when turning on lights in Playcare
  • Camera angle issues when jumping or crouching
  • Skipped puzzles and progress loss after crashes
  • Black screen and loading issues on some devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Sensitivity and FOV options
  • Checkpoint saving to avoid repeating progress
  • Improved audio mixing and balancing
  • Compatibility fixes for older devices

In-app purchases

None

CASE

No in-app purchases

None

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CASE free?
CASE costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 free?
Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CASE or Poppy Playtime Chapter 3?
CASE is rated higher. CASE averages 4.3 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 averages 4.2 from 4.4K ratings.
Do CASE or Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 have ads?
Neither CASE nor Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CASE or Poppy Playtime Chapter 3?
CASE ships an update weekly, and Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 every 12 months. Most recently, CASE was updated on October 22, 2026 and Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 on October 25, 2026.

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