Comparison

Pump Up 3D vs Water Box

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

Head to head
About

Pump Up 3D

Inflate and paint balloons to make them shiny. Avoid red obstacles while you pump up over 50 different balloons. Enjoy a simple and satisfying gameplay experience.

Highlights
  • Inflate balloons
  • Paint balloons
  • Avoid red obstacles
  • Over 50 balloons
  • Shiny balloon effect
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Pump up all the balloons and paint to make them SHINY again!Don't touch the red obstacles! Inflate, pump up and paint more than 50+ balloons!

About

Water Box

Explore realistic fluid dynamics and ragdoll physics in this sandbox playground. Sink ships, experiment with various liquids, and unleash destruction with a wide array of tools and elements. Build and test your creations in a detailed simulation environment.

Highlights
  • Realistic water and powder simulation
  • Ragdoll people playground experiments
  • Ship sinking and floating simulator
  • Gore and destruction simulator
  • Alchemy, fire, and chemical reactions
  • Build and share creations
Features
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People playground meets a floating sandbox games in this realistic water physics simulation! This water physics sandbox games lets you experiment with realistic fluid behavior, sink ships by using bomb explosions, and enjoy a ragdoll people playground built to simulate destruction. Features: Water Simulation & Powder Game - Simulate liquids like lava, petrol, oil, nitro, viruses, fireworks, and more – each with unique behaviors. - Enjoy a beautiful underwater sandbox games with up to 200,000 water particles. Ragdoll & People Playground - Discover the many unpredictable outcomes of ragdoll experiments! - Use virus liquids to infect them or make them go crazy with chemicals & mods. - Realistic gore ragdoll playground: they can walk, drown, burn, or react to your experiments. Ship Sinking Simulator & Floating Sandbox - Build ships from scratch or choose from pre-built ones like cargo ships, submarines, and even the Titanic. - Test their strength against waves, bombs, stormworks, floods, or tsunamis. - Watch ships float, sink, burn, or explode in realistic fashion. - The inbuilt ship sinking simulator is very sophisticated - Includes 50+ pre-built experiments and machines to explore. - Build and test your own ships, vehicles, titanic clones, tanks rockets and share mods in the new online workshop. - Construct using different materials like wood, rubber or stone. Gore Sandboxels & Destruction Simulator - Use explosives like nukes, grenades, and rockets to smash anything. - Unleash god-powers like airstrikes, tsunamis, stormworks, floods or firestorms. - Choose among an arsenal of weapons to wreak havoc against your subjects! Alchemy, Fire & Physics Sandbox - Experiment with different elements - like lava with nitro, or fire with petrol and watch how they react with water, like freezing or evaporating - Realistic temperature, fire, and chemical reactions. - Set things on fire and watch it spread; extinguish it with water or freeze it into ice. - All materials react uniquely – from flammable boats to explosive bombs. - A deep and detailed destruction simulator game. - the game includes many cool firework effects. Now have fun and relax while playing in this underwater powder game: build complex boats, machines or simulate chain reactions in this sandboxel. Players say this sanbox game has everything you would expect from an mobile algodoo alternative. Have ideas or issues? Send me an email! Note: A strong phone is recommended for the best experience. Download the sanbox game now, build something wild, and let the chaos begin! By Gaming-Apps.com (2025)

Screenshots

Pump Up 3D4 screens
Water Box4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Water Box at 92% against Pump Up 3D's 0%. Water Box also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 3). Pump Up 3D's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Water Box sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pump Up 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Water Box holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Water Box has 1.8K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pump Up 3D's written reviews are positive against 92% of Water Box's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pump Up 3D ships an update every 2 weeks, Water Box every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pump Up 3D versus Water Box: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPump Up 3DWater Box
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.8 (1.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews92.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size167 MB87 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperNOHO OYUN YAZILIM SANAYI IC VE DIS TICARET LIMITED SIRKETILukas Oertel

Customer experience

Pump Up 3D

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Water Box

All ratings1,741 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews597 reviews
Positive92.1%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.7%

Bugs and requests

Pump Up 3D

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Water Box

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Crashes frequently

Requested features

1 request
  • Make ships sink like in Floating Sandbox

In-app purchases

None

Pump Up 3D

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Water Box

One-time10
  • Increase max water by 10000$2.99
  • 250 Coins$4.99
  • Creative Package 50% Discount$4.99
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  • Increase max water by 20000$4.99
  • 550 Coins$7.99
  • Creative Package$9.99
  • Increase max water by 50000$9.99
  • 1200 Coins$14.99
  • Increase max water by 100000$17.99
  • 2300 Coins$24.99

Questions

Is Pump Up 3D free?
Pump Up 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Water Box free?
Water Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pump Up 3D or Water Box?
Water Box is rated higher. Pump Up 3D averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Water Box averages 4.8 from 1.8K ratings.
Do Pump Up 3D or Water Box have ads?
Water Box shows ads; Pump Up 3D does not.
Which is updated more often, Pump Up 3D or Water Box?
Pump Up 3D ships an update every 2 weeks, and Water Box every 9 days. Most recently, Pump Up 3D was updated on October 11, 2026 and Water Box on October 28, 2026.

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