Pin Rescue vs Hook Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pin Rescue
Engage your intellect in a challenging puzzle game where you strategically pull pins to navigate dangerous scenarios. Rescue characters by avoiding obstacles like bombs and enemies, requiring clever thinking and precise actions to succeed.
- Unique escape puzzle gameplay
- Strategic pin-pulling mechanics
- Brain-burning IQ challenges
- Multiple choices per level
- Increasing difficulty
- Special levels to save characters
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If you like rescue cut game and want to solve fun puzzles, you will love to pull the pin game-pin rescue！ Pin rescue is a brain-burning high IQ puzzle game, but it is especially addictive and has been playing! How to pull the pin and rescue the boy or the girl depends on you! As an expert with super intelligence, your goal is to try various commands and methods to pull the pin according to the plot set by the game, to avoid bombs, ferocious animals, zombies，arrow... and finally help the boy to escape out of the dangerous room. Unlike rope rescue, pin rescue focuses more on strategic adventures. Each level presents you with multiple choices - pull the correct pins to proceed. As the stage progresses, the difficulty of the pin rescue escape game will increase. In addition, pin rescue has also added a special level to save the girl, you need to think about the best way to pull the pin and become a hero to save the girl! Game Features: - Unique escape puzzle game. - Enjoy the fun of pulling pins. - Simple but tricky. - Fun brain pin game. - Real-time updated puzzle levels. - Get the girl bonus level added. Pin Rescue, the real pin puzzle game. Pull out the pins and solve fun puzzles! Download pin rescue puzzle escape game and challenge it! In the pin rescue game, new adventures for you to go on all the time! Visit facebook.com/noxjoygames if you have any feedback, need help on beating a level, or have any awesome ideas you would like to see in the game! NoxJoy also has other puzzle games, such as brain master! More interesting puzzle games look forward to your exploration! Follow us to get news and updates on our other Award Winning titles: https://www.noxjoy.com/ facebook.com/noxjoygames youtube.com/channel/UC7s1iykyBdisIZSeLM8Quuw
Hook Master
Guide a pirate captain through treacherous traps and enemies by strategically moving ropes to hook rings. Solve intricate puzzles by untangling ropes and dodging obstacles to rescue the hero and help him become a better person.
- Physics-based rope puzzles
- Rope hooking mechanics
- Trap and enemy evasion
- Rope untangling challenges
- Obstacle dodging
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Help the pirate captain Hook to escape Kraken The Giant Octopus. By moving the rope and hooking the ring to swing through traps, spikes, and all kinds of enemies. Rescue our hero so he can become a good man again. Sometimes you have to stretch this guy a lot to move and dodge the obstacles. Sometimes the rope tangled each other then you have to use your brain to untangle them. If you can solve all these sticky puzzles, you will become a legend. FEATURING: - Physic puzzles where you play with rope. - A lot of tools to solve puzzles - Invisible Kraken
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pin Rescue at 4.5 against Hook Master's 3.0. Pin Rescue also leads on review sentiment (28% vs 0%) and ratings volume (136K vs 1). Hook Master's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pin Rescue sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Hook Master asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pin Rescue holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pin Rescue has 136K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Pin Rescue's written reviews are positive against 0% of Hook Master's.
Pin Rescue ships an update monthly, Hook Master every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pin Rescue | Hook Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (136K ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 136K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 291 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Nox(HongKong) Limited | Genix Lab |
Customer experience
Pin Rescue
Hook Master
Bugs and requests
Pin Rescue
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels getting stuck or unable to progress
- Invisible buttons/controls
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Less violent/gory alternatives
- Ability to skip ads or pay to remove them
- More challenging and varied levels
- Option to save progress and resume later
Hook Master
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pin Rescue
- 7 Days Free Ads$1.99
- Non optional ad removal$2.99
- No Ads Permanently$5.99
Hook Master
No in-app purchases
