Piercing Parlor vs Happy Grave!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piercing Parlor
Design and perform various piercings on customers in a virtual parlor. Match customer requests with hundreds of styles and objects, using precision to create holes and apply jewelry. Experience satisfying vibrations and a rewarding simulation without any real pain.
- Hundreds of piercing objects and styles
- Design and outline piercings
- Precise needle aiming
- Satisfying haptic feedback
- Run your own piercing parlor
- Match customer requests
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Can you handle the pain? Become a piercing perfectionist and spread the bling! Are you ready to experience your inner rebel? Ever wonder what it is like to get a piercing but your mom and dad said no? Wonder what you would look like with a piercing on your nose or lip? Now you can experience it all without feeling the pain! Fill in hundreds of different piercings and styles. Try to get the line up the requests as close as possible for them and don’t mess up! Get ready to feel the satisfaction of watching your needle slide right in! Relax and use your precision to point and aim the needle to make those holes. So many satisfying vibrations! Fun and easy to pick up but don’t miss a pierce... Will you be the first one to ring them all? Hundreds of objects and styles for you to carefully size up, outline, design and pierce your customers. The final results will leave you feeling satisfied! Game Features: 1. Simple but addicting mechanics Feel the satisfaction without the pain? Customers will request what they want and it is up to you to match their desires 2. Run your own Piercing Parlor Keep the customers coming. Whether it’s a heart, a zombie, or a skull, there are so many ear ring designs for you to give them. 3. Don’t miss Ouch that hurts! Be careful of those soft spots 4. Feel the experience Feel every stab with the best haptics experience there is. Whether you like tattoos, needles or just want to pierce some people, Piercing Parlor will take you there. This is the best and most rewarding piercing simulation game there is. Visit https://lionstudios.cc/contact-us/ if have any feedback, need help on beating a level or have any awesome ideas you would like to see in the game! Follow us to get news and updates on our other Award Winning titles; https://lionstudios.cc/ Facebook.com/LionStudios.cc Instagram.com/LionStudioscc Twitter.com/LionStudiosCC Youtube.com/c/LionStudiosCC
Happy Grave!
Engage in a series of quirky mini-games centered around life's final moments. Experience unique challenges and humorous scenarios in this addictive gameplay loop.
- Multiple mini-games
- Fit me in challenge
- Friend's help mechanic
- Eulogy Delivery
- Singing Choir
- Dresscode decision
- Design and make items
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A fun and addictive game to keep you coming back for more and more. Multiple mini games including - Fit me in - Friend's help - Eulogy Delivery - Singing Choir - Rush Rush Rush! - Dance one last time - Dresscode decision - Swap Clothes - Design it - Make it! - Many more
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Verdict
Piercing Parlor and Happy Grave! both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 20% of Piercing Parlor's written reviews are positive against 8% of Happy Grave!'s. Piercing Parlor also leads on ratings volume (17K vs 3.9K). Happy Grave!'s advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Piercing Parlor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Happy Grave! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Piercing Parlor against 4.5 for Happy Grave!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17K and 3.9K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 20% of Piercing Parlor's written reviews are positive against 8% of Happy Grave!'s.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piercing Parlor | Happy Grave! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (17K ratings) | 4.5 (3.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.3% of reviews — better | 8.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 3.9K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| 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 | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 486 MB | 388 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lion Studios | FlashRead Inc. |
Customer experience
Piercing Parlor
Happy Grave!
User reviews
Piercing Parlor
From 17K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Piercing game concept
- 👍 Easy to play
Room to improve
- 🚫 Excessive ads
- 🐛 Frequent freezing/crashing
- 🤖 Unrealistic piercing graphics/animations
Happy Grave!
From 3.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Interesting concept
Room to improve
- 🚫 Excessive ads
- 🤬 Paid for no ads but still have ads
- 🔇 No sound/music
- 🤔 Racist/insensitive content
- 🥱 Repetitive/boring gameplay
Bugs and requests
Piercing Parlor
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes on certain levels
- Piercings not registering properly
- Customers getting stuck on screen
Requested features
3 requests- Reduce ads or provide ad-free option
- Fix bugs and glitches
- Improve realism of piercing process
Happy Grave!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Levels stuck on 'open today'
- Unable to turn on sound
Requested features
4 requests- Reduce ads
- Fix no ads purchase
- Add sound/music
- Improve sensitivity of content
In-app purchases
Piercing Parlor
- Remove All Ads$2.99
Happy Grave!
- No Ads$2.99
- Offer Bundle$4.99
Questions
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