POINPY vs iBrogueCE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
POINPY
Bounce upwards, dodging enemies and collecting fruit to feed a hungry beast. Unlock new abilities and modes as you climb higher in this vertical action game. Explore randomly generated areas and master one-handed controls.
- Intuitive one-handed controls
- Bounce and flip mechanics
- Collect fruit for beast's juice
- Dodge adorable baddies
- Unlockable puzzle and endless modes
- Randomly generated areas
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Bounce up, dodge adorable baddies and feed the blue beast that's hot on your heels. A vertical climber from the creator of the award-winning Downwell. Keep going higher and higher because new and more challenging areas await. Earn and unlock abilities that will help you jump into your next run with a better shot at reaching the end. FEATURES Juice 'em up: Use intuitive, one-handed controls to bounce, flip around and grab fruit for the beast's juice. Climb & collect: Evade creatures lurking in randomly generated areas. Collect special abilities like the octobub, which sucks in fruit, and the handy snail clock, which stops time while you ready your next jump. Plus many others! Open new modes: Find a not-so-well-hidden area to unlock the tricky puzzle mode. Complete Poinpy to unlock an endless mode.
iBrogueCE
Experience a classic roguelike adventure on your iPad. This community-enhanced port offers deep tactical gameplay and challenging dungeons.
- Classic roguelike gameplay
- Community Edition enhancements
- Tactical dungeon crawling
- Challenging gameplay
- iPad optimized
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iBrogueCE is an iPad OS port of Brian Walker's rogue-like game Brogue. This is the Community Edition version, based on tmewett's development work, and Seth Howard's Objective C port to iPad OS, recently enhanced with Bryan Turner's integration work into the Community Edition repository.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iBrogueCE at none against POINPY's 3. POINPY's advantage is ratings volume (270 vs 28). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. POINPY sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. iBrogueCE asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for POINPY against 5.0 for iBrogueCE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POINPY has 270 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of POINPY's written reviews are positive against 100% of iBrogueCE's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POINPY | iBrogueCE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (270 ratings) | 5.0 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 270 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devolver Digital, Inc. | Robert Taylor |
Customer experience
POINPY
iBrogueCE
In-app purchases
POINPY
- Standard Tip$1.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
- Super Generous Tip!$9.99
iBrogueCE
No in-app purchases
