POINPY vs Wormhole or Die
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.
Wormhole or Die
Navigate a neon-lit, twisting tunnel, testing your reflexes to survive as long as possible. Skim walls for multipliers and compete in races against rivals. This arcade flyer offers pure pick-up-and-play action with customizable visuals and online leaderboards.
- Reflex-driven arcade gameplay
- Risk/reward scoring system
- High-frame-rate visuals
- Retro-arcade aesthetic
- Online 1v1 races
- Game Center leaderboards
- Customizable themes and reticle
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Fall through a living neon wormhole and survive as long as you can. The walls bend, the speed climbs, and a single clip ends your run. Wormhole or Die is a fast, reflex-driven arcade flyer built for "just one more run." Steer through a tunnel that never stops twisting. Thread the gaps, ride the edges, and bank close-call bonuses. The nearer you skim a wall without crashing, the bigger your multiplier. Play it safe and score slow, or fly on the razor's edge for a DEATHWISH combo. WHY YOU'LL KEEP PLAYING • Pure pick-up-and-play arcade action. Easy to learn, brutal to master • Risk/reward scoring: graze the walls for multipliers • High-frame-rate gameplay, tuned for ProMotion displays • A glowing retro-arcade world with reactive neon visuals MODES & FEATURES • Solo runs across hand-tuned levels with rising difficulty • Online 1v1, race a rival through the same tunnel and see who survives • Game Center leaderboards, climb the ranks and prove your best run • Built-in music radio with multiple tracks to fly to • Make it yours: customize your reticle, themes, and profile • Vision Pro cross-play supported FAIR & PRIVATE • No ads, ever • No account required, no personal data collected • Anonymous analytics only. Switch it off anytime in Settings It's wormhole or die.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wormhole or Die at none against POINPY's 3. Wormhole or Die also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). POINPY's advantage is ratings volume (270 vs 5) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. POINPY sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Wormhole or Die 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 Wormhole or Die. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POINPY has 270 ratings behind it against 5, 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 Wormhole or Die's.
POINPY ships an update every 2 weeks, Wormhole or Die every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POINPY | Wormhole or Die |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (270 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 270 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devolver Digital, Inc. | Chetian Holdings LLC |
Customer experience
POINPY
Wormhole or Die
In-app purchases
POINPY
- Standard Tip$1.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
- Super Generous Tip!$9.99
Wormhole or Die
No in-app purchases
