POINPY vs Crash Castles
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.
Crash Castles
Construct and fortify your own castle, then launch attacks on enemy fortresses. Train a powerful army and strategically destroy enemy defenses to claim victory and earn rewards for upgrades.
- Build and expand your castle
- Arrange rooms and facilities
- Unlock and upgrade facilities
- Recruit and upgrade troops
- Attack enemy castles
- Destroy enemy rooms
- Collect resources and improve castle
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BUILD YOUR CASTLE. DESTROY THEIRS. Build and upgrade your castle, place powerful facilities, and create a fortress built for battle. ATTACK ENEMY CASTLES Launch your army and powerful projectiles into enemy castles. Destroy rooms, break through defenses, and wipe out every facility to claim victory. BUILD YOUR PERFECT FORTRESS Expand your castle, unlock new facilities, and upgrade your defenses. Choose how to build your fortress and create a strategy that fits your playstyle. TRAIN YOUR ARMY Recruit unique troops and upgrade them to make your army stronger. Choose the right units for every battle and find the best way to break through enemy defenses. DESTROY, UPGRADE, CONQUER. Every battle earns you valuable rewards that help you improve your castle and army. Grow stronger, unlock new possibilities, and take on tougher enemy castles. FEATURES * Build and expand your own castle * Arrange rooms and facilities to create your fortress * Unlock and upgrade unique facilities * Recruit and upgrade powerful troops * Attack enemy castles with troops and projectiles * Destroy enemy rooms to claim victory * Collect resources and improve your castle * Experience strategic side-view castle battles Crash Castles is free to download and play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: POINPY at none against Crash Castles's shown. POINPY also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (280 vs 1). Crash Castles's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 and Crash Castles sells 6 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 — 5.0 for POINPY against 5.0 for Crash Castles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POINPY has 280 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POINPY | Crash Castles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (280 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 280 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +12 |
| Developer | Devolver Digital, Inc. | Yvan Taurines |
Customer experience
POINPY
Crash Castles
In-app purchases
POINPY
- Standard Tip$1.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
- Super Generous Tip!$9.99
Crash Castles
- Handfull of gems$0.99
- Bag of gems$4.99
- Bucket of gems$9.99
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- Barrel of gems$19.99
- Wheelbarrow of gems$49.99
- Torrent of gems$99.99
