POINPY vs Runaway Squishy
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.
Runaway Squishy
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In every other slicing game, the target waits for you. Not here. These squishies see your finger coming — and they run. Runaway Squishy is a hyper-casual slicing game with one twist that changes everything: your target is alive. It watches you. It panics. It dodges at the last second. And when you finally corner it, splitting it cleanly into the exact number of pieces feels ridiculously good. SLICE SOMETHING THAT FIGHTS BACK Swipe fast and cut a runaway squishy into the target number of pieces. Miss, and it scurries away. Trap it in a corner and split two pieces with one swipe for a double cut. EVERY SQUISHY IS MADE OF SOMETHING Foam tears dry. Jelly splits wet. Crust cracks, then gives. Galaxy sounds like nothing else. Every material has its own cut sound, its own give, and its own cross-section when you open it up. 44 SQUISHIES TO DISCOVER Mochi, dumplings, toast, cubes, paws and stranger things. Fill your Squishy Book by playing — every one you meet is recorded. A few are rare. Three are very rare. THEY HAVE PERSONALITIES Speedy ones are small and infuriating. Ghosts fade out and cannot be cut while invisible. Angry ones fly into a rage when cut, chase you down and steal your knife. Every 8th level, a KING squishy shows up — and shrinks and speeds up with every layer you take off. ASMR YOU CAN FEEL Studio-recorded sounds, spatial audio that follows the squishy across the screen, and satisfying haptics. When you win, poke the pieces. Go on. PLAYS ANYWHERE No sign-up to play. No internet needed. No timers telling you to come back tomorrow. Rewards come from playing, and nothing else. Watch a video for a bonus if you want one — that is entirely up to you. No banners, no pop-up ads interrupting a run. Runaway Squishy. Well? Can you catch one? SEVEN MATERIAL FAMILIES Foam, jelly, galaxy, glitter, butter, crust and crisp. Butter is so soft the edge melts. Glitter is heavy and hard and sheds sparkle. Crust is firm outside and soft in the middle. Crisp barely bends, then shatters with a short, fast shiver. Feel and sound come from the same place, so every ASMR cut belongs to the family that made it. MASTER EVERY ONE Cut the same squishy well enough and it climbs from Mastery Lv1 to Mastery Lv5. Reach Lv5 and a special pose unlocks in your book. Ten worlds, 44 squishies, one book that remembers all of them. A CALM PLACE TO CUT No timers, nothing chasing you but the squishies. It is calm, antistress, sensory play - cut, listen, and let the ASMR do the rest. Open it for one minute or for twenty: a relaxing fidget toy you actually get to cut open. A SIMPLE SCORE BOARD Post your best run to a simple leaderboard if you feel like it. That is all there is online - no rivals to beat, no lobbies, nothing to keep up with. If you like oddly satisfying cutting videos, this is the playable version: one satisfying cut, one soft toy that fights back, and relaxing ASMR in your ears.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Runaway Squishy at none against POINPY's 3. POINPY's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Runaway Squishy asks for nothing beyond the download.
POINPY ships an update every 2 weeks, Runaway Squishy fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POINPY | Runaway Squishy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (270 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 270 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devolver Digital, Inc. | TABA TASARIM İNŞAAT A.Ş. |
In-app purchases
POINPY
- Standard Tip$1.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
- Super Generous Tip!$9.99
Runaway Squishy
No in-app purchases









