EscapeGame GreenROOM vs POOLS™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EscapeGame GreenROOM
Awaken in a mysterious green room and solve puzzles to escape and regain your freedom. Explore the room from multiple angles, utilize hints and answers, and enjoy a beginner to intermediate level challenge.
- Gallery mode for multiple perspectives
- Free to play until the end
- In-game hints and answers
- Beginner to intermediate difficulty
- Tap-based controls
- Item usage and enlargement
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The main character awakens in a mysterious green room. Escape the suspicious room and gain freedom! ・ With gallery mode that allows you to see the mysterious room from various perspectives ・You can play for free until the end ・Complete "hints" and "answers" in the game ・Difficulty level is "Beginner to Intermediate" -The latest popular escape game! ◎ How to play Only tap operation Move/Check: Tap the place you care about Item: 1 tap to use, 2 taps to enlarge ◎ Sound material Sound effect lab: http://soundeffect-lab.info/ DOVA-SYNDROME: https://dova-s.jp/
POOLS™
Explore, admire, and listen in this slow, reflective experience. It's an intentionally uneventful journey through uncanny and eerie environments, rewarding patience and quiet attention. Discover a world that subtly changes as you advance, inspired by internet phenomena like liminal spaces and The Backrooms.
- Exploration-focused gameplay
- Relaxing and reflective atmosphere
- Eerie and uncanny environments
- Slow-paced, uneventful experience
- World changes as you advance
- Six chapters, 10-30 minutes each
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Explore, admire and listen. That’s it. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. POOLS isn’t a traditional game. it’s slow, reflective, and intentionally uneventful, perhaps a bit like virtual museum. So take your time. Breathe. POOLS unfolds slowly, rewarding patience and quiet attention. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen. Yet it can feel oppressive at times by invoking quiet fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and the strange beauty of liminal space architecture. There's no typical story. But as you explore and advance further, you start to notice that the game's world changes around you, deeper you go… Rooms look and feel… different. Base game features six chapters, each lasting 10-30 minutes. Inspired by the internet phenomena Liminal spaces, Found footage and The Backrooms, especially the Poolrooms concept. One of the original artists behind the Poolrooms concept is Jared Pike.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: EscapeGame GreenROOM at none against POOLS™'s 1. EscapeGame GreenROOM also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). POOLS™'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 97). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and device support 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. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EscapeGame GreenROOM asks for nothing beyond the download.
EscapeGame GreenROOM holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.8K ratings behind it against 97, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of EscapeGame GreenROOM's written reviews are positive against 80% of POOLS™'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
EscapeGame GreenROOM ships an update every 3 weeks, POOLS™ every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EscapeGame GreenROOM | POOLS™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (97 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 80.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 97 | 1.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 1.9 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tasuku Yahiro | Tensori |
Customer experience
EscapeGame GreenROOM
POOLS™
Bugs and requests
EscapeGame GreenROOM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
POOLS™
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to move on iPad Pro
- Glitches reported
Requested features
3 requests- Expand to different Backrooms-inspired themes
- Add a multiplayer mode
- Introduce more interactive elements (e.g., monsters, items to discover)
In-app purchases
EscapeGame GreenROOM
No in-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99
Questions
Is EscapeGame GreenROOM free?
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