Comparison

EscapeGame GreenROOM vs POOLS™

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

EscapeGame GreenROOM4 screens
POOLS™4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EscapeGame GreenROOM asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
EscapeGame GreenROOM versus POOLS™: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscapeGame GreenROOMPOOLS™
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (97 ratings) — better4.5 (1.8K ratings)
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews80.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings971.8K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB1.9 GB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTasuku YahiroTensori

Customer experience

EscapeGame GreenROOM

All ratings96 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral14.3%
Negative12.2%

POOLS™

All ratings1,795 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral3.2%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews674 reviews
Positive80.3%
Neutral6.1%
Negative13.6%

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

None

EscapeGame GreenROOM

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

POOLS™

One-time1
  • POOLS: Full Game$9.99

Questions

Is EscapeGame GreenROOM free?
EscapeGame GreenROOM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is POOLS™ free?
POOLS™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, EscapeGame GreenROOM or POOLS™?
EscapeGame GreenROOM is rated higher. EscapeGame GreenROOM averages 4.8 out of 5 from 97 ratings, while POOLS™ averages 4.5 from 1.8K ratings.
Do EscapeGame GreenROOM or POOLS™ have ads?
EscapeGame GreenROOM shows ads; POOLS™ does not.
Which is updated more often, EscapeGame GreenROOM or POOLS™?
EscapeGame GreenROOM ships an update every 3 weeks, and POOLS™ every 4 weeks. Most recently, EscapeGame GreenROOM was updated on November 3, 2026 and POOLS™ on November 10, 2026.

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