Alone @ Home vs Push the Dummy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alone @ Home
Defend your home from intruders using various traps and weapons. Outsmart thieves and ensure they have a terrible experience. Utilize the ingredients available to set up your defenses.
- Ingredient-based trap setting
- Weapon usage
- Thief deterrence gameplay
- Home defense strategy
- Multiple defense sections
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Use the ingredients found in each section. Set traps or use your weapons. The thieves will have their worst days ever.
Push the Dummy
Launch a ragdoll character into a free fall by choosing the optimal impact force. Navigate through challenging obstacles using inertia and finger control to avoid damage. Experience a variety of hazards like fire, glass, and spring-loaded fists.
- Choose impact force for launch
- Ragdoll physics simulation
- Obstacle avoidance
- Inertia control
- Variety of hazards
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Choose the force of impact to most successfully launch your doll into a free fall. Using the force of inertia and your finger, control the character to fly around various obstacles without taking damage from them. Fire, glass, fists on springs and many other dangers await you on the way!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Alone @ Home at 67% against Push the Dummy's 0%. Push the Dummy's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (228 vs 53). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Alone @ Home sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Push the Dummy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Push the Dummy holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 228 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Alone @ Home's written reviews are positive against 0% of Push the Dummy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alone @ Home | Push the Dummy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (53 ratings) | 4.6 (228 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 53 | 228 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 310 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | omer cetin | MAD PIXEL |
Customer experience
Alone @ Home
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In-app purchases
Alone @ Home
- Coin Buy 1000x$1.99
- Coin Buy 2500x$2.99
- No Ads Buy$3.99
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- Coin Buy 5000x$4.99
- Beginner Bundle Buy$9.99
- Master Bundle Buy$19.99
- Coin Buy 10000x$19.99
- Coin Buy 25000x$29.99
Push the Dummy
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
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