Wind Up Robots vs Fall Boys
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wind Up Robots
Defend a boy's dreamscape from nightmares by strategically deploying unique robot defenders. Upgrade your robots, utilize powerful super weapons, and battle a variety of creepy enemies across numerous levels in this engaging base defense game.
- Unique robot defenders
- Creepy enemy variety
- 28 challenging levels
- Dynamic upgrade system
- Powerful super weapons
- Robot personalization
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Critics are LOVING Wind Up Robots! * Named 'Gaming App of The Day' on Kotaku * Featured here four times and counting! * Nominated "Game of The Week" on TouchArcade From giant B-Movie robots, iron giants and beeping droids, robots captivate our hearts. Part imaginary friend part tin man they fill our dreams. For Zach though they stand between peaceful slumber and the nightmares that have haunted him since his birth. Enter the world of Wind Up Robots where the battlefield is the dreamscape of a boy with a powerful destiny. "It’s downright fun and engaging, and it certainly doesn’t lack in the challenge department." "...a base defense game with a fantastic story, loads of polish, an awesome upgrade system, and great gameplay. " "Soma Games has done an incredibly good job." "Wind Up Robots is remarkably deep." Recent Enhancements: * Much improved controls * Better level balancing * Integrated range indicators. Features: * 7 totally unique robots defenders including sniper, healer and SAM launcher. * 12 increasingly creepy enemies to blow back to the darkness. * 28 levels from kids play to legendary brawls! * Dynamic upgrade system to make powerful robots even stringer, faster, more devastating to those dastardly creatures. * Powerful super weapons to back you up when robots slip. * Special costumes to personalize your robots and get ready for the upcoming Wind Up Theatre... Help keep the monsters at bay. Explore Zachs world in a fully 3 dimensional world. Choose your robots to battle an onslaught of monsters from cow spawning alien ships to Beaver toothed t-rexes. Don't miss out! Wind Up Robots will delight and wonder kids both young and old. Wind Up Robots is only compatible with iOS 5 devices.
Fall Boys
Guide falling characters to safety by drawing ropes. Solve increasingly complex puzzles as multiple characters fall simultaneously, requiring strategic rope placement to ensure everyone's survival.
- Draw ropes to guide falling characters
- Rescue multiple characters at once
- Physics-based puzzle solving
- Increasingly challenging levels
- Unique rope puzzle mechanics
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Strange friends fall from the sky and they need you to rescue them! One person can be saved but what if multiple people fall at once? Is it possible? Let's figure it out!
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Verdict
Wind Up Robots and Fall Boys both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 75% of Fall Boys's written reviews are positive against 34% of Wind Up Robots's. Fall Boys also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (9.4K vs 6). Wind Up Robots's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating 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. Wind Up Robots sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Fall Boys asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wind Up Robots holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fall Boys has 9.4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 34% of Wind Up Robots's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fall Boys's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Wind Up Robots ships an update every 5 weeks, Fall Boys weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wind Up Robots | Fall Boys |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.2% of reviews | 74.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 9.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 348 MB | 444 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Soma Games | ABIGAMES PTE. LTD |
Customer experience
Wind Up Robots
Fall Boys
Bugs and requests
Wind Up Robots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Fall Boys
Reported bugs
2 issues- Level 3 on the merge section keeps crashing
- Tiny white screen freezes during gameplay
Requested features
3 requests- Add more levels and difficulty options
- Provide an option to remove ads
- Fix the crashing issues on certain levels
In-app purchases
Wind Up Robots
- 1,000 coins$0.99
- 2,500 Coin Pack$1.99
- 5,000 Coins$3.99
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- 20,000 Coins$12.99
Fall Boys
No in-app purchases
