! Exploding Paintballs ! vs Fruit Fusion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
! Exploding Paintballs !
A tilt-sensitive arcade game where players link and explode colored paintballs. Compete with friends on leaderboards for high scores and unlock more levels through in-app purchases. Experience realistic physics and varied explosion sounds.
- Tilt or touch controls
- Physics-based gameplay
- Link and explode colored paintballs
- Realistic explosion sounds
- Game Center leaderboards
- Unlockable levels via IAP
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!Exploding Paintballs! is a tilt-sensitive arcade game with paintballs that float (blue and green) and paintballs that sink (red and yellow). When certain color combinations of paintballs touch they link together and, when the link is complete, explode with a loud realistic explosion noise. The color combinations that will explode vary with each Level. The Game Center records various scores on Leaderboards such as number of Levels completed, number of explosions, best times for certain Levels and best times for all Levels combined. Compete with your Game Center Friends to see who can make the most explosions or who can get 10 explosions on one or all Levels the fastest. Gravity is adjusted by tilting the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Alternatively, !Exploding Paintballs! can respond to touch moves rather than tilt. The exploding noise differs for the different color combinations that explode (e.g. gunshots, crashes, bombs). The sound can be turned off or made into a vibration. There are 8 free Levels - 4 with walls and 4 without walls. An In App Purchase expands the number of Levels to 66 - 33 Levels with walls and 33 Levels without walls. !Exploding Paintballs! is based on a kinetic simulation using the device's accelerometer and realistic principles of physics (buoyancy, inertia, viscosity, Hooke's Law and color confinement). For accuracy and stability it uses a half step modification to Euler's Algorithm as described by Feynman (Lectures on Physics, Vol. 1, Ch. 9, P. 5) and Cromer (Am. J. Phy. 49, 455 (1981)). The screen shots below are: 1) Free Level 1 - Red-Blue. A red-blue combination is shown exploding. 2) The Levels Table. The 4 free Levels are shown together with the Best Times and maximum number of Explosions. 3) Free Level 2 - Red-Blue, Yellow-Green. A red-blue (yellow-green for iPad) combination is shown exploding. 4) Free Level 3 - Blue-Yellow-Green. Some partial combinations are shown linked and one blue-yellow-green is shown exploding. 5) Free Level 4 - Red-Green-Green-Loop. Some partial combinations for the loop are shown linked and one red-green-green-loop is shown exploding.
Fruit Fusion
Drop fruits into a basket and merge identical ones to create larger fruits. Aim to create the largest fruit possible before the basket overflows. Compete globally on leaderboards and learn strategies from others' replays.
- Fruit merging gameplay
- Score-based challenges
- Global leaderboards
- Watch replays
- Multiple leaderboard modes
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The watermelon game (also known as the suika game) has come to the iPhone in the form of.... Fruit Fusion! In Fruit Fusion you drop fruits into a basket, and when two of the same fruits touch they will merge into a larger fruit. Try to make the largest fruit before overflowing the basket! Can you get a watermelon!? In Fruit Fusion you can compete your scores with the rest of the world with leaderboards! Watch other peoples replays to learn the best strategies! Fruit Fusion now has multiple leaderboards to compete on: High Scores - The original, score as high as you can before filling the container Quickest Watermelon - See how quickly you can get a watermelon Low Score - Harder than it sounds! This is the opposite of playing the normal way, try your hardest to not merge fruit, and see if you can fill the container with the least amount of merges
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fruit Fusion at none against ! Exploding Paintballs !'s 1. Fruit Fusion also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. ! Exploding Paintballs ! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fruit Fusion asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fruit Fusion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 11 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
! Exploding Paintballs ! ships an update every 2 months, Fruit Fusion every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ! Exploding Paintballs ! | Fruit Fusion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Kramer | Jordan Dawson |
Customer experience
! Exploding Paintballs !
Fruit Fusion
In-app purchases
! Exploding Paintballs !
- upgrade to play the Additional Levels$0.99
Fruit Fusion
No in-app purchases
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