Marvel Pinball vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marvel Pinball
Experience the ultimate pinball adventure with legendary Marvel Super Heroes. Battle villains across immersive tables, utilizing superhuman abilities and stunning visuals. The initial download includes one table, with more available for purchase.
- Marvel Super Hero tables
- Immersive gameplay
- Stunning table visuals
- Epic combination of might
- Multiplayer experiences
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Marvel Pinball combines the greatest Super Heroes of all time with the definitive videogame pinball experience of all time. Use your pinball wizardry to help the legendary Marvel Universe heroes rid the pinball landscape of notorious Super Villains in an epic combination of superhuman might, immersive gameplay, and unprecedented table visuals! The inital Marvel Pinball download comes with Marvel's The Avengers table. Other Marvel Pinball tables can be purchased as in-app purchases. **For players already enjoying Marvel Pinball tables in Zen Pinball, we want to give you a heads up that there is no way for us to transfer purchases or make tables available in both apps. Thanks for your support!** Tables include Spider-Man, Wolverine, Iron Man, Blade, Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, Thor, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Captain America, World War Hulk, The Infinity Gauntlet, Fear Itself and Civil War. Marvel Pinball continues to be one of the highest rated Metacritic rated games of all time! What the press have to say: In a sense Marvel Pinball is the best mix of comic books and retro and modern gaming. Zen Studios goes the extra mile with plenty of options and multiplayer experiences for users to enjoy. - IGN Marvel Pinball is a must-have for pinball fans. Zen has proven time and again that they are the best at what they do, and what they do best is pinball. - The Adrenaline Vault Naturally, the table artwork is gorgeous, doing the Marvel license proud, and the animated characters that leap around the playfields always enhance the look. - OXM These tables are pretty friggin' cool. - G4TV Marvel Pinball remains one of the best downloadable games on any system. - Game Rant Download Marvel Pinball now! FOLLOW US Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/zen_studios Facebook http://www.facebook.com/zenstudios Blog http://blog.zenstudios.com/ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/ZenStudiosGames?ob=0 Forums http://forum.zenstudios.com/index.php
Visual Pinball
Enjoy a realistic pinball simulation with hundreds of community-created tables. Experience immersive haptic feedback and customize your gameplay with intuitive settings and controller support. Advanced options are available for power users.
- Hundreds of community-developed tables
- Haptic feedback for immersive gameplay
- Customizable settings and POV adjustments
- Game controller support
- External DMD and AltColor/AltSound support
- Touch overlay and instructions
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The official Visual Pinball app. Built by volunteers since 2000 and open source since 2010, Visual Pinball is the simulator the virtual pinball community has been playing for over two decades. More than 70 people have contributed to it, and this app runs the same engine as the desktop version, so every table plays with the physics, lighting and sound its creator intended. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Made by volunteers. Two years of work from the Visual Pinball volunteers, in one update. Thank you for your patience, and for playing! A FRESH NEW LOOK • Redesigned for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass • Favorites and recently played tables at the top of your list • Search, sorting and three tile sizes • Light, Dark or System appearance • New loading screen that shows progress THE FULL DESKTOP EXPERIENCE • The complete Visual Pinball in-game menu for graphics, sound, controls and table options • Remap every button on keyboards and game controllers • Save settings for every table, or just the one you're playing MORE TABLES, LOOKING BETTER • Show the backglass and score display (DMD, alphanumeric or reels) on screen, right where you want them • Support for PUP packs, FlexDMD, B2S backglasses, video playback and VNI colorizations • All the latest physics and rendering improvements from the desktop version • Much lower memory use: textures are compressed on first load, then cached EASIER TABLE MANAGEMENT • Import .zip files, along with .vpx and .vpxz • Share any table as a single .vpxz file • The web file manager can now upload whole folders, extract archives, edit scripts and settings, and show the log live AND MORE • Many stability and memory fixes This version requires iOS 26.6 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Visual Pinball at Free against Marvel Pinball's $0.99. Visual Pinball also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 37%) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). Marvel Pinball's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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
Visual Pinball is free to download; Marvel Pinball costs $0.99 up front. Marvel Pinball sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Visual Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Marvel Pinball against 4.3 for Visual Pinball. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 175 and 73 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of Marvel Pinball's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's.
Marvel Pinball ships an update every 2 months, Visual Pinball every 12 months. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Marvel Pinball | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (175 ratings) | 4.3 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 175 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #183 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | ZEN Studios | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Marvel Pinball
Visual Pinball
User reviews
Marvel Pinball
From 175 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Peak experience
- 🚀 Highly creative and fun
- 👍 Great game
- 👍 First-class app
- 👍 Awesome and addictive
Room to improve
- 🐛 Lost purchased tables
- 🐛 Uneven difficulty across tables
- 🐛 Wolverine table issues
- 🐛 Lack of sound
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome way to play virtual pinball on the go
- 👍 Super easy to set up with minimal file prep time
- 👍 Insane that I can play favorite pins on just my phone
- 👍 Fantastic portable implementation of VPX
- 👍 Fun and exciting to archive the history of pinball
Room to improve
- 🔧 More ability to adjust table settings needed
- 🔧 Struggling to manage camera angle
- 🔧 No fullscreen on iPad, plunger and outlanes cropped
- 🔧 Some tables don't work or have issues
Bugs and requests
Marvel Pinball
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on launch
- Losing purchased tables
- Issues with specific tables (Iron Man, Ghost Rider)
- Sound not working
Requested features
4 requests- Update for newer iPhone screens
- Add more new tables
- Unlock tables through gameplay
- Add controller support
Visual Pinball
Reported bugs
2 issues- Tables don't load for some users
- Certain complex/intensive tables error out or run at low FPS
Requested features
6 requests- List of most played tables
- Ability to reposition DMD
- Option to skip startup checks for some tables
- Ability to edit table scripts on the app
- Direct link to table depository
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- iPad version with more screen space
In-app purchases
Marvel Pinball
- Spider-Man Table$1.99
- Wolverine Table$1.99
- Iron Man Table$1.99
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- X-Men Table$1.99
- World War Hulk Table$1.99
- The Infinity Gauntlet Table$1.99
- Civil War Table$1.99
- Deadpool Table$1.99
- Guardians of the Galaxy Table$1.99
- Venom$1.99
- Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron Table$1.99
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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