MoonstruckMackerel vs PoyRush
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoonstruckMackerel
Embark on a retro-style 2D platforming adventure as a walking mackerel. Explore diverse environments, from underwater realms to cloud caves, and battle invading robots. Strategically use water and air bullets to defeat different robot types and reach the moon.
- Retro-style 2D platforming
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling
- Amphibious walking mackerel protagonist
- Water and air bullet mechanics
- Diverse exploration environments
- Infinite lives with attempt tracking
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Moonstruck Mackerel is a retro-style 2D platformer game with both horizontal and vertical scrolling. Play as an amphibious walking mackerel, and rid the kingdom of the invading robots! Explore underwater rooms, gardens, castles, and cloud caves. Fight your way from the ground to the sky, and reach the moon at the end of each level! Destroy the robot factory and save the kingdom! * Shoot water bullets on land, after being in the water. * Shoot air bullets in the water, after being on land. * Land and air robots cannot become wet. You can destroy them with water. * Underwater robots cannot leave the water. You can destroy them with air. * You regain a health point with either 10 gems or 1 large gem. * Strategically sacrifice a health point to save a bullet for later, then refuel with gems as soon as possible. * Strategically ration your bullets, and plan where to refuel air or water. * If you lose all your health points, you automatically teleport back to the start of the level, without losing progress. * You have infinite lives, but your number of attempts is incremented each time you restart a level, automatically or manually. * You can manually teleport to the start of a level without losing progress. This is useful when you don't want to backtrack from a dead end, or just as a fun way to escape the robots.
PoyRush
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You are a number. Everything in the arena wants to make you smaller. Grow. PoyRush is a fast, neon arena-survival game about one simple idea: your number is everything. It's your score, your size, and your health all at once. Sweep up glowing orbs to grow, blast enemies before they shrink you, and push deeper into ever-more-dangerous worlds. GROW OR DIE Every orb you collect makes your number climb. Every hit knocks it down. Let it hit zero and the run is over — so weave through hazards, bait enemies, and keep the number rising. FOUR CLASSES, FOUR PLAYSTYLES Pick the Speed Runner, the Tank, the Glass Cannon, or the Summoner — each plays completely differently, with its own strengths, weaknesses, and signature look. A DEEP ARSENAL Stack weapons as you level up — homing shots, orbiting blades, piercing beams and more — and choose what to keep when your slots fill. THE DAILY CHALLENGE A single seeded world generated fresh each day and shared by everyone on Earth: identical rooms, identical boss, identical run. No excuses — just you versus the world on a level playing field. Post your best before midnight UTC. PERMANENT PROGRESSION Earn Primes every run and spend them on a branching skill tree that makes your next attempt stronger — and on cosmetic trails that show off how far you've come. CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS Sign in to sync your scores across devices and compete on the All-time and Daily global leaderboards. Then share your best run with one tap. BUILT TO FEEL GREAT Full-screen on every iPhone and iPad, a punchy synth soundtrack, reactive sound design, and a high-contrast mode for accessibility. Free to play. How high can your number go?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MoonstruckMackerel at 12.0 against PoyRush's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | MoonstruckMackerel | PoyRush |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Douglas Keith-Nakamura | Muhammet Fatih Unal |
In-app purchases
MoonstruckMackerel
No in-app purchases
PoyRush
No in-app purchases









