Happy Wheels vs Big Gun Fun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Happy Wheels
Experience a physics-based obstacle course game with over a billion online plays. Choose from various characters and vehicles to navigate deadly challenges and race to victory. Create your own levels with the built-in editor.
- Physics-based gameplay
- Over 60 challenging levels
- Level editor for custom courses
- Variety of unique characters and vehicles
- Realistic physics engine
- Game Center leaderboards
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** IMPORTANT - SUPPORTED DEVICES iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod Touch 5, iPad Mini 1, or better.** Happy Wheels is a side-scrolling, physics-based, obstacle course game with over a billion plays online and is now available for your mobile devices. Assume the role of your inadequately prepared racer and ignore severe consequences in a desperate search for victory. Now play as Pogo Stick Guy, Effective Shopper in an electric motor cart, Wheelchair Guy on a jet-powered wheelchair, Irresponsible Dad and his son on a bicycle, or as Business Guy on a personal transporter. Features: • Over 60 unique and challenging levels • Create your own levels in the editor • Deadly obstacles: spikes, mines, wrecking balls, harpoons, and much more • Smooth, realistic physics • Game Center leaderboard support
Big Gun Fun
Engage in endless fun shooting tin cans with a cannon. Choose from various configurations and modes, including a challenging Can Toss. Enjoy the physics of flying cans on your screen.
- Multiple tin can configurations
- Tin Can Toss mode
- Shoot cans into a barrel mode
- Timed challenges
- Physics-based gameplay
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Endless hours of fun shooting tin cans with a cannon. Pick one of the tin can configurations and start shooting. There is also a Can Toss mode which is fun and challenging. Have fun shooting and watching the cans flying around on the screen! + Multiple Tin Can Configurations + Tin Can Toss Mode + Shoot Tin Cans Into A Barrel Mode + 25, 50, 75 and 100 Tin Can Challenges Mode + Fun And Challenging
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Happy Wheels at Free against Big Gun Fun's $0.99. Happy Wheels also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (41K vs 1). Big Gun Fun's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (100% vs 61%). On 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
Happy Wheels is free to download; Big Gun Fun costs $0.99 up front. Happy Wheels sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Big Gun Fun asks for nothing beyond the download.
Big Gun Fun holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happy Wheels has 41K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Happy Wheels's written reviews are positive against 100% of Big Gun Fun's.
Happy Wheels ships an update every 4 months, Big Gun Fun every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Happy Wheels | Big Gun Fun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (41K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #14 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jim Bonacci | Mike Hempfling |
Customer experience
Happy Wheels
Big Gun Fun
Bugs and requests
Happy Wheels
Reported bugs
4 issues- Characters randomly exploding
- Unresponsive controls
- Levels not loading properly
- Crashing when accessing level editor
Requested features
5 requests- Add more characters and levels
- Improve level editor with more tools and options
- Allow sharing and playing of user-created levels
- Reduce ads or provide ad-free option
- Fix bugs and crashes
Big Gun Fun
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Happy Wheels
- Remove Ads$1.99
Big Gun Fun
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Happy Wheels free?
Is Big Gun Fun free?
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Do Happy Wheels or Big Gun Fun have ads?
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