Visual Pinball vs Candy Train Classic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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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Experience the open source pinball simulator now on your iPhone! Features: - Play hundreds of community and hobbyist-developed tables. - Feel the action with haptic feedback for bumpers, targets, and flippers. - Customize your experience with a simple, intuitive interface for settings, table options, and POV adjustments. - Game controller support. - External DMD support for ZeDMD, ZeDMD-WiFi, and Pixelcade devices. - Serum AltColor support. - AltSound support. - Touch overlay shows touch areas. - Step-by-step touch instructions when playing a table. - Advanced options for power users, including script and log file exports. - Support for iOS 18 Game Mode.
Candy Train Classic
Guide a candy train by rotating tiles to pick up cars and deliver them to the station. Avoid crashing the train to complete each level. This puzzle game offers a simple yet engaging challenge.
- Tile rotation gameplay
- Pick up candy cars
- Deliver train to station
- Avoid train crashes
- Simple puzzle mechanics
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Steer your candy train by rotating tiles on the board. Pick up candy cars until the caboose car. Deliver complete train by steering into the station. And above all... don't crash the train!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Candy Train Classic at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.6. Candy Train Classic also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and device support (3 vs 1). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Candy Train Classic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 45 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Visual Pinball's written reviews are positive against 100% of Candy Train Classic's.
| Parameter | Visual Pinball | Candy Train Classic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Millard | Kyle Sylvestre |
Customer experience
Visual Pinball
Candy Train Classic
Bugs and requests
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
Candy Train Classic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Candy Train Classic
No in-app purchases
Questions
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