Visual Pinball vs ORB BLAST 2
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.
ORB BLAST 2
Engage in an endless challenge by collecting orbs and aiming for high scores. Customize your experience with unlockable skins from the in-game shop. Enjoy a revitalized user interface for a smoother gameplay experience.
- Endless mode
- Orb collection
- Unlockable skins
- In-game shop
- High score tracking
- Refreshed user experience
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Challenge yourself with our brand-new endless mode! Collect orbs, unlock unique skins in the in-game shop, and beat your high scores! Now with a refreshed user experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ORB BLAST 2 at 5.0 against Visual Pinball's 4.6. ORB BLAST 2 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Visual Pinball's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 7). 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.
ORB BLAST 2 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 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Visual Pinball's written reviews are positive against 100% of ORB BLAST 2's.
| Parameter | Visual Pinball | ORB BLAST 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 7 |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Millard | Connor Carmichael |
Customer experience
Visual Pinball
ORB BLAST 2
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
ORB BLAST 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
ORB BLAST 2
No in-app purchases
Questions
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