Comparison

Visual Pinball vs Neon Tower!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Neon Tower!

Defend your core from incoming enemies in this wave-based tower defense game. Strategically place and upgrade six types of towers, facing diverse enemy types and challenging bosses. Survive escalating waves to unlock new maps and test your defensive skills.

Highlights
  • Six distinct tower types
  • Two upgrade paths per tower
  • Multiple enemy types and bosses
  • Four unlockable maps
  • Sell and reposition towers
  • Retro neon visuals
Features
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The enemies are coming for your core. Build your defenses, place your towers, and don't let a single one through. Neon Siege: Tower is a glowing, wave-based tower defense game. Place six types of towers along winding neon paths, upgrade them into powerful variants, and hold the line against escalating waves of enemies — including shielded units, healers, and massive bosses. FEATURES - Six distinct towers: Pulse, Mortar, Frost, Laser, Tesla, and Sniper - Upgrade each tower down two branching paths - Multiple enemy types: grunts, fast runners, tanks, shields, and healers - Five boss types with escalating threat - Four unlockable maps — survive to wave 20 to unlock the next - Sell and reposition towers to adapt your strategy mid-battle - Glowing retro neon visuals with a synthwave feel - Local high score and map progress tracking - No ads. No in-app purchases. Just the game. How long can you hold the core?

Screenshots

Visual Pinball3 screens
Neon Tower!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Visual Pinball at Free against Neon Tower!'s $0.99. Visual Pinball also leads on ratings volume (73 vs 2). Neon Tower!'s advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Visual Pinball is free to download; Neon Tower! costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Neon Tower! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 73 ratings behind it against 2, 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 Neon Tower!'s.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Visual Pinball versus Neon Tower!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual PinballNeon Tower!
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.3 (73 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings73 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 12 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB3 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperJason MillardAnakin Weddle

Customer experience

Visual Pinball

All ratings73 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral12.5%
Negative8.9%

Neon Tower!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Neon Tower!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Visual Pinball

No in-app purchases

None

Neon Tower!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual Pinball free?
Visual Pinball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Neon Tower! free?
Neon Tower! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual Pinball or Neon Tower!?
Neon Tower! is rated higher. Visual Pinball averages 4.3 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Neon Tower! averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Visual Pinball or Neon Tower! have ads?
Neither Visual Pinball nor Neon Tower! shows ads.

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