Comparison

Piko Chat vs The_Game.exe

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

Head to head
About

Piko Chat

Experience a nostalgic chat platform reminiscent of the early internet. Send pixel art notes, private letters, and engage in cozy themed rooms. Customize your profile and express yourself through drawings and reactions without the pressure of endless feeds.

Highlights
  • Send pixel art notes and private letters
  • Engage in themed 'pod' chat rooms
  • React to messages and keep conversations alive
  • Customize profile, status bar, and theme
  • Add optional public pins to a world map
  • No endless feed or influencer focus
Features
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the internet, but fun again! Piko Chat is a nostalgic social app inspired by the 2000s internet. Customize your profile, send letters, draw pixel art, and meet new people. Join Pods to talk about art, life, internet nostalgia, or whatever you’re into. In Piko Chat you can: - Customize your profile - Send and receive letters - Draw pixel art messages - Join Pods and communities - Reply and react to posts - Meet people from around the world Make your profile yours with themes, pixel avatars, status bars, photos, and more. No algorithmic feed. No AI content. No influencers. Just people making things, talking, and hanging out. If you miss Frutiger Aero, old forums, custom profiles, pixel art, and the old internet, you’ll probably feel at home here. Piko Chat. chat like it’s 2006. Subscription Some features in Piko Chat may require a paid subscription. Pricing, renewal terms, free trial information, and cancellation options are shown in the app before purchase. Privacy Policy https://pikochat.net/privacy Terms of Service https://pikochat.net/terms

About

The_Game.exe

Features
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You're playing The Game right now. You know the one. The moment you remember it exists, you've lost. There's no winning — only forgetting. And you just lost. The_Game.exe is the social app for the game everyone's been "playing" since the internet was young. Except now, losing is a team sport. HOW IT WORKS • You're always playing. So is everyone in your parties. • The second you remember, own up: tap I LOST THE GAME. • Everyone in every party you're in gets the notification — and the whole crew drops into a 30-minute cooldown. Misery loves a group chat. • During cooldown nobody can lose again. Thirty minutes of blissful, guilt-free peace... until someone's brain betrays them. THE POINT IS TO NOT LOSE The leaderboard ranks your friends by fewest losses. Top of the board isn't the biggest loser — it's the one with the strongest willpower (or the shortest memory). Good luck. DRESS IT UP — 16 RETRO THEMES (2 FREE + 14 IN-APP PURCHASES) A theme re-skins the whole app into a different era — windows, buttons, fonts and desktop all change. Two themes are included free: • Classic 9X — the grey-window desktop that started it all — FREE • DOS Prompt — pure C:\> text mode — FREE The other 14 themes — Phosphor, 48K BASIC, Pocket LCD, 16-BIT Deck, XP Luna, Workbench, Teletext, 1-BIT System, Tab OS, Guestbook, Media Deck, Buddy Chat, Chat Relay and Code Dark — are optional in-app purchases (€0.99 each, one-time). Optional wallpaper packs — solid colors, retro patterns, and your own photo — for the Classic theme are also in-app purchases. MEET THE BUG Your dry, unbothered mascot. It would rather you forgot it existed. It won't. THE FINE PRINT • Free to download and play. The extra themes and wallpapers are optional in-app purchases — cosmetic only, with no gameplay advantage. Restore Purchases is in the app. • Sign in with Apple. No passwords, no email harvesting. • Losing gives you nothing. You've suffered enough. You lost. Might as well make it social.

Screenshots

Piko Chat4 screens
The_Game.exe4 screens

Verdict

The call

Piko Chat and The_Game.exe are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Piko Chat sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and The_Game.exe sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Piko Chat versus The_Game.exe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiko ChatThe_Game.exe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB16 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperEbonnee AlmeidaMiguel Vilhena

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Piko Chat

Subscriptions7
  • Piko Plus Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Piko Plus Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Piko Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Piko Plus Yearly Offer$19.991 Year
  • Piko Plus Yearly Supporter$24.991 Year
  • Piko Plus Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Piko Plus Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time5
  • 100 Piko Coins$1.99
  • 300 Piko Coins$4.99
  • 600 Piko Coins$8.99
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  • Piko Coins$19.99
  • Piko Coins$99.99
10 purchases

The_Game.exe

One-time10
  • Wallpaper: Maroon$0.99
  • Wallpaper: Charcoal$0.99
  • Wallpaper: Forest$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Pattern: WAVES.BMP$0.99
  • Pattern: TILES.BMP$0.99
  • Pattern: DITHER.BMP$0.99
  • Pattern: STATIC.BMP$0.99
  • Pattern: STRIPES.BMP$0.99
  • Pattern: GRID.BMP$0.99
  • Custom Wallpaper$0.99

Questions

Is Piko Chat free?
Piko Chat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The_Game.exe free?
The_Game.exe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Piko Chat or The_Game.exe have ads?
Neither Piko Chat nor The_Game.exe shows ads.

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