Comparison

Left 4 Exfil vs Joy Pop

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

Head to head
About

Left 4 Exfil

Explore cursed zones, battle lurking horrors, and escape before midnight. Loot valuable relics, enhance your survivor with roguelike upgrades, and prepare for increasingly dangerous areas. Every run offers a unique challenge with risk and reward.

Highlights
  • Loot, fight, and extract before midnight
  • Fast-paced horror runs with extraction
  • Roguelike upgrades and combat builds
  • Cursed school, hospital, office, and ruins environments
  • Variety of weapons, relics, and gear
  • Risk vs. reward gameplay
  • Upgrade your shelter and prepare for deeper zones
Features
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Search haunted zones. Fight what follows. Exfil before midnight. Every run drops you into a cursed school, hospital, office block, or abandoned city ruin. Search for supplies, grab cursed relics, fight off horrors, and reach the extraction point before time runs out. Stay longer for better loot. Push too far, and you may lose everything. Build your survivor with roguelike upgrades mid-run. Chain spectral weapons, cursed tools, protective charms, and strange relics into powerful survival builds. Each escape brings back resources to upgrade your gear, unlock survivors, and prepare for deeper, deadlier zones. Left 4 Exfil blends micro-horror atmosphere, fast survival combat, and high-stakes extraction into short, intense runs built for mobile. Features • Search, fight, loot, and exfil before midnight • Fast horror extraction runs built for mobile • Roguelike upgrades with powerful build combinations • Haunted schools, hospitals, offices, and city ruins • Cursed tools, relics, weapons, and survival gear • Risk-reward loot: stay longer or escape alive • Upgrade your shelter and prepare for deeper zones

About

Joy Pop

A vibrant and straightforward arcade game where players tap colorful bubbles before they disappear. Survive increasingly rapid waves and aim for a high score on the leaderboard. It's designed for quick, enjoyable, and relaxing play sessions.

Highlights
  • Tap colorful bubbles
  • Survive faster waves
  • Discover special bubble types
  • Chase high scores
  • Leaderboard competition
  • Quick relaxing breaks
Features
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Joy Pop is a bright, simple bubble-popping game made for quick happy sessions. Tap colorful bubbles before they escape, survive faster waves, discover special bubble types, and chase your best score on the leaderboard. It is easy to start, joyful to play, and designed for short relaxing breaks.

Screenshots

Left 4 Exfil4 screens
Joy Pop1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Joy Pop at 5.0 against Left 4 Exfil's 4.1. Left 4 Exfil's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Left 4 Exfil sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Joy Pop sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Joy Pop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left 4 Exfil has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Left 4 Exfil versus Joy Pop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeft 4 ExfilJoy Pop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (35 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size396 MB6 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperPIXEL RABBIT LIMITEDIvan Rikhmaier

Customer experience

Left 4 Exfil

All ratings22 ratings
Positive68.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive13.3%
Neutral13.3%
Negative73.3%

Joy Pop

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Left 4 Exfil

One-time8
  • L4E Pack 1$0.99
  • L4E Pack 2$1.99
  • L4E Pack 3$4.99
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  • L4E Pack 4$9.99
  • L4E Pack 5$19.99
  • L4E Pack 6$29.99
  • L4E Pack 7$49.99
  • L4E Pack 8$99.99
2 purchases

Joy Pop

One-time2
  • Buy Me a Coffee$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Left 4 Exfil free?
Left 4 Exfil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Joy Pop free?
Joy Pop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Left 4 Exfil or Joy Pop?
Joy Pop is rated higher. Left 4 Exfil averages 4.1 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Joy Pop averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Left 4 Exfil or Joy Pop have ads?
Both Left 4 Exfil and Joy Pop show ads.

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