Bumper Kart Hockey vs Visual Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bumper Kart Hockey
Experience a unique mashup of arcade kart racing and air hockey. Control a hovering bumper kart to knock the puck into your opponent's goal. Compete globally online, challenge AI, or race against the clock in timed modes.
- Online multiplayer matches
- Single player vs AI
- 60-second challenges
- King of the Puck mode
- Intuitive tilt and touch controls
- MFi controller support
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Aren't mashup games fun? Here's one that combines retro arcade kart driving with air hockey! Take the wheel of your Bumper Kart, a hovering disc-shaped go-kart, then bump and smack your way to victory! The rules are simple, use your kart to knock the puck into the opposite goal as many times as you can! Compete with players around the world in real-time online matches, or test your skills against AI opponents. When you’re ready for a new challenge, race the clock in the 60-second “Long Shot” and “Multi-Puck Dash” challenges! Features: • Online Multiplayer - all you need is your Game Center account • Single Player vs AI, with 3 difficulty levels • 60-second Challenges, with competitive leaderboards • King of the Puck mode - hit the puck to claim it, then play keep away from your opponent • Intuitive controls - tilt to steer and touch to go, or use any MFi game controller • Bumpin’ music tracks
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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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Visual Pinball at Free against Bumper Kart Hockey's $1.99. Visual Pinball also leads on update cadence (every 12 months vs every 62 months) and ratings volume (74 vs 3). Bumper Kart Hockey's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and chart position (#200 vs unranked). 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
Visual Pinball is free to download; Bumper Kart Hockey costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bumper Kart Hockey holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual Pinball has 74 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Bumper Kart Hockey's written reviews are positive against 79% of Visual Pinball's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bumper Kart Hockey ships an update every 62 months, Visual Pinball every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bumper Kart Hockey | Visual Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.3 (74 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 62 months | Every 12 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #200 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Curt Stein | Jason Millard |
Customer experience
Bumper Kart Hockey
Visual Pinball
Bugs and requests
Bumper Kart Hockey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Bumper Kart Hockey
No in-app purchases
Visual Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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