Bubble Struggle vs Tower Pinball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bubble Struggle
Embark on an adventure in this classic arcade game, the sequel to a highly popular online title. Navigate through 97 unique levels, utilize 5 different weapons and 7 helpful items to overcome challenges and defeat the boss.
- 97 unique levels
- Boss level
- 5 weapons
- 7 items
- Challenge friends
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A classic arcade game. Sequel to the original Bubble Trouble (one of the Top 10 most played online games, played 100s of million times). 97 unique levels. Boss level. 5 weapons to help you progress. 7 items for different level tactic. It’s not easy to complete this game. Do you have what it takes? Challenge your friends. Make it happen.
Tower Pinball
Experience pinball with a unique vertical design where the ball ascends through multiple floors. Each table offers distinct mechanics and challenges, from orbital physics to intricate clockwork. Designed for intuitive two-thumb play, it features realistic machine elements and online leaderboards.
- Multi-floor tower pinball tables
- Unique physics per floor
- Intuitive two-thumb controls
- Realistic pinball machine elements
- Game Center leaderboards
- Offline play
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Pinball where the table is a tower. Every table in Tower Pinball is three floors stacked on top of each other, and the ball climbs them. Play well on the ground floor and a lift carries the ball up; play well again and it goes higher. Drain, and it falls back down the tower to wherever the floor below can catch it. ROCKET RANGE, the first table, is a launch site at sunrise. The pad is fire and steel, the upper atmosphere is thin cold air, and the top floor is orbit — and gravity thins as you climb. The same flipper that barely clears a ramp on the pad will fling the ball across the sky in orbit. Learn the three floors and you learn a machine with three personalities. CLOCKWORK TOWER, the second table, is a clock seen from the inside. The workshop floor is oak boards and a brass movement you wind by hand, the gear train turns a great wheel that carries the ball across the floor, and at the top the dial collects the hours and a bell strikes them. The whole floor leans with the clock's beat and the escapements open on the tick, so the table has a tempo you can learn: many of its shots score double when they land on the tick. MADE FOR TWO THUMBS. There are no tiny buttons. The left half of the screen is the left flipper and the right half is the right one, edge to edge, so you play it the way you hold your phone. Nudge the table with a lean or a two-finger tap. A short tour shows you the tower the first time you open it, and a coach shows you where your hands go. A REAL MACHINE. A dot-matrix display calls the shots, bonuses count down at the end of every ball, modes stack, multiball lands on the top floor, and the neon over the flame trench flickers the way a tired tube does. Skill shots, kickbacks, a lock, a wizard mode — the machinery of a cabinet, on a phone, with haptics you can feel and music you can turn off. Every shot is named on the deck, so the display and the table speak the same words. CLIMB THE BOARD. Every finished game posts to a Game Center leaderboard, and your best score sits on the menu. Rocket Range is complete and free. Clockwork Tower is a one-time purchase in the menu, shareable with your family, with no subscription and no currency, and every table after it will be the same. More tables are coming to the tower: a deep-sea trench and a power grid. No ads. Plays offline. Made for iPhone and iPad, held in two hands.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tower Pinball at none against Bubble Struggle's 9. Tower Pinball also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Bubble Struggle's advantage is ratings volume (245 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Bubble Struggle sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Tower Pinball asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tower Pinball holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bubble Struggle has 245 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Bubble Struggle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tower Pinball's.
Bubble Struggle ships an update every 4 months, Tower Pinball weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bubble Struggle | Tower Pinball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (245 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 245 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 306 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | One up games | Tim Mueller |
Customer experience
Bubble Struggle
Tower Pinball
Bugs and requests
Bubble Struggle
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game not loading past title screen
- Levels not progressing as expected
- Inconsistent coin rewards
Requested features
4 requests- More levels
- Multiplayer mode
- Power-ups and upgrades
- Improved controls
Tower Pinball
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bubble Struggle
- 250 c$1.99
- 300 c$1.99
- 600 c$3.99
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- Full game4 variants$4.99
- 1000 coins$5.99
- 3000 c$9.99
Tower Pinball
No in-app purchases
Questions
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