Fairy Fire vs Penguin Toss
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fairy Fire
Engage in retro arcade action as you defend fairy pals from evil creatures in this fast-paced side-scroller. Collect power-ups and gems to upgrade your abilities and advance through waves of enemies or play in an endless arcade mode.
- Retro arcade action
- Side-scrolling gameplay
- Waves of evil creatures
- Upgrade items and power-ups
- Two game modes: floor-by-floor and endless
- Collect gems for upgrades
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Fairy Fire - Defender of the Fairies Up for some retro arcade action? Extra weapons, upgrades, smart bombs etc. are your favorite tools? Then this great arcade clone is for you! Survive waves of evil creatures in this fantastic, fast paced side scroller. The plot: Defend your fairy pals against the evil! Fight through waves of evil creatures and finally meet the mother of evil and free the fairies - forever... Pick up the fairies and escort them to the warp-hole. Watch out for the snatchers, they are trying to abduct your fairy pals. Advance to the next wave by rescuing all fairies and eliminating all enemies by the end of the timer. Two game modes - Advance floor by floor by defeating the boss of each floor. - Arcade ‘endless’ mode. Collect gems to buy great upgrade items - get additional fire power with the ‘FairyFire’ upgrade ( also protects the fairy from dying ) - increase the number of collectable fairies with the ‘FairyCarry’ upgrade - speed up the wizard and make him fast like a flash - increase the shot frequency with the ‘FirePower’ upgrade - get a ‘GemMagnet’ to ease the pickup of gems Collectable upgrades: - Smart bomb ( black scroll ): kill all enemies on the screen - Invincible ( golden scroll ): kamikaze can be fun - Time Bender ( hourglass ): slow down the enemies for easy killing - Helper ( purple potion ): adds a protecting item to the wizard; it kills enemies - Extra Live ( green potion ) - Fire Power ( magic lamp ): adds serious ( flame thrower like ) fire power to the wizard
Penguin Toss
Launch penguins with a catapult to defeat evil seals across various levels. As the bear champion, overcome challenges like different seal formations and weather. Aim for glory and victory in this engaging arcade game.
- Penguin catapult gameplay
- Multiple levels with varying challenges
- Defeat evil seals
- Become the bear champion
- Overcome bad weather and exotic locales
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Toss your penguins through multiple levels of evil seals. You are the bear champion, armed with your mighty catapult. The evil seals may try to trick you with different formations, bad weather, and exotic locals - BUT YOU WILL NOT BE FOOLED. Launch the penguins, destroy the seals, win glory, fame and the envy of your peers. Penguin Toss.
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Verdict
Fairy Fire and Penguin Toss both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Penguin Toss's written reviews are positive against 50% of Fairy Fire's. Penguin Toss also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 37 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Penguin Toss is free to download; Fairy Fire costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fairy Fire against 5.0 for Penguin Toss. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Fairy Fire's written reviews are positive against 100% of Penguin Toss's.
Fairy Fire ships an update every 37 months, Penguin Toss every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fairy Fire | Penguin Toss |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 37 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 200 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Preuss | Haralambos Yokos |
Customer experience
Fairy Fire
Penguin Toss
In-app purchases
Fairy Fire
No in-app purchases
Penguin Toss
No in-app purchases
