Pajama Sam 3 vs ScummVM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pajama Sam 3
Embark on a nutritious adventure where you help a young hero resolve a food squabble on Mop Top Island. Solve puzzles, interact with friendly food characters, and learn about balanced diets while restoring peace.
- Nutritious adventure
- Solve food squabbles
- Meet friendly food characters
- Explore and learn
- Interact with characters for clues
- Unique gameplay each time
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Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet Pajama Sam is off on a nutritiously edible adventure! Pajama Sam chases down some snickering cookies, only to find himself in the midst of a food squabble! The fats and the sweets are taking over Mop Top Island and an emergency peace conference has been called, but four of the delegates are missing! Now, it's your turn to spring into action to help Pajama Sam find the missing delegates, put a stop to the sticky quarrels, bring peace to Mop Top Island, and still make it home in time for dinner. —User Reviews— “Players need to draw on logical thinking and memory skills as they guide their hero through the adventure.” “Another excellent title in the outstanding Pajama Sam series, PS3 is a real winner. Kids will love this engaging adventure that gets them thinking and solving problems, learning about the importance of a balanced diet, and having fun!” “This is another Pajama Sam adventure where the pint-sized superhero is set to charm both the young and the old.” FEATURES: • Meet friends along the way - friendly food walks, talks and even tell jokes. • Explore and Learn: Investigate every location. There is something new to learn with almost everything you touch! • Interact with the characters and listen closely for clues. • It's a different game each time you play. This product uses ScummVM which is released under the GNU GPL v2. For more information, please visit - https://www.scummvm.org The GNU GPL can be viewed here - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
ScummVM
Play classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and RPGs on your device. This application includes two playable demos and offers access to many more titles through its website. Enjoy a vast library of beloved retro games.
- Play classic adventure games
- Play classic RPGs
- Includes playable demos
- Access to more games online
- Open source software
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ScummVM provides a way to play many classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and RPGs. The application is bundled with two playable demos, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (DOS Demo) and The Secret of Monkey Island (DOS EGA Demo), both titles copyright of Lucasfilm Ltd. You can find more information, demos, and some free-to-download adventure games on our website. See also an up-to-date list here: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Where_to_get_the_games Full documentation of ScummVM can be found at https://docs.scummvm.org/ Please visit our web forum where you can discuss the iOS version. https://forums.scummvm.org/viewforum.php?f=15 ScummVM is open source software available under the term of the GPL v3.0 license. The source code is available from https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ScummVM at Free against Pajama Sam 3's $4.99. ScummVM also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (88% vs 48%). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
ScummVM is free to download; Pajama Sam 3 costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScummVM holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 54 and 106 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Pajama Sam 3's written reviews are positive against 88% of ScummVM's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pajama Sam 3 | ScummVM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (54 ratings) | 4.7 (106 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.5% of reviews | 87.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 | 106 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 254 MB | 176 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Humongous Entertainment | Eugene Sandulenko |
Customer experience
Pajama Sam 3
ScummVM
User reviews
Pajama Sam 3
From 54 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💖 Nostalgic childhood memories
- 🤩 Fun and engaging gameplay
- 💡 Unique and varied gameplay paths
- 👨👩👧👦 Great for introducing kids to games
- 👍 Well-realized classic game
Room to improve
- 🐛 Game-breaking bugs
- 🖱️ Fussy cursor/touch controls
- 🔇 No sound issues
- 💸 Steep price for short playtime
- 📉 Incomplete or missing elements
ScummVM
From 106 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Reliving classic games
- 👍 Great for mobile browsers
- 👍 Amazing experience with specific games
- 👍 Glad it's available
- 👍 Supports classic point-and-click and RPGs
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashing mid-game
- 🐛 Save feature not working correctly
- 🐛 Touchscreen tap issues
- 🐛 Clunky game adding process
- 🐛 UI needs improvement
Bugs and requests
Pajama Sam 3
Reported bugs
13 issues- Game freezing/glitching
- Input not working after screen toggle
- Loss of progress on app exit/reload
- Pan and zoom screen buggy/unusable
- No sound
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- Cannot grab plunger
- Cannot get Granny Apple/Smith from caramel
- Menu buttons obstructing gameplay
- Game crashes on opening
- Cursor inverts itself
- Cannot access inventory/tool menu
- Cannot take photo in photo booth
- Missing elements making game unsolvable
Requested features
5 requests- Fix the cursor/touch controls
- Add Pajama Sam 4
- Improve screen scaling/UI
- Restore original game elements
- Provide refunds for broken updates
ScummVM
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes mid-game
- Save feature does not save
- Single-tap not registering as left click
- Two-finger tap not registering as right click
- Magic Keyboard touchpad not working
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- Trackpad from new iPads not working
- Cannot link OneDrive due to JSON response issue
- Recently added games graying out
- App crashes on second boot
- External keyboard not working
Requested features
12 requests- Easier game search
- Apple TV support
- Gamepad key mapping support
- Apple Pencil support
- Magic Keyboard touchpad support
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- Trackpad support
- Change icon color
- Support for Discworld Noir
- DOSBox and FUSE support
- NES interpreter support
- Better iOS support for Grim Fandango & Escape From Monkey Island
- More significant way to add games
In-app purchases
Pajama Sam 3
No in-app purchases
ScummVM
No in-app purchases









