Last updated on December 6th, 2025 at 05:18 pm
Verticow – Action Game Review
Verticow is a Action/Casual game from Philipp Stollenmayer, first launched in 30th August 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 185+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Verticow Stand Out
> Fling things.
> > As far as you can.
> > > As graceful as you can.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Verticow is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd February 2021
Recent improvements include:
small performance improvements
Download & Availability
Verticow is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like it, but don't understand why everyone writing that here is a lot of ad. Its not that much tho.
Seriously, this guy makes the best games on all of the app store, his visuals are so unique and wacky and his sound effects are so enchanting they take you to another world. His ideas are so simple and straight forward, as soon as you set it up youre just in it and it takes you a few seconds to figure out how to play and immediately fun in just a few seconds, you just load up and play. We already downloaded all the games and suggest everyone do the same. This guy has an amazingly creative mind and a unique design perspective that keeps us amused and dazzled. Marvelous games, fabulous everything! Three thumbs up.
The concept has a lot of potential, and im glad you can play without wifi. Its a fun game and the characters are hilarious, overall very addictive and distracting :).
This is our great grandfathers favorite game! He loved to play it when he farted! He said it would make him go kaboom! Kabam! Kachow! Then he would turn into Ryan reynolds! Our name is Susan we were born August 10th 1971 we are 51 and a centimeter. We are married to David longbottom. He is 41 and weighs 345 pounds we moved to Kentucky together in 2001 we had 4 kids the first one is called David longbottom Jr. He is 82 and weighs 108 pounds. The second one is called David longbottom Jr. The 2nd he is 24 and weighs 465 pounds. The 3rd one is called David longbottom Jr. The 3rd he is 56 and weighs 809 pounds. The 4th one is called David longbottom Jr. The 4th he is 59 and 170 pounds he has severe autism. He jumped down the stairs while saying googoo Gaga. We now have a gate at the top of the stairs. David longbottom (our husband) is a professor at Longbottom university. He likes to eat the food we make in our ranch house. We made him chesbungers last night and he ate 16 of them! He was a really hungry boy! Love- Susa.
We truly wish that we didnt have to leave a negative review on this app, however, with the most recent update, Ive been getting a runtime error whenever we open the app. The runtime error reads as follows: json.prettify takes a string or a table (got a number) we do love this game, but if we cannot run the game we cannot leave a positive review. Please contact us when the bug is fixed and we will take this negative review down.
We play this game we just got and love it its so funny and we read a review and he or she said to many ads how are you exposed to make money of a game.
We open app and get a new character and it is near with a deer but its f,info a deer!?!?!?? Pls help.
Such a wow! Great game ! Waiting for more from this developer.
This game is really fun and addicting, but once we unlocked the Brandy Bottle we noticed that there was a racist character labeled on the bottle. Im really disappointed.
This game is hella dumb. And controls are poor.
Adverts adverts adverts adverts uninstalled.
We were really enjoying this game until we unlocked the Brandy bottle character, which features an outdated and racist image. We get its supposed to be vintage or whatever, but the developer should know better.
This game is awesome! We were Bored one day and we decided to scroll through the App Store (cause thats what we do) and stumbled upon THIS GAME. We love it! The graphics are simple, random, and funny !!! Definitely a keeper!!! We also want to say that THE ADS ARENT EVEN THAT BAD! Theyre only 30 seconds. And they dont come around often! YOU WILL LIVE. From, Your fellow Verticow Player.
We bit the bullet and paid the 99 cents to get rid of ads… THE ADS ARE STILL THERE.
We downloaded this based on a review article we read. We did find the game to be amusingly offbeat once we got used to it, but the frequency and length of the ads that appear basically ruined any enjoyment we were getting out of it. As a previous reviewer noted, there is no option to purchae the game to do away with the ads. We stopped playing the game because of that, and ended up deleting it.
Ok we just spent the last 24 hours or so gleefully flinging raw chickens and potted plants across antique clip art. We doubt it will hold our attention for long, but for what it is? This is awesome. BTW Im not getting ads anywhere near as often as after each toss. Not sure if there have been changes or what.
For free if you want to. Or for money.
Great, lots of fun. We've gotten pretty good we guess, but we wish high scores for each fling thing were saved, not just overall high score.
Very fun game and we love it but it needs an update with mo doods.
Anyone who has ever been a gymnast needs to download this game immediately. We were dreaming of giants the night after we first played. So fun and so well done! Kudos to the creators! Butterfly is def our fav character! Such great form.
BEFORE YOU REVIEW There are not as many ads as you think! Go to the settings in the top right and click BANNER for advertisements, instead of full screen. Besides these complaints, the game is actually very enjoyable and fun. Gameplay is simple, but a bit harder to master to getting the timing right. We like how you can challenge yourself with different characters, and the simple graphics are just really cool. Try this game out.
We give this game five stars because it is addictive, challenging, and the graphics are incredible and classic. Whenever we get bored, we decide to try and beat our high-score of 391.2 with Ludwig, our favorite character. It's a challenge to beat your high-score, and to get new characters by spinning the wheel. It keeps you engaged in the game and interested in the new, secret characters. The graphics are interesting and random, and nice to look at. Lastly, we don't think there are too many ads, and they aren't that bothersome. All in all, a great game, and one that everyone should have.
Gorgeous scenery…the art is beautiful !! We are giving 5 because of creativity art….now, we get ya gotta pay the bills, but seriously Peeps, if you backed off the ads just a Smidge the game would probably break the Internet! JMHO.
Really fun game, hope there are more updates to come, including characters and more activities.
At first we thought the game was limited because we figure out how to whip the momentum, but there's still an aiming element, in addition to the awkward shapes. The artwork is perfect.
We are having lots of fun so far. It is simple yet fun.
We cant seem to get ourselves to stop playing and the art style is so fun and unique! Sure the ads may be annoying but it aint so bad. Great job on this game.
We first downloaded this game after hours of being Bored and looking for something to do. We stumbled upon this game that didnt really seem too promising but we decided to download it anyways. We opened It up, learned how to play, and was instantly hooked. Over time Ive unlocked all the characters holding our breath each spin hoping we will unlock them all. We have reached high scores of 2300+ using all sorts of strategies. We had gone from being bored all day to having a fun and interesting game to play in our free time. We highly recommend this game to those who are bored and feel like spending time playing games. This is the app for you.
Great game but please offer a paid version because the adverts are awful.
Hello! Love phillip's games so much, but drives mem nuts we can't pay to remove ads. It's such a bummer in a cool and beautiful game like this to constantly have to deal with ads.
It's got great character and is fun to play but there is no option to get rid of the ads and there are a lot of them. Fix that and it's 5 stars.
The game is fun, overly simple but fun nonetheless, but what drugs were y'all on when making this game.
The game is way too addicting. Can't stop playing it, but there is one thing we somewhat dislike- the sound effects get too old too soon. Every time you click it makes a grunt or a squeak and it gets annoying after awhile.
The ads are annoying! Love the game but we just cant take the constant interruptions. A full-page, 10-30 second promotion after every play of the game? Too much.
Ads ads swing ads ads [click this link!] ads ads ads ads ads ads ads sw[link] ads.
Plus put us in the credits cause we were the only one to comment.
Cant get past the 2nd thing to throw (we got Ludwig). We tried the tutorial and its not helpful. We appreciate there is a way to spin him around and gain momentum and toss him further, but every time, our option is to repeat or watch a video. There is a little gift box icon too, but no gift comes up… Kind of disappointed. Seems like it could be fun. Id rather pay $2-3 and get rid of the ads. Even switching to banner is no good because we still have to watch videos AND the banners cover the controls buttons at the bottom. Sigh.
For the first few hours we had this game it was quite fun, but after a while it got repetitive. There is a vintage aspect to the art style that can be appreciated. When playing the game Im not sure if its just us but all the scores we get are very similar and hard to pass 30.
We love the actual game but the 30 sec ads are killing us! Id pay to play this game WITHOUT ads. Its RIDICULOUS.
This is a great little game, clever and whimsical; however, unless you enjoy noisy advertisements for other games that are neither clever nor whimsical, this is not for you. Should you accidentally touch the screen during these longish and tiresome ads, you will be whisked away to some demo of the game. Once you find your way back, your only option is to watch the advertisement all over again. If that sounds bad enough, understand this will occur on every turn you have at this little game! An option to purchase the game would be preferable to us. But sadly, there is no option to remove the ads. So we had no choice but to delete this game after a few minutes of play and quite a few more minutes of ads for music, bingo games, a golf game and the like. Youll be tempted, but be forewarned.
We agree with the other reviewers. Too many ads. Thats why Ive given it 2 Stars. We probably wont sit through the ads. Charge a $1 without ads and youll make a fortune. Your game is nonverbal and can cut across the language barrier extending your market. Very creative and challenging.
The game is clever, and the graphics are lovely (and very Monty Python-ish), but the inability to escape almost constant ads greatly diminishes its enjoyment. We emailed Phillipp and he told us that the SDK he uses does not communicate well with Apples in-app purchase system. If and when that gets fixed, hed be happy to add that option.
The aesthetics of this game are brilliant. The physics are perfect and entertaining and the humor is great. But the experience is just a novelty that wears off very quickly and the extreme number of ads is more ludicrous than the game itself. We played this for about 5 minutes then deleted it. Shame, really, because the developer is clearly talented and capable of something great. This just isnt it.
This simple game is beautifully designed. The style, humor, and execution is perfect. Wonderful game. But the ads render the game unplayable. It plays a 30 second un-skippable, full page advertisement after every single toss. It kills any sense of humor, fun, or excitement. Remove the ads, or this game will remain unplayable. For the record, we would be leaving a five star review if the app cost 2 dollars and had no ads. Seriously. We would pay to play this game, but we will NOT watch a full page, 30 second ad after every 5ish second toss. That's asinine.
Add after every play. Annoying super fast.
It would be more fun and we would play longer but we get frustrated with the amount of the ads.
It's a fun game, but the ads are just too disruptive. Deleting until a reasonably-priced paid version is available.
Plus it feels all a bit too pointless.
This game can be a lot of fun. The only problem is there's to many ads. You can't progress to the next object unless you 1) set a new distance record or 2) watch an ad. That doesn't sound all that bad but we set a ridiculously long record of 171 at the start and had to watch an ad every min or so just to progress. Very annoying! Has potential…..lost it in trying to pay the bills.
This would be an awesome little game if not for the ads.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.23
- Size: 120.84 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: HR, CS, DA, NL, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IS, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, NB, PL, PT, RO, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TH, ZH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Philipp Stollenmayer
Last updated: 23rd February 2021 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Philipp Stollenmayer