Last updated on December 14th, 2025 at 02:05 am
Evo Pop – Puzzle Game Review
Evo Pop is a Puzzle/Simulation game from ZeptoLab UK Limited, first launched in 6th November 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 14,192+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Evo Pop Stand Out
Welcome to Evo Pop — a unique physics-based strategy from the creators of Cut the Rope and C.A.T.S. Download now and play for free!
Take control of Evos — colorful creatures that live in a colony and are able to grow and multiply extremely fast. Big Evos eat smaller Evos of another breed. Dominate the area by either eating all rivals or creating the most Evos! 123
FEATURES:
- Fight against MULTIPLE ENEMIES: A three-way brawl for you to come on top of!
- Enjoy a FUN PHYSICS-BASED GAMEPLAY: Control the creatures by using different spells on them.
- UPGRADE & EVOLVE: Each Evo breed has unique skills, such as jumping or sliding downhill. These properties can be upgraded to make your Evos even stronger.
- PLAN A STRATEGY: Evos interact with the environment and eat grass, flowers and bugs to multiply faster. Fight for strategic resources on the map to win!
- Discover DOZENS OF WORLDS: Evo Pop features multiple worlds with unique design elements and physics, making the gameplay fresh every time.
Get ready to POP OFF and have FUN!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Evo Pop is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd December 2023
Recent improvements include:
This update includes multiple improvements and bugfixes
Download & Availability
Evo Pop 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:
First of all we LOVE IT its so peaceful to kill cute eye dudes XwX also its so CuTe yea pretty much it what we need to say lol (noice game by the way meow).
They need to get rid of the really just horrid energy system, its the worst and we dont want to wait for 30 mins just to play the darn game, just let us play it.
We really like this game. But Im getting really annoyed when Im beat by people who are cheating. Theres nothing we can do about it because theres no way to report anyone. Please do something about this. We keep loosing our streaks. They are able to pull everyone from one side of the map to the other. And it seems like the have no limit to how many spells they can use.
This is a fun game but its missing one thing. Our friends and we want to go against each other but, there is no way to do it, so we were thinking of private matches! Where you put in a code for a match and you will be put into a lobby waiting for the party leader to start it so we can have fun together.
How is it fair that any opposing fireball Evos get to duplicate INSTANTLY. The Frog slime needs nerfed too.
Previously you could play/grind enough to eventually afford upgrades so you could stay relatively on the same playing field as users paying for upgrades. But now it's made the game not worth playing. At 7500 gold an upgrade and 10-100 gold per game, we can't compete with the people that paid for adv evos and we can't earn enough to upgrade our own evos.
We played this for a bit and we kept seeing the same people with such good evos in like the 2nd island. Maybe like try to not have the prices to high or make stuff to overpowered? But overall its a good game. Also we HATE the energy thing but we guess its another way for the devs to earn money. Kind of a short review.
U know that u were lazy 2 finish the cactus eivo because it does not kill evos even if it is bigger than the other evos and alsow its nott a multiplayer gam so fiks pleez.
It is a fun game but there needs to be a mode that allows you to not use energy if this was a mode it would be five stars we hate when we find a fun game behind a 30 min wait.
We absolutely love this game, but the lives limit is horrid. The limit is 5 lives, and even when you win, you lose a life. Theres no paying to get more or unlimited lives, which is the one thing we would pay for (other than evos). Other than that, we absolutely love this game.
Great new update to the game 100% really great game.
The game is great and hard to put down! Very well done. However, the Toads slime is WAY overpowered. Only defense is to leave a layer of your dead to build on. Even then, the slime sticks around SO LONG. As Ive progressed in the game, Im encountering the Toad more and more, and its making those matches very near impossible. Hope to see Toads slime get nerfed very soon. That, or some sort of defense/resistance get created. Still, great game.
A lot of things have changed sense we last played which happened to be a year ago. All we ask is for a mode were u can just keep playing.
>Make sure in app purchases are turned OFF if youre going to play this game. An accidental tap could cost you $9.99 to $49.99 for the in-app game boost purchases offered. However, plenty of things can be unlocked for free. No spending is required for a fun extended play of this game. >Game play is fun and different. Varying Evo characters, terrain, and scenarios like acid rain keep the take over the world game fresh and interesting. >Ads are definitely geared towards the 16+ age range and seems to be the only reason for the age-of-use indicated when you first begin to use the app. To have 5 stars ***** it would need to be family friendly ads selection.
The gameplay is fun and interesting but the stamina bar takes waay too long to fill, 11 minutes for a single unit of stamina with a max of 5 units.
Okay so 1. This game is AWESOME we just love the fact that you have to expand or have a strategy to win ether you kill the enemys or have 300 evos! But another thing you should add is so that a better chest gives you a higher chance to get a evo! Please :).
Again we think the game is super fun but like the energy just kills the game. Why make someone just wait to play your game.
This game is really fun but you have to get energy to you can only play 5 rounds then wait or watch a video. So we wish it was more like 10 rounds.
We love the game, the idea is great and the game is fantastic and fun. We dislike how many in game pop ups there are for buying their content but we can live with that. The part we genuinely hate about this is the energy. You get to play five games before it makes you wait a lengthy amount of time for the energy to recover. We want to just sit down and play this for a while but we play for like 10 minutes, and then theres a half hour wait to play for another ten minutes. Even the in game purchases are fair. You can easily earn all the gems and coins and stuff, so you dont HAVE to buy them to be good or upgrade things. We just want to play more without the energy.
First off, the concept of this game is unique, and makes an interesting game. The right updates could make this a 5 star game. We do recommend it on that merit alone, but several problems keep it from getting a higher rating from us. Balance: The right combinations of evo and artifact will blow other combos out of the water. We would love to see some work put in to tweaking the balance. AI: It gives the impression of matching you with other players, but you can only play AI. Seems to be an extremely basic AI too. All it does is button mash. While that can annoyingly push and pull you around the map, it wont push for its own win conditions, and it wont kill you unless it does it before you get established. To give it a chance, the AI gets a head start on both time and energy, so sometimes youre blasted off the map first thing, and get a game over as soon as your controls are unlocked. Currency: A win nets you 10 coins. An upgrade may cost 5000 coins. Chests give more, but still, getting a paltry 10 coins is insulting. We understand that paying real money has to be tempting in order to make the game profitable, but between that, and how much harder it is to unlock new artifacts than new evos, the currency system could use some tweaking. Energy: Hands down the worst part of the game. You are only allowed to play 5 times, then you have to wait for energy to keep playing at a rate of 15 minutes per game. Technically you could watch an ad for 1 energy, but the ad system is broken, and makes us close the app more often than it gives us the energy. We wanted this game as a time waster, but this feature makes it unsuitable for that. Tl;dr: The gameplay itself is very fun, but a myriad of problems takes that fun away. It got boring halfway through the map, but we dont want to delete it in case the right update comes along.
We love the gameplay of this game but we started noticing how unbalanced it is. It seems like the developers have just given up on it. Due to the unbalanced nature of it, you can pretty much beat the entire game with the second or third evo you get. There are at least 4 different types of coin you must collect to advance different sections of the game. The constant give us money splash screens are super annoying and if you dont pay, dont expect to be able to upgrade that evo any time soon. This could be an angry bird level game if a little more time was put into the mechanics of the evos. We played today and got the same level back to back to back 5 times before something new popped up on our screen. We know this game is generating income, hire some people and make it better.
Too much of a moneygrab to be any fun.
The gameplay is good, the variety to the "evos" is engaging, it even looks nice. BUT the game has serious issues with balance. Like the latest only-available-if-you-pay evo is way overflowed compared to every other option except maybe two, and we say that because one of those two just has a 50 win streak with (its been broken OP since we first downloaded, and shortly after stopped playing the game last year). So now every game Im paired against two opponents using the new hotness that cant be beat unless Im playing the option that Ive already maxed out. The game just stopped being fun. Also the in app purchases are waaaaay over priced and the images used on the App Store page show features that dont exist in the game.
So we log on to the game for the first time the buttons dont work and we cant do anything.
It has very good graphics and we love the game :D.
We want to play with our friends and cousins The game is very good.
We really enjoy this game but the latest update confused us. At first, it seemed there is no way to advance. You beat the same level over and over again and it yet stay stuck in the same place on the map. Then we realized that there is a hexagon around each map level. You need to beat the level the number of times highlighted in order to advance. It might help noobies if the developer explains this at the open. Overall, great game. 5 stars.
We personally love this game,and not because of the little characters its because of the domination aspect of the game.
The game is decent but the game feels like it is supposed to be pay to win with a low amount of currency to buy boxes to upgrade stuff but everything in the game just feels kinda medium like it was made by a company that didnt have the money they actually should have since every game has at least one evo that you need to play for. Also frog is a great evo for numbers.
We have been playing a this game for a bit now. It has fun gameplay but it is completely impossible to upgrade evos without spending tremendous amounts of money. We have the virus evo lvl 6 and to upgrade him to level 7 we need 20,000 coins. You only get ~10 coins for playing 1 game. That means you need to play 2000 games to level him up one time. Not to mention that evo has 2 other levels after this one. The other resources you need to level up artifacts and such cant be gained through playing the game. They can only be obtained from loot boxes, which you need to pay money for.
We bought a five dollar bundle and it did t give it to us.
The ai is horrible and gets so many buffs you either have to get lucky and stomp or instantly die. 5 matches in a row we die in the first 10 seconds before we can even multiply more than a single time.
Ok so we have written a review awile ago about the downsides of the game and now just realized one thing we said difficulty is very low and the game is very easy BUT we realized why its so easy THE GAME AINT EVEN ONLINE you can dc from internet mid match and you still play fine the thing is this game could be so much more with it being online or at the very least a online mode MORE CHALLENGING and MORE FUN finally GETTING MORE PEOPLE TO WATCH ADS AND SPEND MONEY plz make this a thing after figuring out its not online made us quit the game.
Tried redownloading. Its still garbage. Rng based spawn. And that decides the match p much.
The game is incredible but we think you should be able to have more than five energy because energy is the only way to play matches beginners should also get to chose diffrerent evos that have and equal amount of power. They should also add more evos maybe like an evo where you can change its shape we think they can also make fire an evo cause they already made poison or a reaper evo that gets bigger when it eats other evos we also think that there should be a teleporting evo or an evo that could throw itself that is it for our review but it was mostly about the evos this game should have but this game is fun either way.
Simple game with 14 (as if 8/21) different Evos. Free to play and collected all 14 from chests. We did do dailies for 3-4 weeks before we got them all but relatively fast as f2p. Blue Gems are relatively useless as it costs 500 for a top chest. Took us about 5 weeks(?) before getting 500 as f2p while having encountered multiple top chests from the seasonal rewards and even just on the map. Our kids play and their kindle fire version has a better cost structure of 50 blue gems for the top chest which is much more reasonable for what you get. There are other differences in their version as well but Id expect cost structure to be similar. Would also suggest blue gems to have more use such as direct purchase of gold coins or green/magic gems with them. A few bugs – there are games where the enemy hover evo can live extraordinarily long in the air (we assume floating somewhere) but lightning cant hit it despite the count being only 1. – spike evo sometimes get stuck in terrain or bugs out completely such that even when Im on/over it, it acts like a ghost which cant be killed by our evo or lightning but will still duplicate every so often. Duplicate dies instantly since its in our evo but we need to wait for sudden death flood in order to win. – May just be weight calculation since there is an artifact to increase weight but some enemy evos can pull us with magnet half a map away while some cant budge us when Im right next to it. Size of our evo doesnt seem to affect magnet (youd assume bigger evo has more mass and more pull). – May also be an artifact effect but Ive encountered ghost evos who act like feral where they chain touch our evos turning it into themselves. We do know theres an artifact that increases duplicate when killing but seems oddly overpowered.
First of all, we saw someone say this game is pay to play, which is what prompted us to post our own review. It really bothered us because that couldnt be further from the truth. In fact, its just a straight up lie. Either that or they are a sore loser. Maybe they dont have a mind for strategy or dont understand how the game works, but thats just absolutely unequivocally wrong. The season pass, if you choose to get it, is very reasonable and not a subscription, but you can easily master the game without it. Especially if you specialize with one particular Evo (Camo is best, esp. With the thing that makes you eat other EVOs faster IMO). The gameplay itself is so fun and addictive. Its kind of like the Worms series in the sense that its sort of a sandbox competitive strategy game against the computer. Its really one of the most unique games on the App Store and keeps you coming back for more. We love the new update and how it gives youre the islands to navigate. It gives you a visual goal and a sense of progress that was missing previously. We really recommend you do yourself a favor and download this game right now! You won regret it. Plus as a bonus- LOVE the menu music.
We love this game, literally play it all day every day. Crazy how its become our favorite so fast, cant wait to see what future evos come to the game. If we had anything toCritique on the game is how OVERPOWERED the evo Virus explosion and magnet abilities are. No way asoon as the match begins their able to blow us off the map or yank us from the other side of the map. Even tho we win 98% of those encounters we still enjoy the game overall.
The game is really good and our only problem is that there is energy to fight, so you have 5/5 energy and if you battle it would go down 4/5 and then you have to wait like around 5 minutes to get another, so its kinda annoying when we want to play it but then we have to wait. STILL AWESOME.
The ads that you click on sometimes kick you from the game window as soon as you complete the add. This makes the rewards for watching ads completely unobtainable. The screen makes you watch 3 adds and then when you click close on the third ad the app crashes. Ive stopped watching the ads as they are optional but thats lost revenue for them which is unfortunate as the game itself is outstanding.
We play daily we thoroughly enjoy this game and it's one of the few mobile games we keep on our phone we'd love to leave a 5-star review and we would gladly leave one if the artifact drops are fixed we have about 5 and we haven't gotten a new one in weeks Plz fix we'd love to write an awesome 5 star review.
Hi, we wanted to write this since this is officially the first tournament game that we actually love and am good at, so yippie for that! The object of the game is simple and fun, and the different Evos are really cool. We literally have nothing bad to say about this, and the island update only made it better; more free stuff, as long as you can put the effort in! The two things we would ask the developers for, not as a slight, but as an improvement, is more Evos as well as a way to be more equal between Evos in general. The way we see the Evos are as different playstyles; while we havent collected them all yet, our usual strategy is to either grow massive and vacuum up other players, using abilities to move across the board, or to find a cozy spot in the board with walls or other braking features, and just multiply as fast as our spell bar will allow while leaving a shell of large Evos to take impacts from spells or incoming flying Evos; this usually leads us to take the Balloon Evo, with the ideal Absolute for us being Virus. However, Balloon is very early-game, and while we can out-skill most people right now, because 2-Star Evos can only level up to 6 max, when we do meet a maxed-out 4 or 5-Star, Im fubbernucked. So basically our ideas were this: first, you really need to add more Evos in for more variety, as well as the fact that currently only Misfit and Explorer have Absolutes, while in 4-Star, one category is left out as well, so you should add those too. Our favorite classes seem to be Trickster and Misfit, which is why Virus is currently our goal in life, but there is no Trickster past 4-Star. Imagine what an Absolute Trickster could be! Second, you should allow all Evos the same leveling (aka damage rate and defense) and increase the amount of levels, but differ them on something else. You already have an idea of this: the Artifacts can only be used with specific classes, perhaps there could be skills or other things in addition to artifacts to differentiate a persons build. This would resolve the issue of people wanting to stay with one character due to playstyle, but then being forced to give up on the game because they dont feel comfortable with a new playstyle and their current character is too weak. Ok, thats about it, keep up the good work, guys! P.S. Anyone who says the game is pay-to-play/win… Its not really, as far as we know. Balloon was the one we got out of the box when we started playing, and literally the only thing we have bought in the game is the Evo Pass, because its a fun game, and if Im going to be playing it day after day, its fair to get stuff for extra effort. We honestly dont have the money to spend on an Epic Evo or a Virus Evo straight out of the shop, so we hope to get them in boxes because we have a good amount of them already. But for the winning part… Im a freaking Balloon and Ive destroyed Viruses multiple times with a well-placed magnet. Its all about being clever and thinking ahead and knowing what you can work with, which is why we stick with Balloon even though we have other Evos; we know it like the back of our hand. Find one you can get to know and work with, and it will be easy.
Dont get us wrong, the idea behind the game has potential! However we are disenchanted with it now. First let us say that we did enjoy playing this game, we have played many hours, won several championships, collected all the Evos. But after all that we feel like Ive gotten nowhere and heres why. The illusion of competition. This is a single player game, you do not play against other humans. You might be ranked against others but you will NEVER play against another real human. The illusion of progress. The new map with islands and all looked cool, but nothing changes. Youre playing against the same AI on the same maps. The different game modes introduced a little variation but ultimately fell right back into repetitive gameplay. The grind is real. In order to progress your Evos to high levels takes a LOT of in game resources! The slow income rate of these resources makes it very tempting to just spend that $5 at the end of the day the devs want to make money, we get that, we just dont feel the ratio is right.
Overall, we enjoy this game. Im hoping this review gets a response from the developers. One of the in game award mechanics isnt working. We are winning matches but not earning little purple Ts, whatever you call them. Ive got a win streak going but its not being counted. It was earlier but it stopped. No explanation as to what the award is or how it works. We tried to submit a support ticket, but the support works through Discord and that link doesnt work. Ive accepted the Discord invite and nothing happens, and yes we have discord installed. We would love some resolution to both problems. Or at the very least some information on how and why Im not earning rewards.
The new update added the big map you explore, but with it came some kind of bug. We cant progress in the game anymore. Ive beaten the available levels more than 10 times at this point and we cant gain access to anything new. Its the same level over and over. Fix your game please, its really not that bad.
This game does not put ads in your face every 5 seconds. This game does not put a $3+ purchase in your face. This game DOES put its slightly overpriced season pass in your face. This game DOES occasionally have a feature that is obviously just there for that extra penny. Which is bad. But otherwise, this game is pretty good. They sure know what theyre doing, its fun, BUT if you have money to spend its probably a little better. Think what you will of that.
This game is entertaining, but it has its caveats. There will be times when you will get matched with a high level bot with a multiple star evo. This means you either get lucky or you lose your streak. We rather see more skill focused than luck, but its the same concept as King of Thieves. Plus since you are only playing bots, your skill would be better most of the time. Also, there seems to be a form of currency that isnt usedMagic gems. Whats the purpose of this and why cant we buy evos with more than just regular gems or real world money? Make the game less pay to pay and you'll garner more players.
Was having a lot of fun with the game, until every matchup was against paid for 9/9 Virus Evo players, and sometimes before you even load into the match youve already been blown off the map. Other times they use their attract spell and before you even get your first spell youre getting whipped around the map like a rag doll. In most cases it doesnt really matter what evo youre using because theyll beat you before you get to do ANYTHING. Other than Virus Evo the game is pretty great, if it werent for them it would be 5 stars from us.
Fun game with several glitches. Lately we cannot complete any level. Also Im able to claim the prizes for levels we havent completed.
This new update has not gone well. The game transferred our previous trophies into the progress on the island map however no matter how many times we defeat the next island it doesnt show its complete and therefore we cant progress int the game and am stuck. Really disappointed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.14
- Size: 280.50 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages:
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: ZeptoLab UK Limited
Last updated: 22nd December 2023 | Genre: Puzzle, Simulation | Developer: ZeptoLab UK Limited