Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 01:11 pm
Hook and Smash – Casual Game Review
Hook and Smash is a Casual/Simulation game from Kwalee Ltd, first launched in 6th March 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 18,480+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Hook and Smash Stand Out
Hook and Smash is a fun and addictive game which will have you destroying cities all across the world!
Fire your hook towards the monument in the middle and tear down the buildings to earn big money.
Upgrade your hook to be able to reach further and try and get to the monument in the center of the map and find gold buildings and landmarks to earn extra cash.
Hook and Smash features:
- Simple and fun gameplay
- Create chaos everywhere you go
- Colorful art
- Unlock new cities to take down
SUBSCRIBE TO HOOK AND SMASH
Subscribe to Hook and Smash for all of the following benefits:
- Unlock the Golden Hook
- Receive 10% Extra Distance
- Get the Giant Claw!
- No Ads, which removes non-optional adverts from the game
SUBSCRIPTIONS INFORMATION:
Hook and Smash VIP Membership access offers two membership options:
1) A weekly subscription costing $5.49 per week after a 3 day FREE trial period.
2) A monthly subscription costing $14.49 per month.
After buying this subscription, you will unlock; the golden hook which will give you double your earnings, receive 10% extra distance on every throw, get a cosmetic giant claw to use in game, and receive no ads, which removes non-optional ads from the game. This is an auto-renewable subscription. The payment is charged to your account after confirmation. The subscription is renewed unless you unsubscribe 24 hours before the period ends. Your account will also be charged for renewal
The price notes are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may change and actual charges may be converted to local currency.
End of trial and subscription renewal:
- The payment is charged to your iTunes account after a confirmation of purchase
- The subscription is renewed unless you unsubscribe 24 hours before the end of the current period
- The account will be charged for renewal 24 hours before the end of the current period at the standard cost of the weekly subscription
- The user may manage the subscription and auto-renewal by accessing the user's account settings after purchase in the store
- No cancellation of the current subscription is permitted during the active subscription period
- Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when the subscription is purchased
Cancelling a trial or subscription: - In order to cancel a subscription during the free trial period you need to cancel it through your account in the Store. This must be done at least 24 hours before the end of the free trial period to avoid being charged.
http://privacy.servers.kwalee.com/privacy/HookandSmashEULA.html
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Hook and Smash is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th February 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes and improvements to keep you hooked
Download & Availability
Hook and Smash is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Hook and Smash on App Store
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 love this game the only thing we want is no ads.
We really really love this game. It has just the right amount of interaction without using to much decision making. We play this game every night. However we really wish the game had more environments, Ive played through every one of them almost a million times. We also would like to see some more progression in the game instead of starting from square one every time.
Id give you 0 stars if we could because of the OVERUSE of ads. We are deleting it because you people clearly dont know how to make a good game. A real game dont stop after EVERY. SINGLE. GESTURE To show an ad. For anyone reading this, save your data and dont download this trash its not even a game its continual ads with a tiny game break. Very poor quality and not only that we do not support over greedy developers we understand you need to make some money, but you literally could dial ads back to every 5 games and it would still be more than enough. Change your crap.
This game has to many ads like every time the line come back so you can you collect the money bam a add so frustrating we would give 0 stars if we could.
You have way to many ads in the game. There is a ad after every 2 gos. You can at least do it after 4 trys. The ads are annoying but what is most annoying is the internet problem. This game is just like the submarine and backflip game, you need internet for a game that doesnt have any online features or leaderboards. Are you just trying to make sure no one is skipping out on the ads because they are so annoying. We mean you can get in the game but when you click to play it say no connection……. Bruh stop being greedy. People wouldnt have to try and go offline if you didnt have a lot of ads. Please we are begging you, this is a good game but there is just ad and internet problems. Please fix this.
We hit continue a ad if we wanted a ad we would hit double cash PLZ FIX THIS we STARTING TO HATE THIS GAME.
This has wayyyyyyy to many ads. The first Two trys there are no ads but after that just annoying ads every two trys and this is why none likes ads because the animations on the game looks good but when you get to download it the graphics are trash and ugly like FIX YOUR GAME dummies.
Just ads left snd right you cant even get s break at all after every turn there is an ad so we just exit the game and go back in.
For every 30 seconds you get in game, you spend 10-15 trying to skip through an ad. It gives you the option to watch an AD to double rewards from your last run, and EVEN IF YOU DONT DO IT, IT SENDS YOU INTO AN AD 2/3 OF THE TIME. We understand that advertisements support the game and allow it to be free, but this is way over the top. Please dont install this game unless you want to spend 1/2 of your time watching ads to make this random trash company even more money.
This game requires internet and after every round theres a ad Thast bs.
Just. So. Many. Ads. No. Effort. Not. Worth. Your. Time.
This game is a fun game to play but THERE ARE SOOO MANY ADDS. Its rediculous.
The ads are just annoying, you get an ad after every round you play! Overall, not a good game.
Almost all ad-supported games have an option at the end of each round to let you CHOOSE to watch an ad to get a 3-times multiple of that rounds score, and this game has the offer as well. However, if you chose to stay with the current score and skip the ad, it plays an ad anyway, without increasing your score. Rounds consist of 3 or 4 seconds of gameplay, with a mandatory ad between each round. We would pay the reasonable 3 bucks to remove the ads, but other reviews have reported that you still are inundated with ads after paying to remove them. No thanks.
We use to like this gam and play it a lot we dont mind adds but then our power went off for five hours and we decided to play th8s game but it would not work so ever since then our nana got us a hotspot for our birthday and when we tern it off for at least two seconds it just want let us play the game we gave it no rate because eit is so horrible. PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME we AM WARNING YOU PLEASE DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
This game is amazing all you do is try and tear citys apart you do not need connection to play no leader boards no competition just fun.
Why do you need internet for this game there is not tournament or anything not a leader bourd so there is no reason to have to use internet.
So just take it down please no one likes your game.
There are not much ads and…just a perfect game.
We love it so much and download the game Thanks.
So number 1 the distance barely does anything and 2 the ads are not working please fix but overall its great and the more you play the less ads.
Okay so Im giving this 4 stars only because the game has gotten boring. We have already purchased all the grapples and have like a 100,000 gems we cant spend. Please update this game.
The game is really fun but we get adds every time we collect our money.
Ive read all the comments and we think the game is fine just WAYYYYYY TO MANY ADS and when we click on a extra thing it does NOTHING NOTHING and it should not use WiFi its fine but Im giving it three stars its kinda like the other games like this.
Its a super good game but to many long ads.
This game would be fun if there werent so many ads! You spend more time watching ads than actually getting to play the game. Wont even let you play offline…if not for the ads it would be great.
It was cool now when Im farther in the game we cant even reached the other buildings add a building reset button.
We do a lot of air travel for business and we like to play these mind numbing games to pass time. Well as we began to leave the tarmac we turned our phone on airplane mode and opened the game but it wouldnt let us continue. Said we had no connection (which was true) but Ive never had another one of these games do that. Overall the game seems like it could be enjoyable but we were so disappointed that when we finally got service and decided to try it out, we just felt like we were wasting our time.
Would be fun if it werent for the consistently bad frame rate, the constant ads and the numerous bugs and glitches.
- Why they force using the internet on you: A) Because otherwise they wouldnt be able to force tons of ads on you. 2. Why they insist on forcing tons of ads on you: A) Because thats how they make most of their money. B) Because they want to frustrate you enough to pay their exorbitant No-Ads price. 3. Is the price worth it? A) No. $14.49 per month is not worth it for a game that had very low start up costs and minimal to nonexistent maintenance. B) If you were given $173.88, would you blow it all on a low resolution game with nothing really different from level to level? Hopefully youre smart enough to say HECK NO! Bb) $173.88 is the yearly cost. 4. How do we get around watching the forced ads? A) Watch every single Rewards Ad. This doesnt get rid of the sudden, random in-game pop-ups but at least youre rewarded for watching. B) Simply close and restart the game. Its a shorter wait than sitting through the ad. 5. Why are the owners of kwalee so greedy? A) Because their boss, Tencent, takes most of their earnings. B) Because theyre mobile application developers and they know that theres no end to morons who spend their life savings on crappy applications. 6. What is Tencent? A) Tencent is a phenomenally greedy Japanese conglomeration that buys out developers (or buys controlling shares) in order to get their own spyware spread to every country in the world. They make $$millions from the consumed applications, but their real profit comes from the sales of peoples private, personal information… They make $$$BILLIONS by selling their stolen information. Youre welcome.
We love playing this game but the things that we freaking hate about it are: 1) TOO MANY FREAKING ADS 2) REQUIRES WIFI CONNECTION WHEN YOU DONT NEED WIFI FIR ANYTHING ON IT You guys need to take this off WiFi has nothing to do with any thing in this freaking game. Just 2 days ago we were playing it without any WiFi yall needa stop nobody wants to watch this many apps. If this doesnt stop we will be deleting this game and telling everybody we know not to down load this game we will even post it on multiple social media platforms. We already have screen recordings of the game play.
Its annoying but it wont let us play without WiFi.
To many ads we just deleted it within 10 minutes. We couldntttt.
Every time Im done grappling something theres always a ad after.
Just like every other Kwalee game they have ads every 10-15 seconds and some games we actually enjoy as time killers…but not enough to keep them on our phone because we refuse to play them when we get an ad every 10 seconds of the game and Im not paying $3 for a game whos quality doesn't warrant $3.
This game is so intitled to goveing the player 3 ads every minute. This makes the game bad and very slow. The thing is. We cant even play offline, cause you need to bee giving us ads to play.
We travel frequently. We download numerous games to play whilst flying. We cannot play this game unless Im connected to the internet and sit through millions of ads. Do not recommend.
We like this game we mean its fun and interesting but we think there is just way too many ads there is even ads interrupting when we shoot the hook so we would really like if you just had less ads.
Where to start? 1) Most of the 5 star ads are fake. 2) the game plays ads constantly. 3) without an internet connection you cant play the game. That means no airplane mode or traveling. 4)to remove ads its $15 a month or $4.50 a week… 5) The game play glitches constantly.
This is a fun game but we refuse to play a game that you spend more time watching ads than playing the game. The creators of this app should realize they are loosing users trying to be greedy. Bye Felicia.
We saw the add and we Thought it was a good game and then we downloaded it and we watched more adds than the actual game so then we turned the internet off and you cant even play the game without internet witch is stupid because theres no other players they just want you to watch adds so if we where you we wouldnt download this game.
We like this game but it has to many adds.
Seriously? Im not paying for data for you. What a waste of a game.
Ads every 2 plays. Downloaded this game then instantly uninstalled from all the ads.
We get ads every second and Im done with it and everything way to much money.
Its fun but u cant even tap the screen to collect without an ad everything u do sets of an ad.
Every 2 times you collect coins theres an add.
Its like we an limited to move to hook around anywhere.
This game is really stupid like what is the point and there is way to much adds we understand that you need adds to keep it free but you dont need a add every two turns.
Fun game except an ad runs every 3 times you shoot. Not fun when you literally cant play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.7
- Size: 172.32 MB
- iOS: 12.5 or later
- Languages: DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Kwalee Ltd
Last updated: 14th February 2025 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: Kwalee Ltd