Poinpy Free Download Returns After Netflix Cut It.
Poinpy is free now, back on iOS and Android roughly a year after Netflix pulled it from its library. If you missed it the first time, that’s understandable. Poinpy launched in June 2022 as a Netflix exclusive. You needed a Netflix subscription just to download it. That gate kept a genuinely great platformer away from anyone without Netflix.
Why Poinpy Left, Then Came Back Free
Poinpy earned a Metacritic score of 87. It landed a Mobile Game of the Year nomination at the 26th D.I.C.E. Awards. That’s a strong showing for a game most people never even knew existed. Then, exactly three years after launch, Netflix delisted it in June 2025. Roughly 20 other titles went with it, including Hades, Braid, and Monument Valley, as part of Netflix pulling back its gaming ambitions.
Publisher Devolver Digital said back then it wanted to bring its Netflix-exclusive titles to the App Store and Google Play “as soon as possible.” It originally floated charging for them as premium releases. That plan changed. Poinpy is the first of these delisted games to actually come back.
Poinpy Free Means No Ads, No Purchases
Devolver didn’t just re-release Poinpy — it released it completely free on both platforms. No ads. No in-app purchases. Nothing gates the experience. Your only option is an entirely optional tip to developer Ojiro Fumoto if you want to support him. In a mobile market packed with pushy ads and aggressive microtransactions, that’s a genuinely refreshing choice.
What Makes Poinpy Worth Playing
Poinpy flips Fumoto’s earlier hit Downwell upside down. Instead of descending through a well, you bounce upward through randomly generated caves. You collect fruit to make juice for a hungry creature chasing you from below. The controls fit one-handed mobile play perfectly: pull back, release, launch off walls and platforms. Angles genuinely matter for how far you go.
It’s instantly approachable in short bursts. It also holds real depth if you’re chasing mastery across dozens of hours — the same design philosophy that made Downwell a cult favorite.
What Poinpy’s Return Says About Preservation
Poinpy’s comeback is a rare bright spot. Most subscription-exclusive games just vanish once a service pulls back, and they usually never get a second release like this. That makes Poinpy more than just a free-game alert — it’s proof that preservation can actually work when a publisher commits to it.
If you’re into other games escaping obscurity, read how Armadillo Racing, a rare 1997 Namco arcade racer, is finally getting its first-ever home port nearly three decades later. It’s a similar story of a game breaking free of the platform that locked it away.
Poinpy is free right now on the App Store and Google Play. No ads, no purchases needed. If you missed it during its Netflix run, or just want to revisit a genuinely excellent platformer, grab it.