Kick the Buddy

Kick the Buddy starts you off in a cardboard box with a stitched burlap doll and exactly 100 Gold to your name. The doll is the Buddy, and the idea is to hit him with whatever you've got until the bar at the top fills all the way to KO.

What made me stop was the weapons list. The UZI cost 300 Gold, three times what I had, and tapping it didn't buy anything. It sent me straight to the Shop instead, where Gold came in packs like 233,000 for $19.99 and a big yellow Premium card sat in the first slot.

So I played it through VipMod with three switches from the MOD menu: Unlimited Gold & Gems, Free In-App Packs and Premium Unlocked. Here's how a round works, what things cost, where the game pushes you to pay, and what each switch really did.

Hitting a burlap doll until the KO bar fills

There's no stage to clear and nothing to fail. You pick a weapon from the list, then tap or drag on the screen to hit the Buddy with it. Every hit drops a little Gold into your balance.

Each hit also pushes the green bar at the top along. When it reaches the yellow KO at the end, the Buddy is knocked out and you get a reward. Pile up enough knockouts and you go up a level, which is how new weapons open.

The first level wants five of them. The counter next to the gold star in the top left starts at 0/5, and the weapons list has a gray band across the middle that reads Reach 5 KO to open, with four more weapons waiting under it.

I spent a short session hitting the Buddy with the Chainsaw Sword, a long blade lined with saw teeth, and my Gold went from 100 to 110. That's a fair picture of how slowly the free money comes in.

Weapons come in tabs, and most of them start locked

Weapons sit in a big list with an ALL tab and seven little icon tabs along the top: a revolver, a bomb, a football, a knife, a leaf, a pair of gears and a banana. On a fresh start, the ALL tab shows four weapons you can buy and four more sitting behind the first level lock.

The four open ones already mix two currencies. The Beretta costs 100 Gold and the UZI 300 Gold, while the AK-47 wants 40 Gems and the F1 Grenade 10 Gems, and you begin the game with only 25 Gems in the bank.

Behind the 5 KO band, the Balalaika costs 620 Gold, the Mace 640 and the Buzzsaw 610, while the Axe asks for 99 Gems. So earning the level only gets you the right to pay for them.

Then there's a whole set you don't see at all on a free account. The Coonan, the Chainsaw Sword, the Police Baton, the Ripper, the C4 and a few others carry a purple PREMIUM tag, and they only show up in the list once Premium is active.

A 78,000-Gold meadow for a doll to sleep in

Weapons aren't the only thing to spend on. The Decor tab lets you swap the cardboard box the Buddy lives in for another room, and most of them come with a price tag or a lock of their own.

Fancy Meadow, a bright field of flowers under a rainbow, costs 78,000 Gold, and the Padded Cell costs 48,000. Hideout, Laboratory and Magic Hall don't show a price at all, just a yellow PASS label, because they belong to the season pass.

There are outfits for the Buddy behind the hanger button too. On top of that, the game runs a seven-day reward calendar, a slot machine called Buddy Lucky Slots that you feed with Spins, and Skip'Its, which the Shop describes as tickets for skipping ads and earning bonuses.

Put Fancy Meadow next to what hitting pays and the gap is hard to ignore. My Chainsaw Sword session earned 10 Gold, and the meadow costs 7,800 times that.

$7.99 a week, or 500,000 Gold for $29.99

The Shop has four tabs called Offers, Skip'Its, Gems and Coins, and the Offers tab opens on three cards. Premium is a subscription, No ADS costs $14.99 with a 50% OFF badge on it, and Add Blood, which turns on blood effects, costs $4.99.

Premium is the big one. It starts with a three-day trial and then costs $7.99 a week, or $19.99 a month, or $99.99 a year. Paid week by week, that comes to more than $415 a year, which makes the yearly plan look cheap by comparison.

The Premium screen lists 24 elements, 21 outfits, no forced ads, five Spins and three Skip'Its a day, plus 100 Gems and 10,000 Gold every day. Even at that daily rate, Fancy Meadow would take a paying member almost eight days of saving.

If you'd rather just buy currency, Gems run from 100 for $0.99 up to 5,000 for $29.99, and the Coins tab sells 233,000 Gold for $19.99 or 500,000 for $29.99. Skip'Its come in bundles too, with 120 for $19.99 and 250 for $29.99.

And the pitch doesn't stop at the Shop. After a knockout, a NO ADS OFFER popup can appear asking $9.99 with $29.99 crossed out, which isn't the same price as the No ADS card sitting in the Offers tab at $14.99.

Three switches behind the red VIP badge

In VipMod, a red VIP badge sits on the left edge of the game screen, and tapping it opens the MOD menu. It has three switches, Unlimited Gold & Gems, Free In-App Packs and Premium Unlocked, and all three of them need VIP 1.

I started with the Gold and Gems switch off to see the normal behavior. With 100 Gold, tapping the 300-Gold UZI sent me to the Shop just like before. Then I turned Unlimited Gold & Gems on, tapped the UZI again, and it was mine while the counter stayed at 100.

Gems went the same way. The AK-47 costs 40 Gems, I had 25, and the purchase went through anyway with my Gems still sitting at 25. The switch covers both currencies and doesn't care whether you can afford the thing.

Free In-App Packs is the one with a small reload icon next to it, which means it only takes effect when the game opens. I switched it on and reopened the game, and every price in the Shop read 1 instead of dollars. The menu even has a Restart to apply changes button for exactly this.

Then I tapped the 5,000-Gem pack that normally costs $29.99, and my Gems jumped from 25 to 5,025. The 500,000-Gold pack, also $29.99, took my Gold from 110 to 500,110 without me paying a cent.

With all that Gold in hand, I went back to Decor and bought Fancy Meadow for 78,000, and the counter didn't move off 500,110. I switched Unlimited Gold & Gems off in the middle of the session and bought the Padded Cell for 48,000, and this time the game took it for real, leaving me at 452,110.

Turning the switch back on, I bought the Beretta and the balance stayed at 452,110. Premium Unlocked also works mid-session. The next time I opened the weapons list, the PREMIUM row was there and the Reach 5 KO band was gone, along with the Membership and No Ads cards beside the list. Switching it off brought the locks right back.

You don't need to root your phone, and the game you installed from Google Play stays where it is. A few things worth knowing before you start:

• Free In-App Packs needs the game to reopen after you switch it on, so turn it on first and then use the Restart button in the MOD menu.
• The real Premium subscription can't be grabbed through the free packs, so the PREMIUM weapons come from the Premium Unlocked switch instead.
• The daily 100 Gems and 10,000 Gold listed on the Premium screen aren't part of Premium Unlocked, so the weapons are what you get from it.
• There's no switch for ads in this mod, so whatever ads the free game shows will still be there.

What it's like once every weapon is open

With Gold that doesn't run down and the PREMIUM row on the list, the game turns into what it was always trying to be, a box of toys and a doll to try them on. I bought the UZI and the AK-47 without a glance at my balance, then spent most of my time with the Chainsaw Sword.

I like how soft and silly it all looks. The Buddy is a patched-up burlap doll with a blue star on his chest, the weapons are drawn like chunky cartoon props, and after I bought him Fancy Meadow he sat down among the flowers and dozed off under the rainbow.

The downside is how busy everything is. Offers, cards and badges crowd every screen, and even with Premium Unlocked on, a little No Ads button stayed in the top corner while I played. Once every weapon is open there's also less pulling you forward, so it works best in short bursts.

Works without internet, with one catch

I cut the game off from the internet to see what still worked, and it opened to the Buddy's room as usual, with its menus running and the MOD switches still in place. That makes it a decent pick for a flight or a subway ride.

The catch is that rooms and weapons download their content the first time you pick them. Fancy Meadow showed a little download icon when I first chose it, so it's worth trying new things while you're online and saving offline sessions for the gear you've already opened.

The game follows your device's language and English is built in, so every screen I saw, from the weapons list to the Shop, was in English. On Google Play in the US it holds 4.1 stars from about 3.6 million ratings and has passed 500 million downloads.

It's rated Teen, the listing mentions ads and in-app purchases from $0.99 to $99.99 per item, and its latest update arrived on October 1, 2026.

So who should pick up the chainsaw sword

If you want something to do with your hands for five minutes after a long day, this game is built for exactly that. There's nothing to fail and nothing to plan, just a doll, a weapon and a bar that fills up a little with every hit.

And if you've ever stared at a 300-Gold UZI with 100 in your pocket, or a 78,000-Gold meadow next to 10 Gold from a round of hitting, the mod takes that math away. You get the PREMIUM weapons, Gem and Gold packs at no cost and purchases that leave your balance alone, while the ads stay exactly as they were.