Fusion Heroes vs Machinal Instinct
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fusion Heroes
Design, craft, and upgrade your own mech to battle hordes of enemies. Scavenge for parts, recruit allies, and embark on missions to achieve victory in this action RPG. Dominate the Mech World with your custom-built robot army.
- Design, craft, and upgrade mechs
- Engage in fierce robot combat
- Scavenge for unique items
- Recruit and build a robot army
- Take on missions and find loot
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Craft your own mech and triumph in fierce heads-up combat! Build a mighty robo-hero to take on endless hordes of battle-droids with an arsenal of cannons, missiles, lasers and more. From the wreckage of battle, scavenge, fuse and recruit an army of allies. Take on missions, find loot, and battle to victory in this fast-paced action RPG. Features: • Become a master engineer: design, craft, and upgrade to improve your mech forces • Take on the role of a ruthless bot, and dominate in fierce combat • Discover hundreds of unique items throughout your journey • Create a powerful gang of battle-droids and rule the Mech World! Boarding Party Games Darren Briden Code - Sven Paroth Art - Eric Proton Music - Matt "Norrin_Radd" Creamer Special Thanks - Jessica Briden About Tapinator Tapinator (Ticker: TAPM) develops and publishes mobile games and decentralized apps on the iOS, Google Play, Amazon and Ethereum platforms. Tapinator's portfolio includes over 300 gaming titles that, collectively, have achieved over 450 million player downloads. Tapinator is headquartered in New York. For more info, visit Tapinator.com.
Machinal Instinct
Engage in fast-paced mech battles in a global tournament where animal pilots command powerful machines. Customize your fighting style with various weapons and upgrade your mech with unlockable parts to climb the global leaderboard.
- Select from 6 mech pilots
- Customize melee and ranged weapons
- Win supply boxes for rewards
- Unlock and combine upgradable mech parts
- Battle in 3 different arenas
- Climb the global leaderboard
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Fight your way to the top of the food chain, and watch your enemies become the prey! Machinal Instinct is a fast-paced fighting game, set in a world where animals pilot powerful mechs to compete against each other in a worldwide tournament. Unleash your inner beast and reach the top of the global leaderboard! Features: * Select from 6 cute but fearless mech pilots!. * Customize your fighting style: ** 3 different types of melee weapons: ax, fist, or chain. ** 2 different types of ranged weapons: grenade or rocket. ** And more coming soon! * Win supply boxes and get rewards to pump up your mech. * Unlock and combine dozens of upgradable mech parts. * Play in 3 different astonishing battle arenas. * Fight, loot, upgrade and climb that leaderboard! Join more than 22 million players from all over the world who enjoy our games!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Fusion Heroes at none against Machinal Instinct's shown. Fusion Heroes also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Machinal Instinct's advantage is review sentiment (51% vs 32%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Fusion Heroes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Machinal Instinct sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Machinal Instinct holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 706 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Fusion Heroes's written reviews are positive against 51% of Machinal Instinct's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fusion Heroes | Machinal Instinct |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.3K ratings) | 4.6 (706 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.9% of reviews | 51.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 706 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 337 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tapinator, Inc. | Pomelo Games |
Customer experience
Fusion Heroes
Machinal Instinct
User reviews
Fusion Heroes
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Unique concept and mechanics
- 🎨 Great graphics and visual design
Room to improve
- 🔥 Difficulty ramps up too quickly
- 🤖 Enemies become overpowered
- 💰 Progression feels like a pay-to-win model
- 🕹️ Aiming and controls can be frustrating
Machinal Instinct
From 706 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth animations
- 👍 Fun and engaging gameplay
- 🕹️ Accessible controls
- 💎 Great fighting game fundamentals
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent attack targeting
- 🔧 Buggy mechanics and controls
- 🕰️ Short match duration
- 🤖 Mostly playing against bots
- 📺 Excessive ads and monetization
Bugs and requests
Fusion Heroes
Reported bugs
3 issues- Certain levels are labeled incorrectly
- Weapon and gear progression is inconsistent
- Crashes and performance issues on some devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add a campaign or story mode
- Implement a PvP multiplayer mode
- Improve the balancing and difficulty scaling
- Provide more ways to earn in-game currency
Machinal Instinct
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes on startup
- Freezing at loading screens
- Matchmaking issues
- Inconsistent performance
Requested features
5 requests- Longer match duration
- Real-time multiplayer mode
- More character and weapon variety
- Customizable controls
- Additional game modes (e.g. endless, team battles)
In-app purchases
Fusion Heroes
- 64 Gems Pack$1.99
- 200 Gems pack$4.99
- 480 Gems Pack$9.99
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- 1056 Gems Pack$19.99
- 5280 Gems Pack$99.99
Machinal Instinct
- Gems x80 pack$0.99
- Starter Pack$3.99
- Gems x500 pack$4.99
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- Starter Pack$5.99
- Starter Pack$7.99
- Gems x1,200 pack$9.99
- Gems x2,500 pack$19.99
- Gems x6,500 pack$49.99
- Gems x14,000 pack$99.99
Questions
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