Snowballs! vs Rubylands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snowballs!
Command squads of AI-powered children in real-time snowball battles to capture the enemy flag. Strategically direct your team's movements and attacks while utilizing the environment and managing their stamina.
- AI-powered child squads
- Real-time snowball battles
- Flag capture objective
- Strategic movement commands
- Terrain utilization
- Stamina management
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Lead your squads of school children in a real-time battle to capture the other team's flag in an epic snowball fight! Each child has their own name, strengths and weaknesses, and sophisticated artificial intelligence so all you need to do is tell them where to move to, charge or rapid fire, and they will take care of the rest. They'll run away if you leave them exposed or surrounded so make use of the terrain and be careful not to let them get exhausted.
Rubylands
Engage in real-time strategy with settlement building, resource management, and defensive combat. Build epic defenses, compose armies, and use magic to overcome enemies in this offline RTS experience.
- Real-time RTS strategy
- Settlement building and defense
- Resource gathering
- Offensive and defensive combat
- Survival sandbox mode
- Magic system
- Offline play
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The key to success is your resource gathering, settlement building, defense and offensive combat RTS skills. Regularly adjust to enemy tactics and build up your RTS military strategy troops! Build an epic defense of towers, magic that withstands the toughest encounters with ease. Compose your armies, RTS defense strategy wisely, because your kingdom depends on them. Recapture your islands by destroying colossus or try to survive with an RTS. Use magic to win in the most difficult situations when there is no hope. Be prepared for any epic quests and defenses that lie ahead! Features: Real-time RTS strategy with no direct control of units. Build a strong settlement defense with towers that will withstand any attack. Choose the troops and defense towers with which you want to build your way in the RTS. Survival sandbox mode. Try yourself in SANDBOX survival mode, as long as you can hold out fighting off endless attacks from various golems that want to destroy your settlement. Create or destroy. Use magic to create the world around you, or destroy all living things. And much more. Are you ready to lead your settlement to victory? Do you have the best strategy for victory? The world of RUBYLANDS is waiting for you. Community: Discord: https://bit.ly/3xgBjDe Get the latest information: https://rubylands.info/ Terms of Service: RUBYLANDS is free to download and play, but some game elements can be purchased for real money. If you do not want to use these features, please disable in-app purchases in your device settings. You can play this RTS offline without wi-fi or internet connection Download RUBYLANDS - RTS game for FREE! If you are experiencing any problems, please do get in contact with me here: dev@supermoonbox.com Leave a feedback or suggestions if you want to see more features and units in this free real time strategy game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Snowballs! at 4.5 against Rubylands's 2.9. Snowballs! also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 50%). Rubylands's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Snowballs! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rubylands sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Snowballs! holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Snowballs!'s written reviews are positive against 50% of Rubylands's.
Snowballs! ships an update every 4 months, Rubylands every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snowballs! | Rubylands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (35 ratings) — better | 2.9 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sean O'Connor | Artem Karpenko |
Customer experience
Snowballs!
Rubylands
In-app purchases
Snowballs!
- All of the maps$3.99
Rubylands
- Premium content$0.99
