Animation Throwdown vs Terror Cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Animation Throwdown
Collect cards featuring characters from popular animated shows and battle other players in strategic duels. Build and upgrade your deck, join a guild, and compete in challenges to rise to the top.
- Collect cards from favorite animated shows
- Strategic PVP card battles
- Build and upgrade your card deck
- Join guilds and chat with friends
- Conquer story levels and arenas
- Weekly challenges and guild wars
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Animation Throwdown is the collectible card game that lets you collect cards and battle with characters from your favorite shows! Collect cards featuring characters and moments from your favorite cartoons. FAMILY GUY, FUTURAMA, AMERICAN DAD, KING OF THE HILL, BOB’S BURGERS and FX’s ARCHER duke it out in Animation Throwdown’s epic CCG! PVP battles let you duel other players in strategic head-to-head card battles. Enter epic card wars with Bob, Linda, Tina, Louise or Gene and fight Peter or Stewie Griffin! Battle, build and upgrade your deck for a cartoon card clash. Build a deck and join a guild with your friends, share tips and tricks through chat. Can you rise to the top? Card battles may be digital, but the stakes are real!* The fate of the world rests in your hands!** (*Stakes are not real) (**The fate of the world does not rest in your hands.) STEWIE, BENDER, LANA, PAM, TINA BELCHER, HANK HILL & ROGER THE ALIEN are waiting for you in this epic CCG! Come battle your way to the top in PVP duels! Collectible Card Game Collect cards of your favorite characters from each and every show Collect and fuse to design an epic deck Build card combos and find powerful new cards in Mom’s Mystery Box for special surprises and skins. Card Battles Battle to conquer 30+ islands of story levels to win cards – can you unlock Onyx Mode? Duel other players to level up in the Arena and unlock Secret Fight Club. Card battle challenges and Guild wars are available every week for big rewards. Play for infinite hours, provided that you never stop playing! Cartoon characters from your favorite shows: Family Guy’s Peter Griffin arrives alongside, Stewie, Lois, Meg, & Chris! Futurama’s Bender approaches with Fry, Leela, & Zoidberg! American Dad’s Stan Smith goes in for the attack with Francine, Klaus & Hayley! King of the Hill’s Hank Hill puts the “pain” in “propane” with Peggy, Dale, Jeff, & Bobby! Bob's Burgers’ Tina Belcher cooks the competition, joined by Bob Belcher, and Teddy! Your favorite Cartoon characters will make you laugh ‘til you drop your phone (or tablet) in the toilet! FX's Archer needs you on his very own spy missions! Download Animation Throwdown and join the card battling adventure today! Please Note: A network connection is required to play. Login or sign up for a Kongregate account to save progress across devices! Rated 18+ by the Indonesia Game Rating System (IGRS). Animation Throwdown CCG is free to play, but some extra game items can be purchased for real money. You can disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards ™ and © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Terror Cards
Collect cards featuring horror icons and scream queens from popular and indie films. Open packs daily with free credits and trade with other collectors worldwide to complete your collection. Engage with a community of fellow fans through chat and trading.
- Collect horror icon cards
- Daily free credits
- Trade with collectors
- New releases often
- Community chat
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Terror in the palm of your hands. Collect all your favorite horror icons and scream queens from your favorite mainstream and indie horror films. These cards are so scary, don't open them alone! Free credits everyday means you can open packs every day to build your collection. Missing a card? Trade with a world of other collectors to complete your collection. New releases often so check in daily to collect new cards. Chat or trade with your fellow collectors. Rip into the terror now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Animation Throwdown at 4.7 against Terror Cards's 4.1. Animation Throwdown also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (43K vs 21). Terror Cards's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Animation Throwdown sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Terror Cards sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Animation Throwdown holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Animation Throwdown has 43K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Animation Throwdown's written reviews are positive against 78% of Terror Cards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Animation Throwdown ships an update weekly, Terror Cards every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Animation Throwdown | Terror Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (43K ratings) — better | 4.1 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.2% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43K — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #82 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 369 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kongregate | Previn Wong |
Customer experience
Animation Throwdown
Terror Cards
Bugs and requests
Animation Throwdown
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes when opening the shop
- Tutorial gets stuck on card upgrade screen
- Arena rewards not properly credited
Requested features
4 requests- Add real-time PvP mode
- Improve guild communication features
- Implement card recycling system
- Reduce research and upgrade times
Terror Cards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Animation Throwdown
- Limited Time Pack2 variants$2.99
- Small Gem Pack$4.99
- Time Limited Pack$4.99
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- Get it now! Time Limited Pack$4.99
- Medium Gem Pack$9.99
- Special Pack$9.99
- VIP Card$9.99
- Large Gem Pack$19.99
- Exclusive! Limited Time Pack$19.99
Terror Cards
- 25,000 CREDIT BUNDLE$0.99
- 100,000 CREDIT BUNDLE$3.99
- 250,000 CREDIT BUNDLE$7.99
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- 500,000 CREDIT BUNDLE$14.99
- 750,000 CREDIT BUNDLE$24.99
Questions
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