Comparison

Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy vs Element Battle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy

Engage in retro-style, turn-based strategy battles across diverse historical and sci-fi scenarios. Guide your forces to victory as a Protector or embrace destruction as a Destroyer. Features a voice-narrated tutorial and over 30 unique combat units.

Highlights
  • 3D turn-based strategy boardgaming
  • Play as Protector or Destroyer
  • Voice narrated tutorial
  • 30+ Unique Combat Units
  • Save game option
  • Multiple scenarios
Features
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Welcome to Pocket Wars! Take control of your army and guide them to victory in this retro-style, turn based strategy board game. Bring reinforcements and supplies to an ailing 13th Century Castle in Wales, Britain before the invading Uzgoth Horde can destroy it. Help the employees of a mining station escape the invading elemental demons of Io. Or, maybe you prefer to be the Destroyer and bring vengeance to Hrethra and ensure that the LunarCol employees will never escape? Designed and optimized for iPad, Pocket Wars is a 3D strategy board game designed for people who prefer a laid back ‘pick up and play’ style gaming experience, while also having a hands-on learning curve. Remember those magazines where you cut out game pieces in order to play? Pocket Wars is like that: Easy to learn with specific scenario objectives, enough unique piece and behavior variation to keep things exciting, and with an easy-going pace of play. Features: - High resolution 3D turn-based strategy boardgaming - Play as a Protector and aid those in need, or become evil and play as a Destroyer - Voice narrated tutorial teaches you the basics - 30+ Unique Combat Units with multiple special attacks - Composed music and stereo ambient sound - Save game option for all maps - Scenario One: The Battle for Snowdonia, a 13th century war set in medieval Wales, Great Britain - Scenario Two: The Mining Station, a science-fiction battle between Cyborgs and Elementals on the moon of Io - Scenario Three: The Exclusion Zone. Modern Ukraine. Fend off the Corrupted and protect the nuclear facility. Note: Users of iPhone X/XS and 11 devices may see occasional screen display glitches when Pocket Wars is played on these specific models. iPhone 8 and other devices run without issue. Read on to learn more about each scenario: The Battle for Snowdonia Castle Dinas Bran, in the remote environs of the Welsh mountains stands alone. The Uzgoth – demons from another world – will soon have the castle under siege. A minimal complement of men remain at the Castle, their grisly fate certain if reinforcements do not arrive soon. The Wizard Morden, a stranger from another world, arrives to bring reinforcements and supplies for Castle Dinas Bran. Morden has faced the Uzgoth before, and their dreaded leader Khaaaz. Take on the role of Protector and guide Morden and save Castle Dinas Bran. Or be a Destroyer and aide Khaaaz and the Uzgoth in their plan to dominate the Earth. The Mining Station In the future, Humanity has conquered the planets. They are mined for their rich minerals and other resources. On the Jupiter moon of Io, the mining company LunarCol has established a base – beating the competition by many years. The celebrations are short as the unwitting clone workers have awoken an ancient being. And now the demon Hrethra is bringing her rage upon the mining base and LunarCol must escape. Escort and save the employees to the escape shuttle, or take on the role of Hrethra and ensure that your planet is never disturbed again by those wishing to steal and pillage its resources. The choice is yours. The Exclusion Zone In April, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Ukraine results in the irradiation of a vast area surrounding the plant. It is the world’s worst nuclear accident. Twenty years later and the plant has been shutdown with only a routine staff of maintenance engineers and scientists now maintaining the facilities. The unthinkable happens in 2012 when a massive earthquake occurs, with its epicenter in the center of the zone. A mysterious monolith has appeared, and now the corrupted come from everywhere: soldiers, ordinary people, veterans – all intent on capturing the monolith for themselves. Survive twelve turns while you are invaded from all sides to win this scenario.

About

Element Battle

Engage in an epic strategy game where you play as a Mender, a creator tasked with stopping destructive Wreckers. Heal, revive, and strategically destroy to protect the world across eight challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Eight unique levels
  • Strategic combat
  • Healing mechanics
  • Revival abilities
  • Destruction for defense
  • Mender vs. Wrecker gameplay
Features
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Fight your way through eight different levels in this epic strategy game. Your mission as a Mender is to stop the Wreckers before they destroy everything! Menders are creators nice and peaceful folk. Wreckers are built on destruction all they want to do is destroy, but there is still hope. As Menders you have a positive purpose. As you battle your way to victory you will have to heal, revive, and yes you will even have to destroy to stop the wreckers and their mischievous schemes.

Screenshots

Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy4 screens
Element Battle2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Element Battle at 5.0 against Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy's 4.7. On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Element Battle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy ships an update every 10 months, Element Battle every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy versus Element Battle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket Wars Protect or DestroyElement Battle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 8 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size714 MB408 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperDownsideup GamesZacharias Bryant

Customer experience

Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Element Battle

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy

No in-app purchases

None

Element Battle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy free?
Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Element Battle free?
Element Battle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy or Element Battle?
Element Battle is rated higher. Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Element Battle averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy or Element Battle have ads?
Neither Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy nor Element Battle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy or Element Battle?
Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy ships an update every 10 months, and Element Battle every 8 months. Most recently, Pocket Wars Protect or Destroy was updated on November 2, 2026 and Element Battle on November 2, 2026.

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