Blast Rush vs Project 28
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blast Rush
Experience an action-packed shooter where unlimited bombs are your primary weapon. Blast through waves of enemies and escape overwhelming situations with screen-clearing explosives. Enjoy intense levels, diverse ships, and retro-style graphics.
- Unlimited screen-clearing explosives
- 40 intense levels
- Randomized onslaught survival mode
- Three distinct fighter ships
- Three distinct bomb types
- One-thumb control
- Share gameplay and scores
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Ever played a shooter game and wanted more bombs to escape tight spots? Blast Rush gives you as many as you want... and more! The core of the enemy mothership is destroyed and reinforcements are approaching fast, but your guns are overheated and weak. You can't shoot your way out, but you can BLAST your way out! Feel empowered with unlimited screen-clearing explosives, then take on increasingly complex waves of enemy drones and RUSH to victory! • Fly through 40 intense levels or survive a randomized onslaught • Three distinct fighter ships and bomb types • One-thumb control keeps you blasting • Share your gameplay and scores • Screamin' 16-bit-style graphics and sound
Project 28
Build and defend a settlement by day, then survive relentless night-time hordes. Manage resources, upgrade defenses, and fight off increasingly difficult bosses in a neon-noir horror world. Experience a challenging, adaptive difficulty curve with no forced waiting.
- Build and defend settlement
- Survive endless night hordes
- Adaptive difficulty curve
- Resource management (power, food, people)
- Unlockable arsenal of guns
- Neon-noir horror aesthetic
- One-hand mobile controls
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The city fell to the Bleed. What crawls out of the Marrow only comes at night. You are Ward 28's last anchor - a psychic child with the power to hold a shrinking pocket of the world together. By day you rebuild: raise power, food, and shelter, and ring your settlement with turrets, walls, and militia. When the sun drops, the horde comes. Survive to dawn. PLAY LOOP - DAY: Spend coins to build. Every structure needs resources - solar for power, farms for food, shelter for people - so your settlement grows into a real war-machine, not just a pile of towers. - NIGHT: Auto-fire through swarms of nightmares, dodge, and outlast a boss that comes back meaner every time. - REPEAT: The nights never end. They only get harder - and the run adapts to how strong you actually are, so it stays a knife-edge whether you're a careful builder or a reckless gunner. FEATURES - Endless nights with a fair, self-tuning difficulty curve - chase your Deepest Night record. - Build-and-defend economy: power, food, and people meters that make every structure a real decision. - An arsenal of guns, each changing how you fight - unlock and equip them. - Hand-drawn, neon-noir horror world inspired by animated sci-fi classics. - A cinematic story intro: the fall of Ward 28 and your first desperate night. - One-hand, pick-up-and-play controls built for phones. No timers to wait out. No forced waiting. Just build, fight, and see how far into the dark you can push.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Project 28 at Free against Blast Rush's $2.99. Project 28 also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Blast Rush's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (64 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support 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
Project 28 is free to download; Blast Rush costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Blast Rush against 5.0 for Project 28. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blast Rush has 64 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Blast Rush ships an update every 2 months, Project 28 every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blast Rush | Project 28 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (64 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 637 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Bipedal Dog | CRB Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Blast Rush
Project 28
In-app purchases
Blast Rush
No in-app purchases
Project 28
No in-app purchases









