Monster Box vs Ruthless Conquest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monster Box
Engage in strategic battles against waves of monsters. Upgrade your stickman characters with gold and jewels to enhance their power and defeat increasingly formidable foes. Enjoy a simple yet engaging combat experience.
- Monster battles
- Stickman upgrades
- Gold and jewel currency
- Strategic combat
- Monster evolution
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Monster overflowing and Battle of Stickman! Stickman after upgrade in gold and jewel, please earnestly defeat a lot of monsters. By upgrade the monster, enjoy fight against powerful monsters.
Ruthless Conquest
Engage in galactic strategy by sending fleets to capture planets and expand your empire. Enjoy local and internet multiplayer, or test your skills against six levels of challenging AI.
- Planet capture
- Empire expansion
- Fleet management
- Local multiplayer
- Internet multiplayer
- Challenging AI opponents
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Send the fleet to capture planets and expand your empire, until you vanquish them all! Local and internet multiplayer is supported in this galactic strategy game. Six levels of challenging AI await you for practice matches and for making up numbers. This game is completely free, has no ads or in-app purchases. It is a 2018 Christmas gift for players of Survivalcraft and other CandyRufusGames games.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ruthless Conquest at none against Monster Box's shown. Ruthless Conquest also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Monster Box's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Monster Box holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 212 and 54 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Monster Box's written reviews are positive against 78% of Ruthless Conquest's.
Monster Box ships an update every 3 months, Ruthless Conquest every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Monster Box | Ruthless Conquest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (212 ratings) — better | 4.3 (54 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 78.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 212 — better | 54 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAN-BALL | Igor Kalicinski |
Customer experience
Monster Box
Ruthless Conquest
Bugs and requests
Monster Box
Reported bugs
6 issues- Stick figures drift to the right when revived repeatedly
- Game crashes for no apparent reason
- Certain medals are unobtainable (Ohagi medal)
- iPhone X notch cuts off progress bar
- Game data loss when too many monsters spawn
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- Occasional freezing on newer high-definition phones
Requested features
15 requests- More character classes (especially from Stick Ranger)
- Landscape/horizontal mode support
- Zoom feature to see action better
- Cloud save and cross-device progress transfer
- Sandbox mode with infinite monsters
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- More monsters and enemy variety
- Reset progress button
- Backup/save functionality
- Steam port
- Terrain and environment elements
- More upgrade options
- Idle mode that doesn't end at monster cap
- Ad-free premium version
- Larger UI scaling option
- Landscape orientation support
Ruthless Conquest
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Monster Box
No in-app purchases
Ruthless Conquest
No in-app purchases
Questions
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