WAYNESAW vs Battalion Commander
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WAYNESAW
Embark on an adventure as a sentient chainsaw, battling mutated creatures and toxic waste to find your lost family. Upgrade your chainsaw's abilities and unleash devastating power-ups to clear the forest.
- Play as a chainsaw
- Battle mutated forest critters
- Destroy trees and enemies
- Upgrade sawblade abilities
- Utilize power-ups like Boostpads and Chainguns
- Transform into SUPERSAW
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He’s cute. He’s loveable. He’s a CHAINSAW. Meet Waynesaw, your new best friend! Tear through the forest as Waynesaw in the hopes of reuniting with your lost family. But watch out! The forest is teeming with toxic waste, and the forest critters have transformed into vicious mutants. Fortunately, you are a chainsaw! Destroy trees! Obliterate your enemies! Upgrade your sawblade to annihilate everything in exciting and horrible ways! Jump on a Boostpad or grab a Chaingun to wreak unthinkable carnage upon the forest. When you’ve rained enough havoc, transform into the ferocious and unstoppable SUPERSAW! Rev up your engine, because what’s better than wielding a chainsaw? BEING A CHAINSAW.
Battalion Commander
Engage in intense vertical shooting combat, recruiting allied troops and utilizing powerful skills to destroy an enemy base. Upgrade weapons and unlock new abilities to survive challenging missions and an endless mode.
- Squad recruitment
- Weapon upgrades
- Mighty skills
- Endless mode
- Armored vehicle combat
- Multiple soldier types
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Get armed to the teeth and fight your way through the enemy territory packed with soldiers, tanks, watch towers and helicopters. You’ll need help from your fellow soldiers trapped by the foe, tons of weapons and upgrades and mighty skills to survive and accomplish your mission. And your mission is to destroy the secret enemy base that you will find in the end of your journey. If you manage to stay alive of course! You start the mission alone, but you will find cages with trapped allied troops that will join your squad once you set them free. On top of that you have a mighty skill that slowly charges as you go and can eliminate all the enemies around you in a single strike! With each mission you gain experience and get higher ranks to have a bigger squad and unlock more upgrades. No one said it's going to be easy, but if you failed the mission, you can regroup and buy valuable upgrades and weapons, unlock new allied troops and skills. Key features: - 4 leader weapons - 3 skills - 5 allied soldier types - 30 upgrades - endless mode - armored vehicle that lets you hit the enemy troops!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: WAYNESAW at none against Battalion Commander's shown. WAYNESAW also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (309 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. WAYNESAW sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Battalion Commander sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for WAYNESAW against 5.0 for Battalion Commander. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WAYNESAW has 309 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of WAYNESAW's written reviews are positive against 100% of Battalion Commander's.
WAYNESAW ships an update weekly, Battalion Commander every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WAYNESAW | Battalion Commander |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (309 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 309 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | So Choice Softworks | IriySoft |
Customer experience
WAYNESAW
Battalion Commander
Bugs and requests
WAYNESAW
Reported bugs
3 issues- Invisible enemies and chainsaw
- Checkpoint issues causing deaths
- Unexpected in-app purchases
Requested features
5 requests- More costume and upgrade options
- Expanded story and level content
- Improved optimization for older devices
- Ability to pause the game
- Morgoth-kun character addition
Battalion Commander
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WAYNESAW
- Fill wallet, get all upgrades!Free
- 5,000 Coins$0.99
- 10 Nuts$0.99
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- 30,000 Coins$1.99
- 25 Nuts$1.99
- 70,000 Coins$4.99
- 200,000 Coins$9.99
- 150 Nuts$9.99
- 400 Nuts$19.99
Battalion Commander
- No Ads$2.99
Questions
Is WAYNESAW free?
Is Battalion Commander free?
Which has better reviews, WAYNESAW or Battalion Commander?
Do WAYNESAW or Battalion Commander have ads?
Which is updated more often, WAYNESAW or Battalion Commander?
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