Pocket Rogues vs SimpleTD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Rogues
Engage in real-time combat, explore procedurally generated dungeons, and upgrade your guild fortress. Choose from diverse hero classes, each with unique skills and progression paths. Uncover secrets and face powerful bosses in this challenging Action-RPG roguelike.
- Real-time action combat
- Diverse hero classes
- Procedurally generated dungeons
- Guild fortress upgrades
- Unique locations and enemies
- Regular updates
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Dynamic 2D Roguelike with Action-RPG elements. Raid endless dungeons, rebuild your Fortress, and develop your own heroes! Pocket Rogues combines the classic feel of old-school Action RPGs with the challenge and replayability of the Roguelike genre. Fight through hordes of monsters, explore procedurally generated dungeons, upgrade your guild fortress, and develop powerful heroes as you uncover the secrets hidden deep underground. === FEATURES: === • REAL-TIME ACTION Move, dodge, avoid traps, outmaneuver enemies, and fight in a combat system that rewards control, timing, and player skill. • DIVERSE HERO CLASSES Choose from a variety of heroes, each with unique skills, exclusive equipment, and their own progression paths. • EVERY DUNGEON IS UNIQUE Locations, monsters, loot, and encounters are procedurally generated, making every run different. • UNIQUE LOCATIONS Each location features its own visual style, enemies, traps, and interactive objects. Once unlocked, you can freely travel between them. • BUILD YOUR GUILD FORTRESS Construct and upgrade buildings to unlock new hero classes, strengthen existing ones, and gain access to new mechanics and features. • REGULAR UPDATES Pocket Rogues is actively supported and continuously expanded in close contact with its community. Pocket Rogues features dozens of dungeons filled with unique loot, dangerous enemies, and powerful bosses. Traditional RPG elements such as character progression, equipment upgrades, and world exploration add even more depth to each adventure. “For centuries, a dark dungeon has lured adventurers with its secrets and treasures. One after another, they vanished in its depths after facing the true evil hidden below. Yet the old legends continue to tempt new seekers of glory and fortune. Will you become one of them?” ULTIMATE version of Pocket Rogues is already available: https://itunes.apple.com/app/pocket-rogues-ultimate/id1316150324?mt=8 Discord (Eng): https://discord.gg/nkmyx6JyYZ For any questions, contact the developer directly: ethergaminginc@gmail.com
SimpleTD
Engage in a pixel-art tower defense experience with a rich storyline and fully voiced cutscenes. Strategize with over 14 unique towers, permanent upgrade paths, and challenging endless waves. Enemies can also gain power-ups, adding a unique twist to each playthrough.
- Voiced cinematic cutscenes and rich story
- 14+ unique towers with distinct personalities
- Deep, permanent upgrade paths
- Endless waves and titan-sized bosses
- Enemy power-ups on maps
- Daily & weekly quests
- 10+ hand-crafted maps with dynamic modifiers
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Defend your Life Orbs against ever-evolving foes in SimpleTD—with no microtransactions! Features -- Voiced Cinematic Cutscenes and Rich Story: A rich storyline to propel players through those waves with fully voiced cutscenes in a 2D, pixel art style with plenty of DLCs planned to expand on the story. -- 14+ Unique Towers, Each with a Personality: From all-purpose Simple Towers to credit-printing Mint towers, acid-splashing Splash Towers, boss-busting Shotguns, and range-boosting Buff Towers, every turret plays, and upgrades, differently. -- Interesting Towers and Mechanics - Easily collect crystals passively or organically by completing waves, store credits on easier maps to use on harder maps, protect your towers from aerial attacks. -- Deep, Permanent Upgrade Paths: Spend hard-earned Crystals in the Upgrade Lab to push damage, fire-rate, range, critical chance, and even global LP caps to dizzying heights, then stack buffs for exponential power. -- Endless Waves & Titan-Sized Bosses: Face adaptive swarms, enable Crazy Mode for 3x the enemies with 3x the strength, and face off against bosses with both set and random schedules! No two play-throughs will be exactly the same! -- Enemy Power-Ups: Instead of trying to earn power-ups for your towers, the enemies get a chance to! All maps have power-ups along the paths for enemies to pick up, providing unique abilities to power them through to your Life Points! --Daily & Weekly Quests – Knock out fresh objectives every day and week for Crystals, carry-over credits, and limited-time stat buffs that alter your next run’s strategy. -- 10+ Hand-Crafted Maps with Dynamic Modifiers. Spiral deserts, snaking forests, twin-lane battlefields, mega-sized arenas, and more. Each map flips spawn rates, HP multipliers, weather events, and elite chances to keep you guessing. -- Map Based Events: Contend with interesting events on most of the maps to add to the gameplay. -- Auto-Play & Super Play Speeds - Grind hands-free in Auto Mode (which stops if your lose a Life Point) and/or crank the speed up 5x to hurry through early waves, but watch out as accuracy will take a hit! -- In-Game Store for Buffs and Items: An in-game store using only game acquired crystals to allow players to spend on buffs and items. No real-world money here; microtransactions are not welcomed in SimpleTD! -- User-Defined Graphics: Love retro pixel art? Leave it on. Prefer a clean, minimalist look? Turn it off for a more “Simple” feel. == No Microtransactions == Every Crystal and Credit is earned in-game—no paywalls, ever. Download SimpleTD now and master your defenses!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Rogues at 4.7 against SimpleTD's 4.0. Pocket Rogues also leads on ratings volume (699 vs 1) and chart position (#34 vs unranked). SimpleTD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On update cadence, ads 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
Pocket Rogues costs $2.99 and SimpleTD $0.99 up front. Pocket Rogues sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. SimpleTD asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Rogues holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Rogues has 699 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Pocket Rogues's written reviews are positive against 100% of SimpleTD's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pocket Rogues ships an update every 5 weeks, SimpleTD monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Rogues | SimpleTD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (699 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 699 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #34 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 292 MB | 1.7 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Alexej Leonydov | AngrySalami LLC |
Customer experience
Pocket Rogues
SimpleTD
Bugs and requests
Pocket Rogues
Reported bugs
5 issues- Archer attack speed bug
- Wizard heal skill inconsistency
- Porcupine pet visual glitch
- Stuck on loading screen
- Disappearing equipped gear
Requested features
6 requests- More character classes and abilities
- Expanded dungeon variety
- Multiplayer co-op mode
- Ability to reset skills/attributes
- Shared pet progression across characters
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- Chinese language support
SimpleTD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Rogues
- Handful of Gems$1.99
- Bag of Gems$4.99
- Chest of Gems$11.99
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- Treasure of Gems$24.99
- Mountain of Gems$49.99
SimpleTD
No in-app purchases
Questions
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