Comparison

Spartan Runner. vs Dead Effect

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

Head to head
About

Spartan Runner.

Embark on an action-packed 2D adventure where you equip a Spartan with a shotgun to battle an alien invasion. Explore over 40 missions, customize your character, and upgrade weapons. Compete with friends on the global leaderboard.

Highlights
  • Old-school 2D graphics
  • Over 40 missions
  • Spartan customization
  • Weapon upgrades
  • Rewards and achievements
  • Weekly challenges
  • Global leaderboard
Features
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Here comes a new fun action running game that will keep you entertained for weeks! Equip your Spartan with his shotgun to go on a wild ride in his endless quest to stop the Alien invasion. FEATURES: * Discover old-school 2D graphics * Over 40 missions to complete * Customise your Spartan with emblematic Helmets * Splatter everything on your way with awesome vehicles * Upgrade your favourite weapons to make them devastating * Earn rewards and achievements from each game * New challenges every week * Test your reflexes with easy-to-learn controls * Battle against your friends in the world leaderboard Download Spartan Runner now for a new action packed adventure!

About

Dead Effect

Embark on a thrilling sci-fi FPS adventure where you awaken to an empty ship filled with horrors. Fight for survival against infected creatures, uncover mysteries, and upgrade your arsenal in an epic campaign.

Highlights
  • Sci-fi FPS combat
  • Single player campaign
  • Weapon upgrades
  • Time-slowing ability
  • Survival mode arenas
  • Unlockable achievements
Features
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Be careful, you need at least 160 MB FREE RAM to run the game. "Dead Effect is pretty awesome."-capsulecomputers.com.au 9/10 "Graphically, the game is top notch."-toucharcade.com 4/5 Stars "Dead Effect [...] strikes an impressive balance between humor and fear"-modojo.com 4/5 ESS Meridian System: Wednesday September 7, 2045… 178 days of hibernation. Delta 3 Chamber, Active… Tissue and vital functions Check. Error! Disruption Detected… Critical Health Detected. 3… 2… 1… Awakening! Something is not right, the hibernation pods are all empty. What is happening? You are an elite member of the Unit 13. Fight for your life in a SCI-FI FPS game that will send chills down your spine. • Grab your phone/tablet, get in control and bring infected horrors down. Your interface is zombie-shooting ready. • An epic single player campaign awaits you with more than 5 hours of story gameplay. Space is cold and full of horrors. • Throughout the campaign you will find new weapons and money to upgrade your armory. • Discover the mysteries of the ESS Meridian, and wander around its impressive environments with intense background music. • Use your special ability to slow down the time and defeat even the toughest enemies! • Will you take up the challenge and try to defeat all your enemies in survival mode arenas? Unlock all the achievements and get all the weapons available! FOLLOW US: https://www.facebook.com/DeadEffectGame/ twitter.com/deadeffectgame deadeffect.com About the developer: BadFly Interactive, a.s. is a small indie studio based in Brno, Czech Republic. We are a group of veterans of the gaming industry, having worked on projects like Mafia, Vietcong, Mad Max or Witcher III in the past. With each of us having dedicated 15+ years of our professional careers to game development, we thought it was about time we started making games under our own flag. We love horror and sci-fi movies, good action, and cheesy one-liners. Our goal is to create entertaining games which combine fast-paced action with gore, humor, and lots of fun.

Screenshots

Spartan Runner.4 screens
Dead Effect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Spartan Runner. at 4.8 against Dead Effect's 4.5. Spartan Runner. also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 172). Dead Effect's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spartan Runner. sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Dead Effect sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spartan Runner. holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spartan Runner. has 1.3K ratings behind it against 172, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Spartan Runner.'s written reviews are positive against 83% of Dead Effect's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Spartan Runner. versus Dead Effect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpartan Runner.Dead Effect
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better4.5 (172 ratings)
Positive reviews89.4% of reviews — better83.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better172
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB761 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperWilliam BourdonBrainVault Games, LLC

Customer experience

Spartan Runner.

All ratings1,296 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews236 reviews
Positive89.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative6.8%

Dead Effect

All ratings171 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral2.9%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive83.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative12.6%

User reviews

Spartan Runner.

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👌 Perfecto
  • 🎮 New game idea
  • 🕹️ Halo in a nutshell
  • 👍 Good before bed game
  • 🏃‍♂️ Spartan runner

Room to improve

  • 🙅‍♂️ Bad app support
  • 🙅‍♂️ Worst game ever
  • 💰 Good if you don't care about ads
  • 🐛 Fix level 16
  • 🙅‍♂️ Can't X out of ads

Dead Effect

From 172 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Amazing graphics and visuals
  • 🎮 Smooth and good controls
  • 🌌 Immersive atmosphere
  • 🧟 Classic space zombie theme
  • 💰 Free to play

Room to improve

  • ❓ Orbs hard to find
  • 🚫 No jump button
  • 💸 Expensive weapons
  • ⏳ Short game duration
  • 🪲 Enemies too close/aggressive

Bugs and requests

Spartan Runner.

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Level 16 the add always freezes up and I have restarted the level 3 times
  • Mission 21 is impossible to get all 12 marines
  • The banshee levels could be fixed and the automatic weapons should kill elites in two or three shots, not one. The automatic weapons could be given more ammo to counter this. Also brutes, hunters and elites should deal more damage than jackals and there should be energy sword elites and maybe gravity hammer brutes later in the run that can kill you in one hit
  • All of the characters in the game are copyrighted so kiss money goodbye, fake halo game
  • The enemy sprites need to be added instead of just blobs cause the blobs just get in the way of the experience of the game it's supposed to feel like halo yes well the enemy's you can't tell what they are you can't tell if it's forerunners or Covinet or Prometheus you can't tell

Requested features

6 requests
  • Make a RTS halo game!
  • Put this spartan into super Mario bros?
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Playable Eleates (Elites) where you can customize their armor and stuff and get like different suits with an alien weapon
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  • More customization options and select which part to be colored

Dead Effect

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Stuck and have to restart mission due to no jump button
  • Lost weapons in third level
  • Purchases taken away after playing again
  • Auto-fire icon vanishes
  • Falling through textures
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  • Game crashes (implied by 'nothing plays')
  • Game removed from app store then re-uploaded

Requested features

19 requests
  • Add jump button
  • Add more stages/levels
  • Add Russian language support
  • Add Spanish language support
  • Add more languages
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  • Add checkpoints
  • Restore purchases feature
  • Keep purchases when starting new game
  • Make chainsaw free
  • Add more bosses
  • Add more zombie varieties
  • Make story longer
  • Make ending more dynamic/interesting
  • Make weapon reload faster
  • Keep corpses from disappearing
  • Save progress feature
  • Update game more frequently
  • Add more levels like before
  • Add multiplayer

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Spartan Runner.

One-time6
  • Credits pack 1$1.99
  • Credits pack 2$2.99
  • Ads removal$2.99
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  • Credits pack 3$4.99
  • Credits pack 4$8.99
  • Credits pack 5$49.99
11 purchases

Dead Effect

One-time11
  • 100 000 credits$0.99
  • 100 gold$0.99
  • 330 000 credits$2.99
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  • 330 gold$2.99
  • 600 000 credits$4.99
  • 600 gold$4.99
  • 1 300 000 credits$9.99
  • 1300 gold$9.99
  • 3 000 000 credits$19.99
  • 3000 gold$19.99
  • 10 000 000 credits$46.99

Questions

Is Spartan Runner. free?
Spartan Runner. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dead Effect free?
Dead Effect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spartan Runner. or Dead Effect?
Spartan Runner. is rated higher. Spartan Runner. averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Dead Effect averages 4.5 from 172 ratings.
Do Spartan Runner. or Dead Effect have ads?
Neither Spartan Runner. nor Dead Effect shows ads.

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