Comparison

Final Outpost vs To The Trenches

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

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About

Final Outpost

Lead the last remnants of civilization to survive a zombie apocalypse. Build and manage your outpost, assign citizens to vital tasks, and craft weapons to defend against the undead. Balance resources, research, and defense to ensure your community's survival.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade outpost structures
  • Manage citizen jobs and skills
  • Craft weapons and tools
  • Scavenge and manage resources
  • Defend against zombie attacks
  • Simulated weather and day/night cycle
Features
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===Final Outpost 2.0 is available now!=== Top-100 strategy game in 140+ countries worldwide! Build your Outpost • Manage your citizens • Survive the zombie apocalypse ​ As the leader of one of the last remnants of civilization, you must manage your citizens, use resources to expand your outpost, and protect your citizens from both starvation and zombies. ​ In the face of this great challenge, you are given control over the construction of new buildings for your citizens to live and work in. Striking the right balance of building types is critical to maintaining the resource stockpiles so valuable to your citizens. Equip your workforce with the right tools for the job as the needs of your Outpost are shaped by its growth. Craft weapons to protect and defend your Outpost from zombies that wander too close... -------------------- ==BUILD== Improve your base over time to shelter your citizens from the outside world, and stockpile resources to save as many lives as possible. ==UPGRADE== Upgrade the capabilities of your citizens with the skill tree. Earn skill points by killing zombies and ensure the survival of your citizens by guiding them from novice to warrior as you play. ==MANAGE== Lead your citizens into a new age of prosperity by assigning them the right jobs, including farmers and guards. ==CRAFT== Give your citizens the tools they need to survive. Build a workshop to unlock advanced crafting and create weaponry to fend off the dead. ==SURVIVE== Combat famine and the dead by perfecting your long-term strategic balance of management, research, building and crafting. GAME FEATURES • Assign your citizens to scavenge, hunt, farm, mine and more • Craft tools and manage your resources • Construct and upgrade 12+ building types • Defend your walls from 5+ zombie types • Feed your hungry citizens as your Outpost expands • Simulated weather, seasons and day/night cycle • Upgrade your citizens with the skill tree -------------------- Send your feedback and bug reports to support@exabytegames.com Join the newsletter: https://cutt.ly/news-d

About

To The Trenches

Lead your army through intense, retro-style WW1 trench warfare. Command specialized units, deploy artillery, and adapt to procedurally generated battles with changing weather conditions. Choose from unique historical factions and upgrade your forces through an in-depth system for infinite replayability.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated battlefields
  • Specialized units and upgrades
  • Authentic WW1 setting
  • Unique historical factions
  • Offline play
  • In-depth officer upgrade tree
Features
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Command a WW1 army in pixel-art trench warfare. Send infantry over the top, call in artillery and gas strikes to dominate the front lines. Real-time strategy that can be played fully offline, with a large roster of nations, changing weather and an endless campaign where no two battles are alike. Free to play with no ads of any kind. One purchase unlocks every nation, skill and elite units. Lead your army through the chaos of 1917 Trench Warfare in this retro-style military strategy game. Command infantry, deploy brutal artillery strikes and dominate the battlefield with tactical precision. Procedurally generated battles mean every fight offers new challenges. ▶ FEATURES ◀ [PROCEDURAL BATTLES] - Procedurally generated battlefields, so no two wars are alike. - Face dilemmas that can change morale, rewards and your troops' stats. [SPECIALIZED UNITS] - Unlock, upgrade and deploy Sharpshooters, Flame Troopers, Sentries, Trench Raiders and Medics. - Call in artillery, and with Unlimited add Tanks, Armored Vehicles, Mortar Teams and Strafing Runs. - Grow your army through the in-depth Officer Tree and your platoon officers. [AUTHENTIC WW1 SETTING] - Detailed pixel art shows the brutality of trench warfare. - Fight through mud, and with Unlimited, lightning storms, blizzards and sandstorms that change your tactics. [UNIQUE FACTIONS] - Play Germany, France, Britain or Austria-Hungary for free. Every nation has two faction perks that change how it fights. [OFFLINE FRIENDLY] - Battles play without an internet connection. ▶ WHAT'S FREE ◀ - Procedurally generated battles, artillery, mud and platoon officers - Most of the Officer Tree - Germany, France, Britain and Austria-Hungary - Seasonal events - No intrusive ads ▶ WHAT UNLIMITED ADDS ◀ One purchase, no subscription, unlocks: - More nations: Italy, Ottoman Empire, Russia, the USA, Canada, Bulgaria and Serbia - Tanks and armored vehicles - Specialists: Sharpshooters, Flame Troopers, Sentries, Trench Raiders and Medics - Grenades, Mortar Teams and Strafing Runs - Weather: lightning storms, blizzards and sandstorms - Daily, weekly and monthly missions Command. Adapt. Survive. Do you have what it takes to lead your army to victory? Enlist now and head To The Trenches! ▶ SOCIALS ◀ Discord: https://discord.gg/3TJ6sH3qQG BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dadmadethings.com Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/tothetrenches/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DadMadeGames TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dadmade X: https://twitter.com/DadMadeGames

Screenshots

Final Outpost4 screens
To The Trenches4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: To The Trenches at 4.7 against Final Outpost's 4.0. To The Trenches also leads on ratings volume (8.2K vs 1.9K). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Final Outpost sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and To The Trenches 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

To The Trenches holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.9K and 8.2K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Final Outpost's written reviews are positive against 65% of To The Trenches's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Final Outpost ships an update every 8 days, To The Trenches every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Final Outpost versus To The Trenches: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinal OutpostTo The Trenches
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1.9K ratings)4.7 (8.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better65.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.9K8.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size278 MB399 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperExabyte Games LtdDad Made

Customer experience

Final Outpost

All ratings1,875 ratings
Positive74.9%
Neutral9.0%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews456 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral15.1%
Negative18.2%

To The Trenches

All ratings8,217 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews658 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative23.9%

User reviews

Final Outpost

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 Addictive gameplay
  • 🚀 Challenging but fun
  • 👍 No ads or pay-to-win
  • 🚀 Frequent updates

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitches and bugs
  • 🔍 Lack of difficulty scaling
  • 🔍 Repetitive late-game
  • 🐛 Unresponsive workers
  • 🔍 Tedious resource management

To The Trenches

From 8.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 Solid game
  • 👍 Fun game
  • 👍 Pretty good game
  • 👍 Amazing game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes often
  • 🐛 Freezes
  • 🐛 Bugs
  • 💰 Have to pay for good stuff
  • 💰 More great war games should be like this one

Bugs and requests

Final Outpost

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Workers not responding
  • Snipers/guards not activating
  • Resources disappearing
  • Progress reset after updates
  • Zombie invincibility glitch
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  • Inconsistent resource collection

Requested features

12 requests
  • Sandbox mode
  • Difficulty settings
  • Ability to rearrange outpost
  • More building/job variety
  • Skill progression for workers
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  • Ability to skip tutorial
  • Faster time controls
  • More enemy/event variety
  • Multiplayer/co-op mode
  • Ability to repair walls
  • Food/resource storage upgrades
  • Scavenging/exploration missions

To The Trenches

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Troops get stuck in loops
  • Freeze when recruiting after battle
  • Freeze when changing weather
  • Crashes when completing daily challenges
  • Losing progress when switching saves
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  • Artillery inaccuracy issues

Requested features

11 requests
  • More maps, troops, officer upgrades
  • Retreat button
  • Unique units like tanks
  • More missions, more purpose
  • Ability to control troops
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  • Medics, machine gunners, raiders
  • Ranks for veteran troops
  • Interactive map of Europe
  • Different battle locations
  • Barbed wire, officer with pistol
  • Ability to upgrade trenches

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Final Outpost

One-time10
  • Set Traps$0.79
  • Set Traps$0.99
  • Continue$0.99
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  • Additional Save Slots$1.99
  • Ambush Survivors$1.99
  • Ambush Survivors$2.99
  • Search for Resources$4.99
  • Search for Resources$7.99
  • Raid Nearby Settlement$12.99
  • Raid Nearby Settlement$16.99
11 purchases

To The Trenches

One-time11
  • Guardian Token x 1$1.99
  • Training Bonds x 50$1.99
  • Training Bonds x 100$2.99
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  • Recruit Bundle$3.99
  • Training Bonds x 250$4.99
  • Veteran Bundle$7.99
  • Unlimited Version$8.99
  • Training Bonds x 500$9.99
  • Guardian Token x 10$12.99
  • Ultimate Bundle$12.99
  • Training Bonds x 1000$19.99

Questions

Is Final Outpost free?
Final Outpost is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is To The Trenches free?
To The Trenches is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Final Outpost or To The Trenches?
To The Trenches is rated higher. Final Outpost averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while To The Trenches averages 4.7 from 8.2K ratings.
Do Final Outpost or To The Trenches have ads?
Neither Final Outpost nor To The Trenches shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Final Outpost or To The Trenches?
Final Outpost ships an update every 8 days, and To The Trenches every 9 days. Most recently, Final Outpost was updated on October 29, 2026 and To The Trenches on October 31, 2026.

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