Comparison

Dead Effect vs Zombie Fire

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

Head to head
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.

About

Zombie Fire

Engage in realistic zombie combat with a variety of powerful weapons. Strategize your attacks, upgrade your arsenal, and conquer numerous stages filled with diverse zombie types and formidable boss monsters. Enjoy offline play, competitive leaderboards, and thrilling bonus modes.

Highlights
  • Powerful and unique weapons
  • Weapon upgrading system
  • Multiple stages with varied zombies
  • Giant Boss monsters
  • Survival Mode
  • Bonus Mode with bazooka
  • Offline play
Features
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Use powerful weapons to easily shoot down realistic zombies. You need to consider and use the features of various weapons for easy victory. - There are various weapons with unique features. - Apply various tactics by switching between a machine gun, pistol, and grenades. - Upgrade weapons to make unique features even more powerful. - There are numerous stages with various types of zombies and giant Boss monsters. - Play the Survival Mode in which you need to shoot every weapon that you got until the time runs out. - Play the Bonus Mode in which you can blow away the zombies with a bazooka and feel the exhilaration! - Achievements and Leaderboard supported. - The game can be played offline, so you don't need a network connection. - Supports English. Help : cs@mobirix.com Homepage : https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=4864673505117639552 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/mobirixplayen YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/mobirix1 Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/mobirix_official/ TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@mobirix_official

Screenshots

Dead Effect4 screens
Zombie Fire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dead Effect at none against Zombie Fire's shown. Dead Effect also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Dead Effect sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Zombie Fire sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Dead Effect against 4.4 for Zombie Fire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 171 and 155 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Dead Effect's written reviews are positive against 63% of Zombie Fire's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dead Effect versus Zombie Fire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDead EffectZombie Fire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (171 ratings) — better4.4 (155 ratings)
Positive reviews83.5% of reviews — better63.0% of reviews
Number of ratings171 — better155
Update frequencyEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size761 MB246 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperBrainVault Games, LLCMOBIRIX

Customer experience

Dead Effect

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

Zombie Fire

All ratings155 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative31.5%

Bugs and requests

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
Show 14 more
  • 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

Zombie Fire

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Dead Effect

One-time11
  • 100 000 credits$0.99
  • 100 gold$0.99
  • 330 000 credits$2.99
Show 8 more
  • 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
10 purchases

Zombie Fire

One-time10
  • 60 Gold$0.99
  • 200 Gold$1.99
  • 550 Gold$4.99
Show 7 more
  • 1,150 Gold$9.99
  • 3,600 Gold$29.99
  • Level Up Package1$29.99
  • Special 1$29.99
  • 6,250 Gold$49.99
  • Level Up Package2$49.99
  • Level Up Package3$99.99

Questions

Is Dead Effect free?
Dead Effect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zombie Fire free?
Zombie Fire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dead Effect or Zombie Fire?
Dead Effect is rated higher. Dead Effect averages 4.5 out of 5 from 171 ratings, while Zombie Fire averages 4.4 from 155 ratings.
Do Dead Effect or Zombie Fire have ads?
Zombie Fire shows ads; Dead Effect does not.

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