Pirate io vs Tornados
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pirate io
Engage in a 3D pirate world where you grow by consuming everything in sight, including smaller pirates. Navigate an engaging city environment and prove your dominance. Enjoy simple yet addictive gameplay with numerous challenges.
- 3D pirate world gameplay
- Consume objects and smaller pirates to grow
- Explore an urban environment
- Simple and attractive rules
- Numerous challenges
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Ready to experience the 3D Pirate World? Show your enemy who the real boss is, eat everything around you! That's interesting, let's see how big it can get and eat everything in your sight! You can also eat other pirates which is smaller than yours! Now, time to eat over the amazing city! Features: * Free to play, play it anywhere anytime * Simple rules but very attractive * Lots of interesting challenges
Tornados
Experience the power of a massive tornado in this engaging game. Challenge other twisters and destroy everything in your path as you learn about tornado behavior.
- Control a giant tornado
- Destroy everything in your path
- Challenge other tornados
- Learn about tornado behavior
- Immersive gameplay
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Discover how tornados behave by diving in this game and challenge other tornados, this game will let you feel like a real huge tornado that can destroy anything on its way
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tornados at 4.6 against Pirate io's 3.8. Tornados also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 18%) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). Pirate io's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Pirate io sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Tornados asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tornados holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tornados has 2.1K ratings behind it against 105, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Pirate io's written reviews are positive against 54% of Tornados's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pirate io | Tornados |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (105 ratings) | 4.6 (2.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.2% of reviews | 53.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 105 | 2.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 255 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dan Li Chen | Mad Hook |
Customer experience
Pirate io
Tornados
Bugs and requests
Pirate io
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tornados
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game crashes or freezes
- Black screen on launch
Requested features
5 requests- Add solo/endless mode
- Increase game duration
- Reduce ads or add paid version
- Ability to customize tornado
- Add more game modes
In-app purchases
Pirate io
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Buy 500 Gold Coins$1.99
- Buy 1000 Gold Coins$2.99
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- Buy 1500 Gold Coins$3.99
- 2000 Gold Coins and Remove Ads$5.99
Tornados
No in-app purchases
