Ballistic Defence 2 vs ICBMs Inbound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ballistic Defence 2
Defend your cities from waves of incoming missiles in this retro-style arcade action game. Survive increasingly difficult attacks, including splitting missiles, intelligent missiles, and alien motherships. Compete for a high score on the global leaderboard.
- Retro arcade style
- City defense gameplay
- Wave-based missile attacks
- Enemy missile splitting
- Intelligent missile evasion
- Alien mothership boss
- Global leaderboard
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A Sequel to the original iOS title Ballistic Defence, a great retro style arcade action game which will throw you back to the 80's, a time when great games such as Missile Command were in popularity. The objective of the game is to protect your cities from the relentless onslaught of missile attacks. Day and night the waves of attacks will keep coming until eventually all your cities will be destroyed and all will be lost. How long can you survive? With each new wave of attacks, protecting the cities will become progressively more difficult. Things to watch out for: - Enemy missiles, they can split into more missiles at any point. - The intelligent missiles, they're smarter than the average missile and will attempt to avoid any explosions. - The mothership! Yes, for some reason aliens are involved now. They are tough and it will take more than one pathetic earth projectile to deal with those. Watch out for there mega laser beam, instant destruction to any city below! - Passing fighter jets, shoot them down for a bigger score. This is a much improved experience over the original game, both visually and mechanically. Play now and see how you rank on the world leaderboard. As the game progresses so does the score multiplier, keep going for a bigger score.
ICBMs Inbound
Defend your town from incoming rockets using touch controls. Manage your rocket stockpile carefully to prevent destruction. This classic defense game features improved graphics and performance.
- Rocket defense gameplay
- Touch controls
- Improved graphics
- Stockpile management
- Classic defense genre
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Defend your town from a barrage of rockets in this classic defence game, with improved graphics and performance. Use touch controls to take down the inbound missiles before they destroy your town! But keep an eye on your rocket stockpile or your town is kaput!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ICBMs Inbound at 50% against Ballistic Defence 2's 0%. ICBMs Inbound also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 81 months). Ballistic Defence 2's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Ballistic Defence 2 is free to download; ICBMs Inbound costs $1.99 up front. Ballistic Defence 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ICBMs Inbound asks for nothing beyond the download.
ICBMs Inbound holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Ballistic Defence 2's written reviews are positive against 50% of ICBMs Inbound's.
Ballistic Defence 2 ships an update every 81 months, ICBMs Inbound every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ballistic Defence 2 | ICBMs Inbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.2 (6 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 81 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Foster | Richard Bannister |
Customer experience
Ballistic Defence 2
ICBMs Inbound
In-app purchases
Ballistic Defence 2
- No Ads$0.99
ICBMs Inbound
No in-app purchases
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