Comparison

Beach Siege vs RTS Siege Up!

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

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About

Beach Siege

Engage in strategic tower defense battles across various game modes. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your ship from waves of enemies. Compete globally or team up with friends in challenging cooperative and versus matches.

Highlights
  • Campaign mode with 4 difficulty levels
  • Online versus multiplayer
  • Online co-operative mode
  • Tower upgrades and new factions
  • Global leaderboards
  • Tower XP system for upgrades
Features
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Welcome to Beach Siege! Below you'll find a small "how to" with high level information about how to play and navigate the game. I hope you enjoy! MENU Leaderboard - This is a global leaderboard that shows high scores for each of the available difficulties. If you don't choose a user-name you'll be using the "Default" name which is shared across all users who don't specify a name. Username - This name is how you show up on the leaderboards, as well as how your name shows up when you are playing in online matches. Campaign - 4 difficulty modes where you can earn Mint (which is used to purchase upgrades to towers and unlock new tower factions) as well as get your score in the global leaderboards. Online VS - VS mode is where you go head to head with another online player. You are responsible for both sending units for them to fight as well as building towers to defend against the units that they send you. (known issue- when you finish a vs mode match, your "income" will never change on the final screen) Online Co-Op - Here you will work WITH another online player to conquer the traditional 30 waves from the campaign mode, however the enemies are much more challenging. Factions - From this screen you can browse your Tower Factions, unlock new factions by spending Mint earned from Campaign Mode, or spend Mint to upgrade all towers within a faction by 1 level. GAMEPLAY After starting a match you will be prompted to select a faction. You will only have your unlocked factions visible to you. The percentage bar under the faction name is a way to view your completion of upgrades for the towers within that faction (each tower can go up to level 50). After selecting a faction the match will start. You must build towers to defend your ship from the impending waves of enemies (the timer in the top left tells you when the next wave is due). Build towers by selecting them from your list of available towers and tapping a square, if you regret your placement you have 3 seconds to refund that tower for the full price after which it can be sold for 75% of its original cost. To sell or refund towers, select them by tapping them and click the "sell" or "refund" button in the bottom right. You can also upgrade the tower (if eligible) by clicking the button in the top right. Selecting a tower shows the range in a circle around it, as well as information about how it performs in combat. Each kill awards that tower type some XP, when a certain type of tower gains enough XP ALL towers of that type will level up and increase their range and base damage. Bosses come every 5 waves. They will do 3 things: 1. Spawn Bomb, these bombs need to be tapped on or they will destroy towers near them 2. Spawn Enemies, these enemies are much stronger than their regular counterparts 3. Spawn Healing Zones, nothing to be done about these, but enemies who walk through them gain 10% of their health back.

About

RTS Siege Up!

Experience classic real-time strategy with a medieval fantasy twist. Build castles, command armies, and engage in strategic battles without pay-to-win mechanics. Enjoy a rich campaign, multiplayer modes, and extensive modding support.

Highlights
  • 26-mission campaign
  • Online PvP and PvE multiplayer
  • Wi-Fi multiplayer support
  • Level editor for custom missions
  • Destroyable castle walls
  • Naval battles
  • Modding support
Features
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Full-featured old-school fantasy RTS. No boosters. No timers. No pay-to-win. Battles last 10–20 minutes. 34-mission campaign, online PvP and PvE. Wi-Fi multiplayer and modding support. • Medieval castles with stone and wooden walls! • Build catapults and other siege engines to break through the walls! • Archers, infantry and cavalry stand ready to defend your stronghold. • Naval battles, transport ships and fishing boats • Capture and hold resources and strategic positions This is an indie game in active development. Share your ideas on social media and contact me directly! All links are in the main menu. Features: • Ranked matches: 1v1 and team battles, leagues from Wooden to Mythic and a global leaderboard • 34-mission campaign with varied gameplay mechanics, crowns for every mission and a Hardcore mode • Multiplayer (Wi-Fi or public servers) with spectator mode, in-game chat, reconnection support, team play with or against bots, unit sharing with teammates, PvP and PvE maps. Cross-play with PC and other platforms. • In-game library of over 4000 player-made PvP and PvE maps. Share your levels and promote them in the community! • Autosaves and replay recording (enable in settings) • Level editor: create your own game modes and campaign missions with character lines, dialogues and plenty of triggers, close to visual scripting • Walls that only siege weapons can destroy, giving bonuses to defenders • Battle and transport ships, fishing boats, building anywhere on the map and capturing resources • Full support for portrait mode on smartphones, multiple ways to select your army, minimap, control groups • Cheats, an essential part of any old-school RTS, are included in Siege Up! too (can be disabled in settings) • Experimental peer-to-peer play over the internet, proven to work on iOS (see the guide on the official wiki) • Experimental cross-platform modding support (see the source code in the official repository)

Screenshots

Beach Siege2 screens
RTS Siege Up!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beach Siege at Free against RTS Siege Up!'s $3.99. Beach Siege also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 83%). RTS Siege Up!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 51 months). On in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Beach Siege is free to download; RTS Siege Up! costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beach Siege holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RTS Siege Up! has 35 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Beach Siege's written reviews are positive against 83% of RTS Siege Up!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beach Siege ships an update every 51 months, RTS Siege Up! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Beach Siege versus RTS Siege Up!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeach SiegeRTS Siege Up!
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.5 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings535 — better
Update frequencyEvery 51 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#88 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB178 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperDavid DubaDenis Zdorovtsov

Customer experience

Beach Siege

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

RTS Siege Up!

All ratings35 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral10.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

None

Beach Siege

No in-app purchases

None

RTS Siege Up!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beach Siege free?
Beach Siege is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RTS Siege Up! free?
RTS Siege Up! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beach Siege or RTS Siege Up!?
Beach Siege is rated higher. Beach Siege averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while RTS Siege Up! averages 4.5 from 35 ratings.
Do Beach Siege or RTS Siege Up! have ads?
Beach Siege shows ads; RTS Siege Up! does not.
Which is updated more often, Beach Siege or RTS Siege Up!?
Beach Siege ships an update every 51 months, and RTS Siege Up! monthly. Most recently, Beach Siege was updated on October 24, 2026 and RTS Siege Up! on October 27, 2026.

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