Comparison

Beach Siege vs Building Colonies

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

Building Colonies

Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.

Highlights
  • Land colonization
  • Map exploration
  • Colony development
  • Resource management
  • Colony defense and attack
  • Tribal interaction
Features
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics

Screenshots

Beach Siege2 screens
Building Colonies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beach Siege at 100% against Building Colonies's 0%. Beach Siege also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. 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 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beach Siege has 5 ratings behind it against 1, 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 0% of Building Colonies's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Beach Siege versus Building Colonies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeach SiegeBuilding Colonies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 51 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB15 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperDavid DubaMaxim Rudyi

Customer experience

Beach Siege

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

Building Colonies

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Beach Siege

No in-app purchases

None

Building Colonies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beach Siege free?
Beach Siege is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Building Colonies free?
Building Colonies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beach Siege or Building Colonies?
Beach Siege is rated higher. Beach Siege averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Building Colonies averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Beach Siege or Building Colonies have ads?
Both Beach Siege and Building Colonies show ads.

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