Beach Siege vs Crouching Dragon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Crouching Dragon
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An ink-wash campaign through the Three Kingdoms. One deck, one rider, one climb through the warlords' gauntlet. Crouching Dragon is a single-player deckbuilding roguelike. Every run starts from nothing: draft your deck, weigh elites against shops, omens against rest, and fight your way to the summit. No energy timers, no gacha, no ads - pure offline strategy. SEVEN HEROES, SEVEN ARCHETYPES Guan Yu (Strength / Exhaust), Zhou Yu (Fire & Poison), Sima Yi (Stance & Feint), Zhuge Liang (Five-Phase Orbs), Cao Cao (Command & Might), Zhang Jiao (Wardens & Reaping), Sun Shangxiang (Repeating Crossbow). Each gets its own card pool and its own way to break the game. THE THIRTY-SIX STRATAGEMS Feign Injury. Empty Fort. Chain the Ships. Meet a stratagem's conditions mid-combat and it fires once, hard, and turns the fight. It's a whole second axis to build around - and it's unique to this game. BUILT TO BE REPLAYED Ascension-style difficulty tiers unlocked by winning, a Daily Challenge on a shared seed, Endless Ascent, plus a codex and a records wall. One more run, every time. HAND-PAINTED INK ART Hundreds of hand-painted cards and hero portraits, scored with an original soundtrack of war drums and plucked strings written for this game. FULLY OFFLINE Plays with no connection at all. 8 languages including English and Simplified Chinese.An ink-wash campaign through the Three Kingdoms. One deck, one rider, one climb through the warlords' gauntlet. Crouching Dragon is a single-player deckbuilding roguelike. Every run starts from nothing: draft your deck, weigh elites against shops, omens against rest, and fight your way to the summit. No energy timers, no gacha, no ads - pure offline strategy. SEVEN HEROES, SEVEN ARCHETYPES Guan Yu (Strength / Exhaust), Zhou Yu (Fire & Poison), Sima Yi (Stance & Feint), Zhuge Liang (Five-Phase Orbs), Cao Cao (Command & Might), Zhang Jiao (Wardens & Reaping), Sun Shangxiang (Repeating Crossbow). Each gets its own card pool and its own way to break the game. THE THIRTY-SIX STRATAGEMS Feign Injury. Empty Fort. Chain the Ships. Meet a stratagem's conditions mid-combat and it fires once, hard, and turns the fight. It's a whole second axis to build around - and it's unique to this game. BUILT TO BE REPLAYED Ascension-style difficulty tiers unlocked by winning, a Daily Challenge on a shared seed, Endless Ascent, plus a codex and a records wall. One more run, every time. HAND-PAINTED INK ART Hundreds of hand-painted cards and hero portraits, scored with an original soundtrack of war drums and plucked strings written for this game. FULLY OFFLINE Plays with no connection at all. 8 languages including English and Simplified Chinese. Guan Yu's full campaign is free. A single one-time unlock adds the other six heroes, Ascension tiers, the Daily Challenge and Endless Ascent - yours forever, never charged twice. Guan Yu's full campaign is free. A single one-time unlock adds the other six heroes, Ascension tiers, the Daily Challenge and Endless Ascent - yours forever, never charged twice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beach Siege at none against Crouching Dragon's 1. Beach Siege also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Crouching Dragon's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Crouching Dragon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beach Siege asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Beach Siege | Crouching Dragon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 51 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | David Duba | Lingsen Meng |
In-app purchases
Beach Siege
No in-app purchases
Crouching Dragon
- Full Unlock$2.99
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