Comparison

Gladiabots vs RTS Siege Up!

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

Head to head
About

Gladiabots

Design the AI for your robot squad and deploy them in strategic combat. Refine your tactics through a single-player campaign and online multiplayer modes. Customize your robots and compete in various game modes without ads or pay-to-win mechanics.

Highlights
  • Create and program robot AI
  • Customize robot crew
  • Single player campaign
  • Online multiplayer modes
  • Multiple game modes
  • Tournament creation
  • Asynchronous multiplayer
Features
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Gladiabots is a robot combat strategy game in which you carefully construct the AI of your robot squad and send them into the battle arena. Improve, refine and repeat until you outsmart all your opponents and friends online. Features: - Create your own AI and watch your robots execute it in the arena - Fix it, improve it and repeat it until you outsmart all your opponents - Simple and powerful AI programming system offering millions of possible combinations (with no programming skills required) - Create and customize your robot crew - Single player campaign with hundreds of solo missions - Online multiplayer career mode featuring, ranked, unranked and private matches - 3 distinctly different game modes: elimination, domination and collection - Create and compete in tournaments - Asynchronous multiplayer - battle friends even if they are not online - Sandbox mode in which you control both teams to test your tactics - Rank up and earn points to unlock new robot skins IMPORTANT NOTE This game doesn't have any ads and is NOT pay-to-win! The in-app purchases allow you to buy in-game credits that you can use to unlock new skins for your robots. They are optional, purely cosmetic and don't give any gameplay advantages.

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

Gladiabots4 screens
RTS Siege Up!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RTS Siege Up! at none against Gladiabots's 5. RTS Siege Up! also leads on chart position (#73 vs unranked). Gladiabots's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

Gladiabots costs $3.99 and RTS Siege Up! $3.99 up front. Gladiabots sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. RTS Siege Up! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Gladiabots against 4.5 for RTS Siege Up!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 90 and 35 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Gladiabots's written reviews are positive against 83% of RTS Siege Up!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gladiabots ships an update every 2 weeks, RTS Siege Up! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Gladiabots versus RTS Siege Up!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGladiabotsRTS Siege Up!
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating4.5 (90 ratings)4.5 (35 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.2% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings90 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#73 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size182 MB178 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperSebastien DuboisDenis Zdorovtsov

Customer experience

Gladiabots

All ratings90 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews94 reviews
Positive87.2%
Neutral4.3%
Negative8.5%

RTS Siege Up!

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

Bugs and requests

Gladiabots

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • iOS version not up-to-date
  • AI logic bugs/unexpected behavior
  • Screen not fitting iPad Pro
  • Game not running on older iPads

Requested features

4 requests
  • Korean language support
  • Option to toggle FPS (30/60)
  • Add more robots
  • "Quit" confirmation button in training

RTS Siege Up!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Gladiabots

One-time5
  • Hello World Pack$0.99
  • Script Pack$1.99
  • Algorithm Pack$4.99
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  • Automaton Pack$8.99
  • Neural Network Pack$17.99
None

RTS Siege Up!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gladiabots free?
Gladiabots costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is RTS Siege Up! free?
RTS Siege Up! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gladiabots or RTS Siege Up!?
RTS Siege Up! is rated higher. Gladiabots averages 4.5 out of 5 from 90 ratings, while RTS Siege Up! averages 4.5 from 35 ratings.
Do Gladiabots or RTS Siege Up! have ads?
Neither Gladiabots nor RTS Siege Up! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gladiabots or RTS Siege Up!?
Gladiabots ships an update every 2 weeks, and RTS Siege Up! monthly. Most recently, Gladiabots was updated on October 26, 2026 and RTS Siege Up! on October 29, 2026.

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