Gladiabots vs Drevepsina
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create and program robot AI
- Customize robot crew
- Single player campaign
- Online multiplayer modes
- Multiple game modes
- Tournament creation
- Asynchronous multiplayer
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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.
Drevepsina
Engage in large-scale real-time strategy battles. Build your base, train your forces, and conquer opponents across hundreds of levels. Enjoy a ad-free and microtransaction-free gaming experience.
- Large-scale battles
- Base development
- Army training
- 250+ campaign levels
- Map editor
- Calendar mode
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Drevepsina is a simple RTS about impressive large scale battles. Develop your base, train your army, and destroy your opponents. I respect the players, so I did not add advertising or microtransactions to the game. Features: - Easy to learn - Campaign with 250+ levels - Map editor - Calendar mode - Clean UI
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drevepsina at none against Gladiabots's 5. Drevepsina also leads on price ($2.99 vs $3.99). Gladiabots's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Gladiabots costs $3.99 and Drevepsina $2.99 up front. Gladiabots sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Drevepsina asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Gladiabots against 4.6 for Drevepsina. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 90 and 32 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Gladiabots's written reviews are positive against 91% of Drevepsina's.
Gladiabots ships an update every 2 weeks, Drevepsina every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gladiabots | Drevepsina |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (90 ratings) | 4.6 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 90 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Sebastien Dubois | Ivan Yakovliev |
Customer experience
Gladiabots
Drevepsina
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
Drevepsina
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gladiabots
- 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
Drevepsina
No in-app purchases
