Dot Scale vs Tanks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dot Scale
Absorb smaller dots to grow your own in this engaging arcade game. Utilize attack and five unique abilities to advance through levels. Simple one-finger controls make it accessible for everyone.
- Absorb dots to grow
- Utilize attack and abilities
- One-finger swipe controls
- Advance through levels
- Collect trophies
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The rules are simple! Just absorb small dots and make them bigger! Let's advance the level using attack and 5 abilities. Operation Swipe the screen to move. attack with hold. Easy operation that anyone can play with just one finger. Elements for game completion Gather a lot of trophies and aim for full completion! Level It's not just making it bigger. When you need to think... it's up to you what tactics to use!
Tanks
Engage in top-down tank battles across diverse game modes, including solo campaigns and cross-platform multiplayer. Design and share your own levels and crusades with a powerful editor.
- Top-down tank combat
- Multiple game modes
- Cross-platform multiplayer
- Level editor
- Crusade editor
- Co-op and versus modes
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Welcome to Tanks: The Crusades! Tanks is a top-down shooter in which you control a blue tank and try to defeat various enemy tanks with assorted abilities to clear levels. You can play Tanks in multiple gamemodes, alone or via cross-platform multiplayer with as many friends as you'd like: Random levels: Play in randomly generated levels. Crusades: Play a series of levels in order, earning coins and unlocking shop items as you go, with a limited number of lives. Versus: Fight your friends in randomly generated levels. My levels: Play levels that you have saved or made. Level editor: You can create your own levels, featuring tank teams, custom items and shops, custom background colors, and custom level sizes. Go wild! Crusade editor: Once you've made (or saved) several levels, you can put them together into your own crusade. You can then set up a shop for that crusade where players can spend their coins. Multiplayer: Play with as many other players as your device can support. You can play in co-op or versus, chat, and share levels and crusades you've made in multiplayer parties.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tanks at none against Dot Scale's shown. Tanks also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 2) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Dot Scale's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dot Scale holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tanks has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Dot Scale's written reviews are positive against 90% of Tanks's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Dot Scale | Tanks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 168 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Graphics Meme LLC | Matei Budiu |
Customer experience
Dot Scale
Tanks
In-app purchases
Dot Scale
No in-app purchases
Tanks
No in-app purchases
