Comparison

Minesweeperᅠ vs Isle War

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

Head to head
About

Minesweeperᅠ

Enjoy a classic puzzle experience with a clean interface and no advertisements. Customize your game with various difficulty levels and grid sizes, and track your progress with detailed statistics. Play across multiple Apple devices with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • No ads
  • Universal app purchase
  • Auto-Complete feature
  • Performance statistics
  • Safe first reveal
  • Customizable difficulty and grid sizes
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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- No ads, ever! - Universal app: one purchase to play on iPhone, iPad, & Mac - Auto-Complete to quickly finish the game - Statistics to keep track of your performance - First reveal of each game will always be safe - Tap and hold to quickly flag a space Personalize your game in Settings - Choose from four difficulty settings and four grid sizes - Switch to a dynamically sized grid to fill the screen - Zoom and scroll through the grid - More amazing features coming soon! Native iOS Design - Supports all devices and orientations - Dark Mode enabled - Split View and Slide Over compatible - Keyboard shortcuts for most actions Privacy Policy: crawbuck.com/privacy Terms of Use: crawbuck.com/terms

About

Isle War

Features
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You always know exactly what your enemies did - and what it cost you. Isle War is a fast, three-power island-conquest war game built around one idea most strategy games get wrong: total legibility. Every enemy move animates one at a time, with a plain, attributed callout naming who did what. Every territory you lose is called out explicitly. And the turn log lets you review the whole last round. You are never left guessing why the map changed. Fight the CPU Teal and Crimson powers for total conquest of 18 territories across 5 islands. Reinforce, attack, and fortify across a hand-designed connectivity graph where the ferry and land links between islands are the strategy. Complete a whole island to earn a per-turn bonus, and watch your rivals try to break it. Sessions are short and sharp: a full war runs about 5–15 minutes. Watch your own battles resolve dice-tick by dice-tick and call them off (continue, stop, or fight to the end). Tap to fast-forward enemy turns, but never so fast that a move goes unseen. Legibility, everywhere: - Every enemy move animates and is attributed, no silent board changes - Every loss you take is explicitly called out - A reviewable turn log covers the last full round - Color and pattern encode each power - readable for colorblind players - Haptics and 8-bit sound fire on the beats that affect you, your captures, your losses, key events (with a SOUND toggle, default on) Fair, self-contained, respectful: - Seven difficulty levels — army handicaps and sharper CPU play as you climb, one honest brain (no cheating) - Backgrounded mid-game? Isle War resumes right where you left off - 100% offline - no accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking - No data collected. Everything stays on your device. A crisp Neo-retro look. Chunky pixel type, hard edges, a warm CGA-era palette with no clutter and no fuss. One-handed, portrait, tap-to-play. Take the islands. See it all happen.

Screenshots

Minesweeperᅠ4 screens
Isle War4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Isle War at none against Minesweeperᅠ's 10. Minesweeperᅠ's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Minesweeperᅠ sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year. Isle War asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Minesweeperᅠ versus Isle War: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinesweeperᅠIsle War
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (102 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings102 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDelta Engineering Labs, LLCRed Kite 9 Ltd

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Minesweeperᅠ

Subscriptions6
  • Minesweeper Premium$0.991 Year
  • Minesweeper Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Year
  • Minesweeper Premium3 Days trial$0.991 Year
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  • Minesweeper Premium$1.991 Year
  • Minesweeper Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Year
  • Minesweeper Premium3 Days trial$1.991 Year
One-time4
  • Minesweeper Premium$0.99
  • Minesweeper Premium$1.99
  • Minesweeper Premium$2.99
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  • Minesweeper Premium$4.99
None

Isle War

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minesweeperᅠ free?
Minesweeperᅠ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Isle War free?
Isle War is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minesweeperᅠ or Isle War have ads?
Neither Minesweeperᅠ nor Isle War shows ads.

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