Comparison

Faux Gravity vs Building Colonies

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

Head to head
About

Faux Gravity

Build a planetary defense system to fend off alien invaders in this real-time strategy survival game. Collect resources, upgrade your defenses, and launch devastating attacks to protect your planet. Compete on global leaderboards for the longest survival.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade defense systems
  • Collect gold and expand planet
  • Launch nuclear missiles
  • Control spacecrafts
  • Randomly generated enemies
  • Global leaderboards
Features
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Launch Nuclear Missiles! Control Spacecrafts! Collect Gold! Build and develop a defense system that will lock out unfriendly intruders from outer space. Faux Gravity is a mini Real-time Strategy Survival game with randomly generated enemies. You need to collect gold and expand your planet in order to survive. Features: ▶Melee Defender: Don't let looks deceive you. The little warrior will evolve with every upgrade and show its mighty endless spin around the globe. ▶Plasma Cannon: Defending the planet all by yourself can be a handful at times. This hi-tech machine will automatically tear down invaders. Beware, it has its limits. ▶Space Fighters: Engines need serious upgrade for it to reach its full speed but it's the only thing you got to make precise attacks. ▶Defense Tower: What happens if your troops miss that sneaky little UFOs. Press the Shield and watch them bounce like tennis balls! "Timing is the key, commander!" ▶Planet Expansion: Unleash the full potential of the planet. Not only will you be able to have more health bars, but you can also unlock more upgradeables with each increased population. Special Featuring: ▶The Nuke: Are those invaders causing you too much problems? Here is a little button. One little press....... and BAM!!!!! Blast 'em all! ▶Boss Fight: Low on Gem? This is a great chance for you to get extra help. Selectable rewards are waiting for you. Get rewards and Have Fun while getting it! ▶Item Party: Items, items, and more items! Randomly generated power-up(2xGold) and gem rewards will give you time take some break from aliens. ▶Emergency Capsule: Commander, don't give up on us now. Here is a little something that will help you to have a jump start on another planet. ▶Leaderboard: Compete for the longest survival against players around the world. ▶Notch Screen Support: Enjoy the full game with adjusted display on newer iOS devices. ▶iPad FullScreen Support: Adjusted GUI for iPad devices. Perfect for the big screens! Thank you so much for playing. If you have any suggestions or need to report a bug, please don't hesitate to contact me through email.

About

Building Colonies

Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.

Highlights
  • Land colonization
  • Map exploration
  • Colony development
  • Resource management
  • Colony defense and attack
  • Tribal interaction
Features
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics

Screenshots

Faux Gravity4 screens
Building Colonies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Faux Gravity at 2.8 against Building Colonies's 1.0. Faux Gravity also leads on review sentiment (25% vs 0%) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Building Colonies's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Faux Gravity sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Building Colonies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Faux Gravity holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Faux Gravity's written reviews are positive against 0% of Building Colonies's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Faux Gravity versus Building Colonies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFaux GravityBuilding Colonies
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (4 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 24 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size119 MB15 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperSu Min KimMaxim Rudyi

Customer experience

Faux Gravity

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Building Colonies

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Faux Gravity

One-time8
  • Gems 10$0.99
  • Gems 20$1.99
  • Gems 40$3.99
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  • Remove All Ads$9.99
  • Gems 110$9.99
  • Gems 230$19.99
  • Gems 600$48.99
  • Gems 1500$99.99
None

Building Colonies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Faux Gravity free?
Faux Gravity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Building Colonies free?
Building Colonies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Faux Gravity or Building Colonies?
Faux Gravity is rated higher. Faux Gravity averages 2.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Building Colonies averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Faux Gravity or Building Colonies have ads?
Both Faux Gravity and Building Colonies show ads.

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