Comparison

Red Sword vs Starfall Keep

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

Head to head
About

Red Sword

Engage in epic battles by enlarging your sword and unleashing a multitude of skills to defeat legions of monsters. Power up your abilities, equip numerous skills, and discover rare items to achieve ultimate strength. Explore bonus and hidden stages for an enhanced gaming experience.

Highlights
  • Enlarge sword for powerful attacks
  • Activate numerous skills
  • Equip any number of skills
  • Obtain powerful weapons
  • Power up abilities
  • Discover rare items
  • Bonus and hidden stages
Features
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Power up the various abilities! Activate a large number of skills to defeat enemies!! ■ Game description ・Enlarge your sword and attack many enemies! ・Obtain powerful weapons to attack legions of monsters! ・Activate a large number of skills to attack many enemies! ・You can equip any number of skills! ・Obtain rare items to achieve unrivaled power! ・You can power up the various abilities! ・There are bonus stages and hidden stages!

About

Starfall Keep

Features
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Starfall Keep is a cozy spin on the classic tower defense with tons to play. Build your towers, hold the keep, and battle through 100 handcrafted levels packed with monsters, bosses, relics, and upgrades. • FOUR TOWERS, REAL CHOICES — Bolt slows, Pyre burns, Venom poisons, Arc strikes hard. Land two elements on one foe to PRIME it for bonus damage. • THE LONG DESCENT — 70+ battlefields of rising difficulty across spring, desert, winter, and volcanic biomes. Gold and Keep Integrity carry between battles; lose the keep and the run is over. • DRAFT RELICS — choose a run-warping relic after every victory and build around it. • THE ARMORY — bank permanent upgrades between runs. Every descent makes the next one stronger. • AN ENDLESS HORDE — runners, flyers, armored brutes, self-healing beasts, motherships, and the Starfall Dragon waiting at the bottom. • MINT GOLD — raise the treasury tower and bank a dividend every wave. Slow them. Burn them. Hold the line — and drive the dark back down.

Screenshots

Red Sword4 screens
Starfall Keep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Red Sword at Free against Starfall Keep's $2.99. Red Sword also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Starfall Keep's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

Red Sword is free to download; Starfall Keep costs $2.99 up front. Red Sword sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Starfall Keep asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Red Sword ships an update weekly, Starfall Keep daily. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Red Sword versus Starfall Keep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRed SwordStarfall Keep
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (279 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings279 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB121 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTatsukiMotivation Stack LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Red Sword

One-time2
  • RingEx1$6.99
  • playercolor1$6.99
None

Starfall Keep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Red Sword free?
Red Sword is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Starfall Keep free?
Starfall Keep costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Red Sword or Starfall Keep have ads?
Red Sword shows ads; Starfall Keep does not.
Which is updated more often, Red Sword or Starfall Keep?
Red Sword ships an update weekly, and Starfall Keep daily. Most recently, Red Sword was updated on October 16, 2026 and Starfall Keep on October 15, 2026.

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