Shooty Seas vs Samurai Runs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shooty Seas
Embark on a pirate adventure RPG, exploring the seas and uncovering a grand conspiracy. Battle foes with an arsenal of unique pirate weapons, defeat colossal bosses, and upgrade your ship to command a fleet. Prepare for encounters with the Royal Navy and other formidable adversaries.
- Pirate adventure RPG gameplay
- Unique and wacky pirate weapons
- Giant boss battles with treasure chests
- Ship customization and collection
- Engaging storyline and exploration
- Encounters with various enemy factions
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You take on the role of a pirate exploring and plundering the seas but soon find yourself involved in a much larger story. Its up to you and your crew to figure out what is causing all the mayhem. Fight your way through the campaign using wacky pirate weapons like, harpoons, flying skulls, machine guns, long range missiles, hammers forged from collapsing stars, flamethrowers, and more. Defeat giant bosses to find treasure chest. Collect items, equip your ship, buy new ships, better ships, faster ships, cooler ships that can summon ghost ships to come fight along side with you. But too much mayhem brings on the Royal Navy, or the Reef Pirates, or worse, much... much worse.
Samurai Runs
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You are a samurai. Your boss's princess was taken away monsters of Japanses. You need to chase the monster's boss(Tengu). and rescue her. You should avoid or beat monsters using stones who monsters coming from above towards samurai. To run and pick stones up on the road, let's go to the last stage. * Running and throwing stone are autmatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Samurai Runs at none against Shooty Seas's 10. Shooty Seas's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Shooty Seas sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Samurai Runs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shooty Seas ships an update every 2 days, Samurai Runs every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shooty Seas | Samurai Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.3 GB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boned Studios LLC | Koichi Iwasaki |
In-app purchases
Shooty Seas
- Instant Build$0.99
- Instant Item 1$1.99
- Instant Item$3.99
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- Blinky Reward Ad Watching Fish$4.99
- Music Pack$4.99
- Instant Item$5.99
- Instant Item$7.99
- Instant Item$9.99
- Instant Item$11.99
- Mega Mega Pack$39.99
Samurai Runs
No in-app purchases
Questions
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