Forge Defence vs Escape From Durka
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forge Defence
Construct a powerful tower forge to defend against waves of zombies and monsters. Develop a superior defense strategy to protect your forge and survive the onslaught. Good luck with your strategic tower defense!
- Build tower forge defense
- Super defense strategy
- Defend against zombies
- Defend against monsters
- Forge tower defense
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Build your dream tower forge defence , make super defence strategy from zombie and monster attacks . Good luck with your forge tower defence !
Escape From Durka
Navigate a pixelated madhouse, collecting pills and cards to find your escape. This game embraces its bugs and memes with a unique, albeit unoptimized, style.
- Collect pills and cards
- Pixel art style
- Embraces bugs
- Includes memes
- Madhouse setting
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Try to collect all the pills and cards to escape from the madhouse. Escape from Durka offers the opportunity to escape in pixel style. The game may contain: - Incomprehensible and illogical things for you. - Lots of bugs. - A large number of memes. The game does not contain: - Normal optimization. - Good plot. - Beautiful graphics.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Escape From Durka at none against Forge Defence's 7. Escape From Durka also leads on ads (none vs shown). Forge Defence's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (147 vs 21). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Forge Defence sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Escape From Durka asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Forge Defence against 4.7 for Escape From Durka. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Forge Defence has 147 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Forge Defence's written reviews are positive against 78% of Escape From Durka's.
Forge Defence ships an update monthly, Escape From Durka every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forge Defence | Escape From Durka |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (147 ratings) — better | 4.7 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.5% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 147 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 396 MB | 318 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Challenges INC | Vladislav Tereshenko |
Customer experience
Forge Defence
Escape From Durka
In-app purchases
Forge Defence
- Diamond chest$0.99
- Emerald Chest$1.99
- Big chest$3.99
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- Rare Chest$7.99
- Remove ads$9.99
- Epic Chest$11.99
- Mega chest$24.99
Escape From Durka
No in-app purchases
Questions
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