Comparison

Mindbug Online vs Linebreakers

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

Head to head
About

Mindbug Online

Experience a unique and streamlined card battler designed by the creator of Magic: The Gathering. This skill-based dueling game features powerful cards, fast matches, and infinite strategies with a groundbreaking mechanic that lets you control opponent creatures. It's accessible yet deeply challenging, with no pay-to-win elements.

Highlights
  • Streamlined card battler mechanics
  • Skill-based dueling
  • Groundbreaking creature control
  • Fast and intense matches
  • Infinite strategic possibilities
  • No pay-to-win
Features
Read full description

Start playing Mindbug Online today - the new ultimate card battler! Mindbug distills all the excitement of strategy card games and transforms it into the most streamlined card battler of the multiverse. Accessible and fair, yet extremely challenging and deep. Mindbug is a skill-based dueling card game that feels utterly different from all the other card games you've played before. From Richard Garfield – Creator of Magic the Gathering With Richard Garfield (Creator of Magic: The Gathering) as one of the designers, this game has been designed with more than 30 years of card game experience and combined with a groundbreaking and innovative new game mechanic. Crazy Card Abilities – OMG this is OP In Mindbug, each card is insanely powerful. There are no weak cards, and it feels like all your options are completely overpowered. Every single decision in this game matters. Turn the tables with a single move. It’s all up to you and your skill. Fast and Intense Matches A game of Mindbug can be played in less than 5 minutes, making it perfect for when you have a few minutes to spare. But don’t be fooled by its quickness – the strategic depth will blow your mind. Infinite Strategies Even though Mindbug is extremely easy to learn, the game will keep surprising you with new and exciting challenges and combos. The unique Mindbug mechanic allows you to control your opponents’ creatures and leads to unique decision-making that requires even veteran card game players to adjust their traditional playstyle. Not a collectible card game – No Pay to win! Mindbug is not a trading card game. There are no loot boxes, no random cards, and no pay-to-win. If you buy a card set, you can play with it as much as you want. What are you waiting for earthling? Show your incredible skill and turn your opponents’ strongest creatures into your own advantage! Play Mindbug Online Now!

About

Linebreakers

Features
Read full description

Two armies face each other across a line of lightning. Line up three of a colour in a file and they strike. Line up three in a rank and they hold as a wall. Linebreakers is a turn-based puzzle battler for a phone held in one hand. You have three actions a turn. Spend them well and you earn more. HOW A BATTLE GOES • Carry the unit at the back of a file to the back of another. • Three of a colour in a file become a strike. It waits a turn or more, then goes up the file. • Three of a colour in a rank become a wall. • Dismiss a unit to close a gap. If that completes a strike or a wall, the action is free. • Call up the units waiting behind your line. • Guards and giants need line units of their colour behind them. They strike hardest, and each has an ability of its own. • Strikes of one colour that land on the same turn are a volley, and each hits harder for it. What a strike has left when it reaches the far edge comes off the enemy commander's health. FOUR ARMIES • Stormriders. Sky nomads with lightning lances. Quick to strike. • Forgeborn. Smith clans and the engines they build. Heavy, and hard on walls. • Tidebound. Reef folk who call the sea. They mend their commander and empty your power. • Duskcourt. A lantern-lit court in moth-wing cloaks. They take your actions and keep them. Each army has three line units, two guards, two giants and a wall of its own. EIGHT COMMANDERS Every commander has a power on a meter that fills as blows land. Tailwind brings every strike a turn nearer. Eruption sends a blow up every enemy file. Raise the Gate puts a wall at the front of every file you hold. Curfew takes two actions from the enemy's next turn. A STORY IN FOUR ACTS One span of the Stormline has gone dark. The sky people blame the forge people. The forge people blame them back. You set out as Sana, a young Stormrider captain, and a commander from another people leads each act after hers. • Fifty stops on four painted maps. • Battles, boss battles and one-turn puzzles. • Eight narrated scenes. • Guards, giants and relics to find and carry with you. FREE BATTLES Choose a commander, the two guards or giants you bring, and one relic to carry. Then fight the computer on Easy, Normal or Hard across nine battlefields, from a short even fight to full armies with a hundred health each. ONLINE • Take a quick match, or play a friend with a room code. • If nobody is waiting, fight the computer instead. • Powers and relics stay out of online play, so the fight is even. • No chat and no typed names. You play under a callsign the game gives you. MADE FOR THE PHONE • Portrait, one hand, big pieces. • Every army colour has a shape of its own, so colour is never the only cue. • The first battles teach by showing. A hand points at each move. • Tap any piece to see what it does. • Sound, music, haptics and reduced flashing each have a switch. • No ads. No timers. No energy. Nothing you can buy makes an army stronger. • No account. The story and free battles play offline. FREE TO START Linebreakers is free to download. The lessons and the whole of act one are free, with battles led by Sana of the Stormriders or Brannoc of the Forgeborn. One purchase unlocks the full game. It adds acts two, three and four, six more commanders, and the Tidebound and Duskcourt armies. You pay once and keep it. There is no subscription. PRICE AND TERMS The full game is a single in-app purchase of $4.99 (USD). The price may differ in other countries. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://linebreakers.banjtheman.xyz/privacy/

Screenshots

Mindbug Online4 screens
Linebreakers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Mindbug Online at 13.0 against Linebreakers's 15.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Mindbug Online sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Linebreakers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mindbug Online ships an update every 3 weeks, Linebreakers every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mindbug Online versus Linebreakers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindbug OnlineLinebreakers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (43 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings43 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.7 GB192 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperKissaki StudiosBanjo Obayomi

Bugs and requests

Mindbug Online

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tutorial issues
  • Infinite battle loop
  • Purchasing issues

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to pick opponents
  • Faster gameplay option
  • More customization options

Linebreakers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Mindbug Online

One-time10
  • Battlefruit Kingdom Set$8.99
  • Beyond Eternity Set$8.99
  • First Contact Set + Add-On$8.99
Show 7 more
  • Battlefruit Galaxy + Mindbugs$12.99
  • Mindbug x King of Tokyo Card Set$12.99
  • Battlefruit Kingdom + Mindbugs$12.99
  • FC Set + Mr Green$14.99
  • First Contact Bundle$14.99
  • Battlefruit + Both Mindbugs$22.99
  • FC Set + Mr Pink + Mr Green$22.99
1 purchases

Linebreakers

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Mindbug Online free?
Mindbug Online is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Linebreakers free?
Linebreakers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mindbug Online or Linebreakers have ads?
Neither Mindbug Online nor Linebreakers shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mindbug Online or Linebreakers?
Mindbug Online ships an update every 3 weeks, and Linebreakers every 2 weeks. Most recently, Mindbug Online was updated on November 3, 2026 and Linebreakers on November 9, 2026.

Other comparisons