Comparison

Treasure Defender vs Grid Defense

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

Head to head
About

Treasure Defender

Strategically defend your position by controlling a stickman with a joystick. Collect experience and gold from defeated enemies to upgrade your defenses, damage, and income. Choose upgrades wisely to overcome each level's challenges.

Highlights
  • Joystick controls
  • Skill selection
  • XP and gold collection
  • Upgrade defenses
  • Upgrade damage
  • Upgrade income
  • Strategic upgrade choices
Features
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Come on, put up your best defense. You control stickman with joystick. Choose your skill wisely to get started. Collect xp that drops when you hit enemies. Some of the enemies drop gold. You need to collect these gold to upgrade. You will need gold to upgrade your defenses, damage and income. You must strategically choose the upgrades given to you for the level you pass. There's no reason for you to fail, we wish you good luck.

About

Grid Defense

Features
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GRID DEFENSE is a fast, hand-tuned tower defense game about one simple job: hold the line. Six towers. Seven breeds of creep. One winding path. Place your defenses, upgrade under pressure, and stop everything the grid throws at you across 25 escalating waves — then push into endless mode. FREE TO START Download and play the first 10 waves free. Clear wave 10 to unlock the complete game with a single one-time purchase. No ads. No timers. No subscriptions. THE FULL GAME UNLOCKS • All 25 waves + endless mode • A second battlefield — The Quarry, where terrain fights back. Golems terraform the ground as they march, ore pockets pay out gold when cracked, and a keystone wall splits the map — hold it or watch the shortcut open • Tower-smashing GOLEMS — armored bruisers that stop to wreck your towers • WARDENS that raise energy shields — burst them before they recharge • A deployable DWARF hero — a roaming gunner only the wasps can touch, who levels up to repair wrecked towers and mine ore for gold • Bosses and the final victory stand • The global online leaderboard — submit your score and claim your rank SIX TOWERS, EVERY ONE USEFUL Gunner, Cannon, Frost, Venom, Tesla, Sniper — each with upgrades and a role. Freeze a swarm, chain-zap a cluster, poison the tanks, or snipe through armor. There's no single right build. AN ORIGINAL SCORE A title theme by IVEM BEATS plays you in, and every tower fires its own sound — know what's shooting without looking. BUILT FOR TOUCH Designed for the phone from the ground up — tap to build, tap to upgrade, pinch and pan the battlefield. The board fills your screen edge to edge. Landscape, smooth, and playable offline. No ads. No subscriptions. No login. Just you, the grid, and the line you have to hold.

Screenshots

Treasure Defender4 screens
Grid Defense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Treasure Defender at none against Grid Defense's 1. Treasure Defender also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Grid Defense's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Grid Defense sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Treasure Defender asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Treasure Defender ships an update every 3 days, Grid Defense every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Treasure Defender versus Grid Defense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTreasure DefenderGrid Defense
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB10 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developeromer cetinDimitar Porkov

In-app purchases

None

Treasure Defender

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Grid Defense

One-time1
  • Full Game Unlock$1.99

Questions

Is Treasure Defender free?
Treasure Defender is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grid Defense free?
Grid Defense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Treasure Defender or Grid Defense have ads?
Treasure Defender shows ads; Grid Defense does not.
Which is updated more often, Treasure Defender or Grid Defense?
Treasure Defender ships an update every 3 days, and Grid Defense every 2 weeks. Most recently, Treasure Defender was updated on October 30, 2026 and Grid Defense on October 25, 2026.

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