Zombie City Exploder vs Pill Fortress
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zombie City Exploder
Defend your country from evolving zombies by strategically deploying warplanes, cannons, and soldiers. Adjust your defenses as the enemy advances to prevent them from crossing the restricted area.
- Deploy warplanes, cannons, and soldiers
- Strategic trench deployment
- Evolving zombie enemies
- Weapon adjustment system
- Country protection mission
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Ruthless zombies pounces on our country. They continuously evolve to become more and more aggressive. Our shellfire almost can’t stop them. Dear brave soldiers, your country needs you. We need you to undertake this great mission--PROTECT COUNTRY AND DESTROY ENEMIES! You have to build a solid front, otherwise these zombies will go across the restricted area to evade our territory if careless and you fail. Gameplay: The game provides dozens of warplanes, cannons and soldiers with different powers but there are only ten trenches to deploy. Please deploy reasonably. Zombies are bound to evolve when you complete a level. Please remember to adjust the weapons in time to deploy your defense front.
Pill Fortress
Defend your fortress against waves of viruses in this immune-themed base defense game. Strategically place and upgrade unique pill defenders to overcome evolving viral threats. Enjoy kid-friendly gameplay with vibrant 2D graphics.
- Dynamic pill placement
- Evolving viral threats
- Unlock new pill characters
- Vibrant 2D graphics
- Strategic upgrades
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Dive into Pill Fortress, a Base Defense game set in an immune-themed world. Defend your fortress against waves of viruses using strategic pill placements and tactical upgrades to max out your chances of survival. - Dynamic Pill placement on the Wall to better damage the viruses - Evolving viral threats over levels, with newer, meaner viruses to exterminate - Unlock powerful new Pill characters to help you defend the Fortress - Kid-friendly gameplay with vibrant 2D graphics Pill Fortress offers a simple yet engaging gameplay, perfect for quick entertainment or strategic mastery. Join the Defense effort and keep the viral invaders at bay!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pill Fortress at 4.6 against Zombie City Exploder's 3.0. Pill Fortress also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 1). Zombie City Exploder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 14) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads 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. Pill Fortress sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Zombie City Exploder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pill Fortress holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pill Fortress has 3.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Zombie City Exploder's written reviews are positive against 33% of Pill Fortress's.
Zombie City Exploder ships an update every 3 days, Pill Fortress every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zombie City Exploder | Pill Fortress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (3.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 261 MB | 323 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 博 王 | Voodoo |
Customer experience
Zombie City Exploder
Pill Fortress
Bugs and requests
Zombie City Exploder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Pill Fortress
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezing during battles
- Progression loss on crashes
- Targeting/tracking issues
- Unresponsive ad screens
Requested features
5 requests- Offline mode
- More pill variety
- Improved boss difficulty
- Customizable controls
- Endless/challenge modes
In-app purchases
Zombie City Exploder
No in-app purchases
Pill Fortress
- Very Small Nucleus Pack$0.99
- Small Nucleus Pack$2.99
- Starter Pack$4.99
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- Perma Speed Up$4.99
- No Ads$4.99
- Medium Nucleus Pack$5.99
- Equipment Pack$7.99
- Perma Boosts$7.99
- Plasma Waves Pill$8.99
- Skills Tickets$9.99
- Skills Pack$9.99
- Big Nucleus Pack$9.99
- Gigantic Nucleus Pack$24.99
- Instant Video Rewards$29.99
Questions
Is Zombie City Exploder free?
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