Comparison

The Creeps! Tower Defense vs Orbital Defense Protocol

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

Head to head
About

The Creeps! Tower Defense

Defend your home from a variety of monstrous creatures emerging from your closet. Utilize an arsenal of everyday objects and unique summoned allies to overcome the nightly invaders.

Highlights
  • Battle various monsters
  • Use toy blasters and household items
  • Summon allies like spiders and UFOs
  • Defend against ghosts, zombies, aliens, and more
Features
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The Creeps! is a classic 2D tower defense game packed with clever strategy, toy weapons, monsters, and nonstop enemy waves. There are Creeps living in your closet, and it’s up to you to stop them before they reach the bed. Build wild defenses, upgrade your towers, and outsmart ghosts, zombies, vampires, aliens, dinosaurs, robots, pirates, and more. Use toy blasters, glue bottles, flashlights, boomerangs, giant spiders, UFOs, and other creative defenses to slow, zap, blast, and crush every Creep that comes your way. Easy to learn and tough to master, The Creeps! delivers classic TD strategy with personality, challenge, and replayable levels. FEATURES • Classic 2D tower defense gameplay • Offline strategy action • Creative toy-inspired towers and upgrades • Ghosts, zombies, vampires, aliens, robots, pirates, and more • Challenging waves and boss battles • Clever level layouts and tactical decisions • Fast, fun, pick-up-and-play defense gameplay • A beloved mobile tower defense original Build your defenses, protect the bed, and stop the Creeps from taking over the night.

About

Orbital Defense Protocol

Features
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Orbital Defense Protocol is a fast, focused, portrait-mode tower defense for iPhone and iPad. Place turrets, set traps, call orbital strikes, and hold the line through 10 sections of escalating hostile waves. CORE LOOP • Drag turrets onto the grid during prep. Tap to upgrade, sell, or specialise. • 6 archetypes: Pulse, Railgun, Frost, Blast, Gatling, and Command. Each upgrades in three channels (Damage / Range / Rate) and forks into a permanent specialisation at tier 6. • 5 trap and ability cards: Spike Strip, Slow Goo, Knockback Plate, Orbital Strike, and Stasis Field. Drag to deploy. • Tap MONSTERS to see the next wave's hostile profile — HP, speed, armor, shield resist — and pick the right damage type. DESTRUCTIBLE BATTLEFIELD • Walling off the path is legal. Hostiles will pound your turrets to rubble — every tower has hull HP, every enemy has melee DPS. • Rocks blocking your line of fire? Tap them. Spend $50, clear the tile, reroute the enemy path. • 7 hostile archetypes: BASIC, FAST, TANK, FLIER, SHIELDED, HEALER, BOSS. Each has its own counter. CAMPAIGN • 10 sections × 20 waves = 200 levels. • 5 difficulties from Easy to Extreme — adjustable per run. • Persistent top-scores leaderboard tracks your best clears and wipes. NO FRICTION • No ads. • No in-app purchases. • No network required — plays anywhere. • No data collected, no analytics, no tracking. Built for one-handed portrait play. Boots in seconds, drops you straight into the build phase. Set a difficulty, tap ENGAGE HOSTILES, and defend.

Screenshots

The Creeps! Tower Defense4 screens
Orbital Defense Protocol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: The Creeps! Tower Defense at Free against Orbital Defense Protocol's $0.99. Orbital Defense Protocol's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

The Creeps! Tower Defense is free to download; Orbital Defense Protocol costs $0.99 up front. The Creeps! Tower Defense sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Orbital Defense Protocol asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
The Creeps! Tower Defense versus Orbital Defense Protocol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Creeps! Tower DefenseOrbital Defense Protocol
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (304 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews94.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings304 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB68 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSuper Squawk Software LLCCarlos Nieto

Bugs and requests

The Creeps! Tower Defense

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on launch or during gameplay
  • Saved progress issues after updates
  • Compatibility problems on newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free levels and content updates
  • Optimization for newer devices
  • Online high score leaderboards
  • Level creation and sharing tools

Orbital Defense Protocol

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

The Creeps! Tower Defense

One-time10
  • Level Pack #1 - Dinosaur Danger$0.99
  • Level Pack #2 - Dinosaur Doorbusters$0.99
  • Level Pack #3 - Variety Pack$0.99
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  • Level Pack #4 - Super Charged!$0.99
  • Level Pack #5 - Assault and Batteries$0.99
  • Level Pack #6 - Voltage Doorbusters$0.99
  • Level Pack #7 - Valentine Megapack$0.99
  • Level Pack #8 - St. Patrick's Megapack$0.99
  • Level Pack #9 - Easter Megapack$0.99
  • All Access Pass - Unlock EVERYTHING!$5.99
None

Orbital Defense Protocol

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Creeps! Tower Defense free?
The Creeps! Tower Defense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbital Defense Protocol free?
Orbital Defense Protocol costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Creeps! Tower Defense or Orbital Defense Protocol have ads?
The Creeps! Tower Defense shows ads; Orbital Defense Protocol does not.

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