Comparison

Slay vs Trenchlight

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

Head to head
About

Slay

Engage in a turn-based strategy game set in medieval times. Conquer enemy territories, expand your own, and strategically upgrade your units from peasants to powerful barons. Balance resource management to avoid bankruptcy and achieve victory.

Highlights
  • Territory capture and expansion
  • Unit upgrades (Peasants to Barons)
  • Strategic combat and castle sieges
  • Resource management and bankruptcy risk
  • Turn-based multiplayer
  • AI opponents
Features
Currently charting
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Slay is a simple to learn game of strategy and cunning set in medieval times. The island is divided up between the six players, and you must try to capture your enemies' land and link up your own territories to create larger and stronger ones. You begin capturing land by attacking with your peasants. Once your territories become richer you can combine peasants to make stronger and stronger people (Spearmen, Knights and then Barons) who can kill weaker enemy troops, or knock down their castles. Just be careful that you don't create too many expensive men or the territory will go bankrupt! "This game is pure strategy! It's a work of genius. Brilliant AI. Engaging turn-based multiplayer strategy. Sid Meier, eat your heart out!" - GameSpy.com "I love this game! I play it all the time, and when I'm not, I think about wanting to play it." - PocketNow.com "At first glance, Slay looks elementary, but hidden beneath are cunning strategy elements that must be finely balanced for success" - PC Magazine "Deceptively delightful. The graphics are simple, but the strategy is complex." - Download.com For the latest news on all my games follow @SeansGames on Twitter!

About

Trenchlight

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The seafloor mining platforms went dark when the Bloom came up out of the trench. You are the last light crew. Bolt guns to the deck plating, weave the tunnels they have to crawl through, and hold the light until the evacuation sub surfaces. TRENCHLIGHT is an open-field maze tower defense. You don't defend a fixed path - you build it. Every turret is also a wall, so where you place it decides the route the Crawl has to walk. A good maze turns a ten-second sprint into a minute-long gauntlet, and that is the whole game. WHAT YOU GET - 50 hand-built levels across five acts, each on Normal, Hard and Nightmare - 10 turrets, each branching at tier 3 into one of two specialisations, for 20 distinct endgame guns - 14 enemies, every one designed to break a specific tactic: armour that shrugs off your kinetic guns, flyers that ignore your maze entirely, tunnellers that go under it, a Leech that mends what you just shot, a final boss whose armour class rotates - Three damage types against three armour classes, so the right gun always beats the biggest gun - Optional Directives on every level, for when three stars stops being enough - Endless mode per act, with leaderboards NO NONSENSE No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes. No currency. No account required. Works completely offline, forever. Acts I to III are free and complete - thirty levels ending on a boss - and the rest is one optional unlock that buys levels, never power. Landscape, built natively for iOS.

Screenshots

Slay4 screens
Trenchlight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trenchlight at Free against Slay's $4.99. Trenchlight also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 13). Slay's advantage is chart position (#186 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Trenchlight is free to download; Slay costs $4.99 up front. Slay sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Trenchlight asks for nothing beyond the download.

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Slay versus Trenchlight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSlayTrenchlight
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (266 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings266 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#186 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB8 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperSean O'ConnorJonathan Vogelbusch

Bugs and requests

Slay

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Multiplayer not working
  • Progress not saving in custom levels
  • Graphical issues on newer devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Option to revert to classic graphics
  • Ability to choose starting color
  • Larger/randomized map sizes
  • Online/multiplayer mode
  • Level editor or custom map creation
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  • Stats tracking and achievements

Trenchlight

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Slay

One-time12
  • Snowflakes$0.99
  • Countries 1$0.99
  • Countries 2$0.99
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  • Patterns 1$0.99
  • Patterns 2$0.99
  • Patterns 3$0.99
  • Patterns 4$0.99
  • US States$0.99
  • Mythical Creatures$0.99
  • Whole row of 18 pages$9.99
  • Whole 3rd row$9.99
  • Whole 4th row$9.99
None

Trenchlight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Slay free?
Slay costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Trenchlight free?
Trenchlight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Slay or Trenchlight have ads?
Neither Slay nor Trenchlight shows ads.

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