Four Tribes vs Nanuleu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Four Tribes
Lead your people to victory as a god, flattening land for settlements and unleashing disasters on rival tribes. Guide your peasants to build and harness their power to dominate the competition.
- Lead your tribe as a god
- Flatten land for settlements
- Build settlements
- Unleash disasters on enemies
- Compete against rival tribes
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As the God of your tribe you must protect and lead your people to victory over the other three competing tribes. Flatten the land so your peasants can find space to build settlements, and with the power that they give to you rain down disasters on your enemies' heads. For the latest news on all of my games follow @SeansGames on Twitter!
Nanuleu
Control a network of magical trees in this minimalist strategy game. Plant, expand, acquire resources, and defend against enemies to capture points and achieve victory. Features five distinct scenarios for varied gameplay.
- RTS/Tower defense gameplay
- Magical tree network control
- Strategic planting and expansion
- Resource acquisition
- Enemy defense
- Five distinct scenarios
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Nanuleu is a RTS/Tower defense game where you control a network of magical trees that need to survive and defeat the enemies that attempt to destroy them. In this game your only task is to plant, but while doing so you need to choose between expansion, resource acquisition and defense. Your objectives are to capture certain points on the map and destroy your enemies, before it is too late. The game features five different scenarios: First Contact, Invasion, Exploration, Counterattack and Remnants. **Second place winner of the Indie Game Maker Contest 2015. "This is definitely a game that you’ll keep wanting to come back to time and time again." - App Advice "Nanuleu is an excellent strategy game with tower defense elements." - iTopNews
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nanuleu at 4.1 against Four Tribes's 3.6. Nanuleu also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (71 vs 13). Four Tribes's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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
Four Tribes costs $1.99 and Nanuleu $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Nanuleu holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nanuleu has 71 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Four Tribes's written reviews are positive against 55% of Nanuleu's.
Four Tribes ships an update every 7 months, Nanuleu every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 19, 2026.
| Parameter | Four Tribes | Nanuleu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (13 ratings) | 4.1 (71 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.5% of reviews | 55.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 71 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Sean O'Connor | Selva Interactive |
Customer experience
Four Tribes
Nanuleu
User reviews
Four Tribes
From 13 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Nostalgic gameplay
- 👍 Addictive and fun
- 👍 Good reimagining of Populous
- 👍 Affordable price, no pay-to-win
- 👍 Simple to learn
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Game runs slow
- 🐛 Unforgiving AI/CPU
- 🐛 Controls can be difficult
- 🐛 Lacks strategy
Nanuleu
From 71 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Interesting concept
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics and design
- 👍 Simple yet strategic gameplay
- 🎮 Fun and engaging
- ✨ Well-made and polished
Room to improve
- ⏳ Too short / not enough content
- 📉 Lacks depth and variety
- 💰 Overpriced for content
- 🐢 Slow gameplay
- 😩 Frustrating difficulty
Bugs and requests
Four Tribes
Reported bugs
32 issues- Regularly crashes
- Action takes place offscreen or is blocked
- Game runs slow when a lot is happening
- Recently started crashing
- Needs landscape mode for iPad
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- Cannot keep up with fast chip
- Lack of raising land on land
- Playing with just thumb is rubbish
- CPU is unforgiving
- Struggling to win level one on very easy
- Huge random element
- Not playable on Plus
- Cannot launch games on 6S
- Momentum scrolling is terrible
- Broken on iOS8
- Unplayable
- Cannot scroll beyond level boundaries
- Accidental volcanoes when flattening edge
- Save your money until new version
- Game crashes on title screen
- Does not open
- Refusing to load since OS4 update
- Choppy/slow performance
- Waste of time and money, does not load
- Restored phone and iPod touch because of it
- Won't even open
- Crashes at the very beginning
- Won't start up
- Level 13 crashes every time
- Game crashes on title screen
- Laggy on old devices
- Crashing issues
Requested features
32 requests- Landscape mode for iPad
- More introduction/tutorial
- Gentle pace for starting
- Build and flatten land
- Smarter AI for harder levels
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- Add sink holes or landslides
- Modern militaristic version (nukes, missiles)
- Drag to add land
- Add Demi gods
- Create own levels and share
- More levels
- Animated landscape changes
- LAN or GameCenter multiplayer
- Custom maps/user created levels
- Time speed up/slow down
- Better AI for troops and AI
- More textures (swamps, deserts)
- Reset game or more levels
- Freeplay mode
- Achievements
- Multiplayer
- Infinite mode
- Ability to control Knights
- Build water
- Raise mountains
- Add tornadoes
- Raise sea level
- Choice of enemy count
- Music/background sound
- Wizard character
- Different building types
- More attacks
Nanuleu
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game doesn't start
- Technical glitches
- Black bars on screen edges
- Laggy performance
- Sound issues (not respecting do not disturb)
Requested features
19 requests- More levels
- More maps
- Online multiplayer mode
- More unit/enemy variety
- Sequel to the game
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- Story mode
- More creative defense trees
- Upgrade trees
- Build walls
- Option to keep an island
- Fix battery drain issue
- Add more towers
- Add more enemies
- More replayability
- More content
- New maps
- New trees
- More games like this
- Expand the game
In-app purchases
Four Tribes
No in-app purchases
Nanuleu
No in-app purchases
