Comparison

Hedgewars vs GunboundM

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

Head to head
About

Hedgewars

Engage in hilarious, turn-based strategy combat with a team of armed hedgehogs. Utilize a vast arsenal of weapons and tools to outmaneuver and defeat your opponents across diverse, destructible landscapes. Enjoy single-player or multiplayer battles with extensive customization options.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy combat
  • Hilarious artillery action
  • Up to 8-player local multiplayer
  • Randomly generated maps
  • 55+ devastating weapons
  • 25 game modifiers
  • Extensive team customization
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Hedgewars, it's a Blast! Description: This is the funniest and most addictive game you'll ever play - hilarious fun that you can enjoy anywhere, anytime. Hedgewars is a turn based strategy game but the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by those pesky hedgehogs with those fantastic weapons - sneaky little blighters with a bad attitude! In other words Hedgewars is a turn based strategy, artillery, action and comedy game, featuring the antics of pink hedgehogs with attitude as they battle from the depths of hell to the depths of space. As commander, it's your job to assemble your crack team of hedgehog soldiers and bring the war to your enemy. Each player controls a team of several hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the "Rope" or "Parachute", to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving. A large variety of tools and weapons are available for players during the game: Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Bazooka, UFO, Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Fire Punch, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mine, Rope, Pneumatic pick, Parachute. Most weapons, when used, cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. The landscape is an island floating on a body of water, or a restricted cave with water at the bottom. A hedgehog dies when it enters the water (either by falling off the island, or through a hole in the bottom of it), it is thrown off either side of the arena or when its health is reduced, typically from contact with explosions, to zero (the damage dealt to the attacked hedgehog or hedgehogs after a player's or CPU turn is shown only when all movement on the battlefield has ceased). * Hilarious and devastating turn based combat for up to 8 players * Local multiplayer with optional AI opponents * Battle on an infinite number of randomly generated maps with over 31 environments, or choose from 48 set image maps * Utilise 55 (and counting) devastating weapons! Defeat your foes with simple weapons like Grenades or take it to the next level and trash entire landscapes with weapons like the Melon Bomb or Piano Strike * Play the game your way, with 25 different game modifiers, tweak almost every aspect of the match * Customize your team, with over 280 costumes, 32 graves, 13 forts, 100s of flags and unique voice packs * Huge battles with up to 64 hogs

About

GunboundM

Engage in turn-based online PvP battles with customizable tanks and diverse weaponry. Collect unique avatar riders, each with special skills, to strategize your way to victory in seasonal competitions.

Highlights
  • Turn-based online PvP battles
  • Customizable tanks and weapons
  • Team-based strategic combat
  • Seasonal competitions and rewards
  • Avatar rider collection with skills
Features
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Gunbound is World famous Turn-base Online Shooting Game. ■GunboundM is a World-wide Player vs Player Game! - You can ride on Tank with various cannons and fight against other Player's tanks. - The one team must be consisted of three different tank types. - GunboundM supports Season competition and reward. ■GunboundM is easy to play but it has many strategical fun things! - GunboundM supports a strategic battle of Battle-tanks with various weapons. - You can play over 15 tanks have over 45 weapons. - The effect-clouds and the totems will give special effects to missiles. ■You can collect many tanks and Avatar riders! - Nice cute and pretty Avatar riders are waiting fou you. - All Avatar riders have special and various skills. - Find Avatars can be effective in your strategy. *Offical Website https://dargomstudio.com *Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@dargomyoutube

Screenshots

Hedgewars3 screens
GunboundM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hedgewars at none against GunboundM's 11. Hedgewars also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). GunboundM's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 25). On price, rating 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. GunboundM sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Hedgewars asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Hedgewars against 4.4 for GunboundM. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GunboundM has 1.8K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of Hedgewars's written reviews are positive against 67% of GunboundM's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hedgewars ships an update monthly, GunboundM every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Hedgewars versus GunboundM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHedgewarsGunboundM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (25 ratings)4.4 (1.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.3% of reviews66.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings251.8K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size181 MB400 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperAnton MalmyginDargomStudio Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Hedgewars

All ratings25 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive53.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative38.0%

GunboundM

All ratings1,781 ratings
Positive85.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews1,170 reviews
Positive66.8%
Neutral8.9%
Negative24.3%

User reviews

Hedgewars

From 25 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Amazing free game
  • 👍 Unbeatable hours of play
  • 🚫 No ads, data, or tracking
  • 💯 Fabulous game, almost PC quality
  • 🎮 Good free alternative to Worms

Room to improve

  • ❓ No instructions or tutorial
  • 📉 UX needs work
  • 🐛 Too many bugs
  • 😵 Unplayable on mobile
  • 🐛 Instant crash in portrait

GunboundM

From 1.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Sick game
  • 🚀 Addictive and fun
  • 🚀 Nostalgic and brings back memories
  • 🚀 Great mobile adaptation of the PC game
  • 🚀 Smooth gameplay and mechanics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and connection issues
  • 🔒 Pay-to-win mechanics
  • 🔒 Unfair matchmaking and skill levels
  • 🔒 Lack of customization options
  • 🔒 Repetitive and grindy

Bugs and requests

Hedgewars

Reported bugs

117 issues
  • No instructions, no tutorial
  • Too many bugs
  • UX needs a lot of work
  • Unplayable on mobile
  • Instant crash when portrait orientation
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  • Crashes a lot
  • Crashes after loading a game
  • Game freezes
  • Vertical jump button useless
  • Not working on iPhone 4s
  • Zoomed, not playable
  • Screen freezes
  • Zoomed in screen, no controls
  • Unplayable
  • Zoomed in view of part of screen
  • Crashes constantly
  • Weird bug
  • Buttons disappear, zooms weirdly, visual glitches
  • Starts loaded and freezes
  • Crashes
  • Game screen only shows up on a fourth of the actual screen
  • Keeps kicking me off when I use certain weapons
  • Crashes 4 out of 5 games
  • Crashes even worse with the update
  • Freezes every time I try to play
  • Crashes halfway through
  • Won't start a game
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version still premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Bug filled
  • Crashes after loading
  • Game freezes
  • Won't work
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Bug filled
  • Crashes after loading
  • Game freezes
  • Won't work
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense
  • Crashes
  • Freezes
  • Bug filled
  • Crashes after loading
  • Game freezes
  • Won't work
  • Freezes up
  • Unresponsive
  • Crashes all the time
  • Crashes to much
  • New version doesn't let me battle or make new teams
  • Mobile version premature and buggy
  • Sound driver buggy
  • Crashes the game occasionally
  • New weapon select menu is harder to use
  • Freezes after each game
  • Weapon icons hard to distinguish
  • Game doesn't start
  • Tons of bugs
  • Rough quality
  • Confusing
  • Not fun
  • Crashes frequently
  • Game makes zero sense

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add multiplayer feature
  • Improve menu to match PC version
  • Enhance jumping
  • Add possibility to exit current level/return to main menu
  • Create own maps and weapons
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  • Add network mode and AI mode
  • Improve UI
  • Add mini map
  • Fix sound driver
  • Improve stability
  • Make weapon icons easier to distinguish
  • Play against someone over Wifi or bluetooth
  • Add dual controls
  • Add retina support

GunboundM

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game crashes during matches
  • Freezing and lag issues
  • Matchmaking problems and unbalanced opponents
  • Inability to rejoin matches after disconnects

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add 3v3 or 4v4 team modes
  • Implement a friends list and ability to play with friends
  • Bring back classic gameplay elements like the power bar
  • Improve the in-game chat and communication features
  • Expand the avatar and mobile customization options

In-app purchases

None

Hedgewars

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

GunboundM

One-time11
  • 30 Gems$2.49
  • Start Package$2.49
  • VIP one week ticket$2.49
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  • 50 Gems$4.49
  • Basic Mobile Extension$4.49
  • 100 Gems$8.99
  • Thema Pack$8.99
  • Mung Knights Set$21.99
  • 330 Gems$25.99
  • 600 Gems$43.99
  • 1,300 Gems$89.99

Questions

Is Hedgewars free?
Hedgewars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GunboundM free?
GunboundM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hedgewars or GunboundM?
GunboundM is rated higher. Hedgewars averages 4.3 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while GunboundM averages 4.4 from 1.8K ratings.
Do Hedgewars or GunboundM have ads?
GunboundM shows ads; Hedgewars does not.
Which is updated more often, Hedgewars or GunboundM?
Hedgewars ships an update monthly, and GunboundM every 6 days. Most recently, Hedgewars was updated on October 23, 2026 and GunboundM on October 22, 2026.

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