Hedgewars vs Boom Slingers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Boom Slingers
Engage in 1v1 physics-based battles against players worldwide. Collect over 40 unique weapons and 70 characters, utilize bullet-time, and compete in weekly events for exclusive prizes. Play with friends on custom maps in this optimized multiplayer game.
- 1v1 physics-based battles
- Online multiplayer
- Over 40 unique weapons
- Collect 70+ characters
- Bullet-time mechanics
- Weekly events with prizes
- Custom maps with friends
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Fight in 1v1 physics-based battles against players around the world! Online multiplayer, over 40 weapons to collect, bullet-time and MORE! - ONLINE MULTIPLAYER! - 40+ UNIQUE WEAPONS to collect! Shoot lasers, throw grenades and hit your foes with the classic baseball bat! - BULLET-TIME AND PHYSICS! - COLLECT 70+ CHARACTERS and build your team with hats and unique characters! - PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS in custom maps! - QUICK BATTLES and smooth match making! - WEEKLY EVENTS with exclusive prizes! - MYSTERIES TO UNFOLD! Can you find all the weapons scattered throughout the cosmos? LORE Slingers are small cross-dimensional creatures who discover their universe through epic 1v1 battles. No one knows where they came from, but they will definitely duel until the end of time. TECHNICAL Boom Slingers is optimized and play tested with low-end devices. The game runs on live servers. A good network connection is required to play the game. Boom Slingers is completely free-to-play, but it has an in-app currency to speed up some progressions of the game. The game includes ads, but are not forced to be able to play the game. Leaderboard rank and rankings will reset at the beginning of each month.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hedgewars at none against Boom Slingers's 15. Hedgewars also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Boom Slingers's advantage is ratings volume (2.1K vs 25) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Boom Slingers sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Hedgewars asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Hedgewars against 4.2 for Boom Slingers. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boom Slingers has 2.1K 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 55% of Boom Slingers's.
Hedgewars ships an update monthly, Boom Slingers every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hedgewars | Boom Slingers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (25 ratings) — better | 4.2 (2.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | 55.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 2.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Anton Malmygin | Hyperkani |
Customer experience
Hedgewars
Boom Slingers
User reviews
Hedgewars
From 25 App Store ratingsWhat 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
Boom Slingers
From 2.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun gameplay
- 🎨 Cute art style
- 👍 No ads
- 💎 Good progression system
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- ⚖️ Unbalanced matchmaking and overpowered cards
- 🕰️ Slow progression and limited rewards
- 🔍 Lack of transparency in trophy system
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
Boom Slingers
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to claim rewards due to sync issues
- Nuke ability causing crashes
- Friendly battles not working
- Forced updates with no new version available
Requested features
4 requests- Add 2v2 mode
- Improve map design and symmetry
- Implement better card balancing
- Increase progression rewards and reduce timers
In-app purchases
Hedgewars
No in-app purchases
Boom Slingers
- Small Gem pack2 variants$0.99
- Starter pack$1.99
- Special Offer$1.99
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- Season pass$2.99
- Medium Special Offer$2.99
- Special Offer$2.99
- Special Offer$3.99
- Medium Gem pack$4.99
- Boom Pass$4.99
- Special Offer$4.99
- More Gems$5.99
- Boom Pass Plus$6.99
- Big Gem pack$9.99
- So Many Gems$12.99









