Fractal Combat vs Dungeon Warfare 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fractal Combat
Engage in high-speed arcade air combat piloting futuristic fighters across surreal fractal worlds. Complete diverse missions, defeat enemy squadrons, and enhance your aircraft with various upgrades.
- High-speed arcade flight combat
- 7 unique fractal worlds
- 6 flyable ships
- Dozens of missions
- Weapon, generator, and radar upgrades
- Game Center leaderboards
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Take control of a futuristic fighter and dive into pure arcade air combat. Fractal Combat is a fast, responsive shooter set above surreal fractal worlds. Fly missions, take down enemy squadrons, and upgrade your hangar as the battles escalate. FEATURES: - High-speed arcade flight combat with tight controls - 7 unique fractal worlds with distinct visual style - 6 flyable ships and two flight models - Dozens of missions with varied objectives - Upgrade weapons, generators, and radar - Game Center leaderboards and achievements Suit up and take the fight to the sky.
Dungeon Warfare 3
Design your own perilous dungeons by strategically placing terrain and traps to defeat waves of adventurers. Earn experience to permanently upgrade your arsenal and adapt to diverse enemies and procedurally generated challenges.
- Realm Shaping: Forge your battlefield tile by tile
- Deadly Arsenal: Deploy and upgrade traps
- Deep Progression: Permanently enhance traps and abilities
- Diverse Foes: Face unique enemy challenges
- Handcrafted & Infinite Levels: Play curated and procedural dungeons
- Adjustable Difficulty: Tune challenge with a rune system
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Dungeon Warfare 3 is the next evolution of the acclaimed tower defense series. Lay out terrain tiles, carve perilous pathways, and customize your domain to create a perfectly tuned gauntlet of mayhem and misery. Your arsenal of traps and contraptions is deadlier than ever, featuring more methods of maiming, mangling, and misdirecting your foes. Every successful defense grants you valuable experience to permanently strengthen your tools of torment. Experiment with newfound synergy between traps and terrain, adapt on the fly to relentless waves of adventurers, and tailor the difficulty to your liking with a refined rune system. With an expanded variety of enemies, handcrafted levels, and infinite procedural challenges, Dungeon Warfare 3 promises an endlessly replayable tower defense experience that rewards cunning, creativity, and cruelty in equal measure. [Game Features] - Realm Shaping: Forge your battlefield tile by tile. Raise walls, carve chasms, and channel enemy forces into your most insidious defenses. - Deadly Arsenal: Deploy an even greater variety of traps and contraptions, each upgradeable and modifiable to suit your playstyle. - Deep Progression: Earn experience with every victory to permanently enhance your traps, unlock powerful new abilities, and strengthen your stronghold. - Diverse Foes: Face off against an expanded cast of adventurers, each presenting unique challenges that demand dynamic strategies. - Handcrafted & Infinite Levels: Conquer a curated selection of handcrafted scenarios, then test your mastery in procedurally generated dungeons that never play the same way twice. - Adjustable Difficulty: Mix and match runes to scale challenge and rewards, allowing you to perfectly tune each encounter to your preference. - Endless Mode & Beyond: Push your defenses to their limits against relentless waves of enemies, compete for high scores, and become a legend of the Realm Shapers. - Polished Presentation: Enjoy refined pixel art, atmospheric sound design, and responsive controls that bring your dastardly dungeon—and the agony of your foes—to life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dungeon Warfare 3 at 4.5 against Fractal Combat's 3.9. Dungeon Warfare 3 also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#144 vs unranked). Fractal Combat's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $6.99). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Fractal Combat costs $0.99 and Dungeon Warfare 3 $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dungeon Warfare 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 31 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Fractal Combat's written reviews are positive against 71% of Dungeon Warfare 3's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fractal Combat ships an update every 6 weeks, Dungeon Warfare 3 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fractal Combat | Dungeon Warfare 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (34 ratings) | 4.5 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.9% of reviews — better | 71.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #144 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 428 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | NEWTYPE K.K. | Excidium Inc. |
Customer experience
Fractal Combat
Dungeon Warfare 3
In-app purchases
Fractal Combat
No in-app purchases
Dungeon Warfare 3
No in-app purchases
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