Operation wow HD vs Super Waves
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Operation wow HD
Experience a legendary multi-touch shooter where your mission continues across six thrilling levels. Utilize unique finger-based firing mechanics and trigger massive chain explosions to overcome exciting battles. Compete with others through Game Center challenges and online scores.
- Multi-touch firing mechanics
- Six distinct mission levels
- Interactive chain explosions
- Three difficulty levels
- Game Center integration
- HD optimized graphics
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Enjoy the first multi-touch shooter! 25 years later your mission continues. Are your fingers up for fight? ★ LEGENDARY GAME WITH A UNIQUE GAMEPLAY! Operation Wow challenges you to complete six enthralling missions, but this time you'll need to use your fingers fast enough to get through exciting battles that will keep you glued to your iPhone. ★ AMAZING MULTITOUCH FIRE! Forget about the boring machine gun! Now you have the exclusive multi-touch fire that allows you to kill your enemies using several fingers at a time. ★ MASSIVE EXPLOSIONS! Interact with items that appear on the screen to cause massive chain explosions. ★ NO TIME FOR BORING: ✓ History mode with 6 different levels: Base camp, Jungle, Warehouse, Village, Rescue and Airport. ✓ Three difficulty levels. ✓ Game Center with challenges and online scores. Fight to be the best. ✓ Graphics and explosions optimized to look great on the iPAD HD display ✓ 2 Minigames and 2 new endless mode available in the Extended pack. ★ FANS & CRITICS AGREE: OPERATION WOW FOR iOS IS AMAZING GAME… ✓ TOUCH ARCADE: "Operation Wow has been lovingly crafted in the vein of Operation Wolf .... Operation Wow takes advantage of multitouch allowing you to shoot up to 10 bullets simultaneously (or possibly more, I ran out of fingers to test with)." ✓ APPLE: Featured as "New and Noteworthy” and “What’s hot” in several countries. ✓ THE IPHONE APP REVIEW: "I’ve played loads of different games on the iPhone, including hugely popular titles like Angry Birds, Legends and many more, but nothing I have played so far is so much fun from the moment" (5/5). Suggestions? problems? email us to support@ivanovichgames.com and we will be happy to answer you.
Super Waves
Test your retro gaming skills in this arcade action classic. Jump and smash to survive against hordes of sea creatures with your boat and paddle. Collect gold, recruit mermaids, and upgrade your abilities for an endless challenge.
- Boat and paddle combat
- Classic platformer controls
- Collect gold and treasures
- Recruit mermaids
- Upgrade health and super moves
- Procedurally generated waves
- Game Center achievements and leaderboards
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BATTLE THE WAVES. SURVIVE THE OCEAN. Super Waves is a hardcore endless action-platformer played across an ocean that never stands still. Paddle across moving waves, time your jumps and fight off relentless sea creatures while staying ahead of the hungry shark. Collect coins and valuable items, upgrade Johnny and unleash your Super Beam when the battle becomes overwhelming. The ocean is always moving. The enemies keep coming. How long can you survive? MASTER THE MOVING WAVES The ocean is your platform. Paddle across its constantly changing surface, leap over danger and adapt your timing and attacks as the waves rise and fall beneath you. FIGHT THROUGH ENEMY WAVES Battle sea creatures with your paddle, defeat them by landing on them and use powerful Super Shots to escape dangerous situations. FIRE THE SUPER BEAM When enemies close in, unleash a powerful laser to turn the fight in your favor. Upgrade the beam’s size and duration, and increase the number of Super Shots you can carry. CLAIM MERMAID REWARDS Carolina the mermaid is there to help—but you still need the skill to reach her. Defeat sea creatures and collect coins to earn opportunities for valuable items and extra health. Carolina delivers the rewards, but retrieving them safely is up to you. COLLECT, SELL AND UPGRADE Collect coins and valuable items during each run. Sell your treasure and use your earnings to upgrade Johnny’s maximum health, strengthen the Super Beam and carry more Super Shots into battle. Every gameplay upgrade can be unlocked by playing. SMASH THROUGH BONUS ROUNDS Break open treasure and collect additional coins between enemy waves to power your next upgrades. ESCAPE THE HUNGRY SHARK Keep paddling and keep fighting. Fall too far behind and the shark will claim its next meal. CHASE YOUR HIGHEST SCORE Improve with every attempt, earn Game Center achievements and climb the leaderboards. Discover hidden interactions and unexpected ways to boost your score. Built for players who love old-school arcade action, demanding platforming, beat ’em up combat and games that reward genuine mastery. Originally launched for iPhone 3G as Waves: Survivor in 2010 and remade as Super Waves Survivor in 2014, this HD rebuild is the definitive version for modern devices—preserving its uncompromising arcade spirit with support for 60 FPS and 120 FPS ProMotion displays. PADDLE. JUMP. FIGHT. UPGRADE. SURVIVE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Operation wow HD at none against Super Waves's shown. Operation wow HD also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 68 months) and review sentiment (87% vs 75%). Super Waves's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Operation wow HD sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Super Waves sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Operation wow HD against 4.1 for Super Waves. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Operation wow HD's written reviews are positive against 75% of Super Waves's.
Operation wow HD ships an update fortnightly, Super Waves every 68 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Operation wow HD | Super Waves |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (62 ratings) | 4.1 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 68 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 3.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 217 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ivanovich Games | Renown Entertainment |
Customer experience
Operation wow HD
Super Waves
Bugs and requests
Operation wow HD
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on launch
- In-app purchases not working
- Endless mode not functioning
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content
- Ability to upgrade weapons
- Multiplayer mode
- Improved graphics and visuals
Super Waves
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Operation wow HD
- Infinite Retry$0.99
- Extended pack$1.99
Super Waves
- Handful of 2,500 Coins$0.99
- Coin Multiplier$0.99
- Bucket of 6,000 Coins$1.99
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- Upgrade Pack$1.99
- Chest of 14,000 Coins$2.99
- Auto Reload Supers$4.99
- Boatload of 31,000 Coins$4.99
- Maximum Johnny$4.99
- Maximum Supers$6.99
- King of the Seven Seas$14.99
Questions
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