Nucleus™ vs Chicken Revolt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nucleus™
Pilot a spaceship through an arcade-style space shooter. Destroy debris and collect power-ups to enhance your weaponry. The ultimate goal is to build atoms by gathering electrons and delivering them to the nucleus.
- Spaceship piloting
- Space debris destruction
- Weapon power-ups
- Laser weapons
- Heat-seeking bullets
- Shields
- Atom building
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Nucleus is an action packed arcade game with classic roots. You fly a spaceship around while blowing up space debris. There are tons of cool weapons powerups which give you lasers, heat seeking bullets, shields, etc. The goal of the game is to build Atoms by collecting Electrons and taking them to the Nucleus.
Chicken Revolt
Defend a chicken laboratory from an uprising of jumping chickens. Collect and combine weapons to eliminate the advancing horde, uncover secret levels, and survive the onslaught. This action-packed shooter features classic pixel art and dynamic environments.
- Unique defense gameplay
- Weapon collection and combination
- Secret level discovery
- High score challenges
- Pixel art graphics
- Dynamic terrain
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An unexpected rebellion has been reported in a chicken laboratory somewhere. Your job is to stop these idiot jumping chickens from escaping. Use, collect and combine your weapons wisely to eliminate the rush, reveal secret levels and survive. Talking Chicken Friend's first iOS game presents a classic pixel art look with beautiful lights and dynamic terrain which you gonna paint with blood. Guaranteed: - tens of thousands of chickens - lot of blood - unique defense gameplay - awesome minutes while you play it on the toilet Discover the possibilities, kill as many chickens as you can and reach high score!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chicken Revolt at 100% against Nucleus™'s 57%. Chicken Revolt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). Nucleus™'s advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chicken Revolt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Nucleus™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Chicken Revolt's.
Nucleus™ ships an update every 5 months, Chicken Revolt every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nucleus™ | Chicken Revolt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pangea Software, Inc. | Talking Chicken Friend |
Customer experience
Nucleus™
Chicken Revolt
In-app purchases
Nucleus™
No in-app purchases
Chicken Revolt
No in-app purchases
Questions
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