Marine Raider vs CodeBastion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marine Raider
Command an elite platoon of Marine Raiders in intense World War 2 battles. Strategize your approach, select your arsenal, and engage in thrilling text-based combat, from daring night landings to close-quarters firefights.
- Lead an elite platoon
- World War 2 setting
- Strategic battle planning
- Weapon selection
- Text-based gameplay
- Nighttime landings
- Close-quarters combat
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Lead a platoon of elite Marine Raiders! Battle an intractable enemy during WW2! Choose your battle-plan, select your weapons and if need be fix your bayonets. You'll wade ashore during a daring nighttime landing or plunge into frantic close-quarters fire-fights in this thrilling text-based game.
CodeBastion
Forge a city from a humble camp into a lasting bastion through strategic idle clicker and incremental city-building mechanics. Manage resources, assign citizens to jobs, research new technologies, and embark on expeditions to expand your legacy.
- Idle clicker and incremental progression
- Resource and citizen management
- Deep skill tree with research
- Expeditions and exploration
- Timed defense challenges
- Offline progress
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Build a city from its first camp into a lasting bastion in Code Bastion, a strategic idle clicker and incremental city-builder. Begin in Summary, where every tap matters. Gather wood, stone, food, and science through quick actions, manage your energy, watch your population, and keep your city moving even while you are away. Your resources continue to grow through citizen jobs and buildings, while seasons, incidents, and storage limits keep every plan under pressure. Move to Development to unlock a large skill tree across economy, construction, society, and expeditions. Each research choice opens new buildings, improves production, increases storage, strengthens manual gathering, expands your population, and prepares your city for the frontier. Turn a fragile settlement into a reliable system of farms, sawmills, quarries, mines, warehouses, markets, universities, barracks, walls, and more. Use the Resources screen to assign citizens to the jobs that matter most. Balance food, wood, stone, iron, coal, steel, gold, science, and influence. Build capacity before production overflows, keep enough workers in essential buildings, and adapt to changing seasons. Missions give every stage of the city a direction. Complete daily tasks, pursue a weekly campaign, and progress through a five-chapter city legacy: found the settlement, grow it into a city, open the frontier, endure its threats, and build a lasting legacy. When the city is ready, enter Expeditions. Train citizens, assign roles, craft preparation items, reveal a procedural map tile by tile, recruit from camps, discover points of interest, and research a catalogue of hidden treasures. Beyond the walls, every expedition can bring resources, experience, discoveries, and risks. Prepare for incursions with passive defenders and a timed defense challenge. Gather temporary materials, build defenses, create weapons, and decide how to hold the line when the frontier strikes back. CODE BASTION FEATURES Idle clicker and strategic incremental progression Quick actions, energy management, and offline progress Deep skill tree with research, upgrades, and unlocks Resources, citizen jobs, buildings, storage, and seasons Daily tasks, weekly campaigns, and city-wide goals Procedural exploration map, expeditions, equipment, and loot Treasure research, defense roles, incursions, and timed battles Five supported languages: English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian Build deliberately, explore carefully, and defend what you have created.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CodeBastion at 5.0 against Marine Raider's 4.0. CodeBastion also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Marine Raider's advantage is ratings volume (40 vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Marine Raider sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.
CodeBastion holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marine Raider has 40 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Marine Raider's written reviews are positive against 100% of CodeBastion's.
Marine Raider ships an update every 22 months, CodeBastion every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marine Raider | CodeBastion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Gines Ortiz |
Customer experience
Marine Raider
CodeBastion
Bugs and requests
Marine Raider
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional grammatical errors
- One bug discovered so far
Requested features
10 requests- Make the game longer, more lengthy
- Add more raids and missions
- Create a sequel or more games like this
- WW2 themed game expansion
- Story about the entire pacific theater
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- More choices for each scenario
- Add a back button
- Expand with different battles and soldier progression
- Another version to fight through all of WW2
- More plots or chapters
CodeBastion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Marine Raider
- Remove Advertising$4.99
CodeBastion
No in-app purchases
Questions
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