Comparison

Marine Raider vs CodeBastion

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Lead an elite platoon
  • World War 2 setting
  • Strategic battle planning
  • Weapon selection
  • Text-based gameplay
  • Nighttime landings
  • Close-quarters combat
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Idle clicker and incremental progression
  • Resource and citizen management
  • Deep skill tree with research
  • Expeditions and exploration
  • Timed defense challenges
  • Offline progress
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Marine Raider4 screens
CodeBastion4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Marine Raider sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CodeBastion asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Marine Raider versus CodeBastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarine RaiderCodeBastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (40 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings40 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 22 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB40 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHosted Games LLCGines Ortiz

Customer experience

Marine Raider

All ratings40 ratings
Positive77.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral11.8%
Negative5.9%

CodeBastion

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 5 more
  • 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

1 purchases

Marine Raider

One-time1
  • Remove Advertising$4.99
None

CodeBastion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Marine Raider free?
Marine Raider is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CodeBastion free?
CodeBastion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marine Raider or CodeBastion?
CodeBastion is rated higher. Marine Raider averages 4.0 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while CodeBastion averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Marine Raider or CodeBastion have ads?
Marine Raider shows ads; CodeBastion does not.
Which is updated more often, Marine Raider or CodeBastion?
Marine Raider ships an update every 22 months, and CodeBastion every 10 days. Most recently, Marine Raider was updated on October 2, 2026 and CodeBastion on September 21, 2026.

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