Sinbad vs Defense Battle Xmas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sinbad
Embark on a swashbuckling adventure across the seven seas as a ship captain. Explore exotic destinations, battle enemies with intuitive combat, and upgrade your ship to recover lost relics and protect the world from evil.
- Naval exploration
- Island conquest
- Enemy battles
- Treasure hunting
- Ship upgrades
- Intuitive combat system
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Set sail, conquer mysterious islands, defeat enemies and find priceless treasure! Become the ultimate hero of legend in a game inspired by Sky 1 HD's Sinbad. As Captain of your loyal crew, you must navigate the seven seas to recover lost relics that are the key to protecting the world from evil! Use treasure you find along the way to upgrade and maintain your trusty ship with new masts, sails and decorations. Be the envy of the oceans and your friends on Facebook! Swash-buckling action! Fight bandits, city guards and supernatural creatures! Strike down formidable opponents in acrobatic and dynamic swordplay using an intuitive one-touch combat control system! Exotic destinations! Explore bustling market towns, forgotten caverns, desert wastes, temple ruins and more... Sinbad is free to play, but you can choose to pay real money for some extra items, which will charge your iTunes account. You can disable in-app purchasing by adjusting your device settings.
Defense Battle Xmas
Defend Christmas presents from incoming enemy tanks and jeeps. Upgrade your turret, use special weapons like strikes and shields, and protect the ice wall to become the best defender.
- Tower defense gameplay
- RPG elements
- Special weapon abilities (Strike, Stop, Shield)
- Tower and weapon upgrades
- Daily play rewards
- Defend ice wall
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Christmas and New year are here. Help Santa to defend christmas presents from enemies. Defense Battle Xmas is the best tower defence arcade with RPG elements. You are the captain of the turret gun. Enemy tanks and jeeps are attacking your base. Your task is to defend the ice wall from enemies. You control tower, pointing the gun at enemies and shoot. You can also use special weapons: • Strike - super explosion that hits enemies. • Stop - energy explosion that stops and paralyzes enemies. • Shield - reflects projectiles of enemies and protects the wall of the base. For the defense of your bunker of base and the destruction of the enemies you gain coins. You can spend the coins to upgrade the tower gun, damage and rate of fire of the gun, to increase the base energy. Improve the ability of special weapons. This will allow you to destroy quickly a lots of enemies. Play the game every day and be the best defender!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Defense Battle Xmas at 100% against Sinbad's 56%. Defense Battle Xmas also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3). Sinbad's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (161 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Sinbad sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Defense Battle Xmas sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Defense Battle Xmas holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sinbad has 161 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Sinbad's written reviews are positive against 100% of Defense Battle Xmas's.
Sinbad ships an update every 2 months, Defense Battle Xmas every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sinbad | Defense Battle Xmas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (161 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 161 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 4.3 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rebellion Games | John Smith |
Customer experience
Sinbad
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In-app purchases
Sinbad
- Purse of Gems$0.99
- Purse of Coins$0.99
- Coin Doubler$1.99
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- Pouch of Gems$2.99
- Pouch of Coins$2.99
- Bag of Coins$3.99
- Bag of Gems$6.99
- Box of Coins$6.99
- Box of Gems$13.99
- Chest of Coins$13.99
Defense Battle Xmas
- 10000 Coins$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- 35000 Coins$4.99
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- 160000 Coins$19.99
- 320000 Coins$29.99
Questions
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