Bloons TD 5 vs Bloons Monkey City
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bloons TD 5
Build towers, choose upgrades, and hire special agents to pop waves of invading balloons. This tower defense game offers extensive replayability with numerous tracks, missions, and challenges.
- Build and upgrade towers
- Hire special agents
- Over 90 tracks
- Online co-op play
- Daily and special challenges
- Boss Bloon events
- Multiple game modes
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Five-star tower defense with unrivaled depth and replayability. Now with rewarded leaderboards for even more fun and challenge! The Bloons are back and this time they mean business! Build awesome towers, choose your favorite upgrades, hire cool new Special Agents, and pop every last invading Bloon! Featuring 2 brand new Towers, cool Special Agents, glorious retina graphics, original Tracks and Special Missions, a whole new tier of Specialty Building upgrades, and the powerful Monkey Lab to further upgrade your towers, Bloons TD 5 delivers hours and hours of fun, challenging play to fans and new players alike. Hours and Hours of Awesome Gameplay: * 90+ Tracks * 21 powerful towers with Activated Abilities and 2 upgrade paths * 10 Special Agents * Online Co-op play * Multi-track Odyssey Challenges * Boss Bloon Special Events * 10 Special Missions * 250+ Random Missions * Daily Challenges * New Bloon enemies - tougher Camos, Regrow Bloons, and the fearsome ZOMG * 50+ Game Center Achievements and Challenges * iCloud Support * 3 different game modes * Freeplay mode after mastering a track * 4 difficulty settings and family-friendly theme so anyone can play And that's just the beginning - regular planned updates will keep Bloons TD 5 fresh, fun, and challenging for many months to come. Now it's time to pop some Bloons! Remember to save to iCloud after each victory or purchase to save your progress. iPad version also available - check out Bloons TD 5 HD for full screen UI awesomeness! https://ninjakiwi.com/terms
Bloons Monkey City
Build and manage a thriving city while defending it from invading bloons in this strategic city-building and tower defense game. Expand your territory, upgrade towers, and compete with friends.
- City building and management
- Tower defense gameplay
- Territory expansion
- Tower upgrades
- Economic buildings (farms, banks)
- Social features (friends, contests)
- Player vs. player attacks
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Create, upgrade, and customize your very own Bloons Monkey City in this groundbreaking blend of city building and tower defense awesomeness! UNIQUE SIMULATION + STRATEGY GAMING Take back the wilderness from the invading bloon hordes and pop your way from a modest settlement to a thriving metropolis. Attack bloon-infested territory adjacent to your city, win a short tower defense game, and add the captured territory to your city as a space on which to build. Buildings are the heart of your city, and each one has a specific purpose - individual monkey towers for battle, upgrades for those towers, farms and banks to drive your economy, power to supercharge your city, epic buildings for epic powers, and decorations to make your city more awesome. Every time you build, your city looks cooler, you increase your power potential in tower defense play, and you open up even more rewards and challenges. AMAZING DEPTH AND VARIETY All 21 of the fully awesomized and carefully balanced Bloons TD 5 towers are available within Monkey City, with completely new unlock mechanics. More than 130 buildings and decorations give you endless strategies and city design options. Explore the wilderness to find treasure tiles and uncover 11 powerful special items like the Banana Replicator and the Dark Temple Idol. Burst bloons on 55 all new tower defense maps or test your mastery on 13 wildly challenging original special missions. Either way, be ready to encounter all new bloon waves and special bloon attack patterns like Cash Starve or Fast and Furious. REINFORCE YOUR FRIENDS Connect with Facebook and Game Center friends, then help each other win and expand. Send Supply Crates back and forth for bonus starting cash. Visit friends' cities to check out their strategies and their city design skills, and while you're there root out any bloon spies to win a reward for both you and your friend. SHOW OFF YOUR SKILLS Build up the strongest lineup of monkey towers possible and compete with other players for the best score in weekly Contested Territory events. Use the latest in monkey science to send player vs. player bloon attacks, then see whose defenses are the strongest and earn extra rewards for victory. Download for free and play Bloons Monkey City now! Pro tip: You can move your buildings when they are not upgrading or damaged - just tap and hold then move to a free captured tile! Please Note: Bloons Monkey City is free to download and play (aside from internet, carrier, data, device, and other services for which the player is financially responsible), but some in-game items can be purchased with real money. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device's settings, or reach us at support@ninjakiwi.com for help. City data is organized individually, so if you share multiple cities on one device through multiple Game Center or Facebook logins, do note that your IAP will only apply to the city active during purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bloons Monkey City at Free against Bloons TD 5's $2.99. Bloons TD 5's advantage is chart position (#7 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Bloons Monkey City is free to download; Bloons TD 5 costs $2.99 up front. Bloons TD 5 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Bloons Monkey City sells 11 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 — 4.8 for Bloons TD 5 against 4.7 for Bloons Monkey City. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99K and 46K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Bloons TD 5's written reviews are positive against 77% of Bloons Monkey City's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Bloons TD 5 | Bloons Monkey City |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (99K ratings) — better | 4.7 (46K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better | 77.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99K — better | 46K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #7 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 125 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ninja Kiwi Limited | Ninja Kiwi Limited |
Customer experience
Bloons TD 5
Bloons Monkey City
User reviews
Bloons TD 5
From 99K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 💎 Excellent value for money
- 🐒 Unique and charming theme
- 🔥 Highly replayable with lots of content
- 🎮 Great for killing time
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
- 🔊 Sound/music issues
- 🔌 Performance issues on later rounds
- 🤝 Multiplayer connectivity problems
- 💰 Microtransactions feel intrusive
Bloons Monkey City
From 46K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and challenging gameplay
- 🚀 Addictive and engaging
- 💡 Unique city-building mechanics
- 👍 Great combination of tower defense and city management
- 👍 Generous free-to-play model
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional progress loss/resets
- 🕰️ Lengthy upgrade/research times
- 📺 Intrusive and frequent ads
- 🔨 Accidental demolition/cancellation issues
- 🤯 Difficulty spikes and imbalanced levels
Bugs and requests
Bloons TD 5
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent disconnects in multiplayer
- Sound/music not working
- Crashes on high rounds
- Difficulty spikes between levels
Requested features
5 requests- More maps and game modes
- Ability to transfer save data across devices
- Improved multiplayer features (chat, custom maps)
- New tower types and upgrades
- Customization options (skins, etc.)
Bloons Monkey City
Reported bugs
3 issues- Tutorial issues and getting stuck
- Music/audio glitches
- Connectivity problems and login failures
Requested features
5 requests- Add sandbox/freeplay mode
- Improve social/multiplayer features
- Expand city customization options
- Reduce upgrade/research timers
- Implement difficulty selection for levels
In-app purchases
Bloons TD 5
- Tower Unlock All Upgrades$0.99
- Rank Up$0.99
- 500 Monkey Money$0.99
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- Bundle O' Monkey Money$2.99
- Pile O' Monkey Money$2.99
- Pile O' Tokens$4.99
- Pile O' Monkey Money$4.99
- Vault O' Tokens$9.99
- Double Cash Mode$9.99
- Vault O' Monkey Money$19.99
Bloons Monkey City
- Sci Fi Wall$0.99
- Small Bloonstone Pack$1.99
- $10,000 City Cash$1.99
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- Banana Farmer$1.99
- Starter Pack$2.99
- Medium Bloonstone Pack$3.99
- Medium Bloonstone Pack$4.99
- Wild Card Pack$4.99
- 30 Monkey Knowledge Packs$11.99
- Large Bloonstone Pack$19.99
- King's Pack$19.99
Questions
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