Comparison

Warbits vs PALINGENESIS

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

Head to head
About

Warbits

Engage in turn-based strategic combat in a galactic war simulator. Battle through a story-driven campaign, test your skills in challenge modes, and utilize powerful upgrades. Compete online or locally against friends and AI.

Highlights
  • Turn-based strategy gameplay
  • 20-mission campaign
  • 30 challenge missions
  • 16 power-ups
  • Online and local multiplayer
  • Asynchronous gameplay
Features
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“Possibly the best online multiplayer game ever released for iOS.” -PocketTactics.com Warbits, a war simulator for a better tomorrow. Give peace a fighting chance by settling your differences casualty free. Don't agree with your fellow factions? You don't have to! Put those blasters down, load up Warbits, and virtually crush the opposition! --TURN-BASED STRATEGY-- CAMPAIGN - Battle through 20 missions across 5 unique environments as you unravel the story of a dysfunctional galaxy and the war simulator designed to save it. CHALLENGE MODE - Test your grit against 30 challenging missions at your own pace. 10 Skirmish, 10 Puzzle and 10 unlockable Veteran missions. POWERS - Supercharge your army with 16 game changing power-ups. ONLINE OR LOCAL - Take the fight online with Game Center or play locally against friends and AI opponents. TAG MATCHES - Automatically get matched against players based on the modes you like to play. INSTRUCTION MANUAL - Harken back to the golden age of cracking open a new game with this classic instruction manual: http://riskylab.com/WarbitsManual OTHER FEATURES • Asynchronous gameplay • 40 Custom versus maps • 15 Game Center achievements • Replays & in game messaging • Sync campaign progress with iCloud "Comforted a 4-year-old who was nervous on a flight." -Twitter Follower “I haven't laughed at a game in a long time and this has touched my heart.” -Beta Tester “Is it out yet?” -Twitter Follower 2012 "C'est incroyable." -NeoGAF Member “looks so incredibly generic from the trailer...” -YouTube Comment Follow Risky Lab: https://twitter.com/RiskyLab https://www.facebook.com/warbitsgame

About

PALINGENESIS

Experience an album as an interactive music video game. Explore animated worlds, each tied to a song, and uncover a developing narrative through your journey. This unique application blends hand-crafted animation with interactive gameplay.

Highlights
  • Interactive animated worlds
  • Music-driven environments
  • Unfolding narrative
  • Hand-crafted animation
  • Visual sequences
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PALINGENESIS is a music video game. The album by GRIGS unfolds as a series of interactive animated worlds, with each environment built around a different song. Created entirely by animator and musician John Paul Grigsby, PALINGENESIS brings together hand-crafted animation, interactive environments, and visual sequences that appear as you move through each world. As you progress through the album, a larger story begins to take shape through the environments and the moments you come across along the way. Listen to PALINGENESIS by GRIGS wherever you stream music. www.johngrigsby.com

Screenshots

Warbits4 screens
PALINGENESIS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PALINGENESIS at Free against Warbits's $0.99. PALINGENESIS also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Warbits's advantage is ratings volume (643 vs 11) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

PALINGENESIS is free to download; Warbits costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PALINGENESIS holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Warbits has 643 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Warbits's written reviews are positive against 100% of PALINGENESIS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Warbits ships an update every 3 months, PALINGENESIS every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Warbits versus PALINGENESIS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWarbitsPALINGENESIS
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (643 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings643 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size178 MB741 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperRisky Lab IncJohn Paul Grigsby

Customer experience

Warbits

All ratings643 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews365 reviews
Positive87.4%
Neutral3.8%
Negative8.8%

PALINGENESIS

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Warbits

No in-app purchases

None

PALINGENESIS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Warbits free?
Warbits costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PALINGENESIS free?
PALINGENESIS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Warbits or PALINGENESIS?
PALINGENESIS is rated higher. Warbits averages 4.7 out of 5 from 643 ratings, while PALINGENESIS averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.
Do Warbits or PALINGENESIS have ads?
Neither Warbits nor PALINGENESIS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Warbits or PALINGENESIS?
Warbits ships an update every 3 months, and PALINGENESIS every 9 days. Most recently, Warbits was updated on October 18, 2026 and PALINGENESIS on October 17, 2026.

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