Superforce vs Beach Defender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Superforce
Engage in intense combat by steering your vehicle with tilt controls and firing with a tap. Utilize missiles to eliminate various enemy targets and collect power-ups to enhance your weaponry. Progress through 15 challenging levels.
- Tilt to steer
- Tap to shoot
- Missile combat
- Cannon upgrades
- 15 handcrafted levels
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Kill all bad guys. • Tilt to steer • Tap to shoot • Use missiles to take down helicopters, destroy tanks and enemy ships • Pick up crates to upgrade your cannon and get more missiles • Fight your way through 15 handcrafted levels
Beach Defender
Experience a retro 8-bit arcade shooter inspired by classic fantasy games. Defend the beach in an adventure where the whole world counts on you. Compete with friends on leaderboards and enjoy haptic feedback.
- Retro 8-bit pixel art
- Simple one-touch gameplay
- GameCenter leaderboards
- Infinite arcade mode
- Haptic feedback
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Defend the beach in this retro 8-bit arcade shoot’em up! Your fellow villagers, your friends and even your own mother are counting on you… in fact, the whole world is. You are the Guardian of the Beach, and it’s adventure time! Handcrafted pixel art and 8-bit sound effects pay tribute to the classic handheld adventures of the 90s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down. FEATURES • One-touch controls: simple to learn, hard to master • Endless waves of sea creatures: octopuses, sea urchins, jellyfish, crabs that dig out of the sand and turtles whose shells bounce your shots back • A wooden palisade protects the village: an enemy that breaks a plank opens the way for the next one • Game Center leaderboard: challenge your friends and beat their scores • Optional “Remove Ads” purchase • Haptic feedback • Retro pixel art and sound
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Superforce at 100% against Beach Defender's 43%. Superforce also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Beach Defender's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (34 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Beach Defender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Superforce asks for nothing beyond the download.
Superforce holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beach Defender has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Superforce's written reviews are positive against 43% of Beach Defender's.
Superforce ships an update every 5 months, Beach Defender every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Superforce | Beach Defender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.4 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catnap Games | Florian Brochard |
Customer experience
Superforce
Beach Defender
In-app purchases
Superforce
No in-app purchases
Beach Defender
- Remove Ads$2.99
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