Survive Squad vs Hold The Line
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Survive Squad
Team up with other survivors to battle endless waves of invading aliens in this fast-paced roguelike survival game. Assemble a squad, upgrade your heroes, and fight for your life against powerful bosses and hordes of monsters.
- Assemble a squad with unique heroes
- Build skill combinations during upgrades
- Battle hordes of monsters and bosses
- Explore challenging survival arenas
- One-finger controls
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Alarm! The hordes of aliens have invaded your city! Grab your guns, team up with other survivors, and get through endless waves of aliens! You have to survive by any means! Survive Squad is a fast-paced casual roguelike survival io game with some RPG elements. Your primary goal is to build a team and remain alive in the survival arena as long as you can! The squad alpha must stay alive! FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE Zombies, vampires, and other undead creatures are in the past — there's a bigger concern. In this survival io game, you must get through the endless waves of aliens that far outnumber you! The stronger enemies await you at every stage! Get ready to battle the deadly bosses with unique abilities. Be fast, smart & furious to defeat them all, and loot treasures together with new upgrades. ASSEMBLE THE SQUAD Start the game as a lonely survivor surrounded by thousands of evil creatures. Move around the city, find other warriors, and build the strongest team ever! Rifleman, mad scientist, paladin, archero, and many other heroes are ready to join your squad! Take down as many aliens as you can to level up the team members during the game! Collect new equipment and weapons, unlock new perks, and upgrade the heroes' abilities to deal more damage to the monsters! SURVIVAL GAME FEATURES: - Assemble the squad with unique weapons & talents - Build unique skill combinations while upgrading the team at every level - Take down hordes of monsters at once & fight mighty bosses - Explore dozens of survival arenas full of tough challenges - Control your shooters with one finger ––– Are you ready to meet the challenge? Stand against hordes of enemies, test your shooting and survival skills, and remain alive in the survival io game! Download and play Survive Squad for free right now!
Hold The Line
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Hold the Line is a fast, tactile war game about one thing: pushing the front and refusing to break. Deploy infantry, tanks, gunships and bombers, spend your resources wisely, and watch a single living front line surge toward the enemy base — or buckle back toward yours. Every unit you send matters. COMMAND YOUR HEROES Unlock 14 commanders, each with a battlefield perk that changes how you play — faster income, tougher armor, deadlier air support and more. The same roster shows up as enemy bosses, so the general you beat today is the hero you lead tomorrow. THREE WAYS TO FIGHT - Campaign: climb a series of escalating missions against a smarter, better-funded enemy. - Skirmish: a quick custom battle whenever you want one. - Survival: endless waves that get genuinely brutal. Camp and you'll be punished; earn your resource pile wave by wave and resume from your best run. CALL IN THE BIG GUNS Airstrikes fly real bombers over three targets. Artillery and rocket barrages arc across the map and land where you aim them. And when you truly need the field cleared, the nuke blooms into a slow, rolling mushroom cloud. BUILD YOUR ARMY Promote units through veterancy, upgrade your base, and pick the skin that suits your style. Progress carries between battles. PLAY YOUR FRIENDS Challenge another player online through Game Center, or start a Local Match over the same Wi-Fi for a head-to-head with someone in the room. HOLD THE LINE PRO A one-time upgrade unlocks the Mammoth heavy tank and lifts unit-upgrade caps so you can push every unit to its maximum. Everything else in the game is free to play. Rally up, commander. The line won't hold itself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hold The Line at none against Survive Squad's shown. Survive Squad's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Survive Squad sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hold The Line sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Survive Squad | Hold The Line |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 27.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 325 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | AI Games FZ | Fredy Soussou |
Bugs and requests
Survive Squad
Reported bugs
3 issues- Enemies getting stuck inside player's squad
- Freezing during ads, causing loss of progress
- Inability to claim rewards and complete missions
Requested features
3 requests- More characters and levels to grind for
- Improved league/progression system
- Option to disable ads for a one-time fee
Hold The Line
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Survive Squad
- Gems$0.99
- Chapter Pack 1$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- Piggy Bank$2.99
- Gems$4.99
- Special Offer$9.99
- Gems$9.99
- Monthly Card Gold$9.99
- Survivor Pass$14.99
- Gems$19.99
Hold The Line
- Hold the Line Pro$1.99
Questions
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