Mutant Meltdown vs Stellar Mercenaries
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mutant Meltdown
Lead survivors through a post-apocalyptic world filled with mutants. Scavenge for supplies, build and upgrade your encampment, and manage your survivors' skills to thrive. Explore, craft, and defend against fierce enemies in this turn-based roguelike game.
- Turn-based roguelike gameplay
- Colony building and upgrades
- Survivor management and skill assignment
- Scavenging for supplies
- Crafting and repairing items
- Vehicle repair and defense
- Radiation effects and perks
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Intro A nuclear disaster led to unforeseen consequences. The world everyone knew ceased to exist. Lead a group of survivors throughout a post-apocalypse in a fast-paced turn-based game. Survive, interact, loot, explore, build, craft, defend, and attack! Description Mutant Meltdown is a fast-paced turn-based with roguelike elements in which you have a group of survivors in the aftermath of an apocalypse. The ultimate goal is to thrive with a stable colony. To survive, you must scavenge for supplies and deal with the mutants plaguing and roaming everywhere. Build, and upgrade your encampment and deal with fierce mutants, mutants bosses, mutants with guns, and much more! ● Explore locations left behind and scavenge supplies such as resources, weapons, ammunition, clothes, food, medicine, junk, and others. ● Manage survivors individually and equip them accordingly to their favorite skills ● Build and upgrade your camp to withstand the mutant menace ● Assign different tasks to your survivors. Some may be better at scavaging. Others may be better at constructing stuff. ● Explore the post-apocalypse scenario looking for other survivors ● Use protective wear to diminish the effects of radiation. Strange perks can be gained if a character gets too much radiation ● Repair and Craft, find mod schematics for your items ● Repair and upgrade vehicles to drive and defend ● Deal with many events with many possible outcomes * * * Follow us on INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/goldengod.games Follow us on TWITTER http://twitter.com/goldengodgames Follow us on TIKTOK https://www.tiktok.com/@goldengodgames * * *
Stellar Mercenaries
Engage in offline, vertical scrolling arcade action with this sci-fi RPG. Upgrade your ship, weapons, and abilities to battle rival mercenaries and conquer the solar system. Enjoy endless procedurally generated missions with diverse objectives and challenges.
- Vertical scrolling arcade shooter
- Offline capable gameplay
- Upgradable ships and weapons
- Customizable loadouts
- Procedurally generated missions
- Rival mercenary system
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Ready to vanquish your enemies and change the solar system forever from anywhere? Stellar Mercs is a vertical scrolling, offline capable, action arcade shooter with upgradable ships, weapons, and special abilities. Customize your loadouts for each mission depending on the environments and enemies you'll face! Each mission will reward you with unlocks and cash to continue building your arsenal. You're not the only mercenary out there - the more successful and accomplished you become, the more attention you'll attract. Enemy mercenaries can become persistent arch-rivals, leveling up along side you. Defeating them will net you great rewards, but if you die at their hands, they'll grow even further in power. The fun is never-ending! Fly missions through endless procedurally generated missions with a variety of environments, objectives, hazards, enemies, and rewards. Hijack cargo from speeding space trains, break into heavily guarded research and development space stations to acquire new prototype ships to fly, or defeat mighty leviathan capital ships in your quest to become the wealthiest, most powerful mercenary in the system! Stellar Mercs operates as a single handed action arcade game, so you can play comfortably on the go. SM is offline capable, so even without signal you can keep gaming and conquering the solar system! Configure your spacecraft's loadout and autoshoot your way to victory - focus on maneuvering through hazards and waves of enemies while you employ special abilities for maximum carnage!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stellar Mercenaries at 85% against Mutant Meltdown's 0%. Stellar Mercenaries also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (34 vs 6). Mutant Meltdown's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Mutant Meltdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stellar Mercenaries sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stellar Mercenaries holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stellar Mercenaries has 34 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Mutant Meltdown's written reviews are positive against 85% of Stellar Mercenaries's.
Mutant Meltdown ships an update weekly, Stellar Mercenaries every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mutant Meltdown | Stellar Mercenaries |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (6 ratings) | 4.7 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 85.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 468 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | GoldenGod Games, Lda | Quest Builders LLC |
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Mutant Meltdown
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In-app purchases
Mutant Meltdown
- Full Game Access$6.99
Stellar Mercenaries
- Currency - Small Pack$1.99
- Starter Pack - Basic$1.99
- Gem Pack - Small$2.99
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- Currency - Medium Pack$3.99
- Stater Pack - Advanced$5.99
- Gem Pack - Medium$7.99
- Currency - Large Pack$7.99
- Gem Pack - Large$15.99
- Starter Pack - Legendary$15.99
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