Comparison

TinyShip.io vs Pipe Defense

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

Head to head
About

TinyShip.io

Pilot modern warships through challenging stages, collecting resources to upgrade your fleet. Engage in naval battles against enemies and compete globally for leaderboard dominance. Enjoy a relaxing action game with cute art and diverse gameplay mechanics.

Highlights
  • Unlock and upgrade warships
  • Navigate perilous stages
  • Engage in naval combat
  • Collect resources for upgrades
  • Global leaderboard competition
  • Cute art style
  • Diverse mechanisms and terrains
Features
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Welcome to the Blue Star Ocean! Unlock warships, upgrade attributes, and pilot your ship through perilous stages to face incoming enemy challenges! This is a unique action game themed around modern warships. With its cute art style, single progression path, simple and relaxing stat development, massive stages, diverse mechanisms and terrains, and linear map flow, commanders can freely release stress in the vast blue ocean. Here, you can operate various warships to challenge and sweep through long and winding enemy stages. Face different machines and turrets, dodge danger with excellent ship controls, and destroy enemy units. In the enemy-controlled sea regions, defeat multiple warships, collect resources, bring them back to base, and upgrade your ship. Lead your fleet to battle across the Blue Star Ocean, protect the adorable natives, and defeat alien invaders. Test your warship’s endurance and battle freely with players around the world in wide-open seas—survive as long as possible, defeat more players, earn higher scores, and claim the crown on the Blue Star leaderboard! More individual challenge stages for different ships will be released in the future. Tower defense mode, alchemy mode, collection mode, and friend gift exchange are all in development. More unique warships and brand-new stages will continually be added. Captains, please look forward to it!

About

Pipe Defense

Features
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Pipe Defense is a fun and strategic tower defense game where your goal is to connect pipes and place powerful weapons that link to your pipe network and automatically fire projectiles to stop incoming enemy waves. Build your own deck of 4 unique weapons and experiment with different combinations to find the perfect setup. Face off against humans, orcs, skeletons, cyclops and more — each bringing new challenges! Play across varied environments and continuously upgrade your weapons and defenses to survive harder waves. Strategic placement of pipes and turrets is the key to success — can you build the ultimate defense?

Screenshots

TinyShip.io4 screens
Pipe Defense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pipe Defense at none against TinyShip.io's 10. Pipe Defense also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TinyShip.io sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pipe Defense asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TinyShip.io ships an update every 4 days, Pipe Defense daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TinyShip.io versus Pipe Defense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinyShip.ioPipe Defense
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size484 MB172 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperWuhan CrystalInk Network Technology Co.,Ltd.EpiCoro d.o.o.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

TinyShip.io

One-time10
  • Blue Crystal Gift Pack 01$0.99
  • New Captain's Gift Pack$1.99
  • Azure Pack$4.99
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  • Blue Crystal Gift Pack 02$4.99
  • Blue Crystal Gift Pack 03$9.99
  • Gilded Gift Pack$19.99
  • Blue Crystal Gift Pack 04$19.99
  • Rainbow Gift Pack$44.99
  • Blue Crystal Gift Pack 05$49.99
  • Blue Crystal Gift Pack 06$99.99
None

Pipe Defense

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TinyShip.io free?
TinyShip.io is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pipe Defense free?
Pipe Defense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TinyShip.io or Pipe Defense have ads?
Both TinyShip.io and Pipe Defense show ads.
Which is updated more often, TinyShip.io or Pipe Defense?
TinyShip.io ships an update every 4 days, and Pipe Defense daily. Most recently, TinyShip.io was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pipe Defense on October 25, 2026.

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