Comparison

Fire Captain vs Tactical Wave Battle

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

Head to head
About

Fire Captain

Lead a team of firefighters, doctors, and engineers in this casual strategy game. Build your base, recruit specialized personnel, and tackle exciting missions across various maps. Strategize your approach to overcome challenges and achieve success.

Highlights
  • Base building
  • Hire firefighters, doctors, engineers
  • Handle exciting missions
  • Multiple maps and missions
  • Recruit different heroes
Features
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Fire Captain is a Casual Strategy game. In this game, you are acting as a fire captain, you build your base, hire more firefighters, doctor, engineers to work together to handle exciting missions! It offers: *Lots of different missions and maps *Many different heros

About

Tactical Wave Battle

Features
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Tactical Wave Battle – Draft. Deploy. Dominate. Step into the arena and command your ultimate squad in Tactical Wave Battle, a thrilling strategy card battle game where every choice shapes the outcome. Draft unique heroes, lay cunning traps, and unleash game-changing modifiers to outsmart your opponents in epic wave-based combat. Features & Functionality: Strategic Card Drafting • Choose from randomized sets of character, trap, and modifier cards each battle. • Build powerful synergies by combining factions and abilities for maximum impact. Unique Heroes & Factions • Collect and upgrade over 100 stylized characters from Jungle, Frost, Techno, and Flame factions. • Unlock rare abilities and skins to personalize your squad. Tactical Traps & Modifiers • Deploy traps like Fire Pits, Spike Trenches, and Ice Fields to control the battlefield. • Enhance your army with boosters like Double Damage, Unit Buffs, and Enlarge. Multiple Game Modes • Ranked Campaign: Climb the leaderboards against AI and real players. • Quick Battle: Jump into instant matches with random rules. • Faction Events & Daily Draft: Try new cards and earn exclusive rewards. • Multiplayer: Battle asynchronously or in real-time matches (coming soon). Progression & Collection • Upgrade cards from Tier 1 to Tier 10 to increase stats and effects. • Earn trophies, currency, and exclusive skins as you progress. Vibrant Visuals & Immersive Sound • Colorful environments like Forest, Desert, Ice Cavern, and Urban Arena. • Dynamic sound effects and character voice lines bring battles to life. Whether you’re a casual strategist or a competitive tactician, Tactical Wave Battle offers a deep, rewarding card battle experience that will keep you coming back for more. Download now and prove your tactical mastery

Screenshots

Fire Captain4 screens
Tactical Wave Battle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tactical Wave Battle at none against Fire Captain's 10. Tactical Wave Battle also leads on ads (none vs shown). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fire Captain sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tactical Wave Battle asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fire Captain versus Tactical Wave Battle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFire CaptainTactical Wave Battle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (72 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings72 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size533 MB257 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFuzhou Lingyuan Technology Co., Ltd.Abdulmalek Abdullah Ali Alsharafi

Bugs and requests

Fire Captain

Reported bugs

49 issues
  • Game stops at level 16
  • Game will not load
  • Maritime training drill rescue boat doesn't show up
  • Boat unavailable in drill
  • Helipad built but no aircraft
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  • Unable to load boat in mission 15
  • Video button for rewards doesn't work
  • Game broken and closes app at level 17
  • Stuck on first boat mission, click target off-screen
  • Glitch in level 15
  • Firefighters run through building instead of around
  • Doctor goes to opposite side of building in level 6
  • AI pathways cannot maneuver around building
  • People walk through walls and get stuck
  • Medic goes wrong trajectory and gets stuck
  • Rescuer gets stuck in door frame in mission 14
  • Second fire kills everyone by approaching it
  • Cannot put fire out in level 14 without damage
  • Cannot carry person in first room of level 14
  • Stuck on level 11, character running in place exiting motel room
  • Bed tracking issue, not going around to get asset
  • Cannot access one of the assets in level 10
  • Door in mission 14 in wrong place, units run in but not out
  • Game bugs out at a certain point
  • Shows close-up of firehouse but does nothing else
  • Freezing at level 8, trucks don't come
  • Game gets stuck a few levels after level 5 fix
  • Game crashes and glitches after level 8
  • Captain walks across bed instead of around and gets stuck on desk in level 5
  • Captain glitches and walks on bed to get asset but can't get it in level 5
  • Captain can't collect asset on mission 5 nightstand, gets stuck
  • Asset in bedroom not letting player pick it up, glitched on bed in level 5
  • Player gets stuck on invisible box at level 5
  • Character gets stuck in level five trying to get asset by the bed on nightstand
  • Bug prevents clearing of assets on level 5
  • Stuck on level 5, get stuck on invisible barriers
  • Captain character gets stuck on nightstand asset in level 5
  • Firefighter gets stuck on bed trying to recover asset in mission 5
  • Firefighter gets stuck retrieving assets by the bed in mission 5
  • Firefighter climbs over bed and gets stuck in level 5
  • Captain got stuck on bed in level 5
  • Fireman get stuck trying to get money off dresser beside bed in level 5
  • Glitch in level five, runs on bed then stands there
  • Captain tries to recover asset in bedroom but gets stuck on bed in level 5
  • Character keeps glitching and can't reach asset in level 4
  • Cannot get one of the assets in the 5th mission
  • Firefighters get stuck in invisible walls or run through walls in mission 5
  • Captain gets stuck on bed trying to get money from bedside table in mission 5
  • Lags and unable to complete missions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Make more levels
  • Fix bugs before release
  • Improve AI pathfinding
  • More extinguishers for fires

Tactical Wave Battle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Fire Captain

One-time10
  • A Couple of Gems$0.99
  • New Player Package$1.99
  • A Handful of Gems$2.99
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  • ToolPackage$3.99
  • Growth Rewards VIP$4.99
  • A Pile of Gems$4.99
  • VehiclePackage$8.99
  • A Sack of Gems$9.99
  • ToolPackageUsualPrice$12.99
  • VehiclePackageUsualPrice$29.99
None

Tactical Wave Battle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fire Captain free?
Fire Captain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tactical Wave Battle free?
Tactical Wave Battle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fire Captain or Tactical Wave Battle have ads?
Fire Captain shows ads; Tactical Wave Battle does not.

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