Comparison

Battledom vs Building Colonies

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

Head to head
About

Battledom

Engage in an ultimate real-time strategy experience with resource management, large-scale battles, and deep army customization. Command hundreds of soldiers, deploy siege weapons, and defend your territory in a rich world with a compelling story.

Highlights
  • Command massive armies
  • Real-time tactical combat
  • Deep army customization
  • Resource gathering and trading
  • Build and upgrade structures
  • 20+ handcrafted levels
  • Endless Mode
Features
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FROM THE CREATOR OF HERODOM Battledom is a handcrafted pixel RTS designed for iPhone and iPad. Create your army soldier by soldier, then command hundreds of units in real-time battles. Fight back the Undead, defend mighty strongholds, control devastating siege weapons, and rebuild your kingdom between missions. Battledom is free to try and contains no ads. Unlock the complete campaign—including future content—with one purchase. COMMAND THE BATTLEFIELD Deploy your troops, organize formations, and lead entire armies across expansive battlefields. Adapt your strategy to each mission, protect important structures, and hunt down enemy forces before they overwhelm your kingdom. CONTROL SIEGE WEAPONS Take direct control of catapults, ballistae, cannons, and other powerful weapons. Aim your attacks carefully and break through enemy defenses. CREATE YOUR OWN ARMY Design and equip your soldiers using an enormous collection of weapons, armor, shields, clothing, and accessories. Your choices affect both their appearance and their abilities in battle. GATHER, CRAFT, AND UPGRADE Collect resources from farms, forests, and mines. Craft new equipment, trade materials, prepare useful dishes, and improve buildings such as the blacksmith, university, and siege workshop. CAMPAIGN AND ENDLESS MODE • 20+ handcrafted campaign missions • Large real-time battles with hundreds of soldiers • 150+ units and enemies • Extensive army and character customization • Directly controllable siege weapons • Resource gathering, crafting, trading, and cooking • Endless defense on procedurally generated maps • Game Center leaderboards • A world filled with secrets to discover Will you restore the kingdom and defeat the Undead? For the King!

About

Building Colonies

Engage in a unique strategy game focused on land colonization. Explore unknown territories, establish and defend your settlements, manage resources, and interact with local tribes. Develop your colonies and expand your empire.

Highlights
  • Land colonization
  • Map exploration
  • Colony development
  • Resource management
  • Colony defense and attack
  • Tribal interaction
Features
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Building Colonies is a cool, simple and unique strategy with land colonization. Founding a colony on unknown islands and continents, protecting colonies and extracting resources and much more awaits you in this strategy. How to play? Press start, select a type of terrain such as forests, deserts and winter lands. You must buy a ship to send to unknown lands to build colonies. Bring the ship closer to the ground and build a colony, but be careful, local tribes may live on the lands and will try to destroy your weak colony. Having enough resources, you can sell them in the capital and get money for them, for which you can improve the colony to protect against local tribes, and you can also gather an army in the colony and send it to destroy the settlement of the natives. Game Features: - Simple strategy - Three levels of forest, desert and snowy lands - Map exploration - Colony development - Resource sales - Hostile tribes - Colony defense and attack - Statistics

Screenshots

Battledom4 screens
Building Colonies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Battledom at 82% against Building Colonies's 0%. Battledom also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Building Colonies's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). 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. Battledom sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Building Colonies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Battledom holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Battledom has 157 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Battledom's written reviews are positive against 0% of Building Colonies's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Battledom versus Building Colonies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBattledomBuilding Colonies
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (157 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings157 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size313 MB15 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperSander FrenkenMaxim Rudyi

Customer experience

Battledom

All ratings157 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative9.1%

Building Colonies

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Battledom

One-time2
  • Tip the developer$1.99
  • Unlock the full game$3.99
None

Building Colonies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Battledom free?
Battledom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Building Colonies free?
Building Colonies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Battledom or Building Colonies?
Battledom is rated higher. Battledom averages 4.7 out of 5 from 157 ratings, while Building Colonies averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Battledom or Building Colonies have ads?
Building Colonies shows ads; Battledom does not.

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