Rock Pusher vs Dockside Defense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rock Pusher
Hire workers to help you push a massive boulder to its designated location. Despite the difficulty, successfully moving the rock yields valuable rewards.
- Hire workers
- Push a boulder
- Earn rewards
- Idle gameplay
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Can you push the rock? Hire workers to push the boulder to its destination. This rock is very hard to move, but it can give you nice rewards!
Dockside Defense
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Turn a tropical island into your own fortress. Choose your turrets, build a maze of walls, and keep waves of mischievous mushrooms away from home. Power lasers and plasma weapons with solar panels, wind turbines, generators, and batteries. Improve your private island, grow tropical fruit, explore the harbor, and take on dockside challenges between battles. Enter first-person mode and aim your equipped weapon yourself. Plan around weapon range, recoil, energy use, and changing island layouts. Features in this tested release: • Tower defense with player-built routes and automatically connecting walls. • Distinct weapon families and visible turret upgrades. • A private island with power buildings, farming, and harbor activities. • Optional rewarded videos for in-game benefits. • Portrait touch controls and adjustable graphics settings.
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Verdict
Rock Pusher and Dockside Defense are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Rock Pusher sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Dockside Defense sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rock Pusher | Dockside Defense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (10K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 24.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 327 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rollic Games | JUSTIN MICHAEL WILCOX |
Bugs and requests
Rock Pusher
Reported bugs
8 issues- Unable to unlock Atlas after meeting gear power requirement
- Merge quest gets stuck after evolving workers
- Gear inventory freezes and becomes unusable
- Prestige timer resets incorrectly
- Energy system not functioning as expected
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- Progression blocked at certain levels
- Glitches when using multiple maps
- Inability to upgrade gear past gold tier
Requested features
7 requests- Increase prestige frequency
- Improve energy system and offline progression
- Add more content and progression beyond current roadblock
- Implement better quest and progression tracking
- Improve merging and upgrading mechanics
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- Add more ways to earn resources and progress
- Provide better communication channels with developers
Dockside Defense
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rock Pusher
- Rune Pack$1.99
- Small Gem Pack$2.99
- Medium Gem Pack$4.99
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- Starter Pack 2$4.99
- Starter Pack With Prestige$6.99
- Small Skip-It Pack$7.99
- Energy Bundle$7.99
- No Ads$7.99
- Large Gem Pack$9.99
- Starter Pack$12.99
- Ice Island Pack$14.99
- Fire Island Pack$19.99
- Epic Gem Pack$19.99
- Large Skip-It Pack$30.99
- Legendary Gem Pack$39.99
- Ultimate Gem Pack$99.99
Dockside Defense
- Pocket Gems 80$1.99
- Reef Vault 500$7.99
- Ocean Trove 1200$14.99
Questions
Is Rock Pusher free?
Is Dockside Defense free?
Do Rock Pusher or Dockside Defense have ads?
Which is updated more often, Rock Pusher or Dockside Defense?
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