Stack Attack!! vs Lantern & Lode
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stack Attack!!
Engage in intense battles against waves of enemies, strategically demolishing their formations with powerful weapons. Upgrade your capabilities by selecting the best skills to protect the cube world from a malevolent hex invasion.
- Defeat enemy waves
- Demolish enemy stacks
- Upgrade skills
- Save the cube world
- Space invader gameplay
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Defeat waves of enemies! Use your weapons to demolish the enemies' stacks! Choose the best skills to upgrade your power! Save the cube world from the evil hexes!
Lantern & Lode
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Gather a crew of miners and take them down into the depths of Lantern & Lode — a pixel-art idle mining game of deep caverns, heavy hauls and monstrous bosses. Break the rock, fill the bunker, haul the ore and go deeper. Frozen depths, fungal hollows, drowned halls: every place below hides new stone, new finds and a guardian waiting at the bottom. Beat the boss before the clock runs out — or come back stronger. GATHER YOUR CREW Summon miners, each with a face, a name and a trade. Choose who goes down, rest the tired, and hunt for the rare ones who never tire. DIG, HAUL, GO DEEPER Tap to strike, let the crew swing, and keep the bunker from overflowing. Clear the quota, ride the lift down and meet what waits below. LIFE UNDERGROUND Cook in the Kitchen's great cauldron, send the winch into the Abyss, cast Wishing Coals on the brazier, crack open loot chests — and look into the strange rooms hidden between the floors. THE MINE NEVER SLEEPS Your crew keeps working while you are away. Come back to the shift report and collect the haul. Hand-drawn pixel art, warm lantern light and a mine with a long memory. Light your lantern. Grab your pickaxe. See what waits deeper.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lantern & Lode at daily against Stack Attack!!'s every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Stack Attack!! sells 19 one-off in-app purchases and Lantern & Lode sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stack Attack!! ships an update every 2 weeks, Lantern & Lode daily. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stack Attack!! | Lantern & Lode |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (403 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 23.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 403 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 247 MB | 307 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Voodoo | FURYLION LLC FZ |
Bugs and requests
Stack Attack!!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Enemies' health scaling with player's attack power
- Levels freezing or getting stuck at checkpoints
- Weapon and upgrade levels getting downgraded randomly
Requested features
3 requests- Mute sound effects option
- Better communication from developers about updates
- More content and stages to progress through
Lantern & Lode
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stack Attack!!
- Gem Pack Small$0.99
- Gold Pack Small$0.99
- Starter Pack$2.99
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- No Ads$2.99
- Gem Pack Medium$4.99
- 2X Speed!$4.99
- Gold Pack Medium$4.99
- Skip'its Medium Pack$5.99
- Gem Pack Large$9.99
- Gold Pack Large$9.99
- Premium Pass$14.99
- Gem Pack XL$19.99
- Skip'its Large Pack$19.99
- Gold Pack XL$19.99
- Diamond Hero$29.99
- Gem Pack XXL$49.99
- Gold Pack XXL$49.99
- Gem Pack XXXL$99.99
- Gold Pack XXXL$99.99
Lantern & Lode
- Handful of Coals$1.99
- Few Powder Kegs$2.99
- Bucket of Coals$4.99
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- Last Foreman Pack$4.99
- Stack of Powder Kegs$9.99
- Bin of Coals$9.99
- No Ads$14.99
- Store of Powder Kegs$19.99
- Seam Lantern$19.99
- Cart of Crystals$49.99
Questions
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