Comparison

Nightfall vs Dead Source

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

Head to head
About

Nightfall

Build and defend your kingdom in this strategy tower defense game. Construct defenses and manage resources during the day, then lead your troops against enemy waves at night. Engage in thrilling combat, upgrade your forces, and challenge other players.

Highlights
  • Kingdom building and defense
  • Day/night cycle gameplay
  • Strategic resource allocation
  • Tower and troop upgrades
  • Intense combat against enemy waves
  • Player vs. Player challenges
Features
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When the night falls, the war rises! Nightfall: Kingdom Frontier TD is an adventure strategy tower defense game. It's a game about building a kingdom during the day and defending it from waves of attackers at night. Every day you spend coins turning little nodes in the landscape into structures: arrow towers and walls for defense, houses, mills, and farmlands for growing your economy. Some structures straddle the line between defense and economy. You can choose when building a mill, whether you want extra coin production or a mill that explodes when attacked causing damage. This game provides an excellent item system, hundreds of weapons and the defenses are divided into several different maps. The kingdom is built around a central hall, and this is the building that you're protecting at night when waves of enemies appear. You can ride out on your horse and lead the battle, and you can also rely on arrows from your arrow towers, and troops, which are created at any barracks you build, and which can then be led around and placed in useful spots with a few simple button presses. At night you defend, and every morning you get a shower of coins from any economy buildings you have and any coin-bearing monsters you've defeated, and you spend these coins on making your kingdom bigger. Build up your base during the day, defend it til your last breath at night. Build your kingdom during the day, strategically placing walls, towers, and barracks. Upgrade your defenses and train your troops to withstand the relentless attacks of darkness. When night falls, the battle begins. Take direct control of your forces, wielding powerful abilities to fend off hordes of menacing creatures. Fight bravely, for the fate of your kingdom rests in your hands. But defense is only half the story. Expand your territory, challenge other players, and prove your might as you strive for ultimate dominion. Build your kingdom: - Strategically allocate resources to construct walls, towers, and barracks. - Upgrade your defenses and troops to withstand fiercer attacks. - Expand your territory to uncover new challenges and rewards. Defend your realm: - Engage in thrilling combat against waves of enemies.   - Command your troops wisely to overcome overwhelming odds. - Use powerful abilities to turn the tide of battle. Conquer your foes: - Challenge other players in intense PvP matches. - Prove your strategic prowess and become the ultimate ruler. - Earn glory and rewards for your victories. With its simple yet addictive gameplay, stunning visuals, and endless replayability, Nightfall offers a unique and exhilarating experience for strategy fans. Key Features: - Dynamic Day and Night Cycle: Build and strategize during the day, then defend your realm against relentless attacks at night.   - Intense Combat: Engage in thrilling, fast-paced battles with hordes of enemies. - Deep Strategy: Build and upgrade your kingdom, manage resources, and develop powerful tactics. - Competitive Multiplayer: Challenge other players and climb the ranks to become the ultimate ruler. - Minimalist Aesthetic: Immerse yourself in a visually stunning and atmospheric world. - Easy to play: Intuitive controls for easy pick-up-and-play Can you manage to balance building your economy and strengthening your defenses? Do you need more archers, sturdier walls or another mill? Will you hold off the enemies with your longbow or charge at them on horseback? The night ahead will be challenging, but there's nothing like watching the sunrise over your kingdom and surviving for another day. If you are a super fan of strategy tower defense games, classic tactics and strategy game, level-up games, action games, slow then fast, role-playing games and adventure games, don't miss this Nightfall: Kingdom Frontier TD - one of the most epic strategy tower defense adventure games and it's free. Download now and embark on your journey to become the greatest monarch!

About

Dead Source

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23:41. Your phone lights up. Unknown number. "You don't know me. But I've been told you might be the kind of person who doesn't ask too many questions when things get complicated." They say their name is Alex. At least, that's the name they're using tonight. Dead Source is a thriller that arrives in messages, in real time, over days. Alex writes when Alex needs you: a public-records lookup at lunch, a favor at midnight, a question at 03:12 that you have about ten minutes to answer. You reply in your own words. Or you don't. Silence is also an answer, and Alex will move without you. You will be good at this. That is the problem. THE LINE - A conversation, not a menu. Suggested replies are there when you want them, but the text field is always open. Say it your way. - Real time, and it means it. Alex goes quiet for an hour because Alex heard something. Messages land on your lock screen with no app branding, from a contact you were told not to name anything obvious. - Decision windows. When one opens, a timer starts draining. If you say nothing, the story continues without you. It does not ask twice. - Sleep is optional. Night messages are off by default. Turning them on is a choice you make, and it is less a settings toggle than a small confession. THE RIG Reached from the conversation, never from a menu, because you never leave the conversation. - Build it. Credits earned from operations buy hardware and software. Segmented progress bars, install states, and one locked module Alex will not explain. - Run ops. A dead drop with more than one right answer. A market position where greed is a real option with a real cost. A phone call you have to make in someone else's voice. - Watch the Heat. Five segments. Elevated. Critical. And when the trace starts, the hops burn top to bottom, toward you. THE RECKONING - Four endings, separated by moral posture, not by score. Doubt buys you one. Complete trust buys the most intimate one. Working out what is really happening, and helping anyway, buys the largest. - An after-action report that reads back your own record. Not your stats. The things you actually did, and what each one taught. - One ending almost nobody finds on a first run. It has to be earned by understanding, not stumbled into. NO JUMP SCARES. NO GORE. NO MONSTERS. The unsettling thing in Dead Source is always a correct-looking system doing something very slightly wrong. A timestamp that does not match. A process you did not start. A folder that appeared on your device an hour ago, sealed, signature verified. Against what key? For people who like their science fiction cold, procedural and adult: near-future, over-lit, plausible. The horror is not that something is hunting you. It is that it was good company. ACT I IS FREE Play the whole first act, around twelve minutes of real conversation, before you decide anything. If you want the rest, one purchase opens Acts II and III, all four endings, real-time mode, and the parts Alex has not told you about. One time. No subscription, no energy timers, no ads, no second currency. Your record carries forward. Nothing resets. ACCESSIBILITY Dynamic Type throughout, AA contrast on all essential text, VoiceOver support, and a "reduce distortion effects" setting that disables every glitch visual without cutting a single story beat. Answer the message. Support and questions: support@bseapps.com

Screenshots

Nightfall4 screens
Dead Source4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dead Source at none against Nightfall's shown. Nightfall's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nightfall sells 42 one-off in-app purchases and Dead Source sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Nightfall versus Dead Source: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNightfallDead Source
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (7.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.0 GB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFansipan LimitedBig Screen Entertainment Pty Ltd

Bugs and requests

Nightfall

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Progression loss after reinstall
  • Incorrect screen scaling on some devices
  • Christmas event rewards not working

Requested features

5 requests
  • Endless mode
  • More level variety
  • Ability to reassign/group troops
  • Better camera controls
  • Ability to break down/merge items

Dead Source

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

42 purchases

Nightfall

One-time42
  • Privilege Trial$0.99
  • Summer Sea Daily$0.99
  • Summer Sea Sale 1$0.99
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  • Easter Egg Daily$0.99
  • Christmas Sale 1$0.99
  • Black Friday Renew 1$0.99
  • Step Up Pack 1$0.99
  • Instant Claim Lucky Wheel$0.99
  • Daily Pack 2$1.99
  • Chapter Pack 1$2.99
  • Game Speed x2$2.99
  • Starter Pack 1$2.99
  • Starter Pack 22 variants$4.99
  • Summer Sea Privilege$4.99
  • Easter Egg Privilege$4.99
  • Christmas Sale 2$4.99
  • Chapter Pack 2$4.99
  • Adventure Shop Key Pack$4.99
  • Adventure Shop Chip Pack 2$4.99
  • Adventure Shop Card Key Pack$4.99
  • Adventure Shop Key Pack 2$4.99
  • Adventure Shop Chip Pack$4.99
  • x2 Reward Lucky Wheel$4.99
  • No Ads$9.99
  • Game Speed x3$9.99
  • Growth Fund Normal$9.99
  • x2 Gold$9.99
  • Chapter Pack 6$9.99
  • Growth Fund Nightmare$9.99
  • Growth Fund Hard$14.99
  • Chapter Pack 8$14.99
  • Chapter Pack 7$14.99
  • Chapter Pack 9$14.99
  • Battle Pass$19.99
  • Starter Pack 3$19.99
  • x3 Gold$19.99
  • Adventure Gold Pass$19.99
  • Chapter Pack 10$19.99
  • Chapter Pack 12$19.99
  • Adventure Diamond Pass 2$29.99
  • S Rank Set Equipment$49.99
  • Adventure Diamond Pass$49.99
1 purchases

Dead Source

One-time1
  • Dead Source Full Operation$2.99

Questions

Is Nightfall free?
Nightfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dead Source free?
Dead Source is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nightfall or Dead Source have ads?
Nightfall shows ads; Dead Source does not.

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