Tank Commando vs Nova
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tank Commando
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Step into the boots of a fearless tank commander in Tank Commando, a thrilling World War 2-inspired game designed for both Apple Watch and iPhone! Command your tank across dangerous battlefields, avoid deadly enemy tanks, and embark on daring rescue missions to save stranded paratroopers. Features: * Fast-Paced Tank Action: Navigate war-torn environments while dodging enemy fire and hazards * Retro 8 Bit Graphics * Paratrooper Rescues: It’s not just about survival—rescue fallen soldiers behind enemy lines and bring them to safety! * Dynamic Gameplay on Apple Watch and iPhone: Enjoy the full gaming experience right on your wrist or take command with the larger screen on your iPhone. Score is shared between devices * Historical Setting: Immerse yourself in epic WW2 battlefields where your decisions impact the outcome of your mission * From the creators of Jupiter Attack, Asteroid Command and Kepler Attack Do you have what it takes to be the ultimate tank commander? Download Tank Commando now and show your skills on the battlefield! Thanks for playing, Johnno and Pete
Nova
Command a star fleet in a real-time galactic conquest game. Engage in strategic battles, forge binding diplomatic contracts, and manage your empire efficiently. Play at your own pace, from quick sprints to long campaigns, with background notifications keeping you informed.
- Real-time galactic conquest
- Binding diplomatic contracts
- Fog of war for strategic depth
- Customizable game pace and duration
- Background notifications
- Map editor for custom galaxies
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You command one star at the edge of a contested galaxy, with a few hundred ships in the garrison and a clock counting down. Everything else is neutral, or held by a rival who wants it as badly as you do. Hold the most living stars when the mission timer ends and you win. Knock every rival out first, and you win early. Nova is a real-time space-strategy game of galactic conquest for two or more players. Every commander starts with exactly the same star, ships, and credits, so games are won by decisions, not dice. A war of decisions. You move under fog of war, seeing only what your own stars and scouts can reach, so a spy probe before an assault is often worth more than the ships it costs. The defender always holds the home-field edge, which means you have to outnumber a garrison by better than three to two just to fight to even odds. Capture stars, build factories, and your fleets and treasury compound together; spend on speed, range, or battle power and the advantage carries across your whole empire. Drop a nova bomb and a star is gone for good, which denies it to a rival but scores it for no one. Diplomacy you can hold someone to. Talk in-game on a global channel or in a private thread with a single commander. Then make it binding: a contract offers another player cash outright, or only if they send the fleet you ask for, to the star you name. The moment they accept, the cash moves and the fleet launches on their behalf, and it cannot be recalled. Alliances are only as good as the deals behind them, and here the deals actually stick. Set the pace yourself. A game's host decides how long it runs and how fast its clock turns. Spin up a one-hour sprint where production ticks every few seconds and the whole war is settled over a lunch break. Or stretch the same game over days or even weeks, a long campaign you think about between meetings and come back to when something shifts. Any player can propose a pause for sleep or work, and once a second player agrees, the whole game freezes, deadlines and all, until it resumes. Let it run in the background. You never have to keep the app open or refresh anything. Nova notifies your device when it actually matters: a star of yours under attack, a shield that just blocked a spy probe, a fleet that reached its target, a message from a rival, a pause proposal, the game kicking off. Leave a slow game running for days and you will not lose the thread. Less micromanagement, more strategy. Fleets route themselves through your territory, so you can strike far beyond a single jump without plotting every hop. Standing orders turn a safe rear star into a supply pump: keep a garrison, forward the surplus, and reinforcements march to the front on their own while you think about the next move. Build your own galaxies in the map editor and play them with friends, or drop into a balanced Risk-style world for two to six commanders. Play from your iPhone, iPad or a browser against the same opponents; a game runs identically whether you join from iOS or the web.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Nova at Free against Tank Commando's $1.99. Nova also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Nova is free to download; Tank Commando costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tank Commando ships an update every 3 months, Nova weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tank Commando | Nova |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Red Sprite Studios | Kevin Gilpin |
In-app purchases
Tank Commando
No in-app purchases
Nova
No in-app purchases









