Pixelmon Idle vs SushiMon Defense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixelmon Idle
Embark on an idle RPG adventure to capture monsters, grow your team, and protect a village from darkness. Enjoy endless growth and rewards, even while offline, by upgrading monsters with gear and skills. Explore mines for rare items and fight alongside companions to become a legendary hero.
- Capture Pixelmons and build teams
- Endlessly upgrade Pixelmons
- Offline idle RPG system
- Explore mines for rare items
- Fight alongside cute companions
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Enjoy endless growth and rewards in this easy-to-play idle RPG ※ The welcome rewards can be claimed from the mailbox after completing [Quest 45]. *Rewards: Gems x32,000, Random Item Box x10, Hero Level-Up Enhancement Stone x50, and 4 other rewards The missing Pixelmons must return to bring peace back to the village! Become a brave hero in this Idle RPG, capturing monsters and growing stronger to protect the village from the looming darkness. - Capture Pixelmons and build your own team to win battles against fierce monsters! - Endlessly upgrade your Pixelmons, equipping them with a variety of gear and skills to make them even more powerful. - Even when you're offline, the Idle RPG system ensures your Pixelmons keep growing and collecting rewards. Gather gold and items even in offline mode! - Explore the mines to collect rare items and make your Pixelmons stronger, turning them into legendary warriors. - Fight alongside cute companions! Their unique abilities will give you a big advantage in battle. Easily raise your Pixelmons and become the hero who will save the village!
SushiMon Defense
A unique tower defense game blending random elements with survival action. Summon and merge monsters, combine skills with witch equipment, and strategically overcome waves of enemies. Experience a mix of luck and strategy to survive in a challenging dungeon.
- Random Summon & Merge Monsters
- Strategic Tower Defense Gameplay
- Survival io Action
- Combine Monster Skills & Witch Equipment
- Over 30 Unique Sushi Monsters
- Roguelike Elements
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Random Summon! Random Merge! Random Level Up! Random Skills! The tower defense game for the random, by the random, and of the random! Enjoy the strategic elements of random tower defense along with the action-packed thrills of survival io. Left alone in the dungeon by an unknown force, the witch is the last survivor in another world. Summon and merge brave Sushi Monsters to survive in the dungeon. In the dungeon, the only things you can rely on are the witch’s equipment and Sushi Monsters. Combine various equipment and monster skills to defeat waves of monsters like Slimes, Zombies, and Vampires, and overcome the trials! In the whirlwind of randomness, will the deciding factor be Luck or Strategy? Use the roguelike elements wisely within the ever-changing monster waves in each stage to become the final survivor. Enjoy the strategic fun of Random Tower Defense and the excitement of survival io games at the same time! [Game Features] ▶ No more stressful controls! Survive and annihilate hordes of monsters with simple merges and strategies! ▶ Bang bang! Summon over 30 unique Sushi Monsters with distinctive magic, from shooting spells to chain lightning and meteors. Form your own special forces and become the survivor! ▶ Combine Sushi Monster skills with the witch’s equipment, and use newly awakened ultimate skills to survive in the dungeon! ▶ Even in extreme crises, destiny’s choices can change the outcome!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SushiMon Defense at 64% against Pixelmon Idle's 37%. Pixelmon Idle's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Pixelmon Idle sells 43 one-off in-app purchases and SushiMon Defense sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixelmon Idle holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of Pixelmon Idle's written reviews are positive against 64% of SushiMon Defense's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pixelmon Idle ships an update weekly, SushiMon Defense every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixelmon Idle | SushiMon Defense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (23 ratings) — better | 4.1 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.7% of reviews | 63.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 805 MB | 289 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | minchan kim | Dreamplay Games Inc. |
Customer experience
Pixelmon Idle
SushiMon Defense
In-app purchases
Pixelmon Idle
- Daily Package1$0.99
- New User Special Gift$0.99
- Stage Hot Deal Package1$2.99
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- Daily Package2$2.99
- Epic Pixelmon LevelUp Package$2.99
- Auto Buff Package$2.99
- worldboss package2$2.99
- Cardpac Package1$3.99
- worldboss package3$3.99
- Daily Rune Dungeon Package1$4.99
- Legendary Equipment Package$4.99
- Weekly Package2$4.99
- Legendary Skill Package$4.99
- Weekly Package1$4.99
- Stage Pass1$4.99
- Mine Boost$4.99
- Legendary Pixelmon LevelUp Pac$4.99
- Cardpac Package2$6.99
- Level Pass3$7.99
- Stage Pass5$7.99
- Stage Pass10$7.99
- Stage Pass3$7.99
- Level Pass7$7.99
- Stage Pass4$7.99
- Stage Pass9$7.99
- Level Pass2$7.99
- Level Pass8$7.99
- Hero Package3$8.99
- Hero Package$8.99
- Ad Removal Package$8.99
- worldboss package4$8.99
- Daily Package5$8.99
- Hero Package2$8.99
- Daily Rune Dungeon Package2$9.99
- Mythic Skill Package$9.99
- Mythic Pixelmon LevelUp Pac$9.99
- Daily Rune Dungeon Package3$21.99
- Cardpac Package3$21.99
- worldboss package5$21.99
- Hero Promotion Package$21.99
- Limited Package1$21.99
- Limited Package2$49.99
- Limited Package3$99.99
SushiMon Defense
- 70 Gems$0.99
- Beginner's Package$1.99
- 400 Gems$4.99
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- Speed-Up Package$7.99
- Growth Fund$7.99
- Ad Removal Package$7.99
- 1000 Gems$9.99
- Advanced Growth Fund$22.99
- 2750 Gems$24.99
- Epic Monster Package 1$26.99
- 5600 Gems$49.99
- 12200 Gems$99.99
Questions
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