Comparison

Gear Fight! vs Eternal Core

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

Head to head
About

Gear Fight!

Strategically place gears to build a factory that defends against waves of enemies. Manage your budget and choose the right units to overcome challenges. Test your factory's might in this engaging defense game.

Highlights
  • Strategic gear placement
  • Factory construction
  • Enemy wave defense
  • Unit management (brutes, archers, grunts)
  • Budget management
  • Multiple enemy types
Features
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It's time to build a well oiled machine to take down these pesky enemies! First, place down some gears. Then, put your newly constructed factory to the test versus all of the evil enemies! You will face many different choices on what to use to take on these challenging enemies. Will you utilize the range abilities of your archers? Or will you brute force your way to victory?! Do you have what it takes to build a flawless factory of brutes, archers, and grunts? Manage your budget, and take them all down! It's time to get these gears spinning and it's time to get you winning!

About

Eternal Core

Features
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How long can your Core survive? Endless enemy waves are closing in. Protect the Core at the center of the battlefield, upgrade your tower, and become stronger with every run. Destroy enemies approaching from every direction with rotating energy beams. Earn Coins and improve your damage, rotation speed, range, beam width, critical power, and more. ENDLESS WAVES Enemies approach from all directions as the challenge continues to grow. Adapt your defenses against regular enemies, elite units, dangerous variants, and powerful bosses. UPGRADE YOUR TOWER Increase your power, improve your beams, and choose upgrades that fit your strategy. Progress through increasingly advanced tower evolutions and transform your basic defense Core into an extraordinary energy weapon. BUILD YOUR RUN Discover different abilities as you progress. Create powerful combinations using critical attacks, burn, freeze, piercing beams, and more. PRESTIGE & PERMANENT PROGRESSION When progress begins to slow, reset your Core to earn Core Shards and invest in permanent upgrades. Return stronger, clear previous waves faster, and push toward a new record. RESEARCH & SPECIALIZE Develop permanent research across offense, economy, defense, and utility to shape your long-term strategy. EVOLVE THE CORE Progress from MK-I all the way to the Singularity Core. Unlock advanced tower stages, new beam formations, and powerful combat capabilities. CUSTOMIZE YOUR DEFENSE Choose from different tower skins and visual effect sets. Combine your favorite tower appearance with your preferred beam effects. How far can you go? Protect the Core. Increase your power. Survive the endless siege.

Screenshots

Gear Fight!4 screens
Eternal Core4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Gear Fight! at Free against Eternal Core's $0.99. Gear Fight! also leads on chart position (#171 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). Eternal Core's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Gear Fight! is free to download; Eternal Core costs $0.99 up front. Gear Fight! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Eternal Core sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Gear Fight! versus Eternal Core: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGear Fight!Eternal Core
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (17K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews27.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings17K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#171 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size356 MB88 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperVoodooANIL Demir

Bugs and requests

Gear Fight!

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Skill tree upgrade bug
  • Coin gear taking away coins
  • Troops disappearing after upgrades

Requested features

5 requests
  • Multiplayer mode
  • Gear stats and information
  • Ability to replay old levels
  • Rotating difficulty for boss battles
  • More upgrade options

Eternal Core

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Gear Fight!

One-time10
  • Small Gem Pack!$1.99
  • Chained Offer$1.99
  • Jiro Starter Pack!$1.99
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  • Shade Starter Pack!$1.99
  • Chained Offer$2.99
  • Medium Gem Pack!$4.99
  • Remove Forced Ads$4.99
  • Double Speed!$8.99
  • Battle Pass Premium track$9.99
  • Unlimited Blessings$9.99
9 purchases

Eternal Core

One-time9
  • 25 Core Shards$1.49
  • Starter Pack$1.99
  • Tower Skin Pack$1.99
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  • VFX Pack$1.99
  • Permanent 2x Coins$4.99
  • 80 Core Shards$4.99
  • Permanent 3x Speed$5.99
  • Premium Pack$7.99
  • 200 Core Shards$8.99

Questions

Is Gear Fight! free?
Gear Fight! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eternal Core free?
Eternal Core costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Gear Fight! or Eternal Core have ads?
Gear Fight! shows ads; Eternal Core does not.

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