Watchtower vs Evershift Daily
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watchtower
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Defend your base! Use the spotlight to reveal enemies and tap to shoot. Each hit expands your view, while misses shrink it. Simple to play, challenging to master. How long can you protect your tower?
Evershift Daily
Guide a character named ollo safely down a tower by shifting glass blocks to clear lines. Each day presents a new shared puzzle, with options for competitive leaderboards and an ongoing Survival mode.
- Daily shared puzzles
- Global leaderboards
- Turn-based Survival mode
- Head-to-head multiplayer
- Personal stats and achievements
- Founding Season progression
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One tower. One puzzle. Every day. Evershift Daily is a tactile block puzzle about shifting glass pieces, clearing lines, and guiding a little character named ollo safely down the tower. Every day brings a new tower shared by every player. Move pieces into open spaces, push connected blocks together, and clear complete lines to create a path for ollo. The rules are simple, but every tower asks you to see the structure in a new way. Complete the Daily Challenge, then compare your best time with players around the world. Return tomorrow to keep your streak alive, or enter Survival for an ongoing, turn-based challenge where every move raises the tower. FEATURES • A new shared puzzle every day • Global Daily and Survival leaderboards • Personal best times, streaks, stats, and achievements • Turn-based Survival mode with escalating hazards and multipliers • Customizable leaderboard avatars • Online Rival mode with head-to-head multiplayer competition • Founding Season progression with free and Pro reward tracks • Game Center integration FREE PLAY AND REWARDED ADS Today's Daily and today's Survival Daily can be played without ads. Free players can watch one rewarded ad per new attempt at either of the previous two Daily puzzles, Survival, or Wildshift. Unfinished attempts resume without another ad. Older Daily puzzles, the Survival Daily archive, and Timed require Pro. Pro players skip gameplay ads. No banners, automatic interstitials, or ads interrupting a run. EVERSHIFT DAILY PRO Optional Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime Pro access unlocks the full archive of past Daily towers, missed-streak repair, Pro-tier Founding Season rewards, and Pro game modes or early features as they become available. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in your Apple Account settings. Thoughtful, tactile, and made for a satisfying daily ritual. How far can you guide ollo? TERMS Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Evershift Daily Terms & Conditions: https://sites.google.com/view/evershift-daily-terms/home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Watchtower at none against Evershift Daily's 4. Watchtower also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). Evershift Daily's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 13 months). On price, ads 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. Evershift Daily sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Watchtower asks for nothing beyond the download.
Watchtower ships an update every 13 months, Evershift Daily every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Watchtower | Evershift Daily |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Beijing Ningdom Technology Co., Ltd. | Astro Hound Studios |
In-app purchases
Watchtower
No in-app purchases
Evershift Daily
- Evershift Daily Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Evershift Daily Pro Yearly$5.991 Year
- Evershift Daily Pro Lifetime$6.49
- Evershift Daily Pro Lifetime$12.99
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