Rail Defence vs Silent Forest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rail Defence
Defend your castle from waves of enemies by strategically placing and upgrading weapons on a circular railway. Utilize special powers and enhanced armaments to repel increasingly formidable foes and protect your stronghold.
- Circular railway defense
- Acquire new weapons
- Upgrade weapons
- Strengthen defenses
- Special powers
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Defend your castle on a circular railway. Acquire new weapons as you gain experience. Strengthen your weapons and keep increasingly larger enemies away from your castle. Strengthen your defences by using special powers and weapons.
Silent Forest
Engage in a dark fantasy survival strategy game where resource gathering fuels defenses against escalating demonic threats. Balance chopping trees with building multi-layered defenses and facing evolving enemies. Experience immersive horror with adaptive graphics and spatial audio.
- Dynamic corruption system
- Multi-layered defense building
- Evolving enemy types
- Offline resource collection
- Global events like Blood Moon
- Raid fallen player bases
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Silent Forest: Survive Genre: Survival Strategy · Tower Defense · Dark Fantasy Survive the Cursed Woods Every tree you chop fuels your defenses but deepens the forest’s corruption. Balance resource gathering with escalating demonic threats. Key Features Dynamic Corruption System: Over-harvesting attracts stronger demons. Destroy cursed trees for powerful weapons but risk awakening apocalyptic bosses. Multi-Layered Defense: Build ground barriers, aerial turrets, and underground traps. Sacrifice demons to sustain deadly spike pits. Evolving Enemies: Treants shred wood walls at night. Corpse piles merge into 5,000HP Flesh Colossi. Face Agareth, a final boss that erases defenses with a black hole. Mobile-Optimized Experience One-touch building and trap combos. Offline resource collection triggers massive hordes upon return. Adaptive graphics and 3D spatial audio for immersive horror. Global Events & Legacy Blood Moon: Weekly global event boosts wood burning by 300% but cloaks demons in invisibility. Raid fallen players’ bases for resources or uncover their tragic final moments. Warning: Corruption above 90% may trigger in-game whispers through your speakers. Enter the forest at your own peril.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Silent Forest at 4.3 against Rail Defence's 4.1. Silent Forest also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and review sentiment (12% vs 2%). 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. Rail Defence sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Silent Forest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Silent Forest holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 2% of Rail Defence's written reviews are positive against 12% of Silent Forest's.
Rail Defence ships an update fortnightly, Silent Forest weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rail Defence | Silent Forest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (1.1K ratings) | 4.3 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 1.7% of reviews | 12.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| 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 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Upperpik Oyun Yazilim ve Pazarlama Ticaret Anonim Sirketi | HARVEST STAR INTERACTIVE LIMITED |
Customer experience
Rail Defence
Silent Forest
User reviews
Rail Defence
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Hack
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches
- 💸 Obscene amount of Ads
- 💸 Advertisement Simulator
- 💸 Ads Ads & more Ads
- 💸 Ads
Silent Forest
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun game
Room to improve
- 💸 Ads even after purchase
- 💸 Paid for no ads, still got ads
- 💸 Ads everywhere, even after paying
- 🐛 Ads not removed despite purchase
- 🐛 Ads still show up after ad removal purchase
Bugs and requests
Rail Defence
Reported bugs
3 issues- The bomb does not work after a few seconds
- Randomly the weapons won't work
- The crossbow stops working after a while
Requested features
3 requests- More levels
- Different zombies
- More upgrades
Silent Forest
Reported bugs
1 issue- Ad removal only works sometimes
Requested features
1 request- Remove reward ads even after paying
In-app purchases
Rail Defence
- Manager$2.99
- Money Fountain Pack$2.99
- Engineer$2.99
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- 50 Tickets$4.99
- No Ads$4.99
- Bundle$5.99
- Treasury Trove Pack$5.99
- 30 Tickets and No Ads$5.99
- Mega Bundle$7.99
- Ultra Bundle$10.99
Silent Forest
- 100 Gems$0.99
- Daily Deals$4.99
- Daily Deals$4.99
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- 500 Gems$4.99
- Remove Ads Bundle 2$9.99
- Remove Ads Bundle$9.99
- 1,000 Gems$9.99
- 3,000 Gems$29.99
- Building Pack$29.99
- 5,000 Gems$49.99
Questions
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