PROTOCOL vs PATIENT ZERO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
PROTOCOL
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The day dimensional rifts opened, monsters and the Dimension Awakened appeared at the same time. As monsters spread across the world, the government gathered students with dimensional powers and established the Tactical Academy. Become its commander, train your students, and deploy to a city under threat. Control the leader directly and give orders to two fellow agents. Combine their abilities, weapons, and parts to lead a three-person squad. โข Survive the waves of monsters. โข Train distinctive students and build your squad. โข Find powerful combinations, overcome each battle, and protect the city. A two-person indie game. PROTOCOL: Zero Rift
PATIENT ZERO
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๋น์ ์ ์ด ๋์์ ์ต์ด ๊ฐ์ผ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐฑ์ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์งํค๊ณ , ๋น์ ์๊ฒ ๋จ์ ์๊ฐ์ 90์ด๋ฟ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฟ์ ์ฌ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฌ์ง์ง ์์ต๋๋ค โ ๋น์ ํธ์ด ๋์ด ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฒ์ง๋๋ค. ํ ๋ช ์ด ๋, ๋์ด ๋ท. 90์ด๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ ๋์๊ฐ ๋๊ตฌ์ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง๊ฐ ์ ํด์ง๋๋ค. โ 90์ด ํ ํ ์งง๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฐ๋ก ํ๋ฉด ์ก์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ผ์์ผ๋ก ์์ง์ด๊ณ , ์ค๋ฅธ์์ผ๋ก ๋์งํด ๋ฐฑ์ ์ ํผํฉ๋๋ค. ํ ํ์ด ์งํ์ฒ ํ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ฅ๋ณด๋ค ์งง์ต๋๋ค. โ 19๊ฐ ์ฑํฐ, 8๊ณณ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ๊ต ยท ์งํ์ฒ ยท ๊ณต์ฅ ยท ํญ๊ตฌ ยท ์ฐ๊ตฌ์โฆ ํต๊ณผ์ ์ ๋๊ธฐ๋ฉด ๋ค์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. โ 20๋ช ์ ๊ฐ์ผ์ ๋ถ์ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ด๋ค. ๋น ๋ฅธ ์์ด, ๋จ๋จํ ์์ด, ๋ฒ์ง๊ฒ ํ๋ ์์ด โ ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๊ฐ๋๋๋ก ํ ํ์ด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๋๋ค. ๋ก๋น์์ ๋ง์ ๊ฑธ๋ฉด ๋๋ตํฉ๋๋ค. โ ๊ด๊ณ ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋, ์ถ์ ๋, ์๋ฆผ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ก๊ทธ์ธ ์์ด ๋๊น์ง ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. โ ๋ชจ์ง ํ๋ฅ ์ ์ ๋ถ ์ ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค ๋ชจ์ง ํ๋ฉด์ ใ๋ชจ์ง ํ๋ฅ ยท ๋ณด์ฅ ์๋ดใ์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ณ ํ๋ฅ ๊ณผ ๋ณด์ฅ ํ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒ์์ด ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ฝ๋ ํ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ ์ค๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๋ก๋ก ์ฅ๊ณ , 90์ด๋ง ์จ ๋ณด์ธ์.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PATIENT ZERO at none against PROTOCOL's 10. PATIENT ZERO also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. PROTOCOL sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. PATIENT ZERO asks for nothing beyond the download.
PROTOCOL ships an update every 3 days, PATIENT ZERO every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PROTOCOL | PATIENT ZERO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 259 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SungGwon Han | sehyun ban |
In-app purchases
PROTOCOL
- Beginner Package 1$0.99
- Sale Package 3$1.99
- Sale Package 1$2.99
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- Sale Package 2$4.99
- Beginner Package 2$4.99
- Remove Ad$5.99
- Daily Special Mission Ticket$7.99
- Mission Energy Booster (30 Days)$9.99
- Stage Pass$9.99
- Beginner Package 3$14.99
PATIENT ZERO
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PROTOCOL free?
Is PATIENT ZERO free?
Do PROTOCOL or PATIENT ZERO have ads?
Which is updated more often, PROTOCOL or PATIENT ZERO?
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