PROTOCOL vs Snughold
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
Snughold
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The things can't climb cliffs well. So here, on a rocky ledge, is where we make our home. And now, the lights come on. Snughold is a cozy 2D shelter game about building a tiny home that hangs from a cliff, one room at a time. Ivy lights the first lamp alone. Then, one by one, people follow the light: Wren, Rowan, Granny May and Barney. - LIGHTS ON Your home enters a fourth era, Lights On. Put a generator in the generator room and one can of fuel a day powers heated beds, running water, an electric pump, a stove with a fridge and a gramophone. Run out of fuel and nothing breaks: fixtures just go back to working the way they did before. But a night with the generator humming draws more of the things to your yard. - THE WINTER GOES ON The first snow is no longer the end. Choose to keep living and a twelve-day winter chapter begins: a snowed-in home, three days of cold snap, and one last long winter night. Make it through and a chapter ending card records your home's story. Warm rooms and full pantries are your best defense, and without a fridge, food slowly spoils. - NEW RESEARCH, NEW FIXTURES Heating, plumbing, refrigeration and machinery join the study. The elevator now runs, carrying people between floors in half the time. The storeroom, garden and infirmary grow to a fourth stage. Up to seven people can live together, and the new substation outing is the place to find fuel and parts. - A HOME THAT GROWS Add bedrooms, a kitchen, a study, a living room, a workshop and more: a dozen kinds of rooms. Fix a tent into a plank shack, then into a proper room, then a home with the lights on. - PEOPLE DRAWN BY THE LIGHT New people arrive at dawn, each with something they could not leave behind. They look after themselves: hungry ones head to the kitchen, tired ones to bed. Each has a favorite thing, a small wish, and a trait that changes your home. - OUTINGS BY DAY, DEFENSE BY NIGHT Send someone out to the forest, an abandoned car, a shop, a school or the substation. At night the things gather in the yard, and the barricades and traps you set hold the line. No fighting, no blood. No daily check-ins to keep up with and no one to compete against: play when you want, for as long as you want. Free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. Plays offline. Progress stays on your device; no personal data is collected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snughold at none against PROTOCOL's 10. Snughold 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. Snughold asks for nothing beyond the download.
PROTOCOL ships an update every 3 days, Snughold every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PROTOCOL | Snughold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 259 MB | 180 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | SungGwon Han | Seokhun Kim |
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
Snughold
No in-app purchases
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