Polygon Arena vs Steel Tide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polygon Arena
Engage in a top-down shooter where you control a polygon warrior battling endless waves of enemies. Earn in-game cash to upgrade weapons and abilities, customizing your arsenal to survive increasingly difficult challenges and dominate the arena.
- Top-down shooter gameplay
- Polygon-based character
- Endless enemy waves
- Weapon upgrades and customization
- In-game cash collection
- Fast-paced combat
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Polygon Arena – Survive. Upgrade. Dominate. Step into Polygon Arena, where you're just a simple square with an arsenal of deadly weapons. Face endless waves of enemies, unlock powerful upgrades, and test your skills in this action-packed top-down shooter! BATTLE AS A SQUARE Who needs fancy characters when raw firepower does the job? Take control of your polygon warrior and unleash chaos against relentless enemies in intense, fast-paced combat. UPGRADE & CUSTOMIZE Earn cash after each wave and level up your weapons to deal more damage, shoot faster, or survive longer. Choose from Machine Guns, Cannons, Grenade Launchers, and more—each with unique strengths and strategies. SURVIVE ENDLESS WAVES The further you go, the tougher it gets. Enemies grow stronger and faster, pushing your skills and upgrades to the limit. How long can you last? EARN, UPGRADE, REPEAT Collect in-game cash from fallen enemies, invest in upgrades, and become an unstoppable force. The arena waits—will you dominate or be overrun?
Steel Tide
Engage in large-scale real-time strategy battles with diverse units like tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Build your base, manage your economy, and utilize unit strengths for tactical advantage. Play solo or with up to 8 players across multiple platforms.
- Large-scale real-time strategy battles
- Base building and economy management
- Diverse unit types (tanks, artillery, aircraft, fleet)
- Tactical unit armor classes and counters
- Cross-platform PvP (phone, tablet, desktop, browser)
- Map editor and modding system
- Offline single-player mode
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Steel Tide is a real-time strategy game with large-scale battles. Raise a base, run an economy, and take the field with tanks, artillery, helicopters, jets and a fleet. Every unit has an armour class it is good against, so a mixed force beats the biggest gun. Artillery fires over ridges; point-defence towers shoot the rockets down. Transports put armour where the roads do not go. Crews that survive get better. When nothing else settles it, there is the silo. Play alone or together: • Conquest & Breakthrough against three grades of AI on generated or authored maps • Up to 8 seats in any mix of players and AI, in teams or free-for-all • Cross-platform PvP: phone, tablet, desktop and browser play on the same servers • Host your own server with one command and keep your games in your own hands • A scenario editor: paint the ground, place the spawns and the ore, play or share it • Modding system to customize units & buildings No ads or in-app purchases. Single player works offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Polygon Arena at Free against Steel Tide's $3.99. Polygon Arena also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Steel Tide's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Polygon Arena is free to download; Steel Tide costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Steel Tide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Polygon Arena has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Polygon Arena's written reviews are positive against 92% of Steel Tide's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Polygon Arena ships an update every 10 days, Steel Tide every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Polygon Arena | Steel Tide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Segment Games | Jiyunke (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Polygon Arena
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In-app purchases
Polygon Arena
No in-app purchases
Steel Tide
No in-app purchases
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