Comparison

ISLANDERS vs Trenchlight

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ISLANDERS

A relaxing city-building game focused on creative placement of structures to earn points. Unlock new building sets and expand your island settlements with intuitive, stress-free gameplay in a minimalist world. Enjoy offline play with no ads or timers.

Highlights
  • Cozy, minimalist building experience
  • Procedurally generated islands
  • Strategic yet relaxing gameplay
  • Offline play
  • No ads or interruptions
  • Clean, vibrant visuals
  • Peaceful soundtrack
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ISLANDERS is a relaxing city-building experience where calm creativity meets light strategy. Place buildings to earn points based on nearby structures, unlock new sets, and expand your peaceful island settlements. There are no timers, no micro-transactions, and no stress — just intuitive gameplay in a serene, minimalist world. Features: • A cozy, minimalist building experience • Procedurally generated islands every round • Strategic yet relaxing gameplay loop • Offline play with no ads or interruptions • Clean, vibrant visuals and a peaceful soundtrack Explore, build, and unwind — one island at a time. Download now and start your cozy minimalist city-building journey ... Minimum Device Requirements • Requires devices running iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 • Devices with 4 GB RAM or higher (iPhone 11 or newer; iPad 10th Generation or iPad Pro 3rd Generation) • CPU: Apple A13 Bionic (iPhone) or A12X Bionic (iPad) • RAM: 4 GB • Storage: 1 GB available space Please note that controllers are not supported. Designed for intuitive touchscreen play. Languages Supported: English, Español, Português ,Français, Italiano, Deutsch, Polski, Türkçe, Русский, Українська, 中文, 中文, 한국어, 日本語

About

Trenchlight

Features
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The seafloor mining platforms went dark when the Bloom came up out of the trench. You are the last light crew. Bolt guns to the deck plating, weave the tunnels they have to crawl through, and hold the light until the evacuation sub surfaces. TRENCHLIGHT is an open-field maze tower defense. You don't defend a fixed path - you build it. Every turret is also a wall, so where you place it decides the route the Crawl has to walk. A good maze turns a ten-second sprint into a minute-long gauntlet, and that is the whole game. WHAT YOU GET - 50 hand-built levels across five acts, each on Normal, Hard and Nightmare - 10 turrets, each branching at tier 3 into one of two specialisations, for 20 distinct endgame guns - 14 enemies, every one designed to break a specific tactic: armour that shrugs off your kinetic guns, flyers that ignore your maze entirely, tunnellers that go under it, a Leech that mends what you just shot, a final boss whose armour class rotates - Three damage types against three armour classes, so the right gun always beats the biggest gun - Optional Directives on every level, for when three stars stops being enough - Endless mode per act, with leaderboards NO NONSENSE No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes. No currency. No account required. Works completely offline, forever. Acts I to III are free and complete - thirty levels ending on a boss - and the rest is one optional unlock that buys levels, never power. Landscape, built natively for iOS.

Screenshots

ISLANDERS4 screens
Trenchlight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trenchlight at Free against ISLANDERS's $4.99. ISLANDERS's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Trenchlight is free to download; ISLANDERS costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ISLANDERS versus Trenchlight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterISLANDERSTrenchlight
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size656 MB8 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCoatsink SoftwareJonathan Vogelbusch

In-app purchases

None

ISLANDERS

No in-app purchases

None

Trenchlight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ISLANDERS free?
ISLANDERS costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Trenchlight free?
Trenchlight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ISLANDERS or Trenchlight have ads?
Neither ISLANDERS nor Trenchlight shows ads.

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