Comparison

GalaxyTD vs Swarmfall

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

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About

GalaxyTD

Features
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Get ready for the most unique tower defense experience ever — where strategy meets adrenaline-pumping action in epic TD battles, all in a vertical, one-hand mobile gameplay! Welcome to Galaxy TD: Endless Battle, a thrilling tower defense game packed with powerful towers, epic skills, and futuristic spaceships. Prepare your defenses and dive into a galaxy of challenges where every move counts! Strategize & Survive Explore a vast galaxy and build your ultimate defense squad. Defend your base against relentless enemy waves by placing towers and setting up your defense lines. Choose wisely between three power-up cards after each enemy wave — your decisions can make or break your victory! Dynamic Gameplay with a Twist of Luck Mix strategic planning with a touch of luck — upgrade your units or invest wisely to boost your defense. Make every choice count! One wrong decision could be your last. Play Anytime, Anywhere – One-Hand Control Designed for vertical screen and one-hand play, Galaxy TD: Endless battle offers smooth, convenient gameplay that fits your lifestyle. Whether you’re commuting, relaxing, or on a quick break — defend your base effortlessly with just one thumb! Hundreds of Maps, Quests & Challenges Take on a wide range of enemies — from ground troops to flying bosses. Conquer hundreds of maps and quests with varying levels of difficulty. Build and upgrade specialized towers, equip powerful spaceships, and deploy drones to turn the tide in your favor. Customize Your Arsenal Choose the perfect spaceship for your strategy and upgrade your firepower with powerful drones and skills. Adapt your tactics with flexible upgrades and unleash game-changing boosts. Daily Rewards & Special Missions Complete missions and claim daily rewards to unlock powerful upgrades and new abilities. Galaxy TD: Endless battle is not just a tower defense game — it’s an exhilarating journey filled with decisions, tactics, and endless possibilities. The base is under attack — and only a true hero can lead the defense! Play Galaxy TD: Endless battle now and become the ultimate defender of your towers in this epic mobile strategy game!

About

Swarmfall

Defend your planet in this roguelike where your turrets automatically attack. Focus on strategic menu decisions, upgrading your defenses, and choosing powerful synergies to survive waves of alien creatures. Decide when to bank your earnings or risk it all for greater rewards.

Highlights
  • Automatic turret targeting and firing
  • Strategic menu-based decision making
  • Level up and choose from card-based upgrades
  • Synergies to rewire build behavior
  • Eight unique turrets with distinct abilities
  • Eighteen evolutions to fuse turrets
  • Risk/reward banking system
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The swarm has taken every other world. This is the last one with anything living on it, and it is yours to hold. Swarmfall is a planet-defense roguelike where the shooting takes care of itself. Your turrets acquire and fire on their own. You never aim, never tap a target. Every decision that matters happens in a menu, under pressure, while the swarm closes in. LEVEL UP, CHOOSE ONE Kills feed experience. Every level deals a hand of cards and takes one: a new turret, a planet upgrade, or a synergy that rewires how the whole build behaves. Deep Roots makes anything latched onto the planet take triple damage from every source. Living Mantle regrows the ground under you. The dive you get is the dive you drafted. EIGHT GUNS ON THE RIM The Reef Lance locks one target and ramps to 2.6x the longer it holds. The Ember Spitter lobs shells that detonate and leave survivors burning. The Tide Coil chains arc bolts through anything that clusters. The Spore Launcher sends homing seekers that pick their own victims. The Shard Battery shreds at point blank and nowhere else. The Blight Garden plants a rot that leaps to whoever stood nearby when its host dies. The Tide Anchor rings like a struck bell and slows everything its wave passes through. The Rime Lattice stacks cold until a body hard freezes, and a heavy hit shatters it into everything around it. TWENTY EVOLUTIONS Raise a turret to level 2 with the right partner mounted and the two fuse. Reef Lance and Ember Spitter become the SOLAR LANCE, a beam that sets its victims on fire. Ember Spitter and Spore Launcher become the BROODFIRE MORTAR, artillery that releases seeker drones on impact and cleans up after itself. Finding them is most of the game. BANK IT, OR PUSH Half of every haul is at risk until you get it out. Extract whenever you choose and you bank every credit. Die down there and the deep keeps half. Kill a monarch and it pays a bounty and knits 30% of your planet back together, and the next wave is already coming. No other decision in the game costs as much. A SWARM THAT CLOSES IN Thirteen creatures, from cinder mites up to the Deep Mother herself, drawn in bioluminescent deep-water dark. Elites rise wearing afflictions: Veiled, Frenzied, Gorged, Budding, Weeping, and the first of each in a dive is called out the moment it surfaces. Everything resists one damage family and folds to another, and the briefing shows which for everything you have already killed. The swarm reveals itself a species at a time and comes at you from wider angles as the dive goes on: one front, then an arc, then a pincer, then a full ring. Telegraphed, never cheap. THE DESCENT Clear the dark and it gets darker. Eight depths each add one permanent modifier as you unlock them. The mantle holds less life. The swarm moves faster. Monarchs rise in pairs. Elites carry two afflictions at once. The swarm's numbers swell by a third. How deep you can still hold is the real score. EVERY DIVE COUNTS Turrets unlock through lifetime kills, never purchases. Daily directives pay out for specific work: burn down 150 fire-family creatures, hold the line to 6:00, slay a Deep Mother. Records keep your season. The bestiary fills in as you meet what is down there. NOTHING BETWEEN YOU AND THE GAME No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy timers. No account, no login, no server. Swarmfall never touches the internet and collects nothing about you. Your save lives on your device and nowhere else. Under a quarter mantle, every gun on the rim opens up at once. Last Stand is not something you buy. It is the world screaming.

Screenshots

GalaxyTD4 screens
Swarmfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Swarmfall at none against GalaxyTD's 10. Swarmfall also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). GalaxyTD's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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

Both are free to download. GalaxyTD sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Swarmfall asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GalaxyTD ships an update every 3 weeks, Swarmfall weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GalaxyTD versus Swarmfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGalaxyTDSwarmfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB24 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperTHI NGOC QUYNH TRANAUSTIN ALLEN NORMAN

In-app purchases

10 purchases

GalaxyTD

One-time10
  • Daily Pack 1$0.99
  • Small Star Pack$0.99
  • Daily pack 2$1.99
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  • Big Star Pack$4.99
  • Goal Vip Pass$9.99
  • Premium pack$9.99
  • Mega Star Pack$9.99
  • Stellar Commander Pack$24.99
  • Emperor's Vault$49.99
  • Nebula Defense Bundle$49.99
None

Swarmfall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GalaxyTD free?
GalaxyTD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Swarmfall free?
Swarmfall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GalaxyTD or Swarmfall have ads?
GalaxyTD shows ads; Swarmfall does not.
Which is updated more often, GalaxyTD or Swarmfall?
GalaxyTD ships an update every 3 weeks, and Swarmfall weekly. Most recently, GalaxyTD was updated on October 28, 2026 and Swarmfall on October 29, 2026.

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