Heli Strike vs Ringdown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heli Strike
Engage in intense aerial combat with a variety of helicopters. Experience both classic top-down and immersive 3D battles, with solo missions, challenging boss fights, and exciting PvP multiplayer modes. Upgrade your choppers and master the skies.
- Dynamic helicopter battles
- PvP multiplayer mode
- Offline play available
- Epic air missions
- Chopper upgrades
- 2D and 3D combat zones
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Enter the battlefield in Heli Strike – the helicopter shoot 'em up that takes aerial warfare to a new dimension. Switch between classic top-down 2D missions and immersive 3D combat zones as you take command of powerful choppers in high-intensity air battles. Heli Strike delivers: - Dynamic Helicopter Battles Engage in fast-paced aerial combat against waves of enemies. Dodge missiles, unleash devastating firepower, and master the skies in solo and multiplayer missions. - PvP Multiplayer Mode Challenge players from around the world in fast-paced helicopter dogfights. Compete for glory, rank up, and prove your skills in a rare chopper multiplayer mode for shoot 'em up fans. - Offline Play Available No connection? No problem. Enjoy a complete offline experience with challenging missions and campaigns that you can play anytime, anywhere. - Epic Air Missions Destroy enemy bases, escort allied forces, and defeat big boss helicopters across diverse environments including desert, forest, frozen tundra, city, nuclear plant and much more. - Chopper Upgrades Unlock and upgrade a fleet of combat helicopters. Equip advanced weapons, armor, and special abilities to adapt your strategy for each mission. Heli Strike combines action shooter mechanics with modern air combat tactics to deliver an experience that stands out in the shoot 'em up genre. Please Note: Heli Strike is free to play and offers optional in-app purchases.
Ringdown
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Ringdown is a premium, tactile, no-ads switchboard puzzle game where you race to connect calls using coloured cables before callers lose patience and hang up. You’re the operator and the calls won’t stop. Featured in PocketGamer, who said: “It's rare you get such an excellent combination of simple gameplay and an interesting theme as Ringdown: Switchboard Puzzler… It's a simple but challenging offering that's a pretty exciting new launch". Ringdown is a beautifully crafted switchboard puzzle game about speed, focus, and controlled chaos. A brass lamp lights up. It shows two things: a colour and a number. Grab the matching cable, drag it to the right jack, and make the connection before the shrinking patience ring turns red. Answer fast and you build a combo. Pick the wrong port or let a caller hang up, and the shift starts slipping away. The longer you last, the harder it gets. The board fills up. Priority calls expire fast but pay double. Held calls tie up a line until they clear. And on squeeze shifts, there are more callers than cables, forcing you to free old lines before the next lamp turns red. Compete every day. Take on the Daily Challenge: the same board for everyone, every day. Chase your best score, climb the leaderboard, and compete with friends and players worldwide. Built to feel like the real thing. Ringdown isn’t a grid of flat buttons. The boards are richly detailed, the cables have weight, and every plug lands with a click you feel in your fingers, backed by period sound and haptics. What you get: • The 1960s Campaign: timed shifts that climb from quiet evenings to controlled chaos. • The Blitz: a second campaign set during the London air raids of 1940, with blackouts, bomb blasts, and things scuttling across the switchboard. An atmospheric thriller of a campaign. • Endless: one shift that keeps ramping until you crack. • Daily Challenge: the same board for everyone, every day. • Game Center leaderboards. • A trophy cabinet of career milestones. More campaigns are coming soon. Only one in-app purchase is required to unlock the full Ringdown experience, including premium campaigns, daily challenges and special limited-time events. Pay once. It’s yours. No ads. One in-app purchase. Nothing locked behind more money.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ringdown at none against Heli Strike's shown. Heli Strike's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.2). On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Heli Strike sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Ringdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Heli Strike | Ringdown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zeeppo Games Ltda | Ironic Thought ltd |
In-app purchases
Heli Strike
- Heli Strike$0.99
- Heli Strike - Special$1.99
- Heli Strike - Special2 variants$4.99
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- Heli Strike$4.99
- Heli Strike2 variants$9.99
- Heli Strike - Special2 variants$9.99
- Heli Strike$49.99
Ringdown
- Ringdown — Full Version$3.99









