Comparison

All Aboard! Defense Express vs Keep on Mining!

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

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About

All Aboard! Defense Express

Defend a power generator from waves of orcs by building and upgrading a train of defensive carriages. Earn gold by selling gems dropped by enemies, and use it to purchase flamethrowers, cannons, and more. Merge identical carriages to create powerful upgrades and face challenging bosses.

Highlights
  • Build and upgrade defensive train carriages
  • Merge identical carriages for upgrades
  • Defend against orc hordes and bosses
  • Earn gold from enemy drops
  • Unlock permanent upgrades with tickets
  • Infinite upgrade system
Features
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Enemy orcs are coming from every angle to try to destroy the Infinite Power Generator! Luckily for you, each orc is carrying a big gem that can be sold for gold. As the conductor, your job is to spend gold on buying new train carriages to help defend the generator - flamethrowers, snipers, cannons, railguns, and dozens more can be purchased and added to the train to help with defense. Buy 3 of the same type of carriage to upgrade it to the next level. For example, buying 3 level 1 Snipers will merge into a level 2 Sniper, and 3 level 2 snipers will merge into a level 3 Sniper. You can upgrade like this infinitely! Be careful - bosses will spawn every 5 minutes to try to take the generator out! At 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and every 15 minutes after, bosses will drop a Relic Chest, which can be opened for power-ups that last for the rest of the game. Enemy orcs might also drop tickets. Use tickets in the "Boons" menu to unlock additional permanent upgrades! How long can you last against the orc hordes?

About

Keep on Mining!

An incremental mining game where you automatically mine rocks and gather ores. Craft materials into bars, upgrade your stats through a skill tree, and unlock new pickaxes to mine faster. Utilize talent cards and an idle mine mechanic to progress.

Highlights
  • Automatic rock mining
  • Ore gathering and crafting
  • Skill tree upgrades
  • Craftable pickaxes
  • Talent card system
  • Idle mine mechanic
Features
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Mine rocks! Keep on Mining! is a simple incremental game. Hover your cursor over rocks to automatically mine them. Any rock inside the mining area will spawn pickaxes that mine for you! Gather materials! Mined rocks drop ores, which are crafted into bars. There is a variety of different material rocks to be mined! The skill tree! Spend your material bars to unlock upgrades inside the skill tree. These upgrades permanently boost your stats, letting you mine rocks with more power! Craft pickaxes! Use different materials to craft new pickaxes. Each new pickaxe has better stats, helping you mine faster and hit harder! Talent cards! Every time you level up, you earn a talent point. Spend talent points to reveal 3 random talent cards — pick one to keep! Choosing a card increases the talent level, but also increases rock HP. The Mine! Once you unlock the mine, it will automatically mine rocks and instantly craft bars for you. The Mine is the idle mechanic of Keep on Mining!

Screenshots

All Aboard! Defense Express4 screens
Keep on Mining!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: All Aboard! Defense Express at #185 against Keep on Mining!'s unranked. Keep on Mining!'s advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 5) and review sentiment (79% vs 70%). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

All Aboard! Defense Express costs $4.99 and Keep on Mining! $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for All Aboard! Defense Express against 4.7 for Keep on Mining!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Keep on Mining! has 31 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of All Aboard! Defense Express's written reviews are positive against 79% of Keep on Mining!'s.

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All Aboard! Defense Express versus Keep on Mining!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAll Aboard! Defense ExpressKeep on Mining!
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better4.7 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews79.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings531 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#185 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB218 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSword ReforgedSimon Eftestøl

Customer experience

All Aboard! Defense Express

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%

Keep on Mining!

All ratings31 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive79.2%
Neutral7.5%
Negative13.2%

In-app purchases

None

All Aboard! Defense Express

No in-app purchases

None

Keep on Mining!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is All Aboard! Defense Express free?
All Aboard! Defense Express costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keep on Mining! free?
Keep on Mining! costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, All Aboard! Defense Express or Keep on Mining!?
All Aboard! Defense Express is rated higher. All Aboard! Defense Express averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Keep on Mining! averages 4.7 from 31 ratings.
Do All Aboard! Defense Express or Keep on Mining! have ads?
Neither All Aboard! Defense Express nor Keep on Mining! shows ads.

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