Comparison

Mars Defence vs PocketClonk

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

Head to head
About

Mars Defence

Defend Mars from alien invaders in this tower defense strategy game. Build and upgrade defensive towers, manage robots for resource gathering, and develop technologies to survive waves of enemies and complete the Martian campaign.

Highlights
  • 25 days of survival campaign
  • 5 tower types
  • Robot management for resource gathering
  • Economic strategy with resource mining
  • 8 enemy types
  • Tower and technology upgrade system
  • Persistent progress across missions
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Defend Mars from alien invasion! In this thrilling tower defense strategy game, you become humanity's last hope on the red planet. Aliens are attacking your farm, and only you can stop them! KEY FEATURES: 25 days of survival - complete the full Mars campaign 5 tower types - from classic turrets to dark matter towers Robot management - assign robots to resource gathering Economic strategy - mine stone, iron, and biofuel 8 enemy types - from fast Zippets to powerful Gorvans Upgrade system - develop towers and technologies Persistent progress - upgrades carry over between missions GAMEPLAY: Build defensive towers, manage mining robots, and protect your dome from waves of alien invaders. Each day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth. STRATEGY: Plan tower placement for maximum efficiency Manage colony resources and economy Study enemies and adapt your tactics Develop technologies to strengthen your defense

About

PocketClonk

Features
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PocketClonk brings Clonk to iPhone and iPad. In this side-view 2D world, lead your crew, dig for resources, build what you need, and take on fast tactical battles. Two engines, one app. OpenClonk scenarios run on the OpenClonk engine, and Clonk Rage era content runs on LegacyClonk, the engine it was written for. Both are compiled into the same binary and share one window, one renderer and one set of controls, so a level plays the way its authors built it instead of through an emulation of the engine it expects. Getting there took real engine work. Both engines were ported to iOS and to OpenGL ES, which meant writing a new renderer for the legacy one: its own was fixed-function OpenGL, and the iPhone has no such thing. The two engines share thirty years of ancestry and eleven thousand identically named symbols, so they are linked in a way that keeps them apart. Clonk is a keyboard game, so the touch controls send the same commands a key would, all the way down to the way its menus are answered. Free forever: everything that ships with OpenClonk and LegacyClonk. The single in-app purchase adds the Community Classics collection and lets you import your own scenario folders. Thank you to Matthes Bender for permission to use the Clonk trademark, and to the OpenClonk and LegacyClonk teams for the engines and for keeping this game alive.

Screenshots

Mars Defence4 screens
PocketClonk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mars Defence at none against PocketClonk's 1. Mars Defence also leads on iOS requirement (16 vs 26.0). PocketClonk's advantage is ads (none vs shown). 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. PocketClonk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mars Defence asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Mars Defence versus PocketClonk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMars DefencePocketClonk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size227 MB85 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMaxim IvanovJonathan Vogelbusch

In-app purchases

None

Mars Defence

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PocketClonk

One-time1
  • Scenario Access$6.99

Questions

Is Mars Defence free?
Mars Defence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PocketClonk free?
PocketClonk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mars Defence or PocketClonk have ads?
Mars Defence shows ads; PocketClonk does not.

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