Comparison

UnderGuild vs DEADGRID

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

Head to head
About

UnderGuild

Engage in fast-paced strategy battles, commanding heroes and mercenaries against monster waves. Master tactical placement, unit fusion, and epic boss fights to achieve victory. Your strategic decisions are key to overcoming relentless challenges.

Highlights
  • Tactical hero & mercenary placement
  • Unit fusion and evolution
  • Challenging boss fights
  • Endless unit combination strategies
  • Engaging offensive gameplay
Features
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Gather heroes and mercenaries for an adventure beneath the city. In UnderGuild: Offense, choose your mercenaries and merge them to build your own battle team. • Recruit and merge: Collect different mercenaries and combine them to strengthen your team. • Explore the sewers: Venture underground and challenge monsters and bosses. • Customize your sewers: Make your underground space your own. • Co-op battles: Take on challenges with a partner. • More ways to play: Try Pigeon Cleanup and Slime Punching Bag modes. Lead your little hero and mercenary team into battle! Support: libertydust@gmail.com

About

DEADGRID

Experience intense arcade zombie survival with a minimalist aesthetic. Battle through thousands of procedurally generated levels, collect unique weapon finishes, and compete globally in various multiplayer modes. Features permadeath, diverse enemy types, and strategic deployables for ultimate replayability.

Highlights
  • Thousands of procedurally generated levels
  • Collectable weapon finishes
  • Twelve handcrafted arenas
  • Permadeath survival mode
  • Ranked 1v1 duels
  • Duo co-op mode
  • 36 unique weapons
Features
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DEADGRID is a minimalist zombie arena shooter — pure, intense arcade action with real multiplayer. THE CLIMB A campaign ladder thousands of levels deep, and no two rungs are alike. Every level rolls its own horde, its own weather, its own rule and its own goal: one-hit-point runs, total blackouts, meteor storms, assassination contracts. Two modes break the pattern — INFECT, where you ARE the outbreak and hunt the survivors down, and FREE FOR ALL, where everyone carries the same gun and only one walks out. 1,080 WEAPON FINISHES Thirty collectable liveries — GOLD, ONYX, SYNTHWAVE, NOSFERATU, VOIDLINE, RAINBOW and more — across all 36 weapons. Every third rung of the Climb pays one out. Locked finishes stay secret until you earn them. TWELVE HANDCRAFTED ARENAS Fight through Times Square, Shibuya Crossing, the Champs-Élysées, Copacabana, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, Chichén Itzá and Terreiro do Paço — plus four arenas of our own: The Garden, Sporewood, Rustyard and Cindermaw. Lava rivers, container mazes, neon crossings. Every layout is placed by hand, never generated. SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE Endless waves of the undead. Every run is permadeath — beat your best in kills, waves and time survived. RANKED 1v1 — THE ARENA Duel real opponents in last-one-standing combat. Buy rage zombies and send them hunting your rival, earn a random upgrade every round, and climb 8 divisions to the top of the global ladder. DUO CO-OP Team up with a friend or matchmake with a stranger. Shared horde, shared glory — revive each other and see how deep two survivors can go. ARSENAL OF 36 WEAPONS Pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, snipers, launchers, energy weapons, flamethrowers and wilder things — each with its own 3D model. Loot weapon crates mid-run and build your loadout on the fly. NINE ZOMBIE TYPES Walkers, runners, tanks, boomers, jumpers that vault your walls, fire-spitters, bladesmen who cut bullets from the air, gaolers with hooked chains and summoners who raise the dead. Smart pathfinding routes them around cover — they hunt, they don't just shamble. TURRETS & DEPLOYABLES Three turret types, barriers, claymores, explosive barrels and the legendary clapping monkey. Build choke points, then watch the horde walk into them. PROGRESS THAT LASTS • GAME PASS: a 101-tier season track with exclusive skins, chests and emotes • MISSIONS: endless ladders that pay pass XP with bonus chests on every claim • SPECS: permanent lifetime upgrades that make every future run stronger • 42 SKINS to unlock — from the humble Rookie to floating war gods • 32 EMOTES to talk trash in style COMPETE WITH THE WORLD Global leaderboards, a top-1000 board, friends list with live presence, duo invites and player profiles. Daily streaks keep your fire burning. PURE PERFORMANCE Optimized for smooth 60fps. All game audio is synthesized in real time — zero audio files, tiny download. Endless waves, thousands of levels. Just pure arcade zombie survival. Any coin pack removes ad breaks forever. Download DEADGRID and see how long you survive.

Screenshots

UnderGuild4 screens
DEADGRID4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DEADGRID at none against UnderGuild's shown. DEADGRID also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). UnderGuild's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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

Both are free to download. UnderGuild sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and DEADGRID sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DEADGRID holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 70 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of UnderGuild's written reviews are positive against 94% of DEADGRID's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UnderGuild ships an update every 2 weeks, DEADGRID every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
UnderGuild versus DEADGRID: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnderGuildDEADGRID
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (79 ratings)4.7 (70 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews93.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings79 — better70
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size410 MB404 MB
Age rating4++9
DeveloperSeungHo ChungAfonso Quinaz

Customer experience

UnderGuild

All ratings79 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral2.5%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral6.5%
Negative14.1%

DEADGRID

All ratings63 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.6%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

UnderGuild

One-time10
  • Piggy Bank 1$0.99
  • Normal Pack 2$1.99
  • Str_Random_Skin$1.99
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  • Normal Pack 3$2.99
  • item_pack_all_1$4.99
  • Starter Pack$5.49
  • Add 3x speed$7.99
  • Hero_Pass_1$9.99
  • Remove Ads$10.99
  • Season_Hyperpass_1$18.99
7 purchases

DEADGRID

One-time7
  • Scrap + No Ads$0.99
  • Cache + No Ads$4.99
  • Premium Pass$4.99
Show 4 more
  • Crate + No Ads$9.99
  • Pallet + No Ads$19.99
  • Container + No Ads$49.99
  • Motherlode + No Ads$99.99

Questions

Is UnderGuild free?
UnderGuild is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DEADGRID free?
DEADGRID is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, UnderGuild or DEADGRID?
DEADGRID is rated higher. UnderGuild averages 4.5 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while DEADGRID averages 4.7 from 70 ratings.
Do UnderGuild or DEADGRID have ads?
UnderGuild shows ads; DEADGRID does not.
Which is updated more often, UnderGuild or DEADGRID?
UnderGuild ships an update every 2 weeks, and DEADGRID every 4 days. Most recently, UnderGuild was updated on October 30, 2026 and DEADGRID on November 1, 2026.

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