Comparison

Besiege Mobile vs Salt Crown

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

Head to head
About

Besiege Mobile

Build intricate mechanical machines to destroy castles, armies, and overcome obstacles in a physics-based world. Create anything from tanks to giant robots and test your creations in campaign or sandbox modes. Share your designs with the community.

Highlights
  • Intuitive & flexible building system
  • Construct machines from 70+ blocks & weapons
  • Conquer 55 destructible levels
  • Huge sandbox levels
  • Download/upload community creations
  • Revamped mobile UI with touch controls
Features
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*TRY BESIEGE FOR FREE AND UNLOCK THE FULL GAME FOR THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN!* Besiege is a physics building game about constructing mechanical machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Create tanks, planes, helicopters, sports cars, catapults, rockets, giant mechs- anything you can imagine- with Besiege’s intuitive & flexible building system! Cruise through Besiege’s singleplayer campaign or huge sandbox levels, terrorizing their inhabitants, honing your craft & testing your ingenious prototypes. Build catapults, tanks, planes and even giant death robots, to unleash chaos and destruction in a physics-based world! FEATURES - Construct your machines from a collection of 70+ blocks & weapons, using an intricate building system. - Conquer 55 destructible levels, each with their own objectives and challenges, and terrorize the inhabitants of the campaign's 4 island nations. - Cruise through Besiege’s huge sandbox levels, terrorizing their inhabitants, honing your craft & testing your ingenious prototypes. - Obliterate castles, annihilate armies and overcome puzzling challenges! Whether you're the harbinger of destruction or flailing your way to victory, conquering levels with your crazy creations is incredibly satisfying. - Download other people's machines from the Workshop, or upload and share your own with the community. CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface – exclusive mobile UI with complete touch control - Game Center achievements - Cloud Save – Share your progress between iOS devices - Compatible with MFi controllers - iPhone 15 Optimization (including Pro Max)

About

Salt Crown

Features
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You are the Warden of Solnitsa, a salt-mine keep, on the Night the fire is low. The Host outside is bound by the same law that binds you. Nothing crosses a threshold uninvited. Nothing takes what is not owed. A name given freely is a claim. So they do not storm the walls. They stand in the dark and wait for you to break the law first — and you will, because the fire needs feeding, and the granary needs opening, and somebody is knocking politely at the gate wearing a face you know. Twelve Watches until dawn. Three bodies. One purse. Salt Crown is FTL's crew triage rebuilt as a castle under siege: a folk-horror roguelike played across a lit cross-section of the keep, one room at a time, until the Night ends or you do. EVERYTHING IS A BODY IN A ROOM No ability bars. No cooldowns. If nobody walks to the gate, nobody holds the gate. Each defender has Vigor, Hands and Nerve, and every order costs the time it takes to cross the castle. THE TALLY IS A BILL, NOT A TIMER The Host writes down what it is owed, and every mark is something you did — a door opened, a guest invited, a name given away. At three marks they come sooner. At twelve, the Crowning. A bill is a thing you can argue with. A timer is not. ONE PURSE, THREE HUNGERS Chime buys wards, Chime feeds the fire, Chime pays people, and it will not do all three. Ember is the run clock and it burns whether or not you are looking at it. The dawn screen tells you exactly where it went. FOLKLORE LAW IS THE RULE SYSTEM Guest-right, threshold-law, name-law. Salt in the mouth is a truth test. The polite thing at the gate is a mechanic, not a mood. GLANCEABLE, BRUTAL, INSTANTLY REPEATABLE The whole castle is one screen. Pause is always a tap away. A Night runs fifteen to twenty-five minutes; losing takes rather less, and starting again takes seconds. WHAT IS IN IT • 41 hand-written event cards — every word original • Eight rooms, three besieging Hosts, one hearth • A deterministic simulation: the same seed is the same Night, every time • Landscape, one-thumb controls, built for phone and iPad alike • Plays fully offline — nothing to download, nothing to log into • No ads, no tracking, no accounts, no in-app purchases; the game saves on your device Keep the fire. Keep the law. Keep the count. Salt Crown's pixel art is generated with Pixellab (AI image generation) against a hand-built style specification, then curated and integrated by hand. All design, code and writing is original work by Arkynate.

Screenshots

Besiege Mobile4 screens
Salt Crown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Salt Crown at none against Besiege Mobile's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Besiege Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Salt Crown asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Besiege Mobile ships an update weekly, Salt Crown every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Besiege Mobile versus Salt Crown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBesiege MobileSalt Crown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (492 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings492 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size914 MB4 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperPlaydigiousPaolo Javier

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Besiege Mobile

One-time1
  • Unlock full game$7.99
None

Salt Crown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Besiege Mobile free?
Besiege Mobile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Salt Crown free?
Salt Crown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Besiege Mobile or Salt Crown have ads?
Neither Besiege Mobile nor Salt Crown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Besiege Mobile or Salt Crown?
Besiege Mobile ships an update weekly, and Salt Crown every 6 days. Most recently, Besiege Mobile was updated on November 5, 2026 and Salt Crown on October 31, 2026.

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