Comparison

Field Day vs Dead Frequency

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

Head to head
About

Field Day

Engage in a chaotic PvPvE brawler where you drop into a collapsing city to hunt monsters and outsmart rival operatives. Utilize the environment to your advantage and choose from a diverse cast of heroes with unique abilities. Compete in high-stakes matches for loot and survival.

Highlights
  • Environmental destruction and traps
  • Diverse hero roster with unique skills
  • 4-Player Free-for-All matches
  • Hero evolution and skill trees
  • Deep gear customization
  • Season Road for exclusive unlocks
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We’ve got a monster problem. The world is falling apart. The military is AWOL. Vortex Corp is hiring freelancers like you to clean up the mess. Welcome to Field Day. It’s time to turn mayday into payday. MAKE YOUR ENTRANCE Drop into a collapsing city where monsters and chaos are everywhere. Use it to your advantage and create a playground of destruction with exploding cars, deadly throwables buildings, and reactive traps to outsmart your opponents. MEET THE FIELD DAY CREW Choose an everyday hero to suit your play style: MAG the One Man Army JOE the Handyman O.B.O the Precision Machine HIRO the Programmer LEX the Police Officer TEDDY the Janitor KIM the Aerobics Instructor RAVEN the Ex-Military Mystery HUNT OR BE HUNTED The monsters may be fierce, but the competition is fiercer. Other operatives want their payout just as much as you do. Enter the 4-Player Free-for-All where every match is unpredictable, trust is optional, and only the strongest survive. HIGH RISK. HIGH REWARD. Grab your gear, drop into the city, and turn disaster into your next payday! Pure Fair Play: You don’t win with your wallet or by sitting idle. This is a high stakes, skill and strategy game with no let up. Deep Customization: Collect cores to turn into duplicates and blueprints to overcharge your gear. Hero Evolution: Level up your crew, unlock branching skill trees, and specialize your build to dominate when it matters most. Season Road: Unlock exclusive heroes, high-tech upgrades, and limited-edition cosmetics through the Season Road. SECURE YOUR EXIT The race is on to make it to the helicopter before the extraction window closes, but there’s one more Megaboss to defeat! Fight till the end. Secure your loot. Make your exit. One mistake can cost you everything. ONE WORLD. NO LIMITS. FIELDDAY. Forget what you think you know - a new drop means new opportunities. In this ever-expanding world, the only limit is you. New maps to explore, new monsters to hunt, new threats at every turn. Are you ready to have your Field Day? Download Field Day today and prove you have what it takes to survive. ▸ Stay updated and connect with other players: https://discord.gg/DVvA8kSJY2

About

Dead Frequency

Features
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Pilot a modular starship through deep space, destroy enemy vessels, and salvage their wreckage to rebuild yourself mid-battle. Dead Frequency is an arcade space combat game about survival, adaptation, and shipbuilding under pressure. Every enemy you destroy can leave behind modules you can drag onto your own ship: weapons, engines, armor, ghost systems, and stranger things. Build fast, fight dirty, and keep your command module alive. Features: • Real-time arcade space combat • Modular shipbuilding from salvaged enemy parts • Touch controls built for landscape mobile play • Global high scores • Multiplayer battles • Unlockable abilities and high-risk power spikes • Atmospheric original soundtrack • No account required • Every run starts small. Every fight changes your ship. Every mistake leaves wreckage.

Screenshots

Field Day4 screens
Dead Frequency3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dead Frequency at none against Field Day's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Field Day sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Dead Frequency sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Field Day versus Dead Frequency: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterField DayDead Frequency
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (464 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings464 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size840 MB39 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBIT ODDNathan Mueller

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Field Day

One-time8
  • Daily Login Pass$1.99
  • Exclusive Offer$1.99
  • First Purchase Offer$4.99
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  • 500 Diamonds$5.99
  • Season Pass$9.99
  • 2000 Diamonds$19.99
  • 5500 Diamonds$49.99
  • 12000 Diamonds$99.99
2 purchases

Dead Frequency

One-time2
  • Neon Dagger$1.99
  • Void Relic$2.99

Questions

Is Field Day free?
Field Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dead Frequency free?
Dead Frequency is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Field Day or Dead Frequency have ads?
Field Day shows ads; Dead Frequency does not.
Which is updated more often, Field Day or Dead Frequency?
Field Day ships an update every 2 weeks, and Dead Frequency every 2 weeks. Most recently, Field Day was updated on October 25, 2026 and Dead Frequency on October 6, 2026.

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