Comparison

Raid & Roll vs Celestrike

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

Head to head
About

Raid & Roll

Features
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Roll the dice and move forward on a dangerous board where every step matters. Each run is short, intense, and completely shaped by the decisions you make. This is a dynamic dice, board, and combat experience built around tactical choices and risk versus reward. Will you play it safe, or push your luck for a game-breaking build? CORE GAMEPLAY Roll the dice with a satisfying "Hold to Roll" mechanic. Move step by step across a fast-paced board. Face enemies, discover loot, and trigger unexpected events on every tile. TACTICAL COMBAT Every fight is a test of strategy. Choose between Attack, Guard, or Skill. Timing and resource management matter more than raw power. Read your enemy and strike! Even with bad dice luck, you can survive if you fight smart. PLAYSTYLE-CHANGING BUFFS Discover powerful, stackable buffs that completely alter how you play. Become a high-damage "Glass Cannon," a self-healing tank, or find your own unique combo. Every run offers different strategic possibilities. MEANINGFUL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Board Gems are your key to survival. Will you spend them in the Board Shop for instant stats, or save them for crucial Rerolls and Revives when things go wrong? PROGRESSION & UPGRADES Defeat tough bosses to earn special upgrade stones. Grow stronger between attempts and build your character permanently. Learn the board, master the combat, and conquer higher levels. DESIGNED FOR SHORT SESSIONS Each level offers a focused route with a limited number of turns. Perfect for quick but highly engaging play sessions. Every turn asks the same question: Do you play it safe, or take a risk for a greater reward? A short-session game for players who love dice rolling, board mechanics, deep combat choices, and roguelike strategy.

About

Celestrike

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They came to shut your black-budget satellite programme down. Something didn't smell right, so you took it rogue: the satellites, the stealth launch site, all of it. Now you spy on the world from orbit, fight a cold war nobody admits is happening, and chase the UFOs everyone says aren't there. Celestrike is a spy-satellite strategy game played on real orbits, over an Earth drawn from NASA imagery, with drifting cloud and city lights after dark. SPY Secret sites are invisible from orbit until you zoom in and hunt for them. Pick a satellite, pick a site, and collect intel every time it passes overhead. Collection carries on with the app closed. Sell the intel for credits, then spend them on better parts or another satellite. STRIKE Other satellites share your sky. Fly past one for a look, or fall in behind it and shadow it. Hold close and you steal its technology; hold at any range and you drain the data it has collected. Arm your satellites with mines, a railgun or EMPs and bring rivals down. Some targets fire back. INVESTIGATE Not everything up there is ours. UFOs circle faster than any orbit allows and answer to no registry. Your camera catches them as blurs at first; a better camera shows shapes nobody has on file. Plot your sightings and they lead you to alien bases hidden under open ocean and polar ice. Craft come down, sit on the ground for days, then leave: find one from orbit and send a recovery team to take what it leaves behind. Enough recovered hardware builds the TRB-01, a strike craft fast enough to catch a UFO in flight and bring it down in a real-time dogfight. Then send a team to collect the wreckage. Alien technology unlocks parts no human factory builds. EVERY MOVE COSTS Where a satellite flies decides what it can see and how often it comes back. Every manoeuvre burns propellant, and only a paid servicing flight puts any back. Imaging satellites need daylight, and a storm under the pass slows them down; signals satellites work at three in the morning, in any weather. You never need to know orbital mechanics: every option says what it costs and what it buys. BUILD YOUR FLEET Start with one satellite; your first finished site pays for a second. Three hulls, and every bay is an upgrade ladder researched from the intel you collect, so the targets you chase decide what you unlock. No level gates. Satellites, parts and propellant are only ever bought with credits the fleet earns. SKIP THE WAIT, IF YOU WANT TO One real minute is one game hour, and waiting always works. If you would rather not wait, an optional purchase sells packs of in-game hours that fast-forward the whole world: every satellite collects, every mission lands, every tank burns. You choose how many hours to spend each time, and the game never spends them for you. New campaigns start with 200 hours free. Single player. Fully offline: no account, no sign-in, no server, no ads, no tracking.

Screenshots

Raid & Roll4 screens
Celestrike4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Raid & Roll at none against Celestrike's 3. Raid & Roll also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Celestrike sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Raid & Roll asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Raid & Roll ships an update every 3 weeks, Celestrike every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Raid & Roll versus Celestrike: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRaid & RollCelestrike
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size129 MB68 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperYunus KocANDREW IRELAND

In-app purchases

None

Raid & Roll

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Celestrike

One-time3
  • 2 Weeks of Game Time$1.99
  • 1 Month of Game Time$4.99
  • 3 Months of Game Time$9.99

Questions

Is Raid & Roll free?
Raid & Roll is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Celestrike free?
Celestrike is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Raid & Roll or Celestrike have ads?
Neither Raid & Roll nor Celestrike shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Raid & Roll or Celestrike?
Raid & Roll ships an update every 3 weeks, and Celestrike every 11 days. Most recently, Raid & Roll was updated on October 30, 2026 and Celestrike on October 24, 2026.

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