Comparison

Pixel Battleline vs LongHorizon

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Battleline

Features
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Reshape the battleline. Choose your gates. Hold the line. Pixel Battleline is a minimalist arcade strategy game where your formation is your survival. Command a small army across three lanes, shift your battleline on the fly, and survive fast runs where one bad split can break everything. Every run is about positioning, timing, and pressure. Spread your army wide to cover space. Compress into tighter formations to pass through danger. Choose gates that can upgrade your firepower, shift your formation, protect your soldiers, or put the entire run at risk. PLAY TWO MODE FAMILIES Survival Race the timer. Hold formation long enough to survive the full run. Annihilation Break the enemy line by wearing down enemy strength before your army collapses. TACTICAL GATES Gates change the run as you play. Pick up firepower, protection, formation shifts, and other tactical effects โ€” but choose badly and your army may be split, weakened, or trapped under pressure. FORMATION-BASED ARCADE STRATEGY Your army is not just a score counter. It occupies space. Its shape matters. Wide lines, tight columns, layered ranks, and other formations each create different trade-offs in mobility, coverage, and survival. THREE WAR WORLDS Fight through three current battle identities: WAR Fast arcade pressure, projectiles, gates, and enemy formations. COLD STEEL Close-range pressure where formation and spacing matter even more. HORSE & MUSKET Cavalry, cannons, volleys, and battlefield chaos. BUILT FOR FAST RUNS Pixel Battleline is designed for short, tense sessions: - quick starts - instant restarts - escalating pressure - readable pixel tactics - no account required - no data collected Can you hold the line? More content, worlds, and refinements are planned for future updates.

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LongHorizon

Features
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LongHorizon is a single-player, real-time battle game built for one thing: the feeling of commanding an entire army at once. Thousands of ships hold formation, march, volley, waver, and break across a single sweeping battlefield โ€” all rendered natively on your iPhone at full speed. TAKE COMMAND Tap a formation to select it. Drag an arrow to order it: the arrow sets both destination and facing. End your drag on an enemy fleet and your formation will hunt it down. Two fingers pan and zoom the whole battlefield. SHAPE THE FIGHT Every formation can reshape on the spot: โ€ข Line โ€” a steady front that takes less damage โ€ข Wedge โ€” a fast charge that punches through โ€ข Screen โ€” loose and evasive, hard to hit Each shape carries one tactical ability on a cooldown. Brace roots a Line in place behind raised shields. Charge hurls a Wedge into contact at full momentum. Withdraw pulls a Screen back fast while it keeps firing. One button, big moments. WIN THE CENTRE A glowing ring marks the centre ground. Outnumber the enemy inside it to build hold time โ€” fill the timer and you win outright, no matter the body count. When the final horn sounds, time held at the centre decides the day before raw strength does. Manoeuvre beats attrition. A LIVING BATTLE Facing matters: strike a formation in the flank or rear and it crumbles. Cohesion matters: tight formations shrug off volleys that shred stragglers. Morale matters: shaken fleets rout, and the fallen stay on the field so you can read where the fighting happened. YOUR WAR, YOUR RULES โ€ข Army sizes from 4,000 to 12,000 ships โ€ข Three army styles: Balanced Line, Bronze Wedge, Harrier Screen โ€ข Three enemy difficulties, from Measured to Onslaught โ€ข Battles of 5, 8, or 10 minutes โ€ข Battle log and full result summary after every fight No account. No ads. No internet required. Just you, the blue line, and the horizon.

Screenshots

Pixel Battleline4 screens
LongHorizon4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pixel Battleline and LongHorizon are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Pixel Battleline versus LongHorizon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel BattlelineLongHorizon
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size11 MB38 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlejandro Sanchez GuineaEOIN J TOLSTER

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Battleline

No in-app purchases

None

LongHorizon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Battleline free?
Pixel Battleline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LongHorizon free?
LongHorizon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixel Battleline or LongHorizon have ads?
Neither Pixel Battleline nor LongHorizon shows ads.

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