FlagHaul Tanks vs ArcadeOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlagHaul Tanks
Engage in zero-stress retro tank battles with a nostalgic pixel art style. Explore handcrafted battlefields featuring destructible environments and challenging boss tanks. Enjoy flexible gameplay with both portrait and landscape orientation support.
- Retro pixel art tank action
- Handcrafted battlefields
- Destructible environments
- Boss tank battles
- Portrait and landscape support
- Quick sessions, easy controls
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• Zero-stress retro tank action with a nostalgic pixel look. • Fight through lots of handcrafted-style battlefields with destructible paths, traps, and enemy squads. • Beat tough boss tanks on milestone levels and push your skills to the limit. • Play your way: portrait or landscape - both orientations are fully supported. • More content is coming: we’re actively working on an online co-op mode. • Features: • Classic top-down tank battles with modern polish • Many levels + boss fights • Quick sessions, easy controls • Portrait + landscape support • Upcoming online co-op (in development)
ArcadeOS
Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.
- 65 original retro-style games
- Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
- Offline play with no internet required
- Instant resume for all games
- Authentic chip audio
- New games added seasonally
- No accounts, ads, or tracking
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FlagHaul Tanks at 5.0 against ArcadeOS's 3.0. FlagHaul Tanks also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.5). ArcadeOS's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FlagHaul Tanks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | FlagHaul Tanks | ArcadeOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VIACHESLAV ZHILTSOV | RetroApps LLC |
Customer experience
FlagHaul Tanks
ArcadeOS
In-app purchases
FlagHaul Tanks
No in-app purchases
ArcadeOS
No in-app purchases









