Comparison

Pinball Tide vs Project 28

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

Head to head
About

Pinball Tide

Features
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Pinball Tide is a fast-paced, highly replayable roguelike set in a vibrant ocean world. Clear rounds, build powerful combos, and survive until the final Ante. In every new run, draw and fuse balls to create new ones. Buy relics and supporters, then adapt your strategy to changing bosses and situations. How to Play: Draw, fuse, and discover balls and flippers. Build a deck that fits your playstyle from countless ball and flipper combinations, then battle ocean monsters. Key Features: - A wide variety of balls and flippers, each with unique effects and abilities - Create your own deck through ball and flipper fusion - A supporter system that helps your run with active effects - Various challenge modes with special rules - A vertical, one-handed layout optimized for mobile play

About

Project 28

Build and defend a settlement by day, then survive relentless night-time hordes. Manage resources, upgrade defenses, and fight off increasingly difficult bosses in a neon-noir horror world. Experience a challenging, adaptive difficulty curve with no forced waiting.

Highlights
  • Build and defend settlement
  • Survive endless night hordes
  • Adaptive difficulty curve
  • Resource management (power, food, people)
  • Unlockable arsenal of guns
  • Neon-noir horror aesthetic
  • One-hand mobile controls
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The city fell to the Bleed. What crawls out of the Marrow only comes at night. You are Ward 28's last anchor - a psychic child with the power to hold a shrinking pocket of the world together. By day you rebuild: raise power, food, and shelter, and ring your settlement with turrets, walls, and militia. When the sun drops, the horde comes. Survive to dawn. PLAY LOOP - DAY: Spend coins to build. Every structure needs resources - solar for power, farms for food, shelter for people - so your settlement grows into a real war-machine, not just a pile of towers. - NIGHT: Auto-fire through swarms of nightmares, dodge, and outlast a boss that comes back meaner every time. - REPEAT: The nights never end. They only get harder - and the run adapts to how strong you actually are, so it stays a knife-edge whether you're a careful builder or a reckless gunner. FEATURES - Endless nights with a fair, self-tuning difficulty curve - chase your Deepest Night record. - Build-and-defend economy: power, food, and people meters that make every structure a real decision. - An arsenal of guns, each changing how you fight - unlock and equip them. - Hand-drawn, neon-noir horror world inspired by animated sci-fi classics. - A cinematic story intro: the fall of Ward 28 and your first desperate night. - One-hand, pick-up-and-play controls built for phones. No timers to wait out. No forced waiting. Just build, fight, and see how far into the dark you can push.

Screenshots

Pinball Tide4 screens
Project 284 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Project 28 at none against Pinball Tide's 2. Pinball Tide's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Pinball Tide sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Project 28 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pinball Tide versus Project 28: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinball TideProject 28
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB637 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJAE SEUNG LEECRB Labs LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pinball Tide

One-time2
  • Revive for This Round$0.99
  • Special Package$4.99
None

Project 28

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pinball Tide free?
Pinball Tide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Project 28 free?
Project 28 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pinball Tide or Project 28 have ads?
Both Pinball Tide and Project 28 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pinball Tide or Project 28?
Pinball Tide ships an update every 5 days, and Project 28 every 5 days. Most recently, Pinball Tide was updated on October 17, 2026 and Project 28 on October 10, 2026.

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