Comparison

Lordrush vs Pulse

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

Head to head
About

Lordrush

Rebuild a ruined medieval fortress, gather resources, and strategically upgrade towers and recruit heroes to defend against relentless enemy sieges. Manage your people, issue decrees, and form alliances to expand your power and claim the throne.

Highlights
  • Fortress building and defense
  • Resource gathering and management
  • Tower upgrades and placement
  • Hero recruitment and deployment
  • Siege defense against waves
  • Alliance creation and participation
  • Competition with other lords
Features
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Lordrush is a medieval tower defense strategy game where you rebuild a ruined fortress and defend your realm from attacks. Gather resources, raise defenses, upgrade towers, and recruit heroes as you prepare for each assault. Set in a harsh medieval world of stone castles, armored heroes, war-torn battlefields, and rival lords, Lordrush blends fortress building, resource management, hero strategy, and tactical defense. • Fight for Resources Wood, stone, and iron are essential for expansion. Compete with exiles, rebels, and other forces for control of vital resources. • Build Fortress Walls Construct defensive walls to slow enemy advances and give your towers more time to strike. • Upgrade Towers Place and upgrade towers to expand your firepower, increase damage, and hold key defensive positions. • Strengthen Your Fortress As enemy attacks grow stronger, reinforce your walls, expand your towers, and turn your settlement into a powerful medieval stronghold. • Defend Against Sieges Enemies attack your fortress in waves. Adjust your defenses based on enemy routes and strength, and hold the line. • Recruit Heroes Recruit medieval heroes with different abilities. Deploy them to change the course of battle. • Make Tactical Choices Every building, upgrade, and hero deployment can affect the outcome. Plan carefully to survive the next siege. • Manage Your People Assign survivors as workers, hunters, or cooks to maintain resource production, food supplies, and daily fortress operations. • Maintain Health and Order Your people’s condition affects productivity. Keep food stocked, maintain stability, and help your fortress continue to grow. • Issue Decrees Set rules under pressure from scarce resources and outside threats. Maintain order and guide the growth of your stronghold. • Join Alliances Create or join alliances, share resources, coordinate defenses, and face powerful enemies together. • Challenge Other Lords Train heroes, build squads, and compete for points, rare rewards, and greater influence across the continent. • Claim the Throne Start from a single fortress, build your defenses, gather resources, expand your power, and become a lord who cannot be ignored.

About

Pulse

Features
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Plan. Tap. Race the clock. Pulse is a neon speedrun puzzler where every millisecond counts. Tap to set the path of your glowing ball, freeze time to plan ahead, and weave through pulsing gates, rotating spinners, and bouncing bumpers to reach the green ring as fast as humanly possible. CORE MECHANIC Drop a sequence of waypoints with your finger. The ball follows them automatically. Pause anytime to revise your route, place dash boosts on the trickiest segments, then unleash the plan and watch it execute in real time. MODES • 100 hand-tuned levels — the difficulty ramps fast, from gentle introductions to brutal precision tests • Random Infinite — Easy / Medium / Hard / Extreme, fresh seed every run • Daily Challenge — one new level every day, global Game Center leaderboard WHAT TO MASTER • Pink gates that open on switches or specific beats • Blue switches — roll over them to flip them on permanently • Orange bumpers that fling your ball away on contact • Violet spinners — rotating bumper arms that demand timing • Yellow dash nodes that refill your boost charges (up to 3) EVERY RUN COUNTS 3 stars if you beat the target time, 2 stars at 2×, 1 star at 3×. Your personal best is saved. Iterate, refine, race yourself. UNLOCK MORE • 4 visual themes you can earn through rewarded ads • Save your favorite random seeds and keep beating them • Game Center integration for the daily leaderboard Designed for one-hand play. No paywall. Just you, the line, and the clock.

Screenshots

Lordrush4 screens
Pulse3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pulse at none against Lordrush's 14. Lordrush's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#11 vs unranked). On price 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. Lordrush sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Pulse asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Lordrush versus Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLordrushPulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (14K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings14K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#11 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1007 MB7 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperCentury Games Innovation Pte. Ltd.Bastien Piechon

In-app purchases

14 purchases

Lordrush

One-time14
  • Normal Pack 1$0.99
  • Normal Pack 2$1.99
  • Normal Pack 3$2.99
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  • Normal Pack 4$3.99
  • Regular Pass$4.99
  • Daily Deal (7d)$4.99
  • Normal Pack 5$4.99
  • Daily Worship$4.99
  • Daily Deal (30d)$4.99
  • Normal Pack 7$9.99
  • Premium pass$9.99
  • Normal Pack 10$19.99
  • Normal Pack 14$49.99
  • Normal Pack 16$99.99
None

Pulse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lordrush free?
Lordrush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pulse free?
Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lordrush or Pulse have ads?
Pulse shows ads; Lordrush does not.

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