4 Seats vs DC34 CTF
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
4 Seats
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4 Seats: The Last Engine Fade The world has collapsed. Your only hope is a rusty car with four seats, a dwindling fuel tank, and the absolute will to survive. In ""4 Seats: The Last Engine Fade"", you lead a group of survivors through a desolate pixel-art wasteland where every mile costs resources, and every encounter could be your last. How far can you go before the engine finally fades? Key Features: The Road is Unforgiving Navigate a grid-based map filled with ruins, abandoned diners, and deadly hazards. Plan your route carefully. You must weigh the risks of exploring unknown tiles against the constant drain on your fuel, vehicle durability, and party's condition. Crucial Resource Management Survival is a game of numbers. Scavenge for food, clean water, fuel, and medical supplies. But beware: your vehicle has a strict weight limit. Overload your inventory, and your car will break down, leaving you defenseless. You must constantly decide what to keep and what to leave behind. Who Gets the 4 Seats? Throughout your journey, you will encounter various survivors—soldiers, programmers, pharmacists, mechanics, and ordinary citizens. Each profession brings unique survival skills and stat bonuses to your party. But your car only holds four people. You must make agonizing decisions about who joins your crew and who is left to the wasteland. Narrative-Driven Encounters Face brutal moral dilemmas through rich, text-based events. Will you risk a trap to save a crying child? Will you share your precious water with a dying stranger? Every choice has immediate and lasting consequences that shape your journey. High-Stakes Crises When cornered by infected hordes or hostile scavengers, you must calculate the odds. Use your party's combined combat power to fight, or choose to sprint away—risking the loss of your hard-earned loot. The engine is sputtering. The infected are closing in. Can you keep the car moving, or will you succumb to the wasteland? Start your engine and face the end of the world.
DC34 CTF
Engage in a challenging capture-the-flag game with diverse puzzles spanning cryptography, physical challenges, and hardware integration. Unlock fourteen channels, solve intricate problems without hints, and compete on a live leaderboard for prizes. The game is locked until the DEF CON 34 convention begins.
- Capture the Flag gameplay
- 14 diverse puzzle channels
- Cryptographic and physical challenges
- Hardware integration puzzles
- Live in-app leaderboard
- Unlockable prizes
- Hidden secrets
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DC34 CTF is a capture-the-flag game built for DEF CON 34. Fourteen channels are dark. Your job is to light them up. Download before the con. The app locks until the convention opens. When the doors open at LVCC West Hall in Las Vegas on August 7, it unlocks and the game begins. FOURTEEN CHANNELS. ONE FINAL TARGET. Every channel is a different kind of puzzle. Some are cryptographic. Some are physical. Some require hardware your phone didn't know it would be using. No hints. No walkthrough. Figure it out. The challenges span XOR ciphers, steganography, DTMF tone analysis, radio direction finding, Bluetooth beacon hunting, geolocation, reverse image search, physical navigation, NFC, speech recognition, and more. Your phone's full sensor suite is in play — camera, microphone, GPS, accelerometer, compass, Bluetooth, NFC. PRIZES The first three players to complete all fourteen channels and claim the final flag receive physical prizes: gold, silver, and copper coins. Finishers four through thirteen get pins. Your rank is permanent — logged to the live leaderboard the moment you scan the hand. THE LEADERBOARD A live in-app finishers board tracks every player who completes the game, ranked by completion time. Watch it fill up in real time. THERE IS MORE The app has secrets that have nothing to do with the flags. Some people will find them. Most won't. REQUIREMENTS iOS 17 or later. Game Center must be enabled — the app authenticates silently at launch. Several challenges require network access, Bluetooth, NFC, location services, camera, and microphone. Grant permissions as the game asks for them or miss the challenges that need them. The app is locked until August 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT. Show up at DEF CON 34, LVCC West Hall, Las Vegas. You can play anywhere, but final flag unlocking prizes is only available in-person.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: DC34 CTF at none against 4 Seats's shown. DC34 CTF also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). 4 Seats's advantage is iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
4 Seats ships an update every 2 weeks, DC34 CTF every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 4 Seats | DC34 CTF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | woongkyum kim | Jeremy Yablan |
In-app purchases
4 Seats
No in-app purchases
DC34 CTF
No in-app purchases









