Comparison

Dronefall vs Junkyard Survival

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

Head to head
About

Dronefall

Lead a hero and a squad of robots in real-time combat against hordes of enemies. Rescue allies, defeat bosses, and upgrade your team to survive relentless challenges. Develop your strategy and grow stronger between battles to conquer the campaign and unlock survival mode.

Highlights
  • Real-time hero and robot squad combat
  • Rescue and recruit robots with unique abilities
  • Strategic squad upgrades and permanent bonuses
  • Boss battles with distinct attack patterns
  • Campaign and Survival modes
  • Portrait mode gameplay
Features
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Dronefall is a real-time survival action game where you lead a hero and a squad of robots against relentless enemy hordes. Rescue new allies, defeat powerful bosses, and build a team that fits your playstyle. FIGHT THROUGH THE CAMPAIGN Take on missions built around survival, defense, and rescue. Defeat guardians, collect keys, and free robots to expand your roster. From holding the line to fighting your way to extraction, every mission puts your squad to the test. BUILD YOUR STRATEGY IN BATTLE Earn experience and choose how your squad grows. Recruit robots, unlock their special abilities, or strengthen the entire team. Combine flamethrowers, explosive mines, energy shields, and more to handle the threats ahead. GROW STRONGER BETWEEN RUNS Build a squad of up to six robots. Spend coins and fragments to upgrade your drones, and unlock permanent bonuses in the technology tree. TAKE ON SURVIVAL Complete the campaign to unlock Survival mode. Challenge the horde again, defeat bosses, earn trophies, and collect rewards along the Trophy Road. WHAT YOU DO • Lead your hero and robot squad in real-time combat • Rescue robots with distinct weapons and abilities • Choose personal abilities and squad-wide upgrades • Face bosses with different attack patterns • Develop your team between battles • Play in portrait mode with clear objectives and guided onboarding Your next squad starts with the robots you rescue.

About

Junkyard Survival

Features
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Enter the wasteland and turn a battered scrap vehicle into an unstoppable survival machine. Junkyard Survival is a fast-paced vehicle survival game where you drive through dangerous post-apocalyptic junkyards, collect scrap with a powerful front-mounted magnet and fight endless waves of hostile vehicles, machines and junkyard bosses. Every run begins with a basic vehicle. Explore the battlefield, pull scattered metal parts toward your magnet and gather the resources needed to grow stronger. As the enemy waves become more dangerous, choose new weapons, upgrade your equipment and create a vehicle build capable of surviving the chaos. DRIVE AND COLLECT SCRAP Move freely through open junkyard battlefields while your hanging magnet pulls nearby scrap toward your vehicle. Destroy enemies, collect the parts they leave behind and search the environment for additional resources, crates and power-ups. The stronger your magnet becomes, the more scrap you can collect from a greater distance. BUILD YOUR COMBAT VEHICLE Transform your vehicle by equipping powerful weapon attachments, defensive parts and utility upgrades. Each attachment changes how your vehicle fights. Combine close-range weapons, long-range attacks, area damage and defensive upgrades to create your own survival build. CHOOSE NEW SKILLS DURING EACH RUN Gain experience by defeating enemies and collecting resources. When you level up, choose from different upgrade options that improve your weapons and vehicle. Increase damage, attack speed, range and cooldown efficiency, or unlock special behaviors that completely change how an attachment works. Build around rapid machine-gun fire, explosive missile attacks, burning damage, electric chain reactions, aggressive ramming or heavy armor. USE POWERFUL COMBAT POWER-UPS Find temporary power-ups that can turn a dangerous battle in your favor. Activate abilities such as: • A powerful magnet burst that pulls in nearby scrap • Molotov strikes that spread fire across the battlefield • Force fields that destroy surrounding enemies Use each power-up at the right moment and watch its cooldown before activating it again. FIGHT MASSIVE JUNKYARD BOSSES Survive long enough and powerful boss vehicles will enter the battlefield. Bosses combine multiple weapons and attack patterns, including side-mounted flamethrowers, artillery attacks, spinning saws, reinforced wheels and heavy armor. Learn their patterns, avoid their strongest attacks and destroy them to claim valuable rewards. UPGRADE YOUR MAIN VEHICLE Improve your permanent vehicle between runs. Upgrade simple and easy-to-understand attributes such as: • Health • Speed • Magnet Power • Damage As your vehicle improves, it becomes larger, stronger and more heavily equipped, with bigger wheels, improved armor and a more powerful magnet. EXPLORE MULTIPLE JUNKYARD WORLDS Battle through different post-apocalyptic regions, from dry desert scrapyards to harsh green wastelands filled with industrial ruins, broken machinery, abandoned structures and environmental hazards. Each world introduces new enemies, stronger waves, different battlefield layouts and increasingly dangerous bosses. CREATE A NEW BUILD EVERY RUN Choose different weapons and upgrades each time you play. Experiment with long-range firepower, close-range destruction, high-speed movement, defensive armor or powerful area attacks. No two survival runs need to use the same strategy. FEATURES • Fast vehicle-based survival gameplay • Automatic weapon attacks • Responsive driving and enemy dodging • Magnet-powered scrap collection • Multiple weapon attachments • Utility items and combat power-ups • Random skill choices during each run • Permanent vehicle progression • Diverse enemy vehicles and attack behaviors • Large multi-weapon boss battles • Multiple junkyard environments • Colorful, stylized 3D graphics • Simple controls designed for mobile play Collect the scrap. Build your machine. Survive the junkyard.

Screenshots

Dronefall4 screens
Junkyard Survival4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dronefall and Junkyard Survival are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Dronefall versus Junkyard Survival: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDronefallJunkyard Survival
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size384 MB272 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAndrey KorotkovAbdullah All Kafi

In-app purchases

None

Dronefall

No in-app purchases

None

Junkyard Survival

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dronefall free?
Dronefall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Junkyard Survival free?
Junkyard Survival is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dronefall or Junkyard Survival have ads?
Both Dronefall and Junkyard Survival show ads.
Which is updated more often, Dronefall or Junkyard Survival?
Dronefall ships an update every 3 weeks, and Junkyard Survival every 3 weeks. Most recently, Dronefall was updated on November 10, 2026 and Junkyard Survival on October 31, 2026.

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