Comparison

Ninja Rift vs Five Elements Tower Defense

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

Head to head
About

Ninja Rift

Forge your unique ninja and dive into an online multiplayer RPG. Train skills, collect gear, and battle other players in a persistent world. Engage in quests and join clans for cooperative play.

Highlights
  • Create and customize your ninja
  • Online multiplayer adventure
  • Quests and challenging enemies
  • Skill training and ability unlocking
  • Equipment collection
  • Clan system
  • PvP combat
Features
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Become the ultimate ninja in Ninja Rift! Create your own unique ninja and embark on an online multiplayer adventure filled with quests, battles, and endless progression. Train your skills, unlock powerful abilities, collect rare equipment, and compete with players from around the world. Features Create and customize your own ninja. Explore a persistent online world. Complete quests and defeat challenging enemies. Train skills and unlock powerful jutsu. Collect weapons, armor, and rare items. Join or create clans and work together with other players. Battle other players in strategic PvP combat. Level up your character and discover new content through regular updates. Whether you enjoy completing quests, collecting powerful gear, or competing against other players, Ninja Rift offers a classic online RPG experience that you can play anywhere.

About

Five Elements Tower Defense

Features
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Five Elements Tower Defense is built around one idea: every tower and every enemy belongs to an element, and the matchup decides the fight. METAL CUTS WOOD. WOOD DRAINS EARTH. Metal beats Wood, Wood beats Earth, Earth beats Water, Water beats Fire, Fire beats Metal. Attack the element you counter and you deal 1.5x damage. Attack the element that counters you and you drop to 0.7x. Elementless enemies ignore the cycle entirely — those you beat with position and timing instead. Each element brings its own effect from tier 1: Metal shreds armor, Wood poisons straight through it, Water freezes and slows, Fire burns, Earth stuns and empowers the towers around it. BUILD, UPGRADE, SPECIALIZE Eight tower types, three tiers each. At max tier every tower forks into one of two specializations — a permanent choice you cannot undo, so read the wave ahead before you commit. Selling refunds 60% of everything you put into that tower. KNOW WHAT IS COMING Twelve enemy types and six bosses. Armored enemies shrug off raw damage. Regenerators heal back what you cannot finish. Flyers ignore your maze and cross in a straight line. Splitters become two enemies when they die. Bosses shield themselves, summon escorts, or disable every tower in a radius, and enraged enemies cancel your elemental advantage outright. The next-wave preview shows exactly what is coming, and warns you when nothing you own can shoot at flyers. COMMAND THE FIELD YOURSELF Send a controllable hero anywhere on the map to body-block a lane. Your hero levels up during the run and revives at the rally point after falling. Recruit soldiers to hold a chokepoint. Call in an artillery strike on the densest cluster, or an Iron Curtain that drops every enemy on the field to a third of their speed. 23 MAPS, FIVE REGIONS, ONE ENDLESS ARENA Grassland, frost, ash, shadow and void, each with its own tileset and its own boss. Every campaign map is scored 1 to 3 stars on the lives you keep. Clear it, then unlock Heroic (tougher enemies, half the lives) and Iron (a single life, waves that never stop). Then step into the Endless Arena, where all six bosses rotate and the only question is how long you last. Global leaderboard included. SPEND YOUR STARS Stars buy six permanent talents: damage, gold income, starting lives, starting gold, skill cooldown and hero power. Prices climb, and there are never enough stars for all of them, so you commit to a direction — then refund and rebuild whenever you want. ALSO INCLUDED • Daily challenges that pay out mid-run • Achievements and lifetime stats • Cloud save across your devices • 15 languages, right-to-left included • Colorblind mode that recolors enemies and interface alike • Fast-forward, auto-wave, pinch to zoom, four targeting modes per tower • Plays offline — the game never blocks on the network Place the right tower. Hold the line.

Screenshots

Ninja Rift4 screens
Five Elements Tower Defense4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Five Elements Tower Defense at none against Ninja Rift's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ninja Rift sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Five Elements Tower Defense asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Ninja Rift versus Five Elements Tower Defense: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNinja RiftFive Elements Tower Defense
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB72 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIgli BerberiViet Anh Nguyen

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Ninja Rift

One-time10
  • 300 Market Coins$0.99
  • Anniversary Part II Materials$1.99
  • Gacha Materials Pack$1.99
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  • 2200 Market Coins$4.99
  • Emblem + 2,200 Tokens$4.99
  • 5000 Market Coins$9.99
  • Battle Pass Season 22$9.99
  • Battle Pass Season 22 Max Level$14.99
  • 13500 Market Coins$24.99
  • 30000 Market Coins$49.99
None

Five Elements Tower Defense

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ninja Rift free?
Ninja Rift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Five Elements Tower Defense free?
Five Elements Tower Defense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ninja Rift or Five Elements Tower Defense have ads?
Neither Ninja Rift nor Five Elements Tower Defense shows ads.

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