Endless Shuffle Defense vs Elementex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Endless Shuffle Defense
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Choose Cards and build your deck in this strategic Tower Defense! Save the Kingdom from the forces of evil by choosing the right Cards wisely and building your own unbeatable army. Use different Kings and Troops to face various Bosses in an endless onslaught of monsters โ with roguelike, tower defense, and card game elements combined to make your experience epic!
Elementex
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Elementex is a tactical tower-defense run. No worlds to grind. No campaign to crawl. One hex arena, one shot at the leaderboard, and every decision counts. Build between waves. Place towers on hex tiles. Bend the path with free walls. Tap a tower mid-wave to fire its skill. Lives reach zero, the run ends, and your best wave is the only number that matters. Fire beats Frost. Frost beats Nature. Nature beats Lightning. Lightning beats Fire. Hit a weakness for 1.5x damage. Hit a resistance for 0.7x. Read the wave, pick the counter, or pay for it. Every upgrade is bought with in-run gold. One tower per element โ push its damage, its fire rate, or its range, each on a rising cost curve. No blueprints. No permanent unlocks to grind. Your build is what you can pay for, this run, right now. Every fifth wave is a boss. The boss drops a chest of three runes. You see every drop, every stat, every price, before you spend a single gem. Whatever you do not keep goes into the Recall Pool for seven days at +25 percent. Nothing disappears. Nothing is hidden. Runes you keep persist across runs. Combine two of the same rarity to climb to the next. Five rarities: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Mythic is boss-chest only and carries a unique passive skill. An element-matched rune on its tower hits 20 percent harder. There is no end state. There is only the next wave, the global leaderboard, and how far you can hold the line. โข Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing โข Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) โข One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold โข A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element โข Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool โข A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs โข No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Elementex at none against Endless Shuffle Defense's shown. Endless Shuffle Defense's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Endless Shuffle Defense sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Elementex sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Endless Shuffle Defense ships an update every 3 days, Elementex every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Endless Shuffle Defense | Elementex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 329 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Enzo Gabryel Blaese | Tassilo Posegga |
In-app purchases
Endless Shuffle Defense
- Support Package$0.99
- Booster Package$2.99
- Remove Ads$6.99
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- Premium Package$22.99
Elementex
- 100 Gems$0.99
- 550 Gems$3.99
- 1,200 Gems$8.99
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- 2,500 Gems$17.99
- 6,500 Gems$44.99
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