Comparison

Endless Shuffle Defense vs Elementex

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

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Endless Shuffle Defense

Features
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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!

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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. โ€ข Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing โ€ข Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) โ€ข One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold โ€ข A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element โ€ข Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool โ€ข A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs โ€ข No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.

Screenshots

Endless Shuffle Defense4 screens
Elementex4 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Endless Shuffle Defense versus Elementex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEndless Shuffle DefenseElementex
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size329 MB32 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperEnzo Gabryel BlaeseTassilo Posegga

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Endless Shuffle Defense

One-time4
  • Support Package$0.99
  • Booster Package$2.99
  • Remove Ads$6.99
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  • Premium Package$22.99
5 purchases

Elementex

One-time5
  • 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

Questions

Is Endless Shuffle Defense free?
Endless Shuffle Defense is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elementex free?
Elementex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Endless Shuffle Defense or Elementex have ads?
Endless Shuffle Defense shows ads; Elementex does not.
Which is updated more often, Endless Shuffle Defense or Elementex?
Endless Shuffle Defense ships an update every 3 days, and Elementex every 3 weeks. Most recently, Endless Shuffle Defense was updated on September 30, 2026 and Elementex on October 11, 2026.

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