Comparison

Advance Tactics vs Blindwake

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

Head to head
About

Advance Tactics

Features
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You start with your units and your flag. So does the enemy. The goal is to either capture their flag and return to your depot or eliminate their forces before they do the same to you. Combat works on a grid with terrain affecting movement and defense. Unit types have strengths and weaknesses against each other. Positioning and unit composition matter. Game Modes: - Skirmish: Vs. Computer - Local Battle: Player Vs. Player or Computer vs. Computer (Demo mode) Unit Types: - Infantry - Rocketeer - Heavy Tank - Jeep - Tank - Artillery - Rockets Armory/Customization - 30+ colors and skins to customize armies

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Blindwake

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Ten by ten. Seventeen cells of steel, hidden. Where do you fire first? Blindwake is the paper battleship game you played at school, rebuilt for a phone and sharpened until every shot costs something. Call a cell, read the answer, and build the map of a fleet you never see. Hit, and you fire again โ€” up to three shots in a row. Then the sea starts arguing with you. Rock eats a shot. Shallows take only the small hulls. Fog answers a hit with nothing at all, and only radar sees through it. Currents drag the short hulls you have not hit yet, ice cracks under your first shell and answers only the second, and decoys call "hit" and never sink. SEVENTY STAGES, SEVEN SEAS โ€ข Shallow Bay, Rock Archipelago, the Fog Sea, the Maelstrom, the Frozen Sea, the Mirage Sea and the Last Strait โ€” each sea adds a rule, and a boss waits at the end of it โ€ข The Last Strait widens the board to twelve by twelve: seven ships, among them a supply ship and a torpedo boat, against a machine with sonar of its own โ€ข Not every stage asks you to sink them all: sink the flagship, hold out until the turns run out, escort your transport across, or catch their convoy before it escapes โ€ข Three stars a stage: win, win inside the shot limit, lose no more than it allows. 210 in all SONAR, EARNED UNDER FIRE โ€ข Every ship you sink charges sonar, and so does every ship you lose โ€” the side that is behind charges faster โ€ข Spend it on radar (how many ship cells in a 3ร—3, never where), a salvo of three in a line, or a 2ร—2 cluster โ€ข Four captains, bought with stars, each bending one rule: a wider radar, a fourth shot in a chain, a first hit reported as a miss, one untouched ship moved once THREE MACHINES TO BEAT โ€ข Easy fires blind. Normal hunts and finishes what it finds. Hard counts where a ship most likely is, and fires there โ€ข Quick battle whenever you like, on any board your stars have opened TWO PHONES, ONE WI-FI โ€ข Rooms find each other. No account, no server, no internet โ€ข Both fleets are sealed before the first shot and revealed at the end, so a moved ship is caught โ€ข Four rule sets: Classic, Sea Battle, a three-minute Blitz, and Simultaneous, where both sides fire at once DRAW YOUR OWN SEA โ€ข Paint rock, shallows and fog; the editor refuses a board a fleet cannot hide on โ€ข Share a map as a code or a QR, or send it with the invitation Free to play, offline, fourteen languages. Hide. Guess. Sink.

Screenshots

Advance Tactics4 screens
Blindwake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blindwake at none against Advance Tactics's 10. Advance Tactics's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, 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. Advance Tactics sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Blindwake asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Advance Tactics ships an update weekly, Blindwake every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Advance Tactics versus Blindwake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAdvance TacticsBlindwake
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS16.616.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB127 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developerdevin sewellAn Nguyen

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Advance Tactics

One-time10
  • Premium Skin - "Stealth Camo"$0.99
  • Premium Skin - "UV Camo"$0.99
  • Premium Skin - "Kung Fu Camo"$0.99
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  • Premium Skin - "Grass Camo"$0.99
  • Premium Skin - "Wood Camo"$0.99
  • Premium Skin - "Paper Camo"$0.99
  • Premium Skin - "Nebula Camo"$0.99
  • Premium Skin - "Glitch Camo"$1.99
  • Premium Skin - "Airbrush Camo"$2.99
  • Premium Skin - "Fire Camo"$2.99
None

Blindwake

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Advance Tactics free?
Advance Tactics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blindwake free?
Blindwake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Advance Tactics or Blindwake have ads?
Blindwake shows ads; Advance Tactics does not.
Which is updated more often, Advance Tactics or Blindwake?
Advance Tactics ships an update weekly, and Blindwake every 2 weeks. Most recently, Advance Tactics was updated on November 1, 2026 and Blindwake on November 10, 2026.

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