Daemon Node vs ColdWire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daemon Node
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DAEMON NODE You're a hacker. Not the movie kind. The real kind — the kind who plans an attack for weeks before pressing Enter. Cipher recruited you. AESTHETIC No cyberpunk neon. Mr. Robot — phosphor green terminal on black. IRC dialogue. Tools named like real life: nmap, john, psql, tshark. Plausible OSINT: HIBP, search engines, KvK registries, Wayback archives. GAMEPLAY - One-handed landscape play. - No keyboard input — everything is tap-based. - Five sections: Chat, OSINT, Terminal, Evidence Board, Darknet. - Tiered hint system: Cipher steps in when you're stuck (your grade pays for it). - Grades S/A/B/C/F per mission. Moral verdict tracked separately in M3. WHAT'S NOT IN THE APP - No real network connections. 100% offline. - No functional hacking tools — everything is scripted fiction. - No data collection. No ads. No IAPs. - No third-party SDKs, no trackers. LANGUAGES French and English, fully translated. ACCESSIBILITY VoiceOver compatible. Dynamic Type supported. REQUIREMENTS iPhone, iOS 18 or later, landscape mode.
ColdWire
Engage in a strategic cyber-heist experience on a hostile global grid. Scout targets, bypass security, and disconnect before being traced. Upgrade your operation, take on contracts, and compete with other players in asynchronous PvP raids.
- Terminal-noir cyber-heist strategy
- Global grid exploration and target scouting
- Layered security breaching mechanics
- Operation and tool upgrades
- Asynchronous PvP raids and defense building
- Crew system and season leaderboards
- Daily and live-ops content
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ColdWire is a terminal-noir cyber-heist strategy game. You are an operator on a hostile global grid: scout targets, bounce your route through relays, breach layered security under a live trace, and disconnect clean before it finds you. THE RUN Every connection starts a countdown. Crack or bypass each security layer — brute force is loud and trips alarms; a quiet bypass needs recon first. Find the files, move the money, wipe the logs, get out. Get traced and you lose a cut of everything you carry. THE GRID A living world map of banks, corporate systems, academic networks, and criminal outfits. Deeper targets pay more and hunt you harder. Heat builds when you're sloppy — lay low or burn cash to rotate your identity. YOUR OPERATION - Upgrade your gateway: CPU, modem, cracker, cleaner. - Buy and level tools: ICE breakers, decryption suites, spoofers, viruses, trace trackers. - Take contracts from the jobs board — daily rotations, private approaches, multi-stage weekly Operations. - Park credits in a 7-day savings vault that compounds — and survives raids. ASYNC PVP Build a defensive subnet — walls, honeypots, tarpit traps — because other operators raid your liquid credits while you're away. Scout real players, watch raid replays, take revenge. Shields protect fresh victims; bounties mark the notorious. CREWS Found a syndicate or join one: shared tag, roster, and a season leaderboard fed by every member's clean jobs and landed raids. EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT A daily login streak that escalates, a rotating hand of three server-picked directives, long-running background operations that pay out when you return, and live-ops content that ships without app updates. FAIR BY DESIGN The economy is fully server-authoritative — payouts, raids, and progression are validated online. Cosmetics never affect balance. No ads. Jack in. The wire is cold until you cut it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Daemon Node at daily against ColdWire's every 2 weeks. ColdWire's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daemon Node ships an update daily, ColdWire every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daemon Node | ColdWire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nicolas STEPHAN | Olamide Olufade |
In-app purchases
Daemon Node
No in-app purchases
ColdWire
No in-app purchases









