Comparison

Daemon Node vs ColdWire

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

Head to head
About

Daemon Node

Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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You are an operator on a global grid. Somebody pays you to get into a machine you have no business being inside, take the one thing they asked for, and leave nothing behind that says you were there. Every connection starts a countdown. ROUTE IN Bounce through relays scattered across the world map. More hops and harder relays buy you time. A direct connection is fast and puts your own address in their log. BREACH UNDER TRACE Crack the security stack layer by layer while the trace climbs toward you. Recon first and you learn what you are walking into: how many walls, how hard, and which two have a gap a bypass kit can slip through. Go in blind and you find out the expensive way. Deep systems want more than a password. Mint a one time code from their own token seed, or ride a session somebody else already authenticated. Plant a toolkit beside their seeds and that machine hands you a code every visit for five hours. TAKE IT AND GO Read the files. Copy the archive, drain the vault, rewrite the record, plant the payload. Then overwrite the access log, because the line it keeps has your address on it, and disconnect before the trace finds home. THE WORK Jobs come from sixteen clients who all want different things and say so in their own voice. A grade fixed before a scholarship review. A record scrubbed a week before an immigration interview. A charge filed against somebody who never earned it. A company whose real machine does not face the internet, reachable only through the gateway you have to read properly first. Or the one job where nobody breaks in at all: a client was hit last week and cannot tell you how. They hand you credentials. Read their access log, find the intruder among a dozen honest connections, name the service that should never have been exposed, and say which file went out of the door. WHAT YOU LEARN ON THE WAY Real services on real ports. A field manual that fills itself in as you meet each one, in plain language. Firewall rules, address ranges, jump hosts, second factors, why a log matters. By the third job you will know what 5432 is without anyone telling you. OTHER OPERATORS Build a subnet of walls, honeypots and tarpits, because other players raid your credits while you sleep. Scout them first, take thirty percent on a clean breach, and watch the replay. Join a crew and climb a season. Free to play. Server authoritative. No ads.

Screenshots

Daemon Node4 screens
ColdWire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daemon Node at daily against ColdWire's every 10 days. ColdWire's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daemon Node ships an update daily, ColdWire every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Daemon Node versus ColdWire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaemon NodeColdWire
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB79 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperNicolas STEPHANOlamide Olufade

In-app purchases

None

Daemon Node

No in-app purchases

None

ColdWire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Daemon Node free?
Daemon Node is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ColdWire free?
ColdWire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Daemon Node or ColdWire have ads?
Neither Daemon Node nor ColdWire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daemon Node or ColdWire?
Daemon Node ships an update daily, and ColdWire every 10 days. Most recently, Daemon Node was updated on September 28, 2026 and ColdWire on October 12, 2026.

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