Hold the Tile! vs DEADGRID
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hold the Tile!
Engage in real-time strategy battles in a medieval world. Build your base, command legendary generals with customizable skills, and lead diverse units in tactical squad combat. Explore dynamic battlefields, gather resources, and unleash devastating magic to conquer your opponents.
- Real-time 1v1 strategy battles
- Base building and defense
- Customizable legendary generals
- Squad-based tactical combat
- Resource gathering and upgrades
- Devastating magic spells
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◉ LEAD YOUR ARMY TO VICTORY! Step into a captivating low-poly medieval world where strategy, base-building, and tactical combat collide. Face off in intense, fast-paced 1v1 real-time strategy battles and fight for dominance across ever-changing lands! ◉ EXPLORE & CONQUER DYNAMIC BATTLEFIELDS: No two matches are the same. Explore maps full of tactical opportunities and hidden dangers divided into strategic regions. The entire world is shrouded in the Fog of War - you must scout the unknown terrain to discover resources, locate enemy bases, and plan deadly ambushes. But beware! Ferocious Barbarians guard the map's most valuable, uncharted territories. Defeat these camps to claim rare resources and fuel your war machine. ◉ COMMAND & CUSTOMIZE LEGENDARY GENERALS: Lead your forces with distinct classes of Generals - the Warrior, the Builder, and the Mage. Between matches, earn Skill Points and dive into deep, RPG-style Talent Trees. Customize your playstyle by unlocking powerful abilities. Want to try a new strategy? Reset your skill points at any time to experiment with entirely different builds and adapt to your growing army! ◉ TACTICAL SQUAD-BASED COMBAT: Recruit a diverse roster of units - from steadfast spearmen and swift archers to massive orcs and powerful mages. Group them into squads and march into battle. Manage your troops manually for precise micro-control, or let the auto-battle system handle the frontline. ◉ BUILD, DEFEND AND UPGRADE: A strong army needs a strong economy. Gather wood, iron, and gold to establish your base. Fortify your territory with walls, towers, and strategic bridges to hold off enemy raids. Use your hard-earned coins to permanently upgrade your units and structures. ◉ UNLEASH DEVASTATING MAGIC: Turn the tide of war with powerful spells! Rain down fireballs, summon living trees, or slow your enemies to a crawl. But magic comes at a cost: expand your borders, capture more land, and overwhelm your opponent with arcane supremacy!
DEADGRID
Experience intense arcade zombie survival with endless waves and permadeath. Master an arsenal of 33 weapons, strategically deploy defenses, and choose dynamic upgrades to conquer the apocalypse. Customize your survivor and enjoy pure, optimized gameplay.
- Endless zombie waves
- Permadeath runs
- 33 unlockable weapons
- Strategic deployables and turrets
- Dynamic upgrade system
- Four zombie types with advanced AI
- Customizable survivor skins
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DEADGRID 3 IS HERE: rebuilt from the ground up. Way better graphics, and we tackled your #1 complaint: overheating and micro-crashes. Blast endless zombie waves, conquer thousands of levels, duel real players in Ranked and team up in Duo co-op. 160 premium 3D skins, 36 guns, 28 real-world arenas. How long can you survive? A WHOLE NEW LOOK All 160 skins are remodelled as premium 3D characters, each with its own signature emote and idle animation. All 36 guns are rebuilt, piece by piece. 11 redesigned islands move and breathe. And every arena is alive: crowds, flags, fireworks, water, traffic. COOL, STABLE, SMOOTH Overheating and micro-crashes were the things you complained about most, so we rebuilt the game natively to fix them. It adapts to your phone to stay cool, holds a silky 60 fps and barely sips battery in the background. Touch scrolling is buttery smooth too. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Tap a skin in the shop and it drops onto your island to perform its signature emote. Love it? It's yours. THE CLIMB A campaign ladder thousands of levels deep, and no two rungs are alike. Every level rolls its own horde, weather, rule and goal: one-hit-point runs, total blackouts, meteor storms, assassination contracts, armoury drops and boss fights. Clear a stage and fly on to the next city. 28 REAL PLACES ON EARTH Times Square, Shibuya Crossing, the Champs-Élysées, Copacabana, Terreiro do Paço, the Taj Mahal, Chichén Itzá, the Giza Plateau, the Acropolis, the Dubai Fountain, Sydney Opera House, Brandenburg Gate and more. Plus worlds of our own like The Garden, Sporewood, Rustyard and Cindermaw. Every layout placed by hand, never generated. RANKED DUELS: THE ARENA Duel real opponents: last one standing wins. Buy rage zombies and send them hunting your rival, grab a random upgrade every round and fight your way from Bronze to Challenger. DUO CO-OP Team up with a friend or matchmake with a stranger. Shared horde, shared glory. Revive each other, fire off quick chat and see how deep two survivors can go. MORE WAYS TO PLAY Endless survival with permadeath. INFECT, where YOU are the outbreak. FREE FOR ALL, where everyone carries the same gun. TEAM DEATHMATCH, six against six. And tournaments with prizes for the top 400. ARSENAL OF 36 WEAPONS Pistols, SMGs, shotguns, rifles, snipers, launchers, energy weapons, flamethrowers and wilder things. Loot weapon crates mid-run, build your loadout on the fly and collect hundreds of finishes: GOLD, ONYX, SYNTHWAVE, NOSFERATU, VOIDLINE, RAINBOW… 14 KINDS OF UNDEAD Walkers, runners, tanks, boomers, spitters, bladesmen who cut bullets out of the air, wardens with hooked chains, gravekeepers who raise the dead, bat swarms and bosses that shake the ground. Smart pathfinding routes them around your cover. They hunt, they don't just shamble. TURRETS & DEPLOYABLES Three turret types, barriers, claymores, explosive barrels and the legendary clapping monkey. Build choke points, then watch the horde walk into them. PROGRESS THAT LASTS • GAME PASS: 101 tiers of exclusive skins, chests and emotes • SEASONS, MISSIONS and daily streaks that always pay out • SPECS and BONUSES: permanent upgrades for every future run • THE VAULT: chests packed with skins and finishes • YOUR ISLAND: 11 islands to unlock and a weapon rack to show off your guns • 160 SKINS and 32 EMOTES to talk trash in style Already playing? Your DEADGRID 2 progress comes with you. COMPETE WITH THE WORLD Global leaderboards, a top-1000 board, friends with live presence, duo invites and profiles that show off your island and weapon rack. Available in 20 languages. Free to play and never pay-to-win. To keep it that way, a short ad plays once every 10 games. Never in the middle of a fight. Sorry about that, and thanks for playing! Download DEADGRID and see how long you last.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hold the Tile! at none against DEADGRID's 6. Hold the Tile! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). DEADGRID's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. DEADGRID sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Hold the Tile! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hold the Tile! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DEADGRID has 53 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Hold the Tile!'s written reviews are positive against 92% of DEADGRID's.
Hold the Tile! ships an update every 3 days, DEADGRID every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hold the Tile! | DEADGRID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 4.8 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 92.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 279 MB | 414 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mikhail Vartanov | Afonso Quinaz |
Customer experience
Hold the Tile!
DEADGRID
In-app purchases
Hold the Tile!
No in-app purchases
DEADGRID
- Scrap$0.99
- Cache$4.99
- Crate$9.99
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- Pallet$19.99
- Container$49.99
- Motherlode$99.99









