Comparison

Elska vs Grid Start

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

Head to head
About

Elska

Embark on a chaotic cartoon adventure as a loyal dog fighting zombie animals. Wield unique weapons and unlock abilities to survive intense waves of mutated creatures across diverse maps. Customize your canine hero and choose from different classes to save the world.

Highlights
  • Fast-paced top-down shooter gameplay
  • Play as a brave dog, Elska
  • Fight mutated zombie animals
  • Unlockable abilities and canine determination
  • Round-based zombie waves
  • Two distinct maps
  • Customizable dog with accessories
Features
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The world has gone wild—but one dog hasn’t. Elska is a fast-paced, top-down cartoon shooter where you play as a brave, loyal dog named Elska, the only survivor of a mysterious lab explosion that turned all animals into bloodthirsty zombies. With nothing left but instinct, grit, and an experimental power pulsing through her veins, Elska takes the fight to the infected in a desperate mission to save the world. After the accident that unleashed Promethium Kyanite—a powerful energy source gone wrong—the animals Elska once called friends have mutated into savage creatures. Rats, cats, wolves, raccoons, and foxes... now roam the ruins of the lab and beyond, attacking anything in sight. But Elska isn’t running away. She’s loading up. Armed with unique weapons, unlockable abilities, and canine determination, you’ll face round-based zombie waves across 2 DIFFERENT maps, each more intense than the last. In game there are different classes to chose from. Each class has a different bundle of abilities. You can customize your dog and try different accessories with different effects.

About

Grid Start

Features
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■ One rule. That's it. Five red lights come on, one per second. The instant they all go out — TAP! A racing-start reflex game that measures your reaction time down to 0.001 seconds. ■ What's your rank? - Under 0.18s … Pro Driver - Under 0.23s … Semi-Pro - Under 0.30s … Amateur Racer Slower than that? Play and find out. ■ Earn coins in Best of 5 Five runs in a row — your average time decides the reward. Jump the start (tap before lights out) and you're done. The tension is addictive. ■ Collect all 31 machines Spend your coins on the gacha and build your garage. Animals, weather, myths, celestial bodies — 31 machines across rarity tiers. And one Secret machine nobody talks about. Obtain it and see your number: "Owner #N in the world." ■ World leaderboards Compete on Game Center with two boards: best single time and best 5-run average. ■ Send a challenge Share your result card and ask your friends: "Can you beat this time?"

Screenshots

Elska4 screens
Grid Start4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Elska at none against Grid Start's shown. Elska also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Elska versus Grid Start: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElskaGrid Start
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size294 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJA GamesKenya Koizumi

In-app purchases

None

Elska

No in-app purchases

None

Grid Start

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Elska free?
Elska is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grid Start free?
Grid Start is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Elska or Grid Start have ads?
Grid Start shows ads; Elska does not.

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