Comparison

Shellfire vs AC

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

Head to head
About

Shellfire

Engage in realistic artillery combat, aiming and firing powerful cannons to destroy armored targets. Master timing, distance, and battlefield awareness in intense missions and PvP battles. Upgrade your arsenal to become the ultimate gunner.

Highlights
  • Realistic gunner simulator
  • Precision aiming and firing
  • Intense PvP arena battles
  • Variety of special missions
  • Cannon and arsenal upgrades
  • Training arena for skill improvement
Features
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Step into Shellfire, a realistic gunner simulator where you control powerful cannons and destroy armored targets with precision. This is not just another one of many artillery games — every shot requires aim, timing, distance control, and battlefield awareness. If you like cannon games with powerful artillery weapons, each mission offers a new chance to prove your accuracy. Aim. Fire. Destroy. Track every attack tank, calculate the right angle, and fire devastating shells into the battlefield. Feel the pressure of a real war zone, where one missed shot can change the outcome of the fight. Fight Across Dangerous War Zones Enter intense missions inspired by massive warfare and heavy armored conflict. Each war zone is filled with enemy vehicles, smoke, explosions, and tactical objectives. This war tank game challenges players to destroy armored vehicles with realistic artillery fire and precise cannon control. PvP Arena Battles Experience modern war through realistic artillery missions where advanced weapons and armored targets dominate the battlefield. Face skilled gunners, destroy battle tanks, and survive against deadly war machines. Every fight is a test of accuracy and strategy, made for players who enjoy tank attack and competitive war battle games. Fans of realistic combat will enjoy every tank battle because accuracy and strategy matter in every shot. Special Missions Complete special missions with unique combat goals: destroy convoys, defend positions, eliminate priority targets, and survive waves of armor. Train Like a Gunner Use the training arena to improve your artillery skills. Practice long-range shots, shell drop, reload timing, and target tracking. Learn to shoot like a tank sniper before entering real combat. The battlefield of modern war is unforgiving, and only accurate gunners can control the fight. Build Your Arsenal Shellfire brings artillery games to a new level with detailed cannon upgrades, long-range firing, and challenging armored targets. Unlock a large collection of cannons, shells, and upgrades. Improve damage, accuracy, reload speed, range, and armor penetration. Become the ultimate artillery gunner! Enter the real war zone, survive brutal tank battle, dominate the battlefield, and become the ultimate gunner in a world of war machines and armored destruction. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

AC

Features
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AC-130 GUNSHIP SIMULATOR It's the middle of the night. You're the sensor operator and gunner aboard a gunship, orbiting a target area in a slow left-hand turn. You watch the infrared feed, work out what you're looking at from what it does, get your clearance — and decide whether to fire. This isn't a shooter with a gunship level. It's the AC-130 itself: the orbit, the sensor, the guns, and the weight of the call. THE ORBIT IS THE ANTAGONIST The aircraft never stops turning. Lay the reticle on a target and the geometry moves under you — degrees of arc go by while the round is still in the air. Holding a target costs constant attention. That single fact is what makes this a simulator instead of a top-down shooter. IDENTIFICATION IS THE GAME The gun is easy. Deciding whether is hard. A truck that might be a fuel bowser and might be a water truck. A crowd that isn't a target until it fires. You read the picture, you ask for clearance, and you live with what you cleared. EVERY MISS HAS A REASON You led it wrong. The round has a long flight time. The orbit carried you off the mark. Nothing is a black box — real retardation ballistics, real time of flight, real lead. THE GUNS - 7.62 mm minigun — always yours - 20 mm and 40 mm cannon - 105 mm howitzer REAL TERRAIN The sensor feed is built on public-domain USGS aerial photography — actual ground, seen the way the sensor sees it. WHAT YOU GET - Endless arenas: hold out against escalating waves and see how long you last - Campaign: a full tour, one score, beat your best - Three sensor modes — day, white-hot, black-hot FREE TO PLAY Free to download and play. A single one-time unlock removes ads, gives unlimited ammunition on every gun, and unlocks the 105 mm howitzer for good. Or watch an optional rewarded ad to arm the howitzer for one sortie. A fictional theater and a physics-and-identification sandbox, built for the feel of the real thing.

Screenshots

Shellfire4 screens
AC4 screens

Verdict

The call

Shellfire and AC are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Shellfire sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and AC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Shellfire versus AC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShellfireAC
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size664 MB49 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCHEELY INTERACTIVE STUDIO - FZCOBrown Fox LLC

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Shellfire

One-time9
  • No Ads2 variants$0.99
  • Gold Pack 1$1.99
  • Cannon Offer$2.49
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  • Gold Safe$3.99
  • Gold Pack 2$4.99
  • Starter Pack$4.99
  • Gold Pack 3$9.99
  • Premium Week$9.99
  • Gold Pack 4$19.99
1 purchases

AC

One-time1
  • Full Gunship Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Shellfire free?
Shellfire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AC free?
AC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shellfire or AC have ads?
Both Shellfire and AC show ads.

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