Comparison

Shellfire vs Narrow Front

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

Narrow Front

Engage in fast-paced WWII strategy battles played with one thumb. Build and defend your army camp against enemy forces and the undead. Experience a campaign from Normandy to the Rhine with diverse units and vehicles.

Highlights
  • One-thumb portrait gameplay
  • Fast-paced WWII battles
  • Army camp building and upgrades
  • Defend against enemy waves and the undead
  • Campaign missions from Normandy to the Rhine
  • Variety of tanks and units
  • Multiplayer and seasonal challenges
Features
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Narrow Front is a WWII strategy game played in portrait with one thumb. Fight fast battles from Normandy to the Rhine, build an army camp that grows into land held by the dead, and hold the line until dawn. Tap. Deploy. Break through. Deploy rifle sections, machine-gun teams, mortars, engineers, medics and tanks with a tap. Push them up a living battlefield, take houses with infantry, and call in recon, mortars, artillery and air strikes to break the enemy line. Battles are quick and easy to read. Ten missions, Normandy to the Rhine Follow Baker Section from the hedgerows of June 1944 to the bridge at Remagen in March 1945. Every mission has its own map, objectives and story, told in illustrated motion-comic cutscenes with voiced radio calls. Replay on Veteran for three stars. Build your army camp Raise your camp from a pup tent to a fortress HQ across ten Command Post levels. Builders put up barracks, a motor pool, producers, walls, towers and defenses, and every level opens something new: army tents, searchlights, mortar pits, AA guns, flame bunkers and a radio mast. Train your troops, collect from your producers and finish the day's camp orders. Take the land back from the dead The ground beyond the wire is held by the dead. Clear it plot by plot in short assaults: lead your own troops in, burn every nest, and the wire moves out. At night the dead come for the camp itself. Watch the raid forecast, man the defenses and hold. DEAD OF NIGHT Survive the night against waves of the dead: walkers, runners, crawlers, fallen soldiers and four great bosses. Pick a boon between waves, burn them back with the Churchill Crocodile's flamethrower, fight for supply drops, bring survivors home and hold until dawn. Blood can be turned off in Settings. THE FRONT Fight a war across a campaign map. Push the front line sector by sector, scout with recon, launch operations of linked battles, and answer the enemy's counter-attacks and outbreaks of the dead. THE WORLD Take a place on a shared world map with up to 100 commanders. March your army out to strongpoints, supply drops, crash sites and outbreaks, fight for them and bring the loot home. 24 tanks from three armies Stuarts, Shermans, the Jumbo and the Pershing. Cromwells, Churchills, the Firefly, the Crocodile and the Comet. On the other side of the road: Panzer II, III and IV, the Panther, the Tiger and the King Tiger. Fighters, dive bombers, anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers join the fight. Eleven battlefields Normandy farms and flooded fields, the streets of Aachen, the Ardennes snow and the Remagen bridge. Skirmish on any map against the computer, from Recruit to Ace. Play a friend, play the seasons Challenge a friend on the same Wi-Fi in PLAY A FRIEND: open a room, join by name, code or QR, then fight one, three or five rounds. No internet needed. Every two weeks a new season brings daily orders, divisions and leagues. Film the fight Tap the battle cam to film ten seconds of the fight from cinematic angles. Your clips wait in NEWSREELS, ready to watch, share or save to Photos. Build your army Open supply crates, collect unit cards, level them up and build your loadout. Earn achievements in Game Center, and sign in with Game Center to back up your progress and join the leaderboard under your commander name. Optional purchases Premium crates, resource packs, a starter pack and cosmetic flags, camouflage, avatar frames and camp decor are optional in-app purchases. A crate's odds are shown before you buy. Play offline The campaign, skirmish, DEAD OF NIGHT and THE FRONT play offline against the computer, and PLAY A FRIEND needs only a shared Wi-Fi network. THE WORLD and seasons need a connection. An account is optional. Narrow Front is made by Matterward Labs. The campaign is set at real places and dates; its characters are fictional.

Screenshots

Shellfire4 screens
Narrow Front4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Shellfire at 5 against Narrow Front's 1. On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shellfire sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Narrow Front sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shellfire against 5.0 for Narrow Front. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shellfire has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shellfire ships an update every 2 weeks, Narrow Front fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Shellfire versus Narrow Front: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShellfireNarrow Front
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size664 MB1.2 GB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCHEELY INTERACTIVE STUDIO - FZCOMatterward Labs

Customer experience

Shellfire

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Narrow Front

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Shellfire

One-time9
  • No Ads2 variants$0.99
  • Gold Pack 1$1.99
  • Cannon Offer$2.49
Show 6 more
  • 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
10 purchases

Narrow Front

One-time10
  • Avatar Frame: Brass$0.99
  • Avatar Frame: Campaign Ribbon$0.99
  • Gem Pouch$0.99
Show 7 more
  • HQ Flag: Bastogne$1.99
  • Base Decor: Supply Dump$1.99
  • Base Decor: Radio Post$1.99
  • Camo: Ardennes Winter$2.99
  • Camo: Hedgerow Mottle$2.99
  • Gem Satchel$4.99
  • Gem Chest$9.99

Questions

Is Shellfire free?
Shellfire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Narrow Front free?
Narrow Front is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shellfire or Narrow Front?
Shellfire and Narrow Front are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Shellfire or Narrow Front have ads?
Both Shellfire and Narrow Front show ads.
Which is updated more often, Shellfire or Narrow Front?
Shellfire ships an update every 2 weeks, and Narrow Front fortnightly. Most recently, Shellfire was updated on November 10, 2026 and Narrow Front on November 6, 2026.

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