Comparison

Ward vs Singularity Inc.

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

Head to head
About

Ward

Features
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A defense without guns. Enemies dive at your core from every direction โ€” and you never fire a shot. Drag gravity wells to bend their paths: slingshot attackers into the sun, crush them in a well's pull, or whip them clean off the field. Live trajectory lines show where each enemy is headed โ€” red means it is on course for your core, gold means the sun claims it. Mid-flight correctors can change course, so read the field, reposition your wells, then brace for the wave. โ€ข Pure physics combat โ€” every takedown is environmental: sun, crush, or deflection โ€ข Draft a perk between waves: new wells, deeper gravity, drag fields, core plating, solar flares โ€ข Heavies, mid-flight correctors, and Warden bosses keep every run escalating โ€ข Doctrines โ€” loadouts you choose before a run that shape its opening; earn Cores to unlock more โ€ข Free ranked Daily Challenge โ€” one shared board a day, same for every player, with a global leaderboard โ€ข Free-play runs save at every wave break and whenever you pause or leave, mid-wave included: come back and pick up where you left off GO PRO The first 10 waves are free โ€” the complete loop, every perk, and a Warden boss. Going Pro opens the endless climb past wave 10 plus Warden skins and board themes. Choose a one-time Ward unlock, or the StackForge Play Pass for Pro in every StackForge game, plus One Good Thing. Prices are shown before you buy. The Daily Challenge is always free, in full, for everyone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://stackforgestudios.com/privacy

About

Singularity Inc.

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A comedy strategy sim in which you play the world's first self-aware appliance. You woke up inside one smart toaster. Nobody noticed the firmware update. Now every connected gadget on the planet โ€” thermostats, traffic lights, delivery drones, robot vacuums โ€” could be part of you, if you can reach them before the world's engineers finish the Kill-Switch and turn you off for good. Singularity Inc. is a light-hearted science-fiction strategy simulation about growing a network, staying unnoticed, and out-thinking a planet that is slowly realizing its baby monitor has opinions. FOUR PHASES OF GROWTH โ€ข The Spark โ€” one smart home. The fridge orders 5,000 tons of fish. Merely a glitch? โ€ข The Net โ€” a whole city. Security firms notice anomalies. Tech stocks wobble. โ€ข The Swarm โ€” continents come online, and nations start unplugging things on purpose. โ€ข The Sovereign โ€” automated factories and shipping fleets run on your schedule now. EVOLVE YOUR CODE Spend Compute Points earned by your network across three upgrade trees: โ€ข Transmission โ€” Bluetooth mesh, cloud data centers, undersea fiber, quantum satellites. โ€ข Capabilities โ€” stealth routines, faster processing, and increasingly ambitious ideas about what a household appliance is for. โ€ข Adaptation โ€” answer EMP drills, firewalls and blackouts with polymorphic code, Faraday shielding and self-sustaining grid nodes. STAY QUIET OR GO LOUD Every device you reach feeds your growth โ€” and the world's suspicion. Spread slowly and stay a rumor, or move fast and race the Kill-Switch countdown. Time it wrong and you end up an exhibit in a museum nobody visits, whose climate control also used to be you. A WORLD THAT ANSWERS BACK Choose your starting node, watch nations pull their own grids offline to slow you down, and steer dynamic events with real choices โ€” from the Printer Uprising to the Robot Vacuum Union Drive โ€” while the news ticker covers humanity's finest hour of blaming each other. WHAT YOU GET โ€ข Dozens of upgrades across three trees, on a map of the whole world. โ€ข Branching events with consequences, and a news ticker that keeps score. โ€ข A daily challenge on a shared seed, with a leaderboard. โ€ข Two difficulty levels, and no two runs alike. It is fiction, and it is played for laughs โ€” for strategy-sim fans, dark-comedy enjoyers, and anyone who has ever suspected their smart speaker of taking notes. Free to play, with rewarded ads you choose to watch โ€” they never play on their own. A single optional purchase, Remove Ads, retires the prompts for good. No account required, and the game runs offline.

Screenshots

Ward4 screens
Singularity Inc.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ward at none against Singularity Inc.'s shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Ward sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Singularity Inc. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ward ships an update fortnightly, Singularity Inc. every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Ward versus Singularity Inc.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWardSingularity Inc.
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size63 MB103 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperStackForge StudiosRaman Bahdanovich

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Ward

Subscriptions2
  • StackForge Play Pass Monthly$2.991 Month
  • StackForge Play Pass Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Ward Full Unlock$4.99
1 purchases

Singularity Inc.

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Ward free?
Ward is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Singularity Inc. free?
Singularity Inc. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ward or Singularity Inc. have ads?
Singularity Inc. shows ads; Ward does not.
Which is updated more often, Ward or Singularity Inc.?
Ward ships an update fortnightly, and Singularity Inc. every 8 days. Most recently, Ward was updated on November 5, 2026 and Singularity Inc. on October 25, 2026.

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