Comparison

Coldfront vs Block Bastion

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

Head to head
About

Coldfront

Engage in real-time strategy combat on touchscreens. Mine resources, build bases, and command diverse units against AI or other players. Explore a campaign, create custom maps, and replay matches.

Highlights
  • Real-time strategy gameplay
  • Base building and resource management
  • Command tanks, aircraft, and infantry
  • Multiplayer battles (1-8 players)
  • Campaign mode with story progression
  • Map editor for custom battlefields
  • Offline skirmish and campaign modes
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Coldfront is real-time strategy built for the touch screen. Mine ore, raise a base, field tanks, aircraft and infantry, and take the map — against the AI, your friends, or the ranked ladder. Two armies, one purchase. EMBER, the free army, plays every mode and every map, and the first act of the campaign, ten missions, is free. FROST, a second full army with its own units, structures and economy, is a single one-time purchase, and Act 2 of the campaign comes with it: five more missions, against FROST, the first of them free to play. The two want different things: FROST moves with the ore, EMBER digs in and outlasts it. Real-time multiplayer, 1v1 to 8 players. Everyone plays the exact same battle, move for move — what you see is what they see. Host a room and hand out its code or an invite link, or let QUICK MATCH find you an opponent. Signed in to Game Center, rated matches feed a public ladder; not signed in, everything still works unrated. A campaign that teaches. Act 1 takes you from your first harvester to full-scale assaults across ten missions, and it is free. Act 2 turns the war against FROST. A map editor that feeds the game. Draw your own battlefield — terrain, ore, starting positions, control points — then host on it: everyone who joins your room plays your map. Ten built-in maps ship with the game, each one a different place. Skirmish on your terms. Fight the AI at difficulties up to HARD, alone or with friends against it. Campaign and skirmish work offline. Every match kept. A replay of every match you start is recorded automatically — study a loss, or watch an army you don't own yet. Nothing else in the way. No ads, no tracking, no third-party anything, no account of ours, no timers. One in-app purchase exists — FROST — and this page has already told you everything about it.

About

Block Bastion

Features
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Block Bastion is a portrait tower defense game built for quick, tactical battles. Defend your command core against waves of enemy vehicles and drones. Build cannon, tesla, EMP, anti-air, and missile towers, then reinforce your base with walls, mines, factories, and labs. Every wave asks you to spend carefully, place defenses well, and adapt before the next attack arrives. Features: - Portrait-first tower defense gameplay - Multiple tower and structure types - Upgrade and sell decisions during battle - Ground and air enemies - Wave-based progression - Tactical base building with limited resources - Optional rewarded boosts and remove-ads purchase Hold the line, protect the core, and build a bastion that survives the assault.

Screenshots

Coldfront4 screens
Block Bastion3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Coldfront at none against Block Bastion's shown. Block Bastion's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Coldfront sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Block Bastion sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Coldfront versus Block Bastion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColdfrontBlock Bastion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size256 MB79 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperGurpreet HeerAmol Samant

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Coldfront

One-time1
  • Frost Faction$3.99
1 purchases

Block Bastion

One-time1
  • Block Bastion$0.99

Questions

Is Coldfront free?
Coldfront is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Block Bastion free?
Block Bastion is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Coldfront or Block Bastion have ads?
Block Bastion shows ads; Coldfront does not.

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