Comparison

Coldfront vs Planet Siege

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
Features
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One drag, twenty tanks. One tap, and they roll. Built for touch: the real-time strategy you used to stay up far too late playing. Free to download. No ads, no timers, no energy bars. Harvesters roll out to the crystal fields. Your base rises under the cranes. Tanks, infantry and aircraft pour off the line. And somewhere across the map, someone else is doing exactly the same thing. TWO ARMIES. ONE WAR. EMBER digs in. FROST follows the money. EMBER is free, and it goes everywhere. Troopers and Maulers up front, Stormcaller rockets behind them, Skyjacks on jetpacks overhead, and the Titan, for when you're done being polite. FROST is a whole second army with its own units, buildings and economy. Its Glacier refinery drives out to the ore and sets up shop. Then the weather turns: Avalanches, Whiteout bombers and Hailstorm flak. Anyone can fight against FROST. Commanding it yourself is a one-time in-app purchase that also unlocks the rest of the campaign. That's the only thing we sell. BRING A FRIEND. OR BRING SEVEN. Real people, real time: online battles from 1v1 to 8 players. Host a room and send the code or an invite link, or tap QUICK MATCH. Sign in with Game Center to climb the ranked ladder, or skip it and just play. If a player has to step away, the match pauses for them instead of dropping them. FIFTEEN MISSIONS A campaign that teaches, then bites. Act 1 takes you from your first harvester to full-scale assaults across ten missions, and it is free. Act 2 takes the fight to FROST: five more missions against it, the first of them free to play. The rest come with the FROST purchase. A NEW FRONT EVERY DAY TODAY'S FRONT is one fresh battle a day, and the whole world gets the same one. Win it, then go again and beat your best time. SKIRMISH ANYWHERE Fight the AI on Easy, Normal or Hard. Go it alone, or team up with friends online. Campaign and skirmish work offline, so your commute counts. DRAW YOUR OWN WAR Lay out terrain, ore, starting positions and control points in the map editor, then host a room on it: everyone who joins plays your map. Ten built-in maps ship with the game too, from snowfields and desert to city blocks, wetlands and lava rifts. ON TAPE Every match you start saves itself as a replay. Relive the win. Scrub to the second the loss went wrong. IT SOUNDS LIKE A WAR Shells leave craters. Wrecks burn. The shots you hear started as real recordings. The crystal ore shrinks as you mine it, and you can watch your harvesters fill up. On newer iPhones and iPads, the water moves and the trees sway. No account to make, no third-party tracking, nothing between you and the next match.

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Planet Siege

Features
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Two tiny planets. One sky full of rockets. Only one world will stand. Planet Siege is a turn-based artillery game where gravity is part of every shot. Set your angle, power and fuel, then watch your rocket curve through space, get pulled in by planet atmospheres and slam into the enemy's defences. BUILD YOUR DEFENCES Before the battle begins, build on your own planet: bases the enemy must destroy, launchers to fire from, and turrets to protect them. Laser turrets and missile turrets can shoot down incoming rockets, but they need to cool down between shots. MASTER THE GRAVITY Planets pull on everything that flies near them. A shot that would miss can bend back onto target, and a perfect-looking shot can be dragged off course. Follow your rocket in the missile cam as it lands. AN ARSENAL TO EXPERIMENT WITH Basic rockets, cluster bombs, gravity bombs, mines, lasers and airstrikes, plus store weapons such as ice rockets, homing missiles, plasma rockets, an antimatter bomb and the Tactical Nuke. LEVEL UP YOUR COMMANDER Win matches to earn XP and coins. New weapons and defence upgrades unlock as your commander level rises: more turrets, more bases, armoured structures and rapid-fire turrets. TEN RACES, ONE STORY Choose from ten races, each with its own homeworld and history, and discover the story that brought them to war. PLAY YOUR WAY • Battle the CPU • Challenge a friend on the same device • Play online, one turn at a time, with Game Center Planet Siege is free to play. Coins and the Commander Pass are optional in-app purchases; every weapon and upgrade can also be earned by playing.

Screenshots

Coldfront4 screens
Planet Siege4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Planet Siege at 15.6 against Coldfront's 17.0. On price, ads, 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 Planet Siege sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Coldfront versus Planet Siege: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColdfrontPlanet Siege
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size428 MB1.2 GB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperGurpreet HeerJoel Hernandez James

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Coldfront

One-time1
  • Frost + Campaign Act 2$0.99
6 purchases

Planet Siege

One-time6
  • Pouch of Coins$0.99
  • Bag of Coins$1.99
  • Chest of Coins$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Vault of Coins$5.99
  • Zetari Treasury$9.99
  • Commander Pass$19.99

Questions

Is Coldfront free?
Coldfront is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planet Siege free?
Planet Siege is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Coldfront or Planet Siege have ads?
Neither Coldfront nor Planet Siege shows ads.

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