Comparison

Left 4 Exfil vs Chainfire

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

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About

Left 4 Exfil

Explore cursed zones, battle lurking horrors, and escape before midnight. Loot valuable relics, enhance your survivor with roguelike upgrades, and prepare for increasingly dangerous areas. Every run offers a unique challenge with risk and reward.

Highlights
  • Loot, fight, and extract before midnight
  • Fast-paced horror runs with extraction
  • Roguelike upgrades and combat builds
  • Cursed school, hospital, office, and ruins environments
  • Variety of weapons, relics, and gear
  • Risk vs. reward gameplay
  • Upgrade your shelter and prepare for deeper zones
Features
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Search haunted zones. Fight what follows. Exfil before midnight. Every run drops you into a cursed school, hospital, office block, or abandoned city ruin. Search for supplies, grab cursed relics, fight off horrors, and reach the extraction point before time runs out. Stay longer for better loot. Push too far, and you may lose everything. Build your survivor with roguelike upgrades mid-run. Chain spectral weapons, cursed tools, protective charms, and strange relics into powerful survival builds. Each escape brings back resources to upgrade your gear, unlock survivors, and prepare for deeper, deadlier zones. Left 4 Exfil blends micro-horror atmosphere, fast survival combat, and high-stakes extraction into short, intense runs built for mobile. Features • Search, fight, loot, and exfil before midnight • Fast horror extraction runs built for mobile • Roguelike upgrades with powerful build combinations • Haunted schools, hospitals, offices, and city ruins • Cursed tools, relics, weapons, and survival gear • Risk-reward loot: stay longer or escape alive • Upgrade your shelter and prepare for deeper zones

About

Chainfire

Guide a collector to retrieve rockets from enemy territory while your defenses automatically engage incoming threats. Strategically manage your resources and upgrades to survive 150 levels and defeat powerful bosses.

Highlights
  • Rocket collection gameplay
  • Automatic turret firing
  • 150 levels across five worlds
  • Fifteen boss encounters
  • Permanent upgrade system
  • Replayability with star ratings
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Tower defense, with one job your guns can't do for you: bring the rockets home. Guide a collector beyond the wall to pick up rockets, then bring the load back to the central fortress. Enemy tanks crowd the way home as aircraft sweep overhead. Do you risk another pickup or turn back before the next wave hits? Your guns track and fire on their own. Your deliveries keep the rockets coming. Watch a barrage tear through an enemy column, then guide the collector out for the next load while the wall holds. Fight through 150 levels in five worlds. Fifteen boss encounters punctuate the campaign, including a final boss in every world. Between battles, earn coins and buy 130 permanent ranks across seven upgrade branches: stronger armor, heavier firepower, faster collecting, larger loads and more. Your fortress changes as it grows. Replay earlier levels to earn more coins and chase three stars by bringing the fortress through the fight in better shape. If a level stops you, your purchased upgrades stay. Come back stronger and make another run.

Screenshots

Left 4 Exfil4 screens
Chainfire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chainfire at 5.0 against Left 4 Exfil's 4.1. Chainfire also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8). Left 4 Exfil's advantage is ratings volume (38 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Left 4 Exfil sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Chainfire asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chainfire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Left 4 Exfil has 38 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Left 4 Exfil versus Chainfire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLeft 4 ExfilChainfire
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (38 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings38 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size396 MB431 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperPIXEL RABBIT LIMITEDIlia Nechaev

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Left 4 Exfil

One-time8
  • L4E Pack 1$0.99
  • L4E Pack 2$1.99
  • L4E Pack 3$4.99
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  • L4E Pack 4$9.99
  • L4E Pack 5$19.99
  • L4E Pack 6$29.99
  • L4E Pack 7$49.99
  • L4E Pack 8$99.99
None

Chainfire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Left 4 Exfil free?
Left 4 Exfil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chainfire free?
Chainfire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Left 4 Exfil or Chainfire?
Chainfire is rated higher. Left 4 Exfil averages 4.1 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Chainfire averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Left 4 Exfil or Chainfire have ads?
Both Left 4 Exfil and Chainfire show ads.

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