Comparison

Afterkind vs Trenchlight

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

Head to head
About

Afterkind

Features
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Afterkind is a full offline 4X strategy game โ€” build a civilization on a hex map with no wifi and no account. Ten thousand years after humanity vanished, new civilizations have risen from the creatures we left behind. You lead one, against three rival leaders. Found cities with settlers. Improve the land with workers. Raise armies that advance era by era โ€” warriors to swordsmen to musketeers to tanks โ€” and win by Domination, Science, Culture, or Time. It's the classic turn-based empire-builder loop, shaped for your phone and finishable in a few sessions. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT โ€ข Twenty Kinds, each a full civilization with its own figures, a unique unit and a signature wonder โ€” beavers, crows, machines, octopuses, bees, moths, otters, fungus, and visitors from elsewhere: lizardfolk, the Greys and more. โ€ข Diplomacy, trade and formal war: rival leaders remember, horses, iron, coal and oil gate the strongest units, and a city falls only when its walls do. โ€ข 25 technologies and 14 civics across six eras, from Ancient to Modern. โ€ข A 2.5D isometric diorama board โ€” extruded hex tiles, lit and shadowed like a carved tabletop. โ€ข Six difficulty levels, from a gentle first empire to a relentless AI, with an advisor chip that suggests a move whenever you want one. PLAY OFFLINE, FOREVER No account, no login, no internet required. Your saves stay on your device. Every map has a seed a friend can enter to play your exact world, and every finished game gives you a score card to share. FREE, WITH OPTIONAL EXTRAS The complete game is free: all four victory types, every era, and three Kinds (Damwright Guilds, Corvid Court, Lantern Order). Unlock more Kinds by playing โ€” each locked Kind shows its condition in the Vault โ€” or buy a Kind Pack once and keep it forever. We never sell power โ€” paid Kinds are balanced sidegrades. AFTERKIND ONLINE (optional subscription) โ€ข Every Kind while active, the weekly World Seed leaderboard, and cloud backup of your campaign. โ€ข 7-day free trial, then auto-renews until cancelled. โ€ข Monthly or annual; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://adelyons.com/apps/afterkind/eula.html Privacy Policy: https://adelyons.com/apps/afterkind/privacy.html Lead a Kind. Build an empire. After us, the world kept playing.

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Trenchlight

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The seafloor mining platforms went dark when the Bloom came up out of the trench. You are the last light crew. Bolt guns to the deck plating, weave the tunnels they have to crawl through, and hold the light until the evacuation sub surfaces. TRENCHLIGHT is an open-field maze tower defense. You don't defend a fixed path - you build it. Every turret is also a wall, so where you place it decides the route the Crawl has to walk. A good maze turns a ten-second sprint into a minute-long gauntlet, and that is the whole game. WHAT YOU GET - 50 hand-built levels across five acts, each on Normal, Hard and Nightmare - 10 turrets, each branching at tier 3 into one of two specialisations, for 20 distinct endgame guns - 14 enemies, every one designed to break a specific tactic: armour that shrugs off your kinetic guns, flyers that ignore your maze entirely, tunnellers that go under it, a Leech that mends what you just shot, a final boss whose armour class rotates - Three damage types against three armour classes, so the right gun always beats the biggest gun - Optional Directives on every level, for when three stars stops being enough - Endless mode per act, with leaderboards NO NONSENSE No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes. No currency. No account required. Works completely offline, forever. Acts I to III are free and complete - thirty levels ending on a boss - and the rest is one optional unlock that buys levels, never power. Landscape, built natively for iOS.

Screenshots

Afterkind4 screens
Trenchlight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Afterkind at 15.0 against Trenchlight's 26.0. On price, ads, 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. Afterkind sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Trenchlight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Afterkind versus Trenchlight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAfterkindTrenchlight
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size39 MB8 MB
Age rating+99+
DeveloperAdelyons Software LLCJonathan Vogelbusch

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Afterkind

Subscriptions2
  • Afterkind Online Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Afterkind Online Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time5
  • Tides Pack$2.99
  • Visitors Pack$2.99
  • Callers Pack$3.99
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  • Wilds Pack$3.99
  • All Kinds Bundle$8.99
1 purchases

Trenchlight

One-time1
  • Acts IV & V$2.99

Questions

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

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