Comparison

Radioactive vs PPO

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

Head to head
About

Radioactive

Experience a realistic nuclear war simulation where you launch and observe the unfolding consequences of strikes on a global satellite map. Witness the impact of real weapons, realistic flight times, and dynamic casualty counts over simulated days, influenced by weather-driven fallout.

Highlights
  • Realistic nuclear warfare simulation
  • Real-world weapons with accurate yields
  • Simulated flight times and delivery methods
  • Dynamic casualty unfolding over days
  • Weather-driven fallout simulation
  • Detailed aftermath inspection
  • Offline operation
Features
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Radioactive is an immersive nuclear-warfare sandbox — not another static blast-radius calculator. Every strike is a living event you launch, fly, and watch play out on a real satellite map of Earth. REAL WEAPONS, REAL DELIVERY Choose from a catalog of real-world weapons with their accurate yields — from Little Boy to the 50-megaton Tsar Bomba — and deliver them the way they were actually fielded: silo-launched ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, ship-launched cruise missiles, or gravity bombs dropped from era-correct strategic bombers that fly the full sortie: ingress, release, loop-around, and return to base. REALISTIC FLIGHT, YOUR CLOCK Flights take realistic travel times — an intercontinental shot really takes half an hour. A universal simulation clock (Day 1, 11:36 AM…) runs the whole world, and you control it: watch in real time or fast-forward at up to 100×. Queue up an entire salvo and release it one strike at a time, or all at once. CASUALTIES THAT UNFOLD, NOT A PRELOADED NUMBER Built on a full offline population grid of the entire planet (8+ billion people), casualty tolls play out over simulated days, not as an instant statistic: the immediate blast, delayed trauma, firestorms, and radiation each take their toll on their own realistic timelines. The injured can succumb. The dead stay dead — strike the same city twice and the second blast finds only survivors. WEATHER-DRIVEN FALLOUT Groundbursts loft fallout that rides the wind — and the wind changes day to day. A plume that drifts north today can fan east tomorrow, painting realistic multi-day contamination footprints across the land. Airbursts maximize blast but leave little fallout, just like the real physics. Contaminated ground stays contaminated. INSPECT THE AFTERMATH Tap any city for a live census: pre-war population, killed, injured, the share of land rendered uninhabitable, and who's still alive. Track national tolls as percentages of each country's real population. Drill into every detonation for its full breakdown — death waves, injury types, and ongoing effects like firestorms and radiation exposure. BUILT NATIVE Pure SwiftUI and MapKit on a real 3D satellite globe. No accounts, no ads, no data collection — everything runs on your device, and your session persists exactly where you left it. All effects are approximations derived from public, declassified scaling-law physics (Glasstone & Dolan, 1977) and public population data. Radioactive is a simulation for entertainment and education — not a targeting or civil-defense tool.

About

PPO

Defend a living city from aerial threats by strategically deploying air defense systems, managing resources, and rebuilding damaged areas. Adapt your strategy with time controls and dynamic environmental conditions for a unique challenge each game.

Highlights
  • Deploy and upgrade air defense systems
  • Manage city resources and repairs
  • Pause and control game speed
  • Procedurally generated city layouts
  • Day/night cycle and weather effects
  • Touch and mouse/trackpad controls
Features
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The city has a life of its own. Your task is to protect it. PPO: Defend Your City is a strategy game about defending a city from aerial threats. Deploy air defense crews, choose positions and targets, keep ammunition flowing and rebuild damaged neighborhoods. Every decision shapes how your city faces the next attack. BUILD YOUR DEFENSES Machine-gun crews, missile systems and heavy systems serve different roles. Consider their range, cover vulnerable approaches and upgrade your equipment as your defenses grow. MANAGE YOUR CITY Balance your budget between defense, supplies and repairs. While your crews repel attacks, traffic moves through the streets, firefighters tackle blazes and emergency services help residents. SET YOUR OWN PACE Pause time to assess the situation and plan your next move. Speed through quiet moments and return to normal speed when the battle begins. EVERY GAME, A NEW CITY Procedural layouts, different city sizes, a day-and-night cycle and changing weather reshape the conditions for defense. Play a standalone operation or start a campaign. AT HOME ON YOUR SCREEN Use touch controls on iPhone and iPad, or a mouse and trackpad on Mac. Choose a light, dark or automatic interface theme. Previously playable in your browser, PPO is now available on Apple devices too. No separate game account is required.

Screenshots

Radioactive4 screens
PPO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Radioactive at 9 against PPO's 3. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Radioactive against 5.0 for PPO. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Radioactive versus PPO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRadioactivePPO
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequency—Every 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB117 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperREGGIE LEE SLABATymur Horban

In-app purchases

None

Radioactive

No in-app purchases

None

PPO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Radioactive free?
Radioactive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PPO free?
PPO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Radioactive or PPO?
Radioactive and PPO are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Radioactive or PPO have ads?
Neither Radioactive nor PPO shows ads.

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