Comparison

Tidewall vs A Gnome's Tower

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

Head to head
About

Tidewall

Defend your coast from rising tides and incoming raiders by building walls, towers, and deploying various units. Engage in multiple game modes, from campaign to survival, and compete on global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Build walls, towers, and deploy guards
  • Command naval units and aircraft
  • Dig underground factories
  • Multiple game modes: Campaign, Survival, Versus
  • Global leaderboards and career score
  • Offline and live multiplayer battles
Features
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The sea is rising and the raiders are coming. Build a wall of brick, iron, and grit — and hold the line. Tidewall is a coastal defense game with the soul of a tower-defense classic. Stack walls, raise towers, post guards, launch boats and planes, and dig factories beneath the sand — then watch it all tested by the tide and everything that rides in on it. DEFEND YOUR COAST • Place walls, towers, and guards in a living side-view world • Command naval units and aircraft; build underground factories for the long game • Every wave hits harder — raiders dig, barricade, and chase MANY WAYS TO PLAY • Campaign — climb the levels and break through the boss fights • Invasion & Aid Allies — push the offensive and survive the carrier boss • Survival & Endless — one coast, no finish line, how long can you last? • Chase — fast, taunting raiders that never let up • Versus — duel the Commander offline, or send a link and battle a friend live CLIMB THE GLOBAL BOARD • Every run feeds your Career Score and earns badges • Compare yourself against players worldwide on the leaderboard PLAYS YOUR WAY • One app, every language: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, and French • Free to play. Optional Tide Pearls and a one-time "Unlock All Units" if you want a boost Hold back the rising tide.

About

A Gnome's Tower

Features
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The horde is coming, and the only thing standing between them and your keep is a battalion of small, heavily armed, magnificently bearded battle gnomes. A Gnome's Tower is a tower defense campaign with real depth and zero filler: THE GNOMES Seven classes of gnome soldier — riflemen, mortar crews, frost mages, venom sprayers, sky gunners, flamethrowers, and war drummers whose beat speeds up every gnome around them. Upgrades never stop, and your gnomes visibly gear up with every rank: bandoliers, gold trim, war banners, auras. THE FORGE Fuse two gnome classes into a hybrid. Fuse the same class twice for its Prime form. Then breed your creations together and fate hands you a one-of-a-kind gnome no other player will ever own — with its own name, elements, gifts, and body. Bloodlines carry down through generations. Rarely, fate is generous: Mythics happen. THE CAMPAIGN Three worlds, each a fresh battlefield: the green roads of Greenvale, the frozen twin lanes of Frostreach, and the Moon itself — where a fourth road tears open mid-battle, uber engines costing a fortune await the brave, and victory means something. Then keep going in endless mode to see how deep your defense really runs. THE ELEMENTS Fire, frost, nature, storm, physical — every enemy fears something and shrugs off something else. Read the badges. Build accordingly. CURSOR STRIKES Meteor, frost nova, chain lightning — cast them yourself, right where the line is breaking. Boss-dropped Annihilation Runes wipe the field when all else fails. CO-OP (online, 2–5 players) Five roads converge on one shared Heart. Every defender guards their own road with their own gold — but lives are shared, leaks are everyone's problem, and the last stand happens together. Host with a 4-letter room code; family joins in seconds. A GLOBAL HALL OF FAME Your best run, ranked against every defender in the world. Waves are the only currency of honor. No accounts. No paywalls. Just the road, the horde, and the gnomes.

Screenshots

Tidewall4 screens
A Gnome's Tower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: A Gnome's Tower at none against Tidewall's 5. A Gnome's Tower also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tidewall sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. A Gnome's Tower asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Tidewall versus A Gnome's Tower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTidewallA Gnome's Tower
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB2 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperMason MoranMATTHEW ALAN SMITH

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Tidewall

One-time5
  • Handful of Pearls$0.99
  • Pouch of Pearls$4.99
  • Unlock All Units$8.99
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  • Chest of Pearls$9.99
  • Hoard of Pearls$19.99
None

A Gnome's Tower

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tidewall free?
Tidewall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is A Gnome's Tower free?
A Gnome's Tower is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tidewall or A Gnome's Tower have ads?
Tidewall shows ads; A Gnome's Tower does not.

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