Apple Knight 3 vs Space Defender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apple Knight 3
Embark on an open-world adventure across interconnected realms. Engage in fast-paced combat, collect unique mounts, and cultivate your own farm. Discover secrets, upgrade equipment, and experience a day/night cycle in a cozy world.
- Interconnected world exploration
- Hack-and-slash combat
- Mount collection and leveling
- Farm cultivation and management
- Dungeon crawling with sword rewards
- Controller support
- Day/night cycle
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Apple Knight is back! Discover interconnected worlds, wield swords that double as charms, collect mounts, and build a life on your farm - with so much more to discover! No ads or in-app purchases. Run, jump, and slash your way through a fast-paced action platformer full of secrets, mounts, and farm life. Switch between side-scrolling adventure and a top-down farm. EXPLORE & DISCOVER • Explore interconnected worlds filled with secrets, mounts, and dungeons • Track your journey on the world map • Find secret areas, hidden treasures, and hidden mounts • Brave multiple dungeons in each world and earn unique swords as rewards COMBAT & EQUIPMENT • Battle hordes of enemies with hack-and-slash combat and powerful special abilities • Buy weapons at Torren's weapon shop or earn them as dungeon rewards • Upgrade your weapons to make them more powerful • Equip swords as charms for passive bonuses • Collect items and manage your inventory MOVEMENT & ABILITIES • Run and jump through fast, fluid action-platforming • Learn new moves in the training cave • Unlock movement abilities • Choose your jump style: classic Apple Knight or the new variable jump height MOUNTS & FARMING • Collect 10 mounts, each with its own stats • Grow crops on your farm and feed them to your mounts to level them up, or sell them for coins • Hire a farm helper to lend a hand on your farm • Clear weeds from your farm • Adopt a pet dog that gives you +1 heart • Feed the chickens on your farm or Tobin's to get a special bonus for 3 days LIFE & NEIGHBORS • Sleep in your own house • Take on quests from Garraldin • Visit the bakery for fresh bread and helpful buffs • Visit your friendly neighbor, Tobin, and his animals to buy or sell seeds and wheat, or just to chat • Experience a day/night cycle. Even the chickens go to bed at night! PLAY YOUR WAY • Unlock character skins to change your look • Play with a game controller A cozy world full of adventure is waiting for you.
Space Defender
Lead a squadron in a top-down space shooter with RPG elements. Explore a story across galaxies, manage your ship and crew, and engage in trading and combat. Play offline with touch or controller support.
- Top-down space shooter gameplay
- RPG progression and ship customization
- Story-driven campaign
- Squadron management with wingmen
- Research, mining, and trading
- Offline play
- Controller support
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The frontier is falling. Hold the line. A top-down space shooter with deep RPG progression, built for touch. Lead a squadron, fit your ship, hunt pirate captains and live a story told over the radio in the middle of the fight. WHY PLAYERS STAY • No ads, no subscription, plays offline • Play the whole first act, then one purchase unlocks the full game: no energy, no timers, nothing else to buy • Real depth: four acts, three galaxies and Kepler, 17 ships, over 60 pieces of equipment, wingmen to lead and several endings A REAL STORY, IN FOUR ACTS Fly for Admiral Voss and Ilse Marin in a war across three galaxies. Escort the Armada and face a choice at the Threshold, then go on to Kepler, the abandoned mining world of Act IV: gravity wells that pull everything in, descents into dark shafts, the port of Ferrum and four heavy ships from its yards. Scripted dialogue, voiced in six languages. Several endings wait at the end of the war. LEAD YOUR SQUADRON • Up to three wingmen: order them to attack, cover you, hold or break, and they answer on the radio • Recruit pilots with 20 different traits that change how your ships fight • Assign a crew to each ship: their bonuses fly with them • A downed wingman ejects: recover the rescue pod before it is lost HOURS OF DEPTH • 17 ships and over 60 pieces of equipment: lasers, railguns, flak, guided missiles, turrets, shields • Manage your energy: every item you fit changes how your ship flies and fights • A research tree, plus mining, salvage, trade, refining and recycling • 15 kinds of contracts and a signature mission in each galaxy • Four difficulty levels, a Veteran mode and 5 save slots PIRATES AND THEIR CAPTAINS A den in each galaxy, raids on stations, ambushed freighters and bounties on named lieutenants. Four captains with their own story: spare them, enlist them or shoot them down. Your choices follow you to the end. A FRONT THAT MOVES The Drones push back: stations come under threat, then under siege, then fall if nobody defends them. Take them back. SPACEPORTS AND EXPEDITIONS Dock at Horizon, Hephaistos, Sekhmet or Ferrum and step into the bar, Command and the shipyard. Scan planets and send your crew on 12 illustrated expeditions where your pilots' traits set the odds. ENEMIES YOU CAN READ Snipers keep their distance, minelayers leave traps, carriers launch fighters, jammers scramble your missiles. Every attack is announced: read it and dodge. PLAY YOUR WAY • Touch controls made for phone and tablet: choose your button layout, automatic missiles • Or play with a controller • Voiced in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese; subtitles in 15 languages Made by Petit Vaisseau, a one-person studio in France.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Space Defender at 92% against Apple Knight 3's 36%. Space Defender also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Apple Knight 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#18 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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
Space Defender is free to download; Apple Knight 3 costs $2.99 up front. Space Defender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Apple Knight 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Apple Knight 3 ships an update every 2 days, Space Defender daily. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Apple Knight 3 | Space Defender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #18 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 200 MB | 1.2 GB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Limitless LLC | Guillaume Merle |
Customer experience
Apple Knight 3
Space Defender
In-app purchases
Apple Knight 3
No in-app purchases
Space Defender
- Full game$6.99
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