Comparison

Point vs M.A.D.

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

Head to head
About

Point

Features
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Point War is a real-time strategy game fought on the actual world map. Pick a nation โ€” a superpower or a single-city state โ€” and take it to war. Real cities produce your troops, real economies fund them, and every border on screen is the real one. There is no invented continent to learn. The map is the world you already know. HOW IT PLAYS - Cities are your production. Hold more of them and your army grows faster. - Push into your neighbours, take their cities, and knock nations out of the war one by one. - The front line is simulated, not scripted: it bends where you commit force and breaks where you do not. - Land, sea and air all matter. Coastlines, deployment zones and range decide what you can reach. - Speed controls let you slow a decisive push down or fast-forward a quiet hour.

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M.A.D.

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M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) is a nuclear strategy game: a 1v1 ICBM duel, a full war from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 1, and a living world where nations are born, trade, arm themselves and go to war on their own. THE DUEL Two nations share a generated map. Each one has a headquarters, silos, rocket batteries, missile defences, a radar and tank factories. Raze the enemy HQ or bring its population under 15% to win, and saturate their missile defences before the big strikes. WAR MODE A crisis that builds from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 1, each level clearing more weapons. Industry, oil and uranium, strategic sites to take, bases to build. Raise battalions, build tanks and artillery, send fighters, attack aircraft, bombers and drones, build a shipyard and its fleet: destroyers, cruisers, battleships, missile ships, submarines, carriers. Select and give orders with a finger. Or watch two AIs wage a full war. THE LIVING WORLD Two to eight nations on untouched land, each with its own name, tongue and ruler. They found towns that grow district by district, live off their food, wood, ore, oil and uranium, govern with their ministers, lay railways, trade, make alliances, go through crises and fight real wars: mobilisation, fronts, trenches, supply, landings, war fleets, peace treaties. Their towns judge their rulers: leaders, uprisings, coups, revolutions, dynasties. Industrial, atomic and orbital eras; the bomb leaves dead land and a nuclear winter. Every system can be turned on or off in the rules of the world, and you choose which units, defences and weapons the nations may use. Watch, or play god: volcano, tsunami, meteor, found a nation, stir up a province, change a ruler's temper, ring for war or for peace. โ€ข 16 weapons: tactical salvo, cluster munitions, napalm, thermobaric, hypersonic glider, ICBM, MIRV, bunker buster, neutron bomb, EMP, Tsar Bomba, tungsten rod, orbital beam, antimatter, black hole, tectonic quake. โ€ข Destruction you can read: blast fronts that knock buildings over, craters, districts on fire, flattened forests, sinking ships. โ€ข Nine maps (island, archipelago, valley, desert, arctic, continents, inner sea, thousand isles, coast and isles) in five sizes, up to 24 km across. THE SOUND Real recorded sounds, air-raid sirens, blasts that arrive at the speed of sound, ambience that follows the camera and music that follows the tension. Best with headphones. Plays offline. Free, with the Full Arsenal as a one-time purchase: neutron bomb, Tsar Bomba, antimatter, black hole and the other wildest weapons, for good.

Screenshots

Point3 screens
M.A.D.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: M.A.D. at every 2 days against Point's every 4 days. Point's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Point sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and M.A.D. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Point ships an update every 4 days, M.A.D. every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Point versus M.A.D.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPointM.A.D.
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size161 MB54 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMyou SugiharaBPA SOLUTIONS

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Point

One-time4
  • Premium Account$6.99
  • 1,000 Gold$9.99
  • 3,000 Gold$26.99
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  • 10,000 Gold$79.99
1 purchases

M.A.D.

One-time1
  • Full Arsenal$3.99

Questions

Is Point free?
Point is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is M.A.D. free?
M.A.D. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Point or M.A.D. have ads?
Neither Point nor M.A.D. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Point or M.A.D.?
Point ships an update every 4 days, and M.A.D. every 2 days. Most recently, Point was updated on October 13, 2026 and M.A.D. on October 11, 2026.

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