Pixel Conquest vs Steel Tide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Conquest
Engage in a classic real-time strategy war game. Employ cunning tactics to defeat AI opponents across 10 challenging levels or utilize a random map generator for endless replayability. Master strategic nuances and battle to achieve victory.
- Real-time strategy gameplay
- AI opponents
- 10 difficulty levels
- Random map generator
- Battle strategy mastery
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A classic real time map strategy war game. Use strategy and cunning to beat the AI at its own game. Learn more about the nuances of strategy and battle to best your opponenet. work up 10 levels each one harder than the last or start a game with the random map generator.
Steel Tide
Engage in large-scale real-time strategy battles with diverse units like tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Build your base, manage your economy, and deploy tactical forces. Features include AI skirmishes, multiplayer modes, cross-platform play, and a scenario editor.
- Large-scale battles
- Base building and economy management
- Diverse unit types (tanks, artillery, aircraft, fleet)
- Strategic unit counters and armor classes
- Conquest & Breakthrough AI modes
- Cross-platform PvP
- Scenario editor and modding system
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Steel Tide is a real-time strategy game with large-scale battles. Raise a base, run an economy, and take the field with tanks, artillery, helicopters, jets and a fleet. Every unit has an armour class it is good against, so a mixed force beats the biggest gun. Artillery fires over ridges; point-defence towers shoot the rockets down. Transports put armour where the roads do not go. Crews that survive get better. When nothing else settles it, there is the silo. Play alone or together: • Conquest & Breakthrough against three grades of AI on generated or authored maps • Up to 8 seats in any mix of players and AI, in teams or free-for-all • Cross-platform PvP: phone, tablet, desktop and browser play on the same servers • Host your own server with one command and keep your games in your own hands • A scenario editor: paint the ground, place the spawns and the ore, play or share it • Modding system to customize units & buildings No ads or in-app purchases. Single player works offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pixel Conquest at Free against Steel Tide's $3.99. Pixel Conquest also leads on ratings volume (31 vs 2). Steel Tide's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Pixel Conquest is free to download; Steel Tide costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Steel Tide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Conquest has 31 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 98% of Pixel Conquest's written reviews are positive against 93% of Steel Tide's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pixel Conquest ships an update every 5 days, Steel Tide every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Pixel Conquest | Steel Tide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 98.2% of reviews — better | 93.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Bee Cave | Jiyunke (Chengdu) Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Pixel Conquest
Steel Tide
In-app purchases
Pixel Conquest
No in-app purchases
Steel Tide
No in-app purchases
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