Comparison

Pixel Conquest vs Unciv 4X

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Conquest

Engage in a classic real-time strategy war game on a dynamic map. Employ cunning tactics to overcome AI opponents across ten challenging levels or utilize a random map generator for endless replayability. Master strategic nuances to achieve victory.

Highlights
  • Real-time map strategy
  • AI opponents
  • Ten difficulty levels
  • Random map generator
  • Battle strategy learning
Features
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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.

About

Unciv 4X

Build and lead a civilization through various eras, managing cities, researching technologies, and engaging in diplomacy or warfare. Explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate on a procedurally generated hex map. Multiple victory conditions and extensive customization options are available.

Highlights
  • Turn-based 4X strategy gameplay
  • Empire building and city management
  • Extensive technology research tree
  • Multiple victory conditions
  • Offline single-player and online multiplayer
  • Map and game rule customization
  • Mod support
Features
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Build an empire to stand the test of time. Unciv 4X is a turn-based 4X strategy game - explore, expand, exploit and exterminate - played on a hex map that is different every game. Lead one of 34 nations from a single settler in the Ancient era to the Information era and beyond. Found and grow cities, work the land and its resources, research a tree of 80 technologies, adopt social policies, raise world wonders and command more than a hundred kinds of units on land, at sea and in the air. FIVE WAYS TO WIN • Domination: capture every rival's original capital • Science: build the Apollo Program and launch a spaceship • Culture: complete five policy branches and build the Utopia Project • Diplomacy: build the United Nations and win the vote for world leader • Time: hold the highest score when the last turn arrives MORE THAN WAR • Diplomacy: friendship, open borders, research agreements, defensive pacts, peace treaties and trades of gold, resources and even cities • City-states: befriend, protect, fund or bully dozens of city-states and complete their quests • Religion: found a pantheon, establish a religion, choose its beliefs and spread it with missionaries and prophets • Espionage: send spies to steal technology, rig city-state elections, stage coups and guard your own cities • Golden ages, great people, natural wonders, barbarians and ancient ruins YOUR GAME, YOUR RULES • Map types such as Pangaea, Continents, Archipelago, Inner Sea, Lakes, Fractal, Four Corners and Small Continents; five map sizes from Tiny to Huge, or a custom size • 8 difficulty levels and 4 game speeds, from Quick to Marathon • Options such as One City Challenge, raging or no barbarians, a turn limit and your choice of victory types • Two built-in rule sets: a base game, and an extended one with religion and espionage • Map editor: shape terrain, rivers, resources and starting locations, then play on your own maps • Mods: browse and install community mods made for Unciv PLAY YOUR WAY • Single player against AI opponents, completely offline • Hotseat: several people take turns on the same device • Online multiplayer: asynchronous turn-based games with friends, with in-game chat, through a free community server or any server compatible with UncivServer that you choose • A built-in encyclopedia explains every unit, building, technology and rule • Made for iPhone and iPad, in landscape LANGUAGES The game can be played in English and in 46 community translations. It is fully or almost fully translated into 25 of them, among them Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian and Vietnamese; other languages are partly translated, with the remaining text in English. ABOUT Unciv 4X is an independent iOS adaptation of Unciv, the open-source game created by Yair Morgenstern and its many contributors and released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Our heartfelt thanks go to them for their work. This app is not an official release of the Unciv project. Its artwork and sounds are our own.

Screenshots

Pixel Conquest4 screens
Unciv 4X4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pixel Conquest at 98% against Unciv 4X's 50%. Pixel Conquest also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Unciv 4X's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Unciv 4X sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pixel Conquest asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Unciv 4X holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 98% of Pixel Conquest's written reviews are positive against 50% of Unciv 4X's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Conquest ships an update every 5 days, Unciv 4X every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pixel Conquest versus Unciv 4X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel ConquestUnciv 4X
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (23 ratings)4.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews98.1% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB94 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBee CaveAi Art Ltd

Customer experience

Pixel Conquest

All ratings22 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.9%

Unciv 4X

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Conquest

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Unciv 4X

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$29.99

Questions

Is Pixel Conquest free?
Pixel Conquest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Unciv 4X free?
Unciv 4X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Conquest or Unciv 4X?
Unciv 4X is rated higher. Pixel Conquest averages 4.5 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Unciv 4X averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Pixel Conquest or Unciv 4X have ads?
Pixel Conquest shows ads; Unciv 4X does not.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Conquest or Unciv 4X?
Pixel Conquest ships an update every 5 days, and Unciv 4X every 3 days. Most recently, Pixel Conquest was updated on October 31, 2026 and Unciv 4X on October 29, 2026.

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