Comparison

Drone Backlash vs Eagle Cross

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

Head to head
About

Drone Backlash

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The sky above your field post is no longer clear. Scouts fly low, heavy drones hold their course, and jet-powered drones give you just seconds to intercept them. Hold your position and ready your weapon for the next raid. Complete six 90-second operations with different enemy formations. Meet the objective, keep your position intact and improve your result to earn three stars. Take a five-minute pickup patrol through fields, villages and forests. Shoot down incoming FPVs before they hit the truck and shake your aim. Complete three-stage contracts across 12 ranks. Build your arsenal. Nine weapons change how you fight, with general-purpose and heavy machine guns, rapid-fire barrages, short bursts, buckshot, airburst fire, guided missiles and an interceptor drone. Lead moving targets and manage recoil and heat. Face eight drone types, including FPVs. Damage to individual parts changes their flight; burning wreckage falls to the ground. Rewards vary by drone type. Buy weapons, four upgrade paths with five levels for each weapon, and selectable modifications. Purchases persist; retired autonomous support is refunded. Ammunition is free. No real-money payments, ads or paid currency packs. Aim with motion and touch together, or use the joystick alone. Play in portrait or landscape; recenter your aim, adjust sensitivity and mirror controls for left-handed play. Sound and vibration are adjustable. No registration or internet connection is needed after installation. The interface is available in 30 languages. All aircraft and weapon characteristics are fictional game designs.

About

Eagle Cross

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Hard, but never unfair. An old-school vertical shoot-em-up: your ship goes up, everything else comes down, and your finger never leaves the glass. Drag to move โ€” the ship fires by itself, there is no fire button. The whole game is dodging and positioning. TEN WORLDS, TEN BOSSES Asteroid field. Ship graveyard. Cyber city. Sea of dunes. Enemy station. Orbital shipyard. Dry dock. Assembly line. Turbine hall. And the heart of the fortress. Every stage brings a new setting, new enemies and new music, and ends with something too big to fit on screen. FIVE WEAPON LEVELS Your gun powers up when you clear a whole formation. And it drops when you get hit: every death costs firepower, not just a life. If you suddenly can't kill anything, check your weapon level before blaming the stage. DYING DOESN'T SEND YOU BACK TO THE START Three lives per run, but stages unlock as you reach them. Fall on stage eight and the next run starts on stage eight โ€” with the firepower that stage expects, not stage one's. WHAT'S WAITING FOR YOU Cannon fodder that comes down in formation and never shoots: it's there so your gun can level up. Gunners that aim where you are, not where they're facing. Tanks that soak up damage and fire slow, fat shells. Kamikazes that don't shoot: they just come straight at you. Turrets that spin on the spot throwing blades. And in every stage, something you cannot destroy: asteroids, scrap, dock plating. You don't shoot those. You dodge them. YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR HAND Every hit, every explosion and every death has its own haptic. With the phone on silent, the game still tells you what's happening. NINETIES SOUND Dirty guitar over a running beat, the way shoot-em-ups sounded back then. And if you already had music playing, the game won't cut it off. NOTHING ELSE No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts, no sign-up. No internet connection. It collects no data: your high score and unlocked stages live on your iPhone only, and they go with the app if you delete it. In Spanish and English.

Screenshots

Drone Backlash3 screens
Eagle Cross4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Drone Backlash at daily against Eagle Cross's every 2 weeks. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drone Backlash ships an update daily, Eagle Cross every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Drone Backlash versus Eagle Cross: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrone BacklashEagle Cross
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size31 MB7 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMaksim KudriavtsevROBERTO BLANCO GOMEZ

In-app purchases

None

Drone Backlash

No in-app purchases

None

Eagle Cross

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drone Backlash free?
Drone Backlash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Eagle Cross free?
Eagle Cross is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drone Backlash or Eagle Cross have ads?
Neither Drone Backlash nor Eagle Cross shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drone Backlash or Eagle Cross?
Drone Backlash ships an update daily, and Eagle Cross every 2 weeks. Most recently, Drone Backlash was updated on October 17, 2026 and Eagle Cross on October 18, 2026.

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