Battleplanes vs Mini Rival
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Battleplanes
Engage in a strategic turn-based combat game where you must locate and destroy your opponent's hidden planes. Analyze hits and misses to find weak spots and outmaneuver your adversary.
- Turn-based strategic combat
- Locate and destroy hidden planes
- Online and local multiplayer
- Challenging AI opponent
- Training mode
- Customizable avatars and flags
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Battleplanes is a game of strategy and suspense that will stimulate your brain. Players take turns to search and destroy each other's planes. Each plane has 8 orientations and a weak spot. A good player will analyze the hits and misses, together with the shape of plane and locate that weak spot using as few steps as possible. This makes battleplanes more challenging and exciting to play than the classic sea battle game. Features - Play with friends online or locally. - Rated online games using the Glicko rating system. - 16 planes with 8 uniquely designed shapes. - Challenging AI. - Training mode - Lots of beautiful avatars - Represent your region using 200+ flags. How to Play Setup ------- At first each player set up the planes on a grid-like board. As long as they are not overlaping, the planes be placed anywhere, and in any of the 8 orientations. Player can strategically set the plane formation to confuse the opponent. Gameplay ---------- During the game, players take turns to guess where the opponent planes are. Most importantly, player must correctly guess where the weakness located. At each turn player choose a tile to strike, if it hits the enemy plane, it'll set it on fire. If it hits the weakness tile, the plane will be destroyed. The game finishes when one player destroy all the enemy planes. That player will be the winner.
Mini Rival
Compete with friends in a variety of fun mini-games. Engage in dice roll battles to attack and defend, or test your reflexes in a penguin ice-breaking challenge. Enjoy global multiplayer fun.
- Multiplayer mini-games
- Dice Roll Battle gameplay
- Penguin Ice breaks game
- Global competition
- Compete with friends
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There are multiplayer Mini games where your buddies compete different game play and enjoy fun all over the world. Game play 1=> Dice Roll Battle Roll a dice and trust your luck upon numbers for how much units will be deployed to attack, Same goes for defending your base choose the deployment base to defend or attack. Game play 2=> Penguin Ice breaks Penguin on the ice platform breaking the ice cubes, it is a really fun game where you have to join your friends and break the ice in multiplayer game. You will play in networks as multiplayer and break the ice cubes under the penguin which stand at the middle of the ice pitch. Download now and dominate the world!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Battleplanes at 100% against Mini Rival's 25%. Mini Rival's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Battleplanes sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Mini Rival asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Battleplanes | Mini Rival |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 2.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 267 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Honghai Gu | Sablo Studio |
Customer experience
Battleplanes
Mini Rival
In-app purchases
Battleplanes
- 20 Hints Pack$0.99
- Coins Pack 5000$0.99
- Remove Ads$5.99
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- Coins Pack 42000$7.99
- 500 Hints Pack$17.99
- Coins Pack 100000$17.99
- 1000 Hints Pack$29.99
- Coins Pack 300000$47.99
- Coins Pack 720000$99.99
- Coins Pack 1660000$199.99
Mini Rival
No in-app purchases









