Comparison

Salad Shark vs Elementex

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

Head to head
About

Salad Shark

Control a vegetarian shark that must eat fruits and vegetables while avoiding meat thrown by monkeys. Tap the screen to eat and navigate through various game modes and missions.

Highlights
  • One-button gameplay
  • Classic, extreme, and lightning survival modes
  • 20 unique missions
  • Unlockable skins
  • 7 challenging achievements
  • Online leaderboards
Features
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Monkeys will throw everything at you but you can't eat any meat! Salad Shark is a fun game and is easy to understand. You are a vegetarian shark that can only eat fruits and vegetables (duh!). Monkeys will throw all the food they can get their tiny hands on and you have to TOUCH THE SCREEN to eat. Remember, DON'T EAT MEAT! FEATURES - One button gameplay - Classic, extreme and lightning survival modes - 20 unique missions - Unlockable skins - 7 challenging achievements - Reach for the top with online leaderboards

About

Elementex

Features
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Elementex is a tactical tower-defense run. No worlds to grind. No campaign to crawl. One hex arena, one shot at the leaderboard, and every decision counts. Build between waves. Place towers on hex tiles. Bend the path with free walls. Tap a tower mid-wave to fire its skill. Lives reach zero, the run ends, and your best wave is the only number that matters. Fire beats Frost. Frost beats Nature. Nature beats Lightning. Lightning beats Fire. Hit a weakness for 1.5x damage. Hit a resistance for 0.7x. Read the wave, pick the counter, or pay for it. Every upgrade is bought with in-run gold. One tower per element — push its damage, its fire rate, or its range, each on a rising cost curve. No blueprints. No permanent unlocks to grind. Your build is what you can pay for, this run, right now. Every fifth wave is a boss. The boss drops a chest of three runes. You see every drop, every stat, every price, before you spend a single gem. Whatever you do not keep goes into the Recall Pool for seven days at +25 percent. Nothing disappears. Nothing is hidden. Runes you keep persist across runs. Combine two of the same rarity to climb to the next. Five rarities: Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Mythic is boss-chest only and carries a unique passive skill. An element-matched rune on its tower hits 20 percent harder. There is no end state. There is only the next wave, the global leaderboard, and how far you can hold the line. • Hex-grid tower defense with maze-builder pathing • Four elements, one rock-paper-scissors wheel (1.5x / 0.7x matchups) • One tower per element, upgraded along +DMG / +RATE / +RANGE with in-run gold • A defining passive and a tap-to-cast active skill on every element • Boss chests every five waves, transparent gem pricing, seven-day Recall Pool • A global leaderboard, one endless mode, three- to seven-minute runs • No loot boxes. No energy. No timers. No paid randomness.

Screenshots

Salad Shark4 screens
Elementex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Elementex at none against Salad Shark's shown. Elementex also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Salad Shark sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Elementex sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Salad Shark ships an update every 6 weeks, Elementex every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Salad Shark versus Elementex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSalad SharkElementex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB32 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSimon LavigneTassilo Posegga

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Salad Shark

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Cthulhu Skin$0.99
5 purchases

Elementex

One-time5
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 550 Gems$3.99
  • 1,200 Gems$8.99
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  • 2,500 Gems$17.99
  • 6,500 Gems$44.99

Questions

Is Salad Shark free?
Salad Shark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elementex free?
Elementex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Salad Shark or Elementex have ads?
Salad Shark shows ads; Elementex does not.
Which is updated more often, Salad Shark or Elementex?
Salad Shark ships an update every 6 weeks, and Elementex every 3 weeks. Most recently, Salad Shark was updated on August 1, 2026 and Elementex on September 9, 2026.

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