Radiation Island vs Battle Types
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Radiation Island
Embark on a survival adventure in a vast open world, stranded in an alternate reality. Explore, craft, and fight to uncover secrets and find your way back home. Survive harsh environments, dangerous creatures, and the undead.
- Open-world exploration
- Crafting and resource gathering
- Combat against wildlife and zombies
- Day-night cycle and weather effects
- Underwater exploration
- Multiplayer arena mode
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Radiation Island is a survival adventure game where you craft your own destiny in a huge open world environment. As part of the Philadelphia Experiment you have become stranded in a parallel, alternate reality. Discover this new and mysterious world, with all its surprises. Use everything you find to survive it and solve its puzzle to get back to the real world. Follow your own path in an environment of breathtaking beauty and gigantic scope. Explore huge forests inhabited by dangerous wolves, bears and mountain lions. Investigate abandoned villages and old military compounds where zombies guard vital tools, weapons and clues to the secrets of this world. You can even swim and dive, if you can avoid the hungry crocodiles. Hunt wild animals, fish or gather fruits to overcome hunger. Mine for resources and craft weapons, tools and basic vehicles. Find hidden treasures, equipment and fire arms to prevail in a world full of perils: radiation, anomalies, harsh weather and enraged zombies. Experience the full day-night cycle and face the dangers of darkness and cold. Survive and beat the game to unlock multiplayer mode: fight other real players online in a closed arena for valuable resources. AMAZING QUALITY, AND IT’S ONLY ON iOS! Optimized for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus and the new A8 processors with greater environmental detail, spectacular visual effects and unparalleled performance! Takes advantage of Metal on A7 and A8 devices to provide cutting edge graphics. GAME CENTER, AirPlay and iCloud iCloud support is integrated so players can save and share progress across devices. AirPlay lets you play the game on larger displays via Apple TV. Climb the Game Center leaderboards, challenge friends and unlock dozens of achievements. Supports iOS MFi Game Controllers. Important: iPhone 4 and older devices are not supported.
Battle Types
This app helps Pokémon trainers find opponents and calculate effective moves using a comprehensive offline database. It's designed to exploit type advantages and avoid ineffective attacks, making it ideal for challenging gym leaders and the Elite Four.
- Offline Pokémon database
- Type advantage calculator
- Effective move suggestions
- Opponent finder
- Useful for gym leaders
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Quickly find your opponent in the full Pokémon database and calculate the most effective move to use! Exploit type advantages and make sure your moves won't have a reduced affect. Especially useful against gym leaders and the Elite Four! All data is stored offline, in the app. Pokémon. Nintendo/Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. Pokémon and Pokémon character names are trademarks of Nintendo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Radiation Island at 74% against Battle Types's 0%. Radiation Island also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 17 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Battle Types's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Radiation Island costs $4.99 and Battle Types $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Radiation Island ships an update every 3 weeks, Battle Types every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Radiation Island | Battle Types |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (650 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 650 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.3 GB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Atypical Games | Scott Fyfe |
Customer experience
Radiation Island
Battle Types
Bugs and requests
Radiation Island
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes causing loss of progress
- Glitches with building and structures
- Disappearing items and chests
- Laggy performance in certain areas
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
8 requests- Creative mode with unlimited resources
- Multiplayer co-op
- More vehicles (cars, boats, etc.)
- Expanded crafting and building options
- More enemy variety and difficulty
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- Additional weapons (grenades, flamethrowers, etc.)
- Weather effects (rain, storms, etc.)
- Ability to tame animals as companions
Battle Types
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Radiation Island
No in-app purchases
Battle Types
No in-app purchases
Questions
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