Galaxy Wars vs Rubylands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galaxy Wars
Engage in strategic space combat by commanding your fleet with simple controls. Capture enemy planets, build your armada, and upgrade your ships to dominate the galaxy. Choose from different teams and difficulty levels for an addictive real-time strategy experience.
- Single-click ship control
- Capture connected enemy planets
- Conquer the galaxy
- Choose from 5 different teams
- Upgrade fleet firepower, strength, and speed
- 5 difficulty levels
- 4 galaxy sizes
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[HOW TO PLAY] - Control your ships with a single click - Capture enemy planets (only connected planets) - Conquer the Galaxy Galaxy Wars - Ice Empire is an amazing strategic game of space combat. Command your ships with a simple touch, destroy enemies and conquer all the planets! 5 teams of different colors and different temperament. Choose your team. You’ll be Blue for a balance between speed and strength or Red for maximum firepower? Galaxy Wars - Ice Empire is an exciting mix of strategy and speed, storm the enemy planets and make your way in the galaxy. Increase your fleet to every planet conquered and use the stored energy to improve the firepower, strength and speed of your ships. 5 difficulty levels 4 galaxy sizes 5 different teams to choose from One goal: the total domination! Galaxy Wars is a real-time strategy game... extremely addicting! Have Fun!
Rubylands
Engage in real-time strategy with settlement building, resource management, and defensive combat. Build epic defenses, compose armies, and use magic to overcome enemies in this offline RTS experience.
- Real-time RTS strategy
- Settlement building and defense
- Resource gathering
- Offensive and defensive combat
- Survival sandbox mode
- Magic system
- Offline play
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The key to success is your resource gathering, settlement building, defense and offensive combat RTS skills. Regularly adjust to enemy tactics and build up your RTS military strategy troops! Build an epic defense of towers, magic that withstands the toughest encounters with ease. Compose your armies, RTS defense strategy wisely, because your kingdom depends on them. Recapture your islands by destroying colossus or try to survive with an RTS. Use magic to win in the most difficult situations when there is no hope. Be prepared for any epic quests and defenses that lie ahead! Features: Real-time RTS strategy with no direct control of units. Build a strong settlement defense with towers that will withstand any attack. Choose the troops and defense towers with which you want to build your way in the RTS. Survival sandbox mode. Try yourself in SANDBOX survival mode, as long as you can hold out fighting off endless attacks from various golems that want to destroy your settlement. Create or destroy. Use magic to create the world around you, or destroy all living things. And much more. Are you ready to lead your settlement to victory? Do you have the best strategy for victory? The world of RUBYLANDS is waiting for you. Community: Discord: https://bit.ly/3xgBjDe Get the latest information: https://rubylands.info/ Terms of Service: RUBYLANDS is free to download and play, but some game elements can be purchased for real money. If you do not want to use these features, please disable in-app purchases in your device settings. You can play this RTS offline without wi-fi or internet connection Download RUBYLANDS - RTS game for FREE! If you are experiencing any problems, please do get in contact with me here: dev@supermoonbox.com Leave a feedback or suggestions if you want to see more features and units in this free real time strategy game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Galaxy Wars at 4.4 against Rubylands's 2.9. Galaxy Wars also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (83% vs 50%). 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. Rubylands sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Galaxy Wars asks for nothing beyond the download.
Galaxy Wars holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Galaxy Wars has 348 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Galaxy Wars's written reviews are positive against 50% of Rubylands's.
Galaxy Wars ships an update every 6 weeks, Rubylands every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Galaxy Wars | Rubylands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (348 ratings) — better | 2.9 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 348 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tiny Games | Artem Karpenko |
Customer experience
Galaxy Wars
Rubylands
Bugs and requests
Galaxy Wars
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to capture planets
- Crashing on newer iOS versions
- Inconsistent planet capture mechanics
Requested features
4 requests- Multiplayer mode
- More map sizes and difficulty levels
- Ability to divide fleets
- Save/load functionality
Rubylands
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Galaxy Wars
No in-app purchases
Rubylands
- Premium content$0.99









