Fairy Fire vs Silverfish DX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fairy Fire
Engage in retro arcade action as you defend fairy pals from evil creatures in this fast-paced side-scroller. Collect power-ups and gems to upgrade your abilities and advance through waves of enemies or play in an endless arcade mode.
- Retro arcade action
- Side-scrolling gameplay
- Waves of evil creatures
- Upgrade items and power-ups
- Two game modes: floor-by-floor and endless
- Collect gems for upgrades
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Fairy Fire - Defender of the Fairies Up for some retro arcade action? Extra weapons, upgrades, smart bombs etc. are your favorite tools? Then this great arcade clone is for you! Survive waves of evil creatures in this fantastic, fast paced side scroller. The plot: Defend your fairy pals against the evil! Fight through waves of evil creatures and finally meet the mother of evil and free the fairies - forever... Pick up the fairies and escort them to the warp-hole. Watch out for the snatchers, they are trying to abduct your fairy pals. Advance to the next wave by rescuing all fairies and eliminating all enemies by the end of the timer. Two game modes - Advance floor by floor by defeating the boss of each floor. - Arcade ‘endless’ mode. Collect gems to buy great upgrade items - get additional fire power with the ‘FairyFire’ upgrade ( also protects the fairy from dying ) - increase the number of collectable fairies with the ‘FairyCarry’ upgrade - speed up the wizard and make him fast like a flash - increase the shot frequency with the ‘FirePower’ upgrade - get a ‘GemMagnet’ to ease the pickup of gems Collectable upgrades: - Smart bomb ( black scroll ): kill all enemies on the screen - Invincible ( golden scroll ): kamikaze can be fun - Time Bender ( hourglass ): slow down the enemies for easy killing - Helper ( purple potion ): adds a protecting item to the wizard; it kills enemies - Extra Live ( green potion ) - Fire Power ( magic lamp ): adds serious ( flame thrower like ) fire power to the wizard
Silverfish DX
Engage in fast-paced arcade action by navigating through enemy swarms and collecting power-ups. This game offers a challenging experience designed for touchscreens, testing your reflexes against relentless space bugs.
- Weave through enemy swarms
- Collect Power Pods
- Turn tables on foes
- Pure arcade action
- Designed for touchscreens
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Weave your way through menacing swarms, collect Power Pods and turn the tables on your foes! The space bugs are back and tougher than ever - do you have what it takes to defeat them? Silverfish DX delivers arcade action designed & refined for touchscreens.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fairy Fire at 5.0 against Silverfish DX's 4.5. Fairy Fire also leads on price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Silverfish DX's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 50%) and ratings volume (39 vs 3). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Fairy Fire costs $0.99 and Silverfish DX $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fairy Fire holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Silverfish DX has 39 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Fairy Fire's written reviews are positive against 71% of Silverfish DX's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fairy Fire ships an update every 37 months, Silverfish DX every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fairy Fire | Silverfish DX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.5 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 37 months | Every 21 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stefan Preuss | Chaotic Box |
Customer experience
Fairy Fire
Silverfish DX
In-app purchases
Fairy Fire
No in-app purchases
Silverfish DX
No in-app purchases
