Fairy Fire vs BruceTron
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
BruceTron
Engage in a fun, lighthearted mission to defeat rogue robots and rescue citizens. Explore various levels and game types, with options to practice or design your own challenges. The free version offers limited access, with an unlockable option for full game and level design features.
- Defeat rogue robots
- Rescue good citizens
- Multiple level types
- Game type variety
- Level practice mode
- Level design tools
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Bruce-Tron has a mission to eliminate all the bad bots and save any good citizens left. Enjoy many different types of Robots which are out to get you. Fun but not too serious. Many different levels and game types to choose from. Even Practice a level or design a level with many Tanks or Mommies. Free version includes 2 level to some of the games. Unlock to design levels and play all games
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BruceTron at Free against Fairy Fire's $0.99. BruceTron also leads on update cadence (every 15 months vs every 37 months). Fairy Fire's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On rating, ads, 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
BruceTron is free to download; Fairy Fire costs $0.99 up front. BruceTron sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fairy Fire asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fairy Fire against 5.0 for BruceTron. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Fairy Fire ships an update every 37 months, BruceTron every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fairy Fire | BruceTron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 37 months | Every 15 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Stefan Preuss | Rob Rightmyer |
Customer experience
Fairy Fire
BruceTron
In-app purchases
Fairy Fire
No in-app purchases
BruceTron
- Unlock All Levels - All Games$0.99
