XCOM vs Death Pitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XCOM
This digital companion app enhances a cooperative board game by managing the alien invasion. It tracks time, presents dynamic invasion plans, and adapts to player decisions, creating a challenging strategic experience to defend humanity.
- Manages alien invasion plans
- Tracks in-game time
- Dynamic turn structure
- Randomized invasion scenarios
- Supports cooperative play
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The XCOM digital companion app is a free tool designed for use with XCOM: The Board Game. In XCOM: The Board Game, you and up to three friends assume the roles of the leaders of the elite, international organization known as XCOM. It is your job to defend humanity, quell the rising panic, and turn back the escalating alien invasion coordinated by the game’s innovative, free digital companion app. Each round, the app tracks the time you have allotted to respond to each task, forcing you to think quickly, even as you must carefully measure the strategic implications of your decisions. However, the app does far more than track time. Its design is integrated deep into gameplay, and it permits both a mutable alien invasion plan and a dynamic turn structure. When you start a game of XCOM: The Board Game, the app randomly selects one of five different invasion plans. These plans represent the different, overarching strategies that the aliens might employ as they send forces against the earth’s different continents, create catastrophes, and target your base, pressing back against your resistance efforts. Destroy UFOs. Research alien technology. Defend your base. Uncover the alien invasion plan. Should you fail, humanity is doomed.
Death Pitch
This companion app assists Blood Bowl coaches by helping them track game results, print clean sheets, and quickly access player skills and throwing templates. It streamlines game management for a better coaching experience.
- Track game results
- Print clean sheets
- Access player skills
- Quickly use throwing templates
- Streamline game management
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Death Pitch is the Companion App for Tabletop Fantasy Football coaches Bring the app to your games so you can better keep track of your results, print a new team sheet before every match, and quickly access skills or throwing templates. Terms of service at https://app.deathpitch.com/legal/tos Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Death Pitch at 4.5 against XCOM's 3.7. Death Pitch also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 51%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). XCOM's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Death Pitch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. XCOM asks for nothing beyond the download.
Death Pitch holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of XCOM's written reviews are positive against 87% of Death Pitch's.
XCOM ships an update every 2 months, Death Pitch every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XCOM | Death Pitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (29 ratings) | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.0% of reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Fantasy Flight Games | Coeursoft LLC |
Customer experience
XCOM
Death Pitch
In-app purchases
XCOM
No in-app purchases
Death Pitch
- Death Pitch Tier 3 Subscription$2.991 Month
- Death Pitch Tier 3 Annual$25.001 Year
