Comparison

Digfender vs Lowlife

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Digfender

Defend your castle by digging deep underground to find resources and build powerful towers and traps. Customize your defenses through upgrade trees and challenge friends in survival mode. Enjoy a unique tower defense experience with no paywalls or wait timers.

Highlights
  • Digging for treasure and relics
  • Building towers and traps
  • Customizable defense upgrades
  • Survival mode with leaderboards
  • Over 70 challenging levels
  • No paywalls or wait timers
Features
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"Digfender is easily one of the best tower defense games I've played in a long time" - TOUCH ARCADE "There's a million tower defense games but only one like this" - GAMERANX Beneath your castle an enemy lies waiting. Grab your shovel and prepare your defenses! Dig deep into the ground and find valuable treasures and ancient relics to help you on your mission. Then use your loot to build powerful towers, set clever traps and unleash spectacular magic on your enemies. FEATURES - Over 70 challenging levels - 5 upgrade trees to customize your defenses - Survival mode - challenge your friends to beat your high score - Leaderboards and achievements - No paywalls or wait timers - Digging. Everyone loves digging Terms of service: http://www.mugshotgames.com/terms

About

Lowlife

Control a healer in a dystopian future, focusing on keeping your party alive against villains. Collect and upgrade healing scripts, trade items, and specialize your healer through skill trees. Compete on global leaderboards and team up for raid bosses.

Highlights
  • Heal party members in battle
  • Collect and upgrade healing scripts
  • Trade and shop for scripts
  • Specialize healer with skill trees
  • Compete on global leaderboards
  • Team up for raid bosses
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All you gotta do is heal. Take control of Lowlife and heal your downloaded Scripts as you scour a corrupt, dystopian future. Your goal is not to hurt the countless Villains you will face spanning across several Simulations and Raids, it is to keep your party alive so they can do the hurting - by any means necessary. Throughout the Healing Simulations, you will incept Memories which can be used to trade for new Scripts - or if you have downloaded Scripts with their own god-rolled skills, level them up with Memories or by taking them with you! Sell your extra Scripts in the Auction House for extra Memories to spend. Also shop for other worldwide players' listed Scripts to use for your own. There are 35 uniquely skilled subclasses of Scripts to be found, including Tanks and Melee DPS to place on your front line, Mages and Ranged DPS for your back line, and Shamans - a wildcard class that can be placed anywhere in your party setup. Lowlife places you in battle with a variety of weak and powerful Villains, equipped with only a variety of healing spells to keep everyone (and yourself!) alive. Spend your gained Parameter Points to build the perfect healer and fit your play style. Sprinkle a little of your personal playstyle on top by spending Node Points in one of three skill trees to build your perfect healer specialization. You'll need it to get the highest scores on the Global Leaderboards. Complete Quests and level up to gain access to a variety of Simulations with Bosses and challenges that await you. When you feel confident enough, team up online to take down a Raid Boss or two. Lowlife is free to play, unlimited, with no commercial breaks. Also works with no WiFi or internet connection (Auction House, Leaderboards, and Raids not available with no internet).

Screenshots

Digfender4 screens
Lowlife4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lowlife at none against Digfender's shown. Lowlife also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months). Digfender's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 75%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Digfender sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Lowlife sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Digfender against 4.7 for Lowlife. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1K and 1.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Digfender's written reviews are positive against 75% of Lowlife's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Digfender ships an update every 4 months, Lowlife every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Digfender versus Lowlife: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigfenderLowlife
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1K ratings) — better4.7 (1.4K ratings)
Positive reviews91.0% of reviews — better75.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1K1.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size482 MB32 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperMugshot Games Pty LtdCoast Media House LLC

Customer experience

Digfender

All ratings1,002 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews256 reviews
Positive91.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative2.3%

Lowlife

All ratings1,390 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive75.5%
Neutral10.4%
Negative14.2%

User reviews

Digfender

From 1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
  • 🚀 No intrusive ads
  • 👍 Meaningful challenge
  • 👍 Fun upgrade mechanics
  • 👍 Engaging gameplay

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional game freezes
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with newer devices
  • 🐛 Enemies that can destroy towers

Lowlife

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast-paced gameplay
  • 👍 Unique healing-focused concept
  • 💡 Interesting progression system
  • 🎨 Sleek and minimalistic design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🤔 Lack of in-game instructions/tutorials
  • 🔍 Difficulty understanding abilities and mechanics
  • 🔍 Unclear or hidden information

Bugs and requests

Digfender

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game freezes and crashes
  • UI elements not visible on newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and content
  • Custom level creator
  • Endless mode without tower-destroying enemies
  • Target priority options for towers

Lowlife

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game overheating issues
  • Progression and save data not working properly
  • Auction house and marketplace bugs

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to view skill descriptions outside of combat
  • More detailed stats and information about scripts
  • Improved marketplace functionality and responsiveness
  • Option to reset game progress

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Digfender

One-time11
  • 1500 Diamonds$1.99
  • 4000 Diamonds$3.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
Show 8 more
  • Special Offer 1$4.99
  • Jeweler's Cart$5.99
  • 10000 Diamonds$7.99
  • Dwarven Stronghold$7.99
  • Dark Fortress$7.99
  • Ice Palace$7.99
  • Special Offer 2$14.99
  • 30000 Diamonds$19.99
5 purchases

Lowlife

One-time5
  • 5,000 Memories$0.99
  • 15,000 Memories$1.99
  • VIP Ticket$2.99
Show 2 more
  • 50,000 Memories$4.99
  • 100,000 Memories$7.99

Questions

Is Digfender free?
Digfender is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lowlife free?
Lowlife is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Digfender or Lowlife?
Digfender is rated higher. Digfender averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Lowlife averages 4.7 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Digfender or Lowlife have ads?
Digfender shows ads; Lowlife does not.
Which is updated more often, Digfender or Lowlife?
Digfender ships an update every 4 months, and Lowlife every 6 days. Most recently, Digfender was updated on November 1, 2026 and Lowlife on October 21, 2026.

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