Digfender vs Ants vs Robots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Ants vs Robots
Engage in strategic colony management with two distinct factions: ants and robots. Choose between real-time strategy battles against other colonies or tower defense against waves of bugs. Explore a sandbox mode with a map editor or progress through a story mode.
- Colony management simulator
- RTS battles
- Tower defense mode
- Playable ant and robot factions
- Sandbox mode with map editor
- Story mode
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Ants vs Robots is a colony simulator game with simple and intuitive controls. The game has two modes: 1) RTS where you fight other colony, 2) Tower Defence where you fight waves of bugs. There are two playable factions — ants and robots. The game features sandbox mode with a map editor and story mode where you complete level after level.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ants vs Robots at none against Digfender's shown. Digfender's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 52). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Digfender sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Ants vs Robots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Digfender against 4.6 for Ants vs Robots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Digfender has 1K ratings behind it against 52, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Digfender's written reviews are positive against 96% of Ants vs Robots's.
Digfender ships an update every 4 months, Ants vs Robots every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digfender | Ants vs Robots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1K ratings) — better | 4.6 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.0% of reviews | 96.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 482 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mugshot Games Pty Ltd | Ivan Khokhlenkov |
Customer experience
Digfender
Ants vs Robots
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
Ants vs Robots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Digfender
- 1500 Diamonds$1.99
- 4000 Diamonds$3.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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- 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
Ants vs Robots
- No ads and fast speed$3.99
Questions
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