Comparison

Plane Wars RTS vs Coldfront

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

Head to head
About

Plane Wars RTS

Engage in intense air battles in a dystopian world, leading aviation forces to seize enemy bases and fight for freedom. Improve your skills, aircraft, and bases using collected energy for special abilities and strategic advantages.

Highlights
  • Air battles
  • Base seizing
  • Aircraft and base improvement
  • Special abilities
  • 48 levels
  • 5 game modes
  • RPG elements
Features
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Enter on the warpath in the anti-utopian world, fight in air battles, struggle for freedom and equality . Become the leader of aviation, the legendary commander, seize enemy bases, improve your skills, bases, aircrafts, collect energy and use it for special abilities such as storm cloud, power gain, construction acceleration and the creation of zeppelins. Features: - 48 levels - 5 different game modes - RPG elements - flying airdromes - air defense bases - radars - unique aircrafts - high-quality graphics Plane Wars - is a strategy tower game (not a Tower Defense). Inspired by "1984" by George Orwell. Success of battles depends on characteristics of your aircrafts and bases, on your agility, flexibility of your mind. Note: it is possible to complete all levels - though it is difficult.

About

Coldfront

Experience real-time strategy gameplay on touch devices. Build your base, command diverse armies, and engage in online battles or offline skirmishes. Features a campaign, daily challenges, and a map editor.

Highlights
  • Touch-optimized controls
  • Two distinct armies (EMBER & FROST)
  • Online multiplayer (1v1 to 8 players)
  • Offline campaign and skirmish modes
  • Daily challenges (TODAY'S FRONT)
  • Map editor for custom battles
  • Replay system
Features
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One drag, twenty tanks. One tap, and they roll. Built for touch: the real-time strategy you used to stay up far too late playing. Free to download. No ads, no timers, no energy bars. Harvesters roll out to the crystal fields. Your base rises under the cranes. Tanks, infantry and aircraft pour off the line. And somewhere across the map, someone else is doing exactly the same thing. TWO ARMIES. ONE WAR. EMBER digs in. FROST follows the money. EMBER is free, and it goes everywhere. Troopers and Maulers up front, Stormcaller rockets behind them, Skyjacks on jetpacks overhead, and the Titan, for when you're done being polite. FROST is a whole second army with its own units, buildings and economy. Its Glacier refinery drives out to the ore and sets up shop. Then the weather turns: Avalanches, Whiteout bombers and Hailstorm flak. Anyone can fight against FROST. Commanding it yourself is a one-time in-app purchase that also unlocks the rest of the campaign. That's the only thing we sell. BRING A FRIEND. OR BRING SEVEN. Real people, real time: online battles from 1v1 to 8 players. Host a room and send the code or an invite link, or tap QUICK MATCH. Sign in with Game Center to climb the ranked ladder, or skip it and just play. If a player has to step away, the match pauses for them instead of dropping them. FIFTEEN MISSIONS A campaign that teaches, then bites. Act 1 takes you from your first harvester to full-scale assaults across ten missions, and it is free. Act 2 takes the fight to FROST: five more missions against it, the first of them free to play. The rest come with the FROST purchase. A NEW FRONT EVERY DAY TODAY'S FRONT is one fresh battle a day, and the whole world gets the same one. Win it, then go again and beat your best time. SKIRMISH ANYWHERE Fight the AI on Easy, Normal or Hard. Go it alone, or team up with friends online. Campaign and skirmish work offline, so your commute counts. DRAW YOUR OWN WAR Lay out terrain, ore, starting positions and control points in the map editor, then host a room on it: everyone who joins plays your map. Ten built-in maps ship with the game too, from snowfields and desert to city blocks, wetlands and lava rifts. ON TAPE Every match you start saves itself as a replay. Relive the win. Scrub to the second the loss went wrong. IT SOUNDS LIKE A WAR Shells leave craters. Wrecks burn. The shots you hear started as real recordings. The crystal ore shrinks as you mine it, and you can watch your harvesters fill up. On newer iPhones and iPads, the water moves and the trees sway. No account to make, no third-party tracking, nothing between you and the next match.

Screenshots

Plane Wars RTS4 screens
Coldfront4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Coldfront at 5.0 against Plane Wars RTS's 4.6. Plane Wars RTS's advantage is iOS requirement (5.1.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Plane Wars RTS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Coldfront sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Coldfront holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Plane Wars RTS versus Coldfront: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlane Wars RTSColdfront
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB429 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperVladyslav VikulovGurpreet Heer

Customer experience

Plane Wars RTS

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Coldfront

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Plane Wars RTS

One-time1
  • Full Game Unlock$0.99
1 purchases

Coldfront

One-time1
  • Frost + Campaign Act 2$0.99

Questions

Is Plane Wars RTS free?
Plane Wars RTS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Coldfront free?
Coldfront is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plane Wars RTS or Coldfront?
Coldfront is rated higher. Plane Wars RTS averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Coldfront averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Plane Wars RTS or Coldfront have ads?
Neither Plane Wars RTS nor Coldfront shows ads.

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