Comparison

英雄之剑 vs Space Defender

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

Head to head
About

英雄之剑

Features
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“以你之力,铸英雄之剑”!全民格斗手游《英雄之剑》激情来战!霸体浮空无限COMBO,组合连击尽显指尖繁华。职业转换自由随心,极致体验英雄百变。多人组队团团混战,你不是一个人在战斗。炫酷时装华丽蜕变,彰显不凡尊贵。开放交易人人平等,免费也能玩到爽。 【自由转职英雄百变】 四大职业自由转换,二十八种独有技能随心掌控,极致体验英雄百变。 【觉醒大招全屏制霸】 独创无双觉醒AOE,极限反杀全屏制霸,给你酷爽的战斗体验! 【多人组队跨服征战】 多人组队团团混战,跨服征战强强对抗,征服碾压谁与争锋! 【华丽换装穿出时尚】 “血色之魂”、“天使之翼”超50套定制时装,个性尊贵彰显不凡。 【公平交易人人平等】 开放交易人人平等,前所未有绝对公平,免费也能玩到爽!

About

Space Defender

Lead a squadron in a top-down space shooter with RPG elements. Explore a story across galaxies, manage your ship and crew, and engage in trading and combat. Play offline with touch or controller support.

Highlights
  • Top-down space shooter gameplay
  • RPG progression and ship customization
  • Story-driven campaign
  • Squadron management with wingmen
  • Research, mining, and trading
  • Offline play
  • Controller support
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The frontier is falling. Hold the line. A top-down space shooter with deep RPG progression, built for touch. Lead a squadron, fit your ship, hunt pirate captains and live a story told over the radio in the middle of the fight. WHY PLAYERS STAY • No ads, no subscription, plays offline • Play the whole first act, then one purchase unlocks the full game: no energy, no timers, nothing else to buy • Real depth: four acts, three galaxies and Kepler, 17 ships, over 60 pieces of equipment, wingmen to lead and several endings A REAL STORY, IN FOUR ACTS Fly for Admiral Voss and Ilse Marin in a war across three galaxies. Escort the Armada and face a choice at the Threshold, then go on to Kepler, the abandoned mining world of Act IV: gravity wells that pull everything in, descents into dark shafts, the port of Ferrum and four heavy ships from its yards. Scripted dialogue, voiced in six languages. Several endings wait at the end of the war. LEAD YOUR SQUADRON • Up to three wingmen: order them to attack, cover you, hold or break, and they answer on the radio • Recruit pilots with 20 different traits that change how your ships fight • Assign a crew to each ship: their bonuses fly with them • A downed wingman ejects: recover the rescue pod before it is lost HOURS OF DEPTH • 17 ships and over 60 pieces of equipment: lasers, railguns, flak, guided missiles, turrets, shields • Manage your energy: every item you fit changes how your ship flies and fights • A research tree, plus mining, salvage, trade, refining and recycling • 15 kinds of contracts and a signature mission in each galaxy • Four difficulty levels, a Veteran mode and 5 save slots PIRATES AND THEIR CAPTAINS A den in each galaxy, raids on stations, ambushed freighters and bounties on named lieutenants. Four captains with their own story: spare them, enlist them or shoot them down. Your choices follow you to the end. A FRONT THAT MOVES The Drones push back: stations come under threat, then under siege, then fall if nobody defends them. Take them back. SPACEPORTS AND EXPEDITIONS Dock at Horizon, Hephaistos, Sekhmet or Ferrum and step into the bar, Command and the shipyard. Scan planets and send your crew on 12 illustrated expeditions where your pilots' traits set the odds. ENEMIES YOU CAN READ Snipers keep their distance, minelayers leave traps, carriers launch fighters, jammers scramble your missiles. Every attack is announced: read it and dodge. PLAY YOUR WAY • Touch controls made for phone and tablet: choose your button layout, automatic missiles • Or play with a controller • Voiced in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese; subtitles in 15 languages Made by Petit Vaisseau, a one-person studio in France.

Screenshots

英雄之剑4 screens
Space Defender4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Space Defender at daily against 英雄之剑's monthly. 英雄之剑's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. 英雄之剑 sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Space Defender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

英雄之剑 ships an update monthly, Space Defender daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
英雄之剑 versus Space Defender: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter英雄之剑Space Defender
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size353 MB1.2 GB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperLineKong Entertainment Technology Co.,LtdGuillaume Merle

Customer experience

英雄之剑

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Space Defender

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

英雄之剑

One-time6
  • 60红钻$0.99
  • 300红钻$3.99
  • 980红钻$14.99
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  • 1980红钻$29.99
  • 3280红钻$49.99
  • 6480红钻$99.99
1 purchases

Space Defender

One-time1
  • Full game$6.99

Questions

Is 英雄之剑 free?
英雄之剑 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Space Defender free?
Space Defender is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 英雄之剑 or Space Defender have ads?
Neither 英雄之剑 nor Space Defender shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 英雄之剑 or Space Defender?
英雄之剑 ships an update monthly, and Space Defender daily. Most recently, 英雄之剑 was updated on November 11, 2026 and Space Defender on November 10, 2026.

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