HERO vs Shooting Survival
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HERO
Engage in a retro-style action game where you control a hero to save the city from an invading army. Power up your hero, master combo skills, and utilize a variety of weapons and environmental elements to defeat enemies and solve puzzles. Collect items, level up your character, and explore hidden areas in this 8-bit pixelated adventure.
- Retro 8-bit pixel art style
- Power-up and costume system
- Over 10 combo skills
- Variety of weapons and throwable objects
- RPG-like leveling system
- Quest system with stone collection
- Puzzle elements with levers
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RETRO STYLE - HEROES COMBO ACTION GAME ! 8 BIT-DOTS Pixels. Unknown army occupies the city and all the building and roads got broken. HERO-X moves to save the Earth. The Costumes: -Make the super power heroes by Power-up! -Change the costumes by Power-up! The Combo: -The special attack by each hero. -More than 10 Combo Skills. -Basic combo, air combo, varieties of combo. -Level-up system like RPG games. The Weapons: -UZI, M-16, AK-47, Beretta, Magnum! -Using attacking guns, rifles, grenades. -Carry, destroy, and throw the objects. -Utilize conveyer belts, icy ground, jumping board, and propellers. The A.I. -Various Boss stage with the best A.I. -Smart play with optimized system for mapping. -Many attacking skills like a fighting action game. The Quests: -Collect stones as completing many quests. -Use a lot of skills based on stones. -Use 3 abilities at the same time. The Puzzles: -Stage consisting of numerous map tiles. -Puzzle factor using 'Levers'. The Game Features: -Have action animations more than 100. -Collect gold, buy heroes, and Level-up! -Clear the villains easily with Level-up and experience points. -Find the hidden area in stage. -Feel the retro arcade game!
Shooting Survival
Engage in a 2D bullet hell shooter that blends action with building and crafting. Explore diverse worlds, battle monsters, and challenge bosses with unique heroes and a variety of weapons. Team up with friends in online multiplayer or form a guild for rewards.
- 2D bullet hell shooting gameplay
- Building and crafting mechanics
- Unique heroes and diverse weapons
- Resource harvesting and world bosses
- Randomly generated dungeons
- Online co-op multiplayer
- Guild system with weekly prizes
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This is the 2d shooting game with building and crafting that features extremely easy play styles. Its super cool and enjoyable gameplay, mixed with rogue-like, crafting, and farming elements will get you hooked from the very first shooting run! Features: - Lots of shooting - Lots of unique heroes - Tons of weapons - Guns, staves, and swords.. Shoot monsters to pieces! - Explore worlds to survive monsters, harvest resources, and survive world bosses - Explore and challenge randomly generated dungeons for loots - Challenge surviving monster arena for epic rewards! - Auto aim mechanism for super intuitive control. Shoot, cast skill effortlessly! - Online multiplayer with up to 4 players! Team up with friends around the world for an online co-op shooting adventure - Start a guild and recruit members and receive weekly prizes! A pixel roguelike shoot em up that combines action, survival, farming and building.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HERO at none against Shooting Survival's shown. HERO also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (584 vs 10). Shooting Survival's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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. HERO sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Shooting Survival sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HERO holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HERO has 584 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of HERO's written reviews are positive against 88% of Shooting Survival's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HERO ships an update every 4 weeks, Shooting Survival every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HERO | Shooting Survival |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (584 ratings) — better | 4.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 584 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jongha Back | Cowbeans Inc. |
Customer experience
HERO
Shooting Survival
Bugs and requests
HERO
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes after cutscenes
- In-app purchases not working correctly
- Black screen on launch
- Save data loss
Requested features
4 requests- Add more playable heroes and villains
- Implement controller support
- Add checkpoints and ability to choose starting hero
- Improve level design and enemy variety
Shooting Survival
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HERO
- +30 Gems$0.99
- +10,000 Gold$0.99
- Map Pack (Gems+Gold)$0.99
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- +180 Gems$4.99
- +58,000 Gold$4.99
- +380 Gems$9.99
- +130,000 Gold$9.99
- +1,250 Gems$29.99
- +4,500 Gems$99.99
- +1,500,000 Gold$99.99
Shooting Survival
- 10 Gems$1.49
- 50 Gems$5.99
- 150 Gems$11.99
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- 250 Gems$17.99
- 500 Gems$31.99
- 650 Gems$32.99
- 1200 Gems$47.99
- 2000 Gems$69.99









