Beach Defender vs Level Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beach Defender
Experience a retro 8-bit arcade shooter inspired by classic fantasy games. Defend the beach in an adventure where the whole world counts on you. Compete with friends on leaderboards and enjoy haptic feedback.
- Retro 8-bit pixel art
- Simple one-touch gameplay
- GameCenter leaderboards
- Infinite arcade mode
- Haptic feedback
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Defend the beach in this retro 8-bit arcade shoot’em up! Your fellow villagers, your friends and even your own mother are counting on you… in fact, the whole world is. You are the Guardian of the Beach, and it’s adventure time! Handcrafted pixel art and 8-bit sound effects pay tribute to the classic handheld adventures of the 90s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down. FEATURES • One-touch controls: simple to learn, hard to master • Endless waves of sea creatures: octopuses, sea urchins, jellyfish, crabs that dig out of the sand and turtles whose shells bounce your shots back • A wooden palisade protects the village: an enemy that breaks a plank opens the way for the next one • Game Center leaderboard: challenge your friends and beat their scores • Optional “Remove Ads” purchase • Haptic feedback • Retro pixel art and sound
Level Maker
Unleash your creativity by designing and playing custom platformer levels. Explore an endless stream of user-generated content, from challenging obstacles to unique characters. Share your own creations and discover what others have made.
- Create custom game levels
- Play user-generated levels
- Share your creations
- Over 100 blocks, items, enemies, and characters
- Challenge levels
- Unlimited world levels
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Level Maker is a game of awesome creation and fun. You can PLAY, CREATE and SHARE levels with everyone, so let your imagination run wild! You love super classic platform games, now you can play, create and share your own creations to the world! Features: 100+ blocks, items, enemies and characters. Awesome Level Maker Play, Share and Like Levels Unlimited World Levels created by other players! Challenge Levels
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beach Defender at 4.4 against Level Maker's 3.7. Level Maker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (54% vs 43%). On price, update cadence, 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. Beach Defender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Level Maker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Beach Defender holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 105 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Beach Defender's written reviews are positive against 54% of Level Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Beach Defender ships an update every 2 weeks, Level Maker every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Beach Defender | Level Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better | 3.7 (105 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 53.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 105 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| 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 | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Florian Brochard | Vorun Kreal |
Customer experience
Beach Defender
Level Maker
Bugs and requests
Beach Defender
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Level Maker
Reported bugs
5 issues- Game crashes after ads
- Levels not loading properly
- Inability to retry levels after death
- Inconsistent jump mechanics
- Soft-locking in menus
Requested features
6 requests- Add more enemy types
- Improve search and discovery of levels
- Implement checkpoints
- Add more block types and customization options
- Introduce multiplayer functionality
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- Implement a story mode or campaign
In-app purchases
Beach Defender
- Remove Ads$0.99
Level Maker
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlock All Blocks + Remove Ads$2.99
- Unlock All Characters + Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
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