Beach Defender vs PPKP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beach Defender
Defend your beach from waves of sea creatures with simple one-touch controls. Collect creatures, climb leaderboards, and enjoy retro pixel art and sound. Play anywhere, even offline.
- One-touch controls
- Offline play
- Creature hunting and ranking
- Leaderboard
- Retro screen themes
- Haptic feedback
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Defend the beach with one tap, even offline. Hunt every sea creature, climb the ranking and switch between retro screen styles. Waves of octopuses, sea urchins, jellyfish, crabs and turtles come out of the sea. Hold your wooden palisade: every plank you lose opens the way for the next enemy. FEATURES • One-touch controls: easy to learn, hard to master • Works offline, play anywhere • Hunt log: collect every creature and earn new ranks • Leaderboard: climb the ranking and beat your friends' scores • Retro screen themes with handcrafted pixel art and 8-bit sound • Haptic feedback • Optional "Remove Ads" purchase
PPKP
Become a hero and rebuild a city under attack by monsters. Smash cars for materials, train in martial arts, and upgrade your abilities in the lab to defeat your foes and restore order.
- Smash cars for building materials
- Replenish strength and boost combos
- Learn martial arts and upgrade dojo
- Acquire power-ups and special goggles
- Receive hints from city inhabitants
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Suddenly the Monster Corps attacks and breaks the city. Be the hero who will revive the city while taking down monsters. - Scrapyard Get building materials by smashing old cars to pieces. - Restaurant Replenish your strength and boost your combo powers while gaining needed experience to level up. Don't worry about losing some fights; the restaurant is always open to satisfy your appetite. So go out and challenge those monsters again and again. - Dojo Ancient scrolls of martial arts are available for you to learn. Learning more martial arts allows you to upgrade the dojo and learn much more. Don't forget to check the hidden room for the forbidden techniques. - Laboratory Do you want upgrades? The laboratory has them. From special goggles that let's you see the monsters weaknesses, to power ups that will make you the best monster hunter, the laboratory has them all. Some power ups will gain experience if equipped at your house. - People Tapping on people in the city will give you some nice hints. Animals also deserve some of your tender taps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PPKP at 95% against Beach Defender's 43%. PPKP also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (23K vs 34). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Beach Defender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PPKP sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PPKP holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PPKP has 23K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Beach Defender's written reviews are positive against 95% of PPKP's.
Beach Defender ships an update every 2 weeks, PPKP monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beach Defender | PPKP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (34 ratings) | 4.9 (23K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 23K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Florian Brochard | SHIMADA TOSHIHIRO |
Customer experience
Beach Defender
PPKP
Bugs and requests
Beach Defender
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PPKP
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional button/control responsiveness issues
- Game freezing/crashing on certain levels
Requested features
4 requests- More ways to earn premium currency
- Ability to save/restore progress across devices
- Additional gameplay modes (boss rush, multiplayer, etc.)
- More customization options for the protagonist
In-app purchases
Beach Defender
- Remove Ads$2.99
PPKP
- 100Gem$0.99
- 600Gem$4.99
- 6000Gem$40.99









