Play The Field vs Planets Nu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play The Field
Engage in a unique blend of real-time strategy and puzzle gameplay. Strategically place and command your units to capture enemy forces in challenging stages. Master efficient unit management for higher scores and replay levels for optimal performance.
- Real-time strategy and puzzle blend
- Tactical unit placement
- Direct unit control and commands
- Increasing difficulty levels
- Scoring based on efficiency
- Replayable stages
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Looking to test your tactical skills? Play The Field has a unique blend of RTS (real time strategy) and Puzzle game elements, allowing you full control over your units. The objective is simple - For each stage you are presented one or more enemy units of various types, laid out on the field in a specific configuration. Your task is to place your units around the field with a simple tap to drop each in your desired location. You can even swipe in a line, curve, or other shape to place multiple units quickly. Unlike many mobile device games, Play The Field allow full control over your units. They can be selected with a quick touch or swipe, and ordered to attack, move, or hold with a simple touch. Levels start easy, but difficulty increases quickly as you proceed. So be ready for a challenge! Each stage is over when all enemy units are captured. Score is assigned based on how efficient you manage your units, and levels can be replayed many times to aim for a better score.
Planets Nu
Engage in a turn-based space strategy game where you manage resources, colonize planets, and build starships. Compete economically and militarily against other galactic empires in a multi-player environment.
- Turn-based space combat
- Galactic empire simulation
- Resource management
- Starship construction
- Planet colonization
- Multi-player competition
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Planets.nu is a graphical multi-player play by turn war game that simulates combat in space between galactic empires. The game emphasizes mining, colonization and the construction of starships. Players compete against each other economically and militarily on a galactic scale. The game system allows players to construct starships by selecting various components and placing them on a given hull type. There are usually 11 players in a game, each playing a different race with special ships and abilities, but there are other formats as well. At the start of a game, each player is given a planet, a starbase, and a ship. The players have to manage their planet's population and resources wisely. They can create more ships and expand their domain through colonization or conquest of neighboring planets. Of course, all players are attempting to do the same thing, so the fleets will, inevitably, engage in combat from time to time. Planets.nu can be compared to a multi-player chess game in which all players move all their pieces simultaneously, one turn at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Play The Field at 100% against Planets Nu's 0%. Play The Field also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8). Planets Nu's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Play The Field holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Play The Field's written reviews are positive against 0% of Planets Nu's.
| Parameter | Play The Field | Planets Nu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 3.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Wisgo | Geographical Media Inc. |
Customer experience
Play The Field
Planets Nu
In-app purchases
Play The Field
No in-app purchases
Planets Nu
No in-app purchases
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