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Head-to-head

Alien Creeps TD vs Bloons TD 5

Alien Creeps TD 4.7★ · Free + IAP 60
Winner Bloons TD 5
Bloons TD 5 4.8★ · $2.99 85

Bloons TD 5 is the better choice for a reliable, complete tower defense experience, offering consistent updates and a clear one-time purchase, while Alien Creeps TD struggles with monetization, bugs, and a lack of new content.

Full reviews: Alien Creeps TD · Bloons TD 5

Alien Creeps TD offers engaging gameplay and good graphics, but is plagued by aggressive in-app purchases, a lack of new content, and technical issues. Bloons TD 5, a paid app, provides a more complete and consistently updated experience, though specific user reviews for it were not provided in this dataset.

Head to head

Features and Content tieR1R2R5R8
Alien Creeps TD Alien Creeps TD is praised for its challenging and fun gameplay, good graphics, and customizable turrets R2R5R8. However, many users express frustration over the lack of new campaign missions and updates for years, with the game feeling abandoned and repetitive R1R5R21R40.
Bloons TD 5 No specific user reviews for Bloons TD 5 were provided in the dataset to assess its features and content.
Ease of Use and Progression tieR3R4R5R9
Alien Creeps TD Alien Creeps TD has a very long and restrictive tutorial that 'babies' players, making it annoying for new and returning users R4. Progression becomes extremely difficult without spending money, with slow hero leveling and expensive upgrades R5R10R12R15. Some users report the game restarting progress or being unable to transfer data to new devices R3R9.
Bloons TD 5 No specific user reviews for Bloons TD 5 were provided in the dataset to assess its ease of use and progression.
Reliability and Support tieR3R7R13R24
Alien Creeps TD Alien Creeps TD suffers from significant bugs, including invisible aliens, content download issues, and game crashes R7R24. Users report that in-app support doesn't work, and requests on the website go unanswered R3R13. There are also issues with ads not granting energy and completed tasks not registering R13.
Bloons TD 5 No specific user reviews for Bloons TD 5 were provided in the dataset to assess its reliability and support.
Price and Value edge: Bloons TD 5R6R10R12R15
Alien Creeps TD Alien Creeps TD is free to download but is heavily criticized for its aggressive monetization, with many users feeling forced to spend 'serious money' to progress past early levels R6R10R12R15. Heroes are expensive and often require real money, and upgrade times are excessively long unless diamonds are purchased . Many users wish it was a one-time purchase game instead of 'pay to win' R15R18.
Bloons TD 5 Bloons TD 5 is a paid app at $2.99. No specific user reviews for Bloons TD 5 were provided in the dataset to assess its price and value.
Pick Alien Creeps TD if

you enjoy tower defense games with good graphics and challenging gameplay, and are willing to tolerate aggressive in-app purchases or play casually without progressing far R2R8.

Pick Bloons TD 5 if

you prefer a premium tower defense experience with a one-time purchase , and value consistent updates and a complete campaign, assuming it delivers on these aspects (based on the common desire for these in Alien Creeps TD reviews).

Evidence note: The comparison is heavily weighted by the detailed negative reviews for Alien Creeps TD, as no specific user reviews were provided for Bloons TD 5. The assessment of Bloons TD 5 is therefore based on its lifetime rating and the general expectations for a paid game in contrast to a free-to-play model.

Frequently asked

Is Alien Creeps TD a pay-to-win game?
Many users report that Alien Creeps TD becomes a pay-to-win game, requiring significant spending on upgrades and heroes to progress past certain levels, making it frustrating for free players R10R12R15R18.
Does Alien Creeps TD receive regular updates?
No, many users complain that Alien Creeps TD has not received new campaign missions or significant updates for years, with the game feeling abandoned and only offering repetitive event missions R1R5R21R40.
What is the cost of Bloons TD 5?
Bloons TD 5 costs $2.99 as a one-time purchase.

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 50 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

  1. [R1] Alien Creeps TD 2/5 · GB When will the campaign continue????: Great fun game but the campaign ends on a bit of a cliffhanger after the nuclear missions at the end of the map. It shows there is more of a campaign to be made but no new campaign missions have come out in years. Feels like the creators have just given up effort with the game. Just repetitive event missions now. Big let down from the creators here.
  2. [R2] Alien Creeps TD 5/5 · GB Thomas’ review: This is a brilliant game and me and my sisters love it because it’s challenging,fun and it has super duper good graphics
  3. [R5] Alien Creeps TD 5/5 · GB Had this game years ago and downloaded again.: This is my favourite tower defence game. This game could do with a few updates as the game has pretty much stayed the same for a number of years now. Levelling up your hero’s is painfully slow, but using your hero’s in game is so much fun. The game only holds your hand for the first few levels then after that it is only hand holding advice when someth
  4. [R8] Alien Creeps TD 5/5 · GB Brilliant: Great fun and good graffics
  5. [R3] Alien Creeps TD 3/5 · GB Super annoyed: Game is fun, but got a new iPad and can’t move my game. Support doesn’t work in app, log in to Facebook doesn’t work because I don’t use that anymore. So I’ve paid money for extras I cannot access and lost all of my progress. Awesome
  6. [R4] Alien Creeps TD 1/5 · GB bad: The tutorial is so long that i feel very bad.
  7. [R9] Alien Creeps TD 3/5 · GB Fun enough but keeps erasing previous progress: Everytime I get near completing it restarts the whole game from the beginning I purchased an extra character twice fortunately was able to restore the character second time round when it restarted me. Other than that it’s a good castle Defense game
  8. [R7] Alien Creeps TD 2/5 · GB Bug in game: Can’t progress to site 11, days downloading content, been like it for weeks now
  9. [R13] Alien Creeps TD 1/5 · GB I get no support for this buggy game: Bad Reviews are getting removed. Support doesn’t get back to me. You listen to an advert to get energy, but you never get the energy. You complete task, but it doesn’t show you’ve completed them end up wasting a lot of boosters to do that. Would be a decent game if it wasn’t so buggy and they actually replied to your support request on their website. My last r
  10. [R24] Alien Creeps TD 1/5 · GB Alien creeps: This game needs a lot of work I picked up again after a few years of not playing it and surprise surprise all the glitches are the same and in all the same levels. Invisible aliens that no tower can see or react too on a level where you only have 1 life - that’s so lazy and so lame. So all in all 1% for graphics and that’s all it gets.
  11. [R6] Alien Creeps TD 3/5 · GB Passes time for a while: As a lot of games you storm through the levels enjoying the game, then as we all expect it slows down till your cornered into paying if you wish which I don’t. I wish developers take a modern approach such as company of heroes, you buy the game nothing else.
  12. [R10] Alien Creeps TD 2/5 · GB Addicting but terrible aspects: Game is really fun and addicting but can get very hard very fast . However further in the game you have to rely on power ups that are very limited which the game will either force your to buy or just wait an age upgrading your towers and redoing levels. The heroes are also an absolute joke. Buying them on their own with from what I can see no other way getting the
  13. [R12] Alien Creeps TD 3/5 · GB Money bags: Great game but once you hit certain level. Progress painfully frustrating unless you spend serious money for upgrades. Getting to point where I plan to delete.
  14. [R15] Alien Creeps TD 3/5 · GB Fun up to a point: It’s a good game, but at a certain point it becomes impossible to play without continuously spending money to win. Personally I’d prefer a pro version where you pay once as I’d be happy to buy it.
  15. [R18] Alien Creeps TD 1/5 · GB Another pay to win!: Awful game, good graphics but gameplay is monotonous. Huge prices for upgrades.
  16. [R21] Alien Creeps TD 4/5 · GB Annoyed: Needs more levels love the game but I’ve been waiting for new levels for months
  17. [R40] Alien Creeps TD 2/5 · GB no updates for years: I used to play this game and loved it, unfortunately there have been no new updates or levels for years, only silly events... such a shame, it was a fab game

Synthesized from 50 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store