Galaxy88 vs Puck Around
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galaxy88
Engage in classic arcade-style space combat, shooting down alien invaders. This game offers three difficulty levels and intuitive one-handed controls, perfect for on-the-go play. Compete for high scores and master its bonus scoring system.
- Alien invasion gameplay
- Three difficulty levels
- Retro 8-bit pixel art
- One-handed swipe and tap controls
- Game Center high score competition
- Bonus scoring system
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Shoot down waves of alien invaders from space! Enemies attack in formation, diving and swooping in classic arcade style. Simple to pick up, hard to master. ■ 3 Difficulty Levels - Easy: Perfect for casual players - Hard: A real challenge for experienced gamers - Expert: 4 bosses, 1.2x bullet speed — only for the brave ■ Controls - Swipe: Move your ship left and right - Tap: Fire your weapon Easy one-handed controls for gaming on the go! ■ Features - Retro 8-bit pixel art graphics - Compete for high scores on Game Center - Bonus scoring system — destroy boss escorts for massive points
Puck Around
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Puck Around is air hockey with no table to find — the device is the table. Lay a phone or an iPad flat, grab an end each, and play: mallets under your thumbs, a white-hot puck between you, first to seven. No accounts, no matchmaking, no second screen — the people in the room are the whole game. FORMATS FOR WHOEVER'S AROUND Singles head-to-head, doubles with a lane each, or an uneven one against two — the goal widens for the better-staffed side. Grab your mallet to ready up; the force field bursts and the puck is live. PUCKS WITH CHARACTER Round, square, or triangular — shaped pucks tumble, catch the boards, and spin off at angles the round one never would. Fly up to three at once, make the side walls wrap like portals, or leave it to the "?" and find out at the faceoff. TOURNAMENT NIGHT Winner stays, knockout brackets for up to 32, or a league season with real tie-breakers. Names are remembered as one-tap chips — no profiles, no stats — and every player wears their own neon: mallet, goal, and score in their color. PRACTICE, AND AN ARCADE IN THE CORNER A machine mallet on a fixed sweep defends the far goal — a drill target that never aims, but its deflections count. Then three solo cabinets on the same physics: a bumper field, a brick wall that racks back harder every time you break through, and a survival table that never stops feeding pucks. Ten-line hiscore boards, signed with one tap. NOTHING LEAVES THE DEVICE No server, no accounts, no analytics, no ads — the app makes no network connections at all. Scores and remembered names live on the device and nowhere else. Sound and haptics come off the game's own physics, the look is a neon cabinet, and the table fills the screen whichever way you hold it. Built openly with AI assistance — much of the code. The design, decisions, and care are human. Open source under the MIT licence. Free. No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no tracking. Just air hockey.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Puck Around at none against Galaxy88's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
| Parameter | Galaxy88 | Puck Around |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TAKASHI HANABE | Ville Misaki |
In-app purchases
Galaxy88
No in-app purchases
Puck Around
No in-app purchases









