Tiny Bombers vs Shaft Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Bombers
Test your reflexes and strategic skills in this endless maze game. Guide your character, collect coins, and use bombs to overcome traps and collapsing levels. Unlock new characters and power-ups to achieve your highest score.
- Endless gameplay
- Strategic bomb placement
- Coin collection
- Unlockable characters
- Power-ups
- Local co-op on Apple TV
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Endless bombastic fun that will blow your socks off! Do you want to test your reflexes and strategic skills? Tiny Bombers is a beautiful game where you get to guide your character through a maze full of coins, bombs and traps. In order to progress, you will need to use your bombing skills! The level is collapsing behind you, so you have to push onward if you want to stay alive. Since Tiny Bombers is an endless game, your main focus is to get as far you can while collecting coins. You will always find some new traps and fresh challenges in front of you! Use your strategic skills to guide your character through the game world without putting him in peril. Place bombs strategically and blast the walls down. With bonuses such as increased bomb range, speed, or armor, you will be able to find new interesting solutions to difficult situations. Almost 20 unlockable characters, all with their own unique design. Don’t hesitate, download Tiny Bombers now and immerse yourself in this vibrant, crazy world. You will not be disappointed! Features: ● Great endless gameplay ● Explore multiple worlds ● Almost 20 characters to choose from ● Beautiful graphics ● Amazing soundtracks ● Local coop on Apple TV (using iPhone or iPad as a second controller) ! ● Apple 3D Touch and Haptic Feedback support ● Supports 12 languages
Shaft Run
Navigate procedurally generated levels by jumping and dodging obstacles. Utilize unique power-ups and unlock different suits with special abilities to overcome challenges in this engaging platformer.
- Procedurally generated levels
- Obstacle dodging
- Unique power-ups
- Unlockable suits with abilities
- Over 80 levels
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Can you take on the shaft? Jump your way through randomly generated levels while dodging obstacles and using unique power-ups to your advantage. Shaft Run features: • More than 80 procedurally generated levels • Multiple suits with different abilities • 3 unique power-ups
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tiny Bombers at 56% against Shaft Run's 0%. Tiny Bombers also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). Shaft Run's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Tiny Bombers sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Shaft Run sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shaft Run holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Bombers has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Tiny Bombers's written reviews are positive against 0% of Shaft Run's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tiny Bombers ships an update every 5 days, Shaft Run every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Bombers | Shaft Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ahoy Games | Dominik Ringler |
Customer experience
Tiny Bombers
Shaft Run
In-app purchases
Tiny Bombers
- 1000 Coins$0.99
- Señor Presidente$0.99
- Captain Cube$0.99
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- Meow$0.99
- Tiny Stark$0.99
- Panda Warrior$0.99
- Panda$0.99
- 5000 Coins$2.99
- 20000 Coins$7.99
- Unlock All Characters$9.99
Shaft Run
- Diamonds +2$0.39
- Diamonds +10$0.69
- Remove Ads$0.99
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- Diamonds +1000$0.99
- Diamonds +20$1.49
- Diamonds +30$1.99
- Diamonds +50$2.99
- Diamonds +100$3.99
- Diamonds +500$4.99
- Diamonds +1000$5.99








