Solid Metal Gear vs Solar System Sim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solid Metal Gear
Control a metal gear by sliding your finger across the screen. Navigate through darkness and avoid obstacles to progress. A simple yet challenging arcade experience.
- Finger slide controls
- Obstacle avoidance
- Darkness navigation
- Simple gameplay
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Slide your finger to move the metal gear. Watch out for the darkness!!!
Solar System Sim
Simulate and explore celestial bodies within our solar system and beyond. Create your own solar systems, experiment with gravity and physics, and observe orbital mechanics in action.
- Explore planets and moons
- Visit nearby stars
- Create custom solar systems
- Gravity and physics simulation
- Recalculate orbits
- Newton's laws implementation
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Zoom from a planet's surface out to distant galaxies, then reshape the whole system with your own hands. Solar System Sim is a real-time gravity sandbox built on Newton's laws and real astronomical data. Every body you add, move or destroy recalculates the orbits of everything else, live. • Smash worlds together: impact craters carve into the surface, firestorms sweep the globe, and glowing debris rains back down. • Build your own universe: add planets, moons, asteroids and comets with their own size, mass and looks, or customise the ones already there. • Land anywhere: drop to a first-person view on any planet's surface and experience its environment. • Sculpt rings: add particle rings and watch gravity shape them in real time. • Witness real eclipses: solar and lunar, with real-world astronomical precision. • Follow comets: watch them streak past and interact with the bodies they meet. • Leave the Solar System: travel to remarkable nearby stars and find them within the Milky Way. • Feel the scale: see the true vastness of space, from a pebble-sized moon to the nearest galaxies. Whether you're here to learn how gravity really works or just to break planets with it, explore at your own pace. Start your cosmic adventure with Solar System Sim.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Solid Metal Gear at none against Solar System Sim's shown. Solid Metal Gear also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). Solar System Sim's advantage is ratings volume (4.3K vs 17). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Solid Metal Gear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Solar System Sim sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Solid Metal Gear against 4.5 for Solar System Sim. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solar System Sim has 4.3K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Solid Metal Gear's written reviews are positive against 80% of Solar System Sim's.
| Parameter | Solid Metal Gear | Solar System Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (17 ratings) | 4.5 (4.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 4.3K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | 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 | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 521 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Irvine | WPC |
Customer experience
Solid Metal Gear
Solar System Sim
Bugs and requests
Solid Metal Gear
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Solar System Sim
Reported bugs
5 issues- Planets/moons disappearing after saving and loading
- Bright flashes and screen distortions
- Planets/objects getting stuck inside stars
- Crashes when colliding or editing certain objects
- Inconsistent orbital mechanics and moons ejecting from planets
Requested features
10 requests- Add more galaxy and nebula textures
- Implement realistic supernova effects
- Allow customization of planet atmospheres and terrain
- Add binary star systems and rogue planets
- Introduce a galaxy maker and collision feature
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- Implement a reverse time lapse option
- Add more speed options (128x, 256x, etc.)
- Introduce a population counter and life simulation for planets
- Allow custom city lights and vegetation on planets
- Add a Roche limit feature to observe tidal disruption
In-app purchases
Solid Metal Gear
- Remove Ads$1.99
Solar System Sim
- HD Mars$2.99
- HD Earth$2.99
- HD Moon$2.99
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- No-ads$3.99
- HD 3-body pack$6.99
Questions
Is Solid Metal Gear free?
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