The Space Evaders vs Dumpling Ops
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Space Evaders
Engage in thrilling battles against alien spacecraft in the vastness of space. Survive increasingly challenging levels as your score climbs. Test your endurance and see how long you can last in this intense arcade shooter.
- Space alien ship combat
- Increasing difficulty levels
- High score tracking
- Survival gameplay
- Arcade action
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Fighting space alien ships in the cold depths of space has never been more fun. Now you can fire away and stay alive as long as you can. The levels get increasingly more difficult as your score gets higher! How long can you survive in space?
Dumpling Ops
Defend the kitchen as the last dumpling standing in this fast-paced, twin-stick shooter. Master simple one-handed controls to survive waves of increasingly challenging enemies and unlock new dumplings and upgrades for unique runs.
- Twin-stick shooter gameplay
- One-handed controls
- Wave-based survival
- Unlockable dumplings
- Stackable run upgrades
- Multiple kitchen environments
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The kitchen has been overrun. You are the last dumpling standing. Dumpling Ops: Kitchen Defense is a fast twin-stick shooter built for one hand and short sessions. Drag to move, drag to aim, hold to fire. That's the whole control scheme — and it takes about four seconds to learn. SURVIVE THE WAVES Every wave sends more, and worse. Shufflers and runners give way to armoured tanks, ranged spitters, chargers that wind up and dash, splitters that burst into two when killed, shielded enemies you have to flank, and swarms that arrive eight at a time. A boss every fifth wave. FIVE KITCHENS Fight through the Back Alley, the Loading Dock, Cold Storage, The Furnace and the Ash Kitchen. Each is a different room — different floor, different lighting, different hazards underfoot. EIGHT DUMPLINGS TO UNLOCK Score points to unlock new fighters, each one a real change to how you play. Spicy Chili fires faster. Captain Jay'Lani starts every wave in armour. Cosmic Holo fires twin piercing rounds. Onyx Legend does nearly everything at once. EARN YOUR UPGRADES Survive long enough and you choose an upgrade. They stack for the whole run and reset when you die, so no two runs play the same way. PLAYS ANYWHERE No internet needed. No account. No ads. No in-app purchases. Nothing to sign up for. Just the game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dumpling Ops at 5.0 against The Space Evaders's 4.1. The Space Evaders's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dumpling Ops holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Space Evaders has 51 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | The Space Evaders | Dumpling Ops |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (51 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rody Davis | ROBERT D FELLS |
Customer experience
The Space Evaders
Dumpling Ops
In-app purchases
The Space Evaders
No in-app purchases
Dumpling Ops
No in-app purchases
Questions
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