Space Frontier vs Ballistic Defence 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Space Frontier
Launch rockets to orbit and beyond to colonize Mars in this addictive physics game. Earn in-game currency to upgrade your rockets and compete for high scores. Easy to learn, but challenging to master, offering endless replayability.
- One-button gameplay
- Fun, fast physics
- Easy to learn, hard to master
- Colonize Mars
- Earn in-game currency
- Buy new rocket parts
- Multiple rocket styles
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Blast off to the stratosphere and colonize Mars in Space Frontier, the addictive physics rocket game that your friends will want to play—but they can’t! Because it’s your phone. But hey! They can download it on theirs, too. In fact, you want them to do that. So you can pound them into dust with your superior rocket scores! In Space Frontier your mission is to launch your rocket as high in to the orbit as possible and beyond to Mars. Earn in-game currency from launches and hard working Martians. Invest it to acquire new parts/styles, and send more people to mars! Easy to play but hard to master gameplay means you’ll be coming back again and again for one more boost. Ridiculously Cool Features List: ◉ One-button gameplay ◉ Fun, fast physics ◉ Easy to learn, hard to master ◉ Colonize Mars ◉ Infinite variety and replayability ◉ Earn in-game currency to buy new rocket parts ◉ More than sixteen rocket styles to try
Ballistic Defence 2
Defend your cities from waves of incoming missiles in this retro-style arcade action game. Survive increasingly difficult attacks, including splitting missiles, intelligent missiles, and alien motherships. Compete for a high score on the global leaderboard.
- Retro arcade style
- City defense gameplay
- Wave-based missile attacks
- Enemy missile splitting
- Intelligent missile evasion
- Alien mothership boss
- Global leaderboard
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A Sequel to the original iOS title Ballistic Defence, a great retro style arcade action game which will throw you back to the 80's, a time when great games such as Missile Command were in popularity. The objective of the game is to protect your cities from the relentless onslaught of missile attacks. Day and night the waves of attacks will keep coming until eventually all your cities will be destroyed and all will be lost. How long can you survive? With each new wave of attacks, protecting the cities will become progressively more difficult. Things to watch out for: - Enemy missiles, they can split into more missiles at any point. - The intelligent missiles, they're smarter than the average missile and will attempt to avoid any explosions. - The mothership! Yes, for some reason aliens are involved now. They are tough and it will take more than one pathetic earth projectile to deal with those. Watch out for there mega laser beam, instant destruction to any city below! - Passing fighter jets, shoot them down for a bigger score. This is a much improved experience over the original game, both visually and mechanically. Play now and see how you rank on the world leaderboard. As the game progresses so does the score multiplier, keep going for a bigger score.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Space Frontier at 47% against Ballistic Defence 2's 0%. Space Frontier also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 81 months). Ballistic Defence 2's advantage is ads (none vs shown). 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. Space Frontier sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ballistic Defence 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Space Frontier holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Space Frontier has 14K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Space Frontier's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ballistic Defence 2's.
Space Frontier ships an update every 2 months, Ballistic Defence 2 every 81 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Space Frontier | Ballistic Defence 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14K ratings) — better | 3.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 81 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 231 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ketchapp | Jason Foster |
Customer experience
Space Frontier
Ballistic Defence 2
Bugs and requests
Space Frontier
Reported bugs
7 issues- Ads pop up during launch causing rocket to explode
- Ads don't load properly
- Game freezes and lags
- Mute button doesn't work
- Coins from ads not working correctly
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- Rocket goes really slow due to glitches
- Money randomly disappears
Requested features
16 requests- Add more planets
- Add more content
- Add more customization
- Add more levels
- Add more upgrades
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- Add more planets to colonize
- Add aliens and other obstacles
- Add different types of people with different roles
- Add more strategy elements
- Add the ability to build on planets
- Add the ability to travel between planets
- Add the ability to steer the rocket
- Add the ability to control the people
- Add the ability to upgrade fuel efficiency, rocket size, etc.
- Add the ability to choose fuel load
- Add the ability to reach new planets beyond the solar system
Ballistic Defence 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Space Frontier
- Remove Ads$1.99
Ballistic Defence 2
- No Ads$0.99
Questions
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