Comparison

Galaxy Reborn vs Swarmfall

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Galaxy Reborn

Build a multi-planet empire by mining resources, researching technologies, and constructing spacecraft. Engage in various playstyles like mining, raiding, or fleet combat. New players are protected initially, with a supportive community available for advice.

Highlights
  • Build multi-planet empires
  • Mine metal, crystal, and deuterium
  • Research new technologies
  • Build spacecraft
  • Engage in mining, raiding, or fleet combat
  • Noob protection for new players
  • In-game and Discord community support
Features
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Your goal is to build an empire consisting of multiple planets. To do this you will need to procure three vital resources: metal, crystal, and deuterium. Initially, you will mine your home planet for these, using them to build up your infrastructure, research new technologies, and build spacecraft. This game offers a variety of play styles. Miners produce their own resources by building mines on their planets and colonies. Farmers search for resources left unprotected on other player's planets, launching raids to take those resources for themselves. Fleeters specialize in hunting other players space fleets, destroying them in epic space battles and recycling the debris left floating in space. Most players combine multiple elements in their personal playstyle. As a new player, you have a degree of protection from larger players called Noob Protection. During this period, you can attack and be attacked only by other new players of similar rank. As your points increase, you become fair game to more powerful players (and can attack them as well). Don't be afraid to ask for help. The player community is one of the best things about this game. Experienced players will often share advise and offer you some startup resources. You can communicate with individual players in-game or on Discord server which you can find from the game's website.

About

Swarmfall

Defend your planet in this roguelike where your turrets automatically attack. Focus on strategic menu decisions, upgrading your defenses, and choosing powerful synergies to survive waves of alien creatures. Decide when to bank your earnings or risk it all for greater rewards.

Highlights
  • Automatic turret targeting and firing
  • Strategic menu-based decision making
  • Level up and choose from card-based upgrades
  • Synergies to rewire build behavior
  • Eight unique turrets with distinct abilities
  • Eighteen evolutions to fuse turrets
  • Risk/reward banking system
Features
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The swarm has taken every other world. This is the last one with anything living on it, and it is yours to hold. Swarmfall is a planet-defense roguelike where the shooting takes care of itself. Your turrets acquire and fire on their own. You never aim, never tap a target. Every decision that matters happens in a menu, under pressure, while the swarm closes in. LEVEL UP, CHOOSE ONE Kills feed experience. Every level deals a hand of cards and takes one: a new turret, a planet upgrade, or a synergy that rewires how the whole build behaves. Deep Roots makes anything latched onto the planet take triple damage from every source. Living Mantle regrows the ground under you. The dive you get is the dive you drafted. EIGHT GUNS ON THE RIM The Reef Lance locks one target and ramps to 2.6x the longer it holds. The Ember Spitter lobs shells that detonate and leave survivors burning. The Tide Coil chains arc bolts through anything that clusters. The Spore Launcher sends homing seekers that pick their own victims. The Shard Battery shreds at point blank and nowhere else. The Blight Garden plants a rot that leaps to whoever stood nearby when its host dies. The Tide Anchor rings like a struck bell and slows everything its wave passes through. The Rime Lattice stacks cold until a body hard freezes, and a heavy hit shatters it into everything around it. TWENTY EVOLUTIONS Raise a turret to level 2 with the right partner mounted and the two fuse. Reef Lance and Ember Spitter become the SOLAR LANCE, a beam that sets its victims on fire. Ember Spitter and Spore Launcher become the BROODFIRE MORTAR, artillery that releases seeker drones on impact and cleans up after itself. Finding them is most of the game. BANK IT, OR PUSH Half of every haul is at risk until you get it out. Extract whenever you choose and you bank every credit. Die down there and the deep keeps half. Kill a monarch and it pays a bounty and knits 30% of your planet back together, and the next wave is already coming. No other decision in the game costs as much. A SWARM THAT CLOSES IN Thirteen creatures, from cinder mites up to the Deep Mother herself, drawn in bioluminescent deep-water dark. Elites rise wearing afflictions: Veiled, Frenzied, Gorged, Budding, Weeping, and the first of each in a dive is called out the moment it surfaces. Everything resists one damage family and folds to another, and the briefing shows which for everything you have already killed. The swarm reveals itself a species at a time and comes at you from wider angles as the dive goes on: one front, then an arc, then a pincer, then a full ring. Telegraphed, never cheap. THE DESCENT Clear the dark and it gets darker. Eight depths each add one permanent modifier as you unlock them. The mantle holds less life. The swarm moves faster. Monarchs rise in pairs. Elites carry two afflictions at once. The swarm's numbers swell by a third. How deep you can still hold is the real score. EVERY DIVE COUNTS Turrets unlock through lifetime kills, never purchases. Daily directives pay out for specific work: burn down 150 fire-family creatures, hold the line to 6:00, slay a Deep Mother. Records keep your season. The bestiary fills in as you meet what is down there. NOTHING BETWEEN YOU AND THE GAME No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy timers. No account, no login, no server. Swarmfall never touches the internet and collects nothing about you. Your save lives on your device and nowhere else. Under a quarter mantle, every gun on the rim opens up at once. Last Stand is not something you buy. It is the world screaming.

Screenshots

Galaxy Reborn3 screens
Swarmfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Swarmfall at none against Galaxy Reborn's 4. Swarmfall also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Galaxy Reborn's advantage is ratings volume (74 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Galaxy Reborn sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Swarmfall asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Swarmfall holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Galaxy Reborn has 74 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Galaxy Reborn's written reviews are positive against 100% of Swarmfall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Galaxy Reborn ships an update every 13 months, Swarmfall weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Galaxy Reborn versus Swarmfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGalaxy RebornSwarmfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (74 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings74 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB24 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMunkeez, LLCAUSTIN ALLEN NORMAN

Customer experience

Galaxy Reborn

All ratings72 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative20.0%

Swarmfall

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Galaxy Reborn

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Connection issues via Starlink
  • Cannot switch between screens to map/planets
  • Cannot register email
  • Admins lacking respect
  • Long-term server inactive
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  • Moons are a significant advantage
  • New player protection is meager
  • Constant checking required
  • Attacks lead to complete fleet destruction
  • No protection timer between attacks
  • Timing out and lag
  • Cannot attack for long periods due to lag
  • Progression slow without raiding
  • Toxic players
  • Game is broken at the moment

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add notifications for building/research completion and ship arrival
  • Make map tab accessible from building/research/fleet/defense screens
  • Add different planets tab accessible from building/research/fleet/defense screens
  • Make moon guaranteed after 10th attempt
  • Randomize planet fields in different slots to maximize system value
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  • Add another way to obtain resources (e.g., black holes, alien hostiles)
  • Include a better fleetsaving tool
  • Improve in-game messaging (show sent messages, include block feature)
  • Regularly start new 'universes' for new players to have a chance
  • Improve advertising, especially for Ogame searches
  • More players please

Swarmfall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Galaxy Reborn

One-time4
  • Buy 1,000 DM$0.99
  • Buy 5,000 DM$4.99
  • Buy 10,000 DM$8.99
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  • Buy 20,000 DM$16.99
None

Swarmfall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Galaxy Reborn free?
Galaxy Reborn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Swarmfall free?
Swarmfall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Galaxy Reborn or Swarmfall?
Swarmfall is rated higher. Galaxy Reborn averages 4.5 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Swarmfall averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Galaxy Reborn or Swarmfall have ads?
Neither Galaxy Reborn nor Swarmfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Galaxy Reborn or Swarmfall?
Galaxy Reborn ships an update every 13 months, and Swarmfall weekly. Most recently, Galaxy Reborn was updated on October 21, 2026 and Swarmfall on October 29, 2026.

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