Super Starfish vs Vs. Octopus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Super Starfish
Navigate a cosmic ocean as a space starfish, dodging celestial hazards and collecting exotic plants. Customize your own space aquarium and discover over 30 unique starfish. Compete with friends and share your interstellar discoveries.
- Cosmic swimming gameplay
- Space aquarium customization
- Collect exotic flora
- Over 30 Starfish to collect
- Explore new zones
- Master swimming style
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Swim through the swirling cosmos as an interstellar Starfish! Bring life to your space aquarium by dodging meteors, black holes, quasars and more. Super Starfish uses cutting-edge techniques to deliver amazing visual effects never seen before in mobile games. Be mesmerized by swirling ripples of color as your Starfish soars across the galaxy. Collect exotic flora and customize your very own space aquarium. Watch your Starplants grow as you create a home for your wondrous collection of Starfish. • Simple, intuitive gameplay for everyone. Try it now! • Explore the cosmos and discover mesmerizing new zones! • Master your swimming style and score huge combos! • Customize and grow your very own aquarium in space! • Over 30 colorful Starfish to collect and add to your aquarium. Can you find a super rare Starfish? • Compete with your friends and share your discoveries! Are you ready to become the next Fish Superstar? "My go-to time killer game for the foreseeable future" - TouchArcade. "Super Starfish nails the action as well as the audiovisual fireworks" - PocketGamer "Collecting fish & learning about their real life inspirations really does it for me!" - Texinis
Vs. Octopus
Develop and merge submarines to explore the mysterious underwater world. Dodge and counterattack hostile creatures while discovering new resources and encountering cute but dangerous octopuses. Enjoy easy operation and engaging level design.
- Develop various submarines
- Merge submarines of the same class
- Explore the underwater world
- Defeat underwater enemies
- Easy operation
- Engaging level design
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A great chance to develop super-new submarines and explore the mysterious underwater world! As we all know, 70% of the earth is covered by the ocean and it’s always an important target for scientists to investigate the underwater creatures and explore more resources. So now, you’re one of the scientists! What you need to do is to invent newer and more powerful submarines and control them for underwater exploration. Many underwater creatures floating around to attack your submarine. You have to manipulate your machine to dodge the offense of them and at the same time, counterattack them. Don't be fooled by their cute shape, they are not innocent. Gameplay: - Combine submarines of the same class to obtain a higher level submarine; - Dispatch submarines into the water to explore and defeat all enemies encountered; Features: - Develop various submarines; - Extremely easy operation; - Great level design with reasonable difficulty; - Full of cute but pesterous octopus. Don’t wait any longer! Just come and get more powerful submarines to explore the unknown underwater world!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Super Starfish at 87% against Vs. Octopus's 50%. Super Starfish also leads on ratings volume (29K vs 27) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Vs. Octopus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Super Starfish sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Vs. Octopus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Super Starfish holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Starfish has 29K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Super Starfish's written reviews are positive against 50% of Vs. Octopus's.
Super Starfish ships an update every 3 weeks, Vs. Octopus weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Super Starfish | Vs. Octopus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (29K ratings) — better | 4.5 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29K — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 281 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Protostar | Balrog Game Ltd |
Customer experience
Super Starfish
Vs. Octopus
Bugs and requests
Super Starfish
Reported bugs
2 issues- Notifications showing incorrect prize contents
- Inability to progress quests after completion
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to sell/trade unwanted plants
- Earn shells/moonstones for high scores
- Customization options for fish/sanctuary
- Multiplayer/competitive gameplay modes
- More frequent quests and missions
Vs. Octopus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Super Starfish
- Small Pile of Moonstones$0.99
- Small Pile of Moonstones$1.99
- Medium Pile of Moonstones2 variants$2.99
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- Starter Bundle$2.99
- Event Moonstones$2.99
- Celestia Bundle$2.99
- FUNGLES PACK$3.99
- Remove Advertising$4.99
- Large Pile of Moonstones2 variants$5.99
- Event Moonstones$5.99
- FUNGLES PACK$6.99
- Extra Large Pile of Moonstones$9.99
- Extra Large Pile of Moonstones$14.99
- Event Moonstones$14.99
- Event Moonstones$24.99
- Event Moonstones$49.99
Vs. Octopus
No in-app purchases









