Drifting Stars vs Solar System Sim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drifting Stars
Navigate your spaceship through an endless cosmic journey, dodging obstacles and strategically using celestial bodies. Experience thrilling action with beautiful visuals and simple controls in this free-to-play adventure.
- Infinite space adventure
- Action-filled gameplay
- Dodge missiles and planets
- Strategic use of planets
- Beautiful visuals and audio
- Simple controls
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Guide your ship through space in this infinite action-filled space adventure. Dodge the missiles and avoid planets. Strategically use planets to your advantage. Explore and discover new planets. Features: - Action filled gameplay. - Beautiful visuals and audio. - Simple Controls. - Free to play.
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 in-app purchases: Drifting Stars at none against Solar System Sim's 5. Drifting Stars also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Solar System Sim's advantage is ratings volume (4.4K vs 2). On price, rating 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. Solar System Sim sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Drifting Stars asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Drifting Stars against 4.5 for Solar System Sim. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solar System Sim has 4.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Drifting Stars's written reviews are positive against 81% of Solar System Sim's.
Drifting Stars ships an update every 2 days, Solar System Sim every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drifting Stars | Solar System Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 522 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hydronio (OPC) Private Limited | WPC |
Customer experience
Drifting Stars
Solar System Sim
Bugs and requests
Drifting Stars
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
Drifting Stars
No in-app purchases
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
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