Super Hydorah vs Shakedown
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Super Hydorah
Experience a console-quality shooting game adapted for mobile with intuitive touch controls. Explore a non-linear galaxy, battle alien threats with diverse weapons, and uncover secrets. Offers multiple difficulty levels and integrated leaderboards for a challenging and engaging adventure.
- Console-quality graphics
- Intuitive touch controls
- Non-linear level layout
- Weapon selection and power-ups
- Haptic vibration
- MFI Joystick support
- Game Center integration
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Super Hydorah is a console-quality smartphone game excellently adapted to touch controls. The world acclaimed shooting game created by renowned Locomalito, now accessible to casual audiences. Metacritic score 82/100 - Excellent.#50 Best PC Game of 2017 Best Spanish Game of 2018 by Hobby Consolas “One of the best games the genre has seen over the years” – Meristation “An old-school shoot'em up full of surprises, and it's incredibly polished” – The Games Machine Super Hydorah is a shooting game that embraces the teachings of the classic genre titans while offering its own thoughtful tweaks: direct action and a wide variety of unique spatial situations. Equip your ship and save the galaxy against the dreadful menace of the Meroptians! Features - Haptic vibration - MFI Joystick support - 2 difficulty modes: Easy to play or hard to be a master! - Touch controls with adjustable sensitivity - Game Center integration: Achievements and leaderboards - Non-linear level layout with route selection - Dangers of different nature in each level (not just bullets) - Weapon selection and power-ups in every mission - Secrets, multiple endings
Shakedown
Embark on a 16-bit open-world adventure where you build a business empire. Complete missions, acquire properties, and sabotage rivals to dominate the island. Explore by land, sea, or air, uncovering secrets and engaging in arcade challenges.
- 16-bit open world exploration
- Business acquisition and management
- Mission-based gameplay
- Sabotage competitors
- Vehicle and boat traversal
- Arcade challenges and side quests
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A brand new open world adventure from the creator of Retro City Rampage DX! The entire island is up for grabs. Build your own "legitimate" corporation by completing missions, acquiring businesses, sabotaging competitors, "re-zoning" land, and shaking down shops for protection money. Explore the 16-bit open world by foot, by car, or by boat. It's filled with arcade challenges, side quests, stores to shop at, houses to burgle, civilians to interact with, and secrets to discover. Build your empire and destroy the competition... in Shakedown: Hawaii.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Shakedown at fortnightly against Super Hydorah's every 5 months. Super Hydorah's advantage is ratings volume (669 vs 20) and price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Super Hydorah costs $0.99 and Shakedown $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Super Hydorah against 4.9 for Shakedown. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Hydorah has 669 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Super Hydorah's written reviews are positive against 92% of Shakedown's.
Super Hydorah ships an update every 5 months, Shakedown fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Super Hydorah | Shakedown |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (669 ratings) | 4.9 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.5% of reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 669 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 212 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Abylight S.L. | Vblank Entertainment Inc. |
Customer experience
Super Hydorah
Shakedown
Bugs and requests
Super Hydorah
Reported bugs
2 issues- Sound issues on some devices
- Compatibility problems on certain devices
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and content
- Customizable controls
- Support for newer iPhone/iPad displays
Shakedown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Super Hydorah
No in-app purchases
Shakedown
No in-app purchases
Questions
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