Cancer Crusade vs Tiny Space Program
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cancer Crusade
Simulate advanced cancer treatments as a doctor from the future. Design custom schedules for virtual patients, learn about real-life strategies, and help researchers discover new ways to combat cancer resistance.
- Treatment Simulator
- Custom treatment schedules
- Learn real-life strategies
- Time-traveling gameplay
- Tumor cell analysis
- Balance treatment toxicity
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You are a doctor from the future. With your Treatment Simulator, you can fight back against even the roughest cancer invasions. Design a custom treatment schedule for each virtual patient. The treatment schedules you design will be sent to researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center to help discover new strategies. Good luck, doctor! Cancer is a complex disease. Tumor cells are often able to evolve resistance and keep growing even when patients are given a variety of treatments. A predictive mathematical model is the core engine of this simulator and allows us to explore how to adjust treatment strategies to win against cancer in the long run. After being taught how to use the different therapies and progressing through levels that test your knowledge, you will treat randomized virtual patients with different traits to help us learn more about how to design treatment schedules to combat cancer resistance in real-life patients. In Cancer Crusade you will… • Learn about real-life cancer treatment strategies • Move back and forth in time to discover the best treatment plan • Use different scans to learn more about the tumor cells and find weak points • Improve patient quality of life by balancing treatment doses to be effective but not too toxic
Tiny Space Program
Manage your own space agency, from designing and building rockets to launching missions for research, mining, or tourism. Explore planets and moons, establish off-world economies, and advance your technology in this interplanetary simulation.
- Space program management
- Build off-world colonies
- Launch rockets and spaceships
- Research technologies
- Mine resources from celestial bodies
- Astronaut progression
- Simulates orbital mechanics
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Build and run your own space program — like SpaceX, but yours. Launch rockets, manage astronauts, mine planets, and colonize the solar system from the Moon to beyond the Kuiper Belt. WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A SPACE BILLIONAIRE? Send tourists on a spacewalk? Start a mining operation on Titan? Build a space station around Mars? In Tiny Space Program you manage the early colonization of our solar system — based on real orbital mechanics and ship propulsion. BUILD YOUR SPACE AGENCY - Launch rockets and spaceships into orbit - Build off-world colonies, outposts, and modular space stations - Mine resources on moons, planets, and dwarf planets - Research new technologies and better spacecraft - Level up your astronauts and equip spacesuits - Establish off-world economies and trade A CHILL GAME, NOT A CHORE No forced ads, no daily-streak punishments. Play at your own pace — run an hour-long research expedition, take tourists on a quick tour, then put it down and come back later. Mines keep producing while you're away. MADE BY ONE DEVELOPER Actively updated (space stations, automation, dwarf planets, and vehicles all shipped recently). Join the Discord and help shape what comes next.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cancer Crusade at none against Tiny Space Program's 14. Cancer Crusade also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Tiny Space Program's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 11). On price, review sentiment 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. Tiny Space Program sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Cancer Crusade asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cancer Crusade holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Space Program has 1.6K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 80% and 80% positive.
Cancer Crusade ships an update every 11 months, Tiny Space Program monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cancer Crusade | Tiny Space Program |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11 ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 79.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 1.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Monthly — better |
| 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 | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moffitt Cancer Center | Jerry Neimann |
Customer experience
Cancer Crusade
Tiny Space Program
Bugs and requests
Cancer Crusade
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tiny Space Program
Reported bugs
4 issues- Buttons not working or unresponsive
- Disappearing ships and resources
- Crashes and freezes after updates
- Quests and missions not tracking properly
Requested features
6 requests- Add more planets and moons to explore
- Improve the economy and resource management
- Implement cloud/online save functionality
- Streamline the UI and make it more intuitive
- Expand the research and upgrade trees
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- Add more animations and visual effects
In-app purchases
Cancer Crusade
No in-app purchases
Tiny Space Program
- Supporting the game, thank you$1.99
- Helping out, many thanks$4.99
- Crystal Pack 1$4.99
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- Starter Pack$4.99
- Plasma Space Ship Package$8.99
- You are great! Many thanks$9.99
- Crystal Pack 2$9.99
- Colonizer Pack$9.99
- Experimental Dragon Ships$9.99
- Aerospike space ship pack$9.99
- A big pile of credits$19.99
- Crystal Pack 3$19.99
- Biggest box of credits$49.99
- Crystal Pack 4$49.99
Questions
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