Stellar! vs Vactics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stellar!
Defend the last planet with life from alien robots by controlling a spaceship and strategically placing towers. Loot spaceships and towers, upgrade abilities, and combine cards to build your unique defense strategy. Compete globally on the ranking system.
- Control spaceship to defend base
- Select tactical upgrades
- Loot spaceships and towers
- Unique tower abilities
- Combine spaceship and tower cards
- Global ranking system
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Welcome, Captain! In the current world ruled by robots, this is the only planet with life. Alien robots are constantly trying to eliminate life on this planet Protect the planet from alien robots! Features ● Protect the base from enemies by controlling the spaceship ● After each stage, you can select tactical upgrades to protect your base ● Open supply crates to loot spaceships and towers and place them tactically ● Every tower has unique abilities and skills. Use skills to defend more effectively ● Build your own strategy by combining spaceship and tower cards ● You can compete with players around the world using the ranking system owings37@gmail.com - Credit Sound: www.bensound.com
Vactics
Engage in tactical, chess-like combat by building powerful mechs to battle robotic enemies. Face randomly generated challenges and fight for a better future in this strategic warfare game.
- Mech building
- Tactical chess-like combat
- Randomly generated challenges
- Mech and tech upgrades
- Extended campaign
- Leaderboard competition
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Build the mech to fight against robotic Vactics in tactical chess-like combat. The war is already over and the heroes of the city have fallen. Take on a new randomly generated challenge every time you play and join with the citizens to fight for a better future. Vactics is designed to let you play as much as you like and upgrade to the full version at any time. Unlocking the pro version of the game provides: • Access to all 18 mech types and dozens of additional tech modifiers. • Access to the full 24 colour palettes to choose from with custom app icons each. • An extended campaign with additional enemy types and areas to fight through. • An additional phase to the campaign with the true ending and all the co-pilots. • The daily district challenge where you can compete with others on the leaderboards. • Much more to discover.... -- Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vactics at 4.0 against Stellar!'s 2.2. Vactics also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Stellar!'s advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 71%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Stellar! sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Vactics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Vactics holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vactics has 56 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Stellar!'s written reviews are positive against 71% of Vactics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Stellar! ships an update every 2 months, Vactics every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stellar! | Vactics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (5 ratings) | 4.0 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 70.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 309 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | SeHyeon Im | Gerard Delaney |
Customer experience
Stellar!
Vactics
Bugs and requests
Stellar!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Vactics
Reported bugs
6 issues- Combo attack bonus cancelled by heavy landing
- "Restore purchases" not working after update
- Cannot equip more than one ability
- Inconsistent combat: adjacent Vactic not hitting
- Cannot mount one tech in Chassis and one in Engine
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- Line-of-sight for ranged enemies unclear
Requested features
20 requests- Add more upgrades
- Add more game modes
- Add online co-op
- Add infinite wave competition
- Add diverging paths on map like FTL
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- Add small story elements at decisions
- Add new enemies and technologies
- Add a big boss
- Add Russian language support
- Improve tutorial clarity
- Faster restart function
- Option to confirm selection before moving
- More customization options for mechs
- Unlock more mechs for free
- Add wallpapers in the art style
- Support for lowercase game text
- Option to change palettes easily
- Save progress on runs
- Adjustable difficulty settings
- Add more content
In-app purchases
Stellar!
- 20 GEMS$0.99
- 110 GEMS$4.99
- 240 GEMS$9.99
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- 550 GEMS$19.99
- 1500 GEMS$49.99
- 3200 GEMS$99.99
Vactics
- Subscribe to Vactics Pro$2.993 Months
- Vactics Pro$8.99
