Darkest Space vs Star Grazer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Darkest Space
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An hard space shooter. You must collect coins, expand your arsenal, avoid asteroids and defeat all enemies waves and bosses. You can survive to all enemies waves?
Star Grazer
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Rockets fall. You don't get hit. Star Grazer is a one-thumb arcade game about reading what's coming and slipping through it. Drag anywhere on the screen and your ship follows โ left, right, and up and down inside a band near the bottom. Every hazard that gets past you is a point. Touch one and the run is over. THE HITBOX IS TINY, AND YOU CAN SEE IT Only the glowing core at the centre of your ship can be hit โ a third of the ship's width. It's drawn on screen, so the line between a close call and a dead run is something you can actually judge instead of guess. GRAZING IS THE WHOLE GAME Passing close to a rocket without touching it is a graze, and a graze is worth more than surviving. Chain them and the multiplier climbs. Twelve grazes charge a blast that clears the screen. So the greedy play and the safe play are the same play, and a good run doesn't look like careful โ it looks like threading. ADVENTURE: 36 STAGES Six worlds of hand-made stages, each a little harder than the last, with a finish line and three stars to earn: reach the finish, graze enough hazards, and catch all three stardust. It starts with a guided How to Play stage, then brings minefields, comet showers, rock gardens, stages where only grazes score and, in THE VOID, the lights going out and a gravity well that pulls you in. Collect stars to open new worlds, and win the Voyager and Eclipse trails. TEN WORLDS, EACH WITH ITS OWN SKY AND MUSIC LAUNCH, DEBRIS FIELD, CROSSFIRE, SWARM, DEEP SPACE, EVENT HORIZON, SINGULARITY, THE LONG DARK, NEBULA and SUPERNOVA. Earth falls away beneath you, then a galaxy, a black hole and a supernova. Rockets fall straight. Rocks drift. Mines steer toward your column and make you commit. Comets streak across, their path drawn just before they strike. Every cluster is guaranteed to leave a way through โ if you died, there was a gap you didn't take. FIVE POWER-UPS, ALL LABELLED SHIELD UP absorbs one hit. SLOW MOTION crawls the world while you still move at full speed. HOMING SHOTS gives you six shots that each pick their own rocket and chase it down. SCREEN CLEARED does what it says. DOUBLE POINTS doubles everything you score. Each one names itself when you grab it and shows its own timer, so you always know what you're holding and how long you have. A DAILY CHALLENGE One fixed layout per day, the same for everybody, resetting at midnight. Your score on it is a real comparison rather than a matter of what the generator happened to roll. BUILT TO BE PICKED UP Instant retry โ no menus between runs. A Game Center leaderboard if you want one, and the whole game works if you don't. Plays offline on a plane. A REASON TO COME BACK A daily gift that grows with every day of your streak โ keep it for seven days to win the NEBULA engine trail. Three new missions every day, and a level that climbs with every run and pays out grazes as it goes. A HANGAR TO FILL Eleven ships in six different shapes โ from the sleek Needle to the Manta, the Saucer and the Twinfang โ and twelve engine trails, from ion and plasma to inferno and crystal. Everything is earned by playing. FREE, AND FAIR ABOUT IT No account to create, and your progress follows you across your devices through iCloud. Star Grazer is supported by an occasional ad between runs, and by optional videos you choose to watch to continue a run or double your grazes. A one-time No Ads purchase removes the between-run ads. Nothing you can buy makes the game easier or touches the leaderboards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Darkest Space at none against Star Grazer's 5. Darkest Space also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). Star Grazer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 44 months). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Star Grazer sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Darkest Space asks for nothing beyond the download.
Darkest Space ships an update every 44 months, Star Grazer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Darkest Space | Star Grazer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 44 months | Weekly โ better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 โ better | 16.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Raffaele Amuso | Dom Q Investments |
In-app purchases
Darkest Space
No in-app purchases
Star Grazer
- 800 Grazes$0.99
- Supporter Pack$2.99
- No Ads$2.99
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- 2,800 Grazes$2.99
- 6,500 Grazes$4.99
Questions
Is Darkest Space free?
Is Star Grazer free?
Do Darkest Space or Star Grazer have ads?
Which is updated more often, Darkest Space or Star Grazer?
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