Light vs Kirian
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light
Guide a stickman through a neon world, jumping and flipping between shapes to make them glow. Navigate increasingly complex levels with moving obstacles and avoid hazards to achieve a high score. Unlock new challenges and benefits through a weekly subscription.
- Jump, flip, and slide between neon shapes
- Make shapes glow
- Collect stars to raise score
- Navigate moving, rotating, and exploding shapes
- Avoid lethal spikes
- Unlock new levels weekly
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It’s a dark world out there for a teeny little stickman like you, and it’s about time you light it up. Jump, flip and slide from one neon shape to another to make them glow. Collect stars as you play to raise your score. Just when you start to feel like a stickman boss, things get complicated (or “sticky,” if you will) as you pass levels. Shapes start moving, rotating and even exploding, and lethal spikes become a constant threat to your poor little stickman life. If you miss a jump or hit a spike… you fall into oblivion! Ready to light it up? SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS - Subscribe to unlock 10 new levels every week + 50% off in the shop + 400 gems daily for the duration of the subscription and remove ads. - VIP membership: A weekly track (for 3.99$/week) after 3-day free trial. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - Subscription may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. - By downloading this App you agree to Crazy Labs’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at https://crazylabs.com/privacy-policy/ and at https://www.crazylabs.com/terms-of-use/. - Please consider that this App may include third party services for limited legally permissible purposes. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. To opt out of CrazyLabs sales of personal information as a California resident, please visit the settings page within this app. For more information visit our privacy policy: https://crazylabs.com/app
Kirian
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Fly a lone gunship through an endless corridor of hostiles, one sixty-second sector at a time. Kirian is a vertical arcade shooter built on a roguelike loop. Losing your vessel does not end the run — you keep every weapon, every credit, every point you have earned, and drop back to Sector 1 to push deeper than last time. Progress is permanent. Only your hull resets. ELEMENTAL DESTRUCTION Enemies die by the weapon that killed them. Bubble guns burst them into water. Cannons shatter them into ice that falls heavy and cold. Star guns leave them burning with rising flame and drifting embers. Lasers discharge in a flicker of lightning. Blasters implode them into a magenta plasma nova. Each kill reads at a glance. BUILD YOUR GUNSHIP Between sectors, the Com Center is yours: front guns, side guns, generators, hull and shields, all upgradable across twenty-five levels. Power is finite — a heavier gun drains a generator that cannot keep up, so every loadout is a trade. Score never resets, and crossing its thresholds permanently unlocks the higher weapon tiers. HAND-BUILT WAVES, THEN FOREVER Eighteen hand-authored sectors span six zones, each a tight sixty-second script with its own formations and rhythm. Past them the generator takes over and never stops, difficulty climbing without a ceiling, bosses waiting at every fifth level. TWO PLAYERS, ONE ROOM Co-op runs over local Wi-Fi with automatic discovery — no accounts, no servers, no internet. One device hosts, the other joins, and you fly the same sector together. FOURTEEN LOOKS Every skin restyles the whole game: ships, enemies, backgrounds, interface, sound. Three ship free with the app. The other eleven are one-time purchases, each permanent, with no ads, no subscriptions and no consumables anywhere in the game. BUILT TO FEEL RIGHT GPU shaders drive bloom, scanlines, vignette and chromatic aberration. Enemies shatter into physics-driven fragments cut from their own sprites. Play by touch, keyboard, or a connected controller. Two Game Center leaderboards rank you by total score and by the deepest level you have ever reached, alongside achievements for kills, sectors and untouched runs. Missing your favourite game skin from childhood? Contact us!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Kirian at none against Light's shown. Kirian also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Light sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Kirian sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Light ships an update every 6 weeks, Kirian fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light | Kirian |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (194K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 194K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crazy Labs | Olin Vorechovsky |
Bugs and requests
Light
Reported bugs
3 issues- Revive button spawning in unreachable areas
- Certain levels being unbeatable or glitchy
- Ad banners obstructing gameplay
Requested features
5 requests- More frequent level updates
- Endless/procedurally generated mode
- Level editor and sharing functionality
- Ability to customize character skins
- Difficulty settings and challenge modes
Kirian
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Light
- Weekly Lit Pack3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Gem Pack 1 for subs$0.99
- No Ads$1.99
- Gem Pack 1$1.99
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- MEGA-LIT Pack for subscribers$1.99
- MEGA-LIT Pack (no-ads)$3.99
- MEGA-LIT Pack second purchase$3.99
- Gem Pack 2$3.99
- Booster Deluxe for subs$3.99
- Super Booster for subs$5.99
- Booster Deluxe$7.99
- Gem Pack 3$7.99
- Ultimate Bundle for subs$9.99
- Gem Pack 5 for subs$9.99
- Gem Pack 4$11.99
- Ultimate Bundle$19.99
- Gem Pack 5$19.99
Kirian
- 16-Bit Laser Skin$0.99
- Retro PC Pixel Skin$0.99
- Dual-Polarity Skin$0.99
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- Chrome Fleet Skin$0.99
- Sepia Dogfight Skin$0.99
- Wasteland Pixel Skin$0.99
- Neon Voxel Skin$0.99
- Neon Tube Skin$0.99
- Pocket Mono Skin$0.99
- Flat Polygon Skin$0.99









