Faily Rocketman vs Build Your Rocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Faily Rocketman
Pilot a homemade rocket on an ambitious journey to the moon. Navigate through atmospheric hazards and space debris, upgrading your vehicle to survive increasingly challenging obstacles. Experience physics-based gameplay with hilarious ragdoll crashes.
- Physics-based endless runner gameplay
- Navigate atmospheric and space debris
- 12+ upgradeable rockets
- Rocket armor, fuel, steering, and engine upgrades
- In-game pickups like fuel, lasers, and shields
- Epic crashes and ragdoll physics
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Can you make it all the way to the Moon?? "Faily Rocketman is the latest game in the hit Faily series from the developers of No 1 smash hit Faily Brakes! It’s the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and Phil Faily has decided to leave his mark on human space travel! Undeterred by his complete lack of skills or qualifications, Phil is building Space Rockets in his back yard and testing them himself! Houston, we have a problem! In this physics-based endless runner you need to maneuver the rocket as it climbs higher and higher in altitude, breaking through a debris field of crazy birds, storm clouds, planes, helicopters, hang gliders and hot air balloons. Eventually blasting into space, the rocket will need to avoid space debris, satellites, asteroids and meteors and even UFO’s! Ground control to Major Phil! Come in Phil! Features include: Animated sky and space scenery with hilarious flying items and space junk 12+ Upgradeable rockets Upgrade your rocket armor, fuel, steering assistance and engine thrust. Pickups to improve your play including Fuel, Lazers and shields Epic crashes and the usual crazy rag doll action Faily style".
Build Your Rocket
Design and construct your own powerful rocket with optimal fuel and speed. Launch into space to explore distant planets, achieve higher scores, and unlock new levels in this interstellar adventure.
- Build custom rockets
- Manage fuel and speed
- Explore different planets
- Unlock new levels
- Compete for high scores
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Who doesn't want to reach other planets? Speed and fly away by building your rocket! Build a rocket with power, fuel, and speed to make it the most powerful of all. Start and fly to the farthest planets and reach to end of the galaxy if you can! The higher you go with your rocket to different planets, the better you score and reach new levels. Beat your competition and fly to all planets before they do! The score goes up high as your rocket reaches new heights in the galaxy. Do you see Mars? Accelerate and score! Features: - Build your own powerful rocket - Fuel and speed up - Reach different planets! - Unlock new levels
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Build Your Rocket at none against Faily Rocketman's 10. Build Your Rocket also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Faily Rocketman's advantage is review sentiment (26% vs 0%) and ratings volume (443 vs 84). On price, ads, 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. Faily Rocketman sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Build Your Rocket asks for nothing beyond the download.
Build Your Rocket holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Faily Rocketman has 443 ratings behind it against 84, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of Faily Rocketman's written reviews are positive against 0% of Build Your Rocket's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Faily Rocketman ships an update monthly, Build Your Rocket fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Faily Rocketman | Build Your Rocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (443 ratings) | 4.8 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 443 — better | 84 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spunge Games Pty Ltd | Clap Clap Games |
Customer experience
Faily Rocketman
Build Your Rocket
Bugs and requests
Faily Rocketman
Reported bugs
3 issues- Sound issues with echoes and distortion
- Controls not responsive at times
- Compatibility problems with newer device versions
Requested features
3 requests- More varied and challenging levels
- Ability to play in first-person view
- Clearer progression and end-game content
Build Your Rocket
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Faily Rocketman
- Small Coin Pack$1.99
- The Frizzle$1.99
- Baaaby$1.99
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- The Ringo$1.99
- Coin Doubler$2.99
- Regular Coin Pack$2.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- Big Coin Pack$3.99
- The Murica$3.99
- Bigger Coin Pack$5.99
Build Your Rocket
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Faily Rocketman free?
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