Asteroid Storms vs Emergent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Asteroid Storms
Defend Earth from an endless barrage of asteroids by tapping to destroy them. Deploy laser satellites, upgrade your defenses, and unlock powerful weapons to protect humanity. Face massive boss asteroids and collect power-ups to survive.
- Tap-to-destroy gameplay
- Orbital satellite defense system
- Upgrade system for defenses
- Unlock special weapons
- Collect power-ups
- Boss battles
- Combo system
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Defend Earth from an endless onslaught of asteroids in this addictive space defense game! Tap to destroy incoming meteors before they strike our planet. Build an orbiting fleet of laser satellites, upgrade your defenses, and unlock powerful weapons to protect humanity. FEATURES: • Tap-to-destroy gameplay - Simple but satisfying combat • Orbital satellite defense system - Deploy laser satellites that auto-target enemies • Upgrade system - Improve tap damage, satellite power, range, and speed • Special weapons - Missiles, spaceships, and devastating lasers • Power-ups - Collect shields, damage boosts, slow-time, and more • Boss battles - Face massive asteroids every 10 levels • Combo system - Chain kills for bonus damage and credits • 20+ Achievements - Track your progress and earn rewards • Endless progression - How far can you defend Earth? Earth's fate is in your hands. Download now and become the ultimate Planet Defender!
Emergent
Shape barren worlds with hyper-realistic fluid and particle simulations. Terraform landscapes, create ecosystems, and mine resources to power your connection to other players' realities. Balance creation and destruction to keep planetary hearts beating.
- Hyper-realistic fluid and particle simulation
- Terraform mountains and carve rivers
- Paint life onto barren worlds
- Remote viewing of other players' realities
- Send and receive gold with other players
- Mine resources to maintain connection
- 10 unique explorable worlds
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Your planet is your canvas. Sculpt a living world like clay. Raise mountains with a finger, flood the seas, and let rivers dig gold out of the rock. Where the water goes, life follows — and evolves to fit the world you made. Other players' planets orbit alongside yours. Visit them. Chat with whoever's home. Send gold in an envelope that isn't anyone's until it's opened. WHAT YOU DO • Sculpt terrain in real time — one finger raises land, two fingers fly • Seed life and watch it spread, species by species • Mine gold. Every gram costs the world something. • Fly satellites — 107 of them — that steer weather, growth, and fortune • Gamble at the Cosmic Arcade: slots, blackjack, carts, snow tubes • Top the leaderboard by wealth, or by how much life your world holds Your world keeps living while you're away. Rivers flow, ore returns, and eleven planets wait in the dark. One account, every screen. Start on your phone, continue in any browser at emergent-d.com. Same world, same wallet, same friends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Emergent at 5.0 against Asteroid Storms's 4.5. Emergent also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Asteroid Storms's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Asteroid Storms sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Emergent sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Emergent holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Asteroid Storms has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Asteroid Storms ships an update monthly, Emergent every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Asteroid Storms | Emergent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 229 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Two Joes Gaming | Joseph Smith |
Customer experience
Asteroid Storms
Emergent
In-app purchases
Asteroid Storms
- 10,000 Credits$0.99
- 50,000 Credit$2.99
- 250,000 Credits$4.99
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- 1,000,000 Credits$9.99
Emergent
- 10,000 Gold$0.99







