Comparison

Asteroid Storms vs Emergent

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Tap-to-destroy gameplay
  • Orbital satellite defense system
  • Upgrade system for defenses
  • Unlock special weapons
  • Collect power-ups
  • Boss battles
  • Combo system
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Asteroid Storms4 screens
Emergent4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Asteroid Storms ships an update monthly, Emergent every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Asteroid Storms versus Emergent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsteroid StormsEmergent
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size229 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTwo Joes GamingJoseph Smith

Customer experience

Asteroid Storms

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Emergent

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Asteroid Storms

One-time4
  • 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
1 purchases

Emergent

One-time1
  • 10,000 Gold$0.99

Questions

Is Asteroid Storms free?
Asteroid Storms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Emergent free?
Emergent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Asteroid Storms or Emergent?
Emergent is rated higher. Asteroid Storms averages 4.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Emergent averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Asteroid Storms or Emergent have ads?
Neither Asteroid Storms nor Emergent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Asteroid Storms or Emergent?
Asteroid Storms ships an update monthly, and Emergent every 3 days. Most recently, Asteroid Storms was updated on June 4, 2026 and Emergent on September 12, 2026.

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