Hurricane Outbreak vs Solar System Sim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hurricane Outbreak
Simulate and grow a hurricane, navigating warm waters to gain abilities. Cause destruction in thousands of simulated cities across various regions. Experience realistic hurricane behavior with unique upgrades for a different gameplay experience each time.
- Hurricane growth simulation
- Skill and ability acquisition
- City destruction
- Thousands of simulated cities
- Realistic hurricane behavior
- Unique upgrades
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Grow your hurricane by navigating warm waters, acquire skills and abilities. Cause destruction and death in cities along the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and United States Eastern Sea Board regions. Features thousands of simulated cities, 22 unique upgrades and realistic hurricane behavior that will make every play through different. How much destruction can you cause?
Solar System Sim
Simulate and explore celestial bodies within our solar system and beyond. Create your own solar systems, experiment with gravity and physics, and observe orbital mechanics in action.
- Explore planets and moons
- Visit nearby stars
- Create custom solar systems
- Gravity and physics simulation
- Recalculate orbits
- Newton's laws implementation
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Zoom from a planet's surface out to distant galaxies, then reshape the whole system with your own hands. Solar System Sim is a real-time gravity sandbox built on Newton's laws and real astronomical data. Every body you add, move or destroy recalculates the orbits of everything else, live. • Smash worlds together: impact craters carve into the surface, firestorms sweep the globe, and glowing debris rains back down. • Build your own universe: add planets, moons, asteroids and comets with their own size, mass and looks, or customise the ones already there. • Land anywhere: drop to a first-person view on any planet's surface and experience its environment. • Sculpt rings: add particle rings and watch gravity shape them in real time. • Witness real eclipses: solar and lunar, with real-world astronomical precision. • Follow comets: watch them streak past and interact with the bodies they meet. • Leave the Solar System: travel to remarkable nearby stars and find them within the Milky Way. • Feel the scale: see the true vastness of space, from a pebble-sized moon to the nearest galaxies. Whether you're here to learn how gravity really works or just to break planets with it, explore at your own pace. Start your cosmic adventure with Solar System Sim.
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Verdict
Hurricane Outbreak and Solar System Sim both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Solar System Sim's written reviews are positive against 48% of Hurricane Outbreak's. Hurricane Outbreak's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Hurricane Outbreak sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Solar System Sim sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Hurricane Outbreak against 4.5 for Solar System Sim. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.7K and 4.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Hurricane Outbreak's written reviews are positive against 80% of Solar System Sim's.
Hurricane Outbreak ships an update every 9 days, Solar System Sim every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hurricane Outbreak | Solar System Sim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (3.7K ratings) | 4.5 (4.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.4% of reviews | 79.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K | 4.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 512 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nostrovia, LLC | WPC |
Customer experience
Hurricane Outbreak
Solar System Sim
User reviews
Hurricane Outbreak
From 3.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun game
- 🤪 Interesting concept
- 🥰 Enjoyable gameplay
- 🤖 Realistic hurricane simulation
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🤯 Overly difficult quests
- 🤔 Unclear objectives
- 💰 Excessive in-app purchases
- ⏱️ Slow turning and movement
Solar System Sim
From 4.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Realistic simulation
- 🚀 Detailed solar system
- 🚀 Ability to create custom solar systems
- 🚀 Impressive graphics
- 🚀 Frequent updates
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 💰 Excessive ads
- 🐛 Saving and loading issues
- 🐛 Unstable orbits
Bugs and requests
Hurricane Outbreak
Reported bugs
4 issues- Leech and land creature abilities not working
- Quests not registering progress correctly
- Upgrades not persisting after closing the app
- Incorrect city/country information on the map
Requested features
5 requests- Add more locations and continents
- Implement a true free play mode
- Allow customization of hurricanes
- Improve tutorial and instructions
- Provide an option to disable upgrades
Solar System Sim
Reported bugs
5 issues- Planets/moons disappearing after saving and loading
- Bright flashes and screen distortions
- Planets/objects getting stuck inside stars
- Crashes when colliding or editing certain objects
- Inconsistent orbital mechanics and moons ejecting from planets
Requested features
10 requests- Add more galaxy and nebula textures
- Implement realistic supernova effects
- Allow customization of planet atmospheres and terrain
- Add binary star systems and rogue planets
- Introduce a galaxy maker and collision feature
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- Implement a reverse time lapse option
- Add more speed options (128x, 256x, etc.)
- Introduce a population counter and life simulation for planets
- Allow custom city lights and vegetation on planets
- Add a Roche limit feature to observe tidal disruption
In-app purchases
Hurricane Outbreak
- 200 Point Booster$1.99
- Global Warming Scenario$2.99
- 500 Point Booster$2.99
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- Premium$4.99
Solar System Sim
- HD Mars$2.99
- HD Earth$2.99
- HD Moon$2.99
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- No-ads$3.99
- HD 3-body pack$6.99
Questions
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