Comparison

Star Battle Go vs Orbit Gravity Runner

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

Head to head
About

Star Battle Go

Engage your logic and spatial reasoning with this app featuring star battle puzzles. Follow two simple rules to place stars correctly in rows, columns, and regions, avoiding any touching stars. Enjoy a vast collection of puzzles with helpful tools and a dark mode option.

Highlights
  • 150 free original puzzles
  • 3000 additional puzzles for purchase
  • Automatic progress saving
  • Dark mode support
  • In-app tutorial with tips
  • Error checking and real-time rule breaking alerts
  • Square coloring tool
Features
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Love Two Not Touch? Get thousands more. Love Queens? Try the bigger challenge. Star Battle Go is the first star battle app on iOS, and the only iOS app with genuine original puzzles by KrazyDad, the puzzle maker behind "Two Not Touch" in the New York Times daily puzzle section. Star Battle Go works like Queens, swapping crowns for stars. But with two stars per row, column, and region instead of one, the logic runs deeper and the puzzles get much harder. The rules are simple: • Each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars • No two stars can touch, including diagonally If you enjoy sudoku or KenKen, you'll love this challenging game of logic and skill. "My New Puzzle Obsession" – Will Shortz, New York Times (Dec 15, 2019) (Referring to "Two Not Touch," his name for star battle puzzles) Features: • 150 free, original star battle puzzles • 3,000 more puzzles available for purchase • Automatic progress saving • Dark mode! • Helpful in-app tutorial with lots of tips and strategies • Option to place x's around stars automatically • Square coloring tool to mark options or logic branches • Option to show rule-breaking errors in real time • Optional tool to check for current mistakes Feedback welcome (we also offer solving tips!) hello@summitstudio.com Happy solving!

About

Orbit Gravity Runner

Features
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Don't fall in. Don't drift out. One finger. Hold to thrust away from the star, release and gravity pulls you back. That is the entire control scheme — about ten seconds to learn, a very long time to master. The twist is that danger IS the reward. The closer you fly to the star, the more everything is worth. Skim the corona and orbs pay up to 12x. Play it safe out wide and they pay 1x. So every second is a greed decision. Nothing ever stops to ask "do you want to risk it?" — you answer that continuously, with your thumb. There are two ways to die and you are always about a second from both. Fall in and you burn up. Drift past the boundary and you are gone into the cold. The atmosphere drags at you the lower you fly, and it thickens the longer you survive, so a good run never settles into a rhythm. It gets harder while you are flying it. FEATURES • One-touch control. Hold, release, that is it. • A multiplier that scales with danger — up to 12x down on the deck • Skim bonuses that pay you the instant you take the risk, not later • A chain timer that rewards moving between altitudes instead of camping one • DAILY RUN — one seeded layout per day, identical for every player worldwide • Daily missions, and eight ship trails to unlock • Instant restart. No menus between attempts. Built for one hand, one thumb, and one more try.

Screenshots

Star Battle Go4 screens
Orbit Gravity Runner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbit Gravity Runner at none against Star Battle Go's 4. Star Battle Go's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Star Battle Go sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Orbit Gravity Runner asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Star Battle Go versus Orbit Gravity Runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStar Battle GoOrbit Gravity Runner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (168 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings168 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB78 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSummit Studio (CA)PATRICK JEFFREY COLVIS

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Star Battle Go

One-time4
  • 1000 Easy Puzzles$4.99
  • 1000 Hard Puzzles$4.99
  • 1000 Expert Puzzles$4.99
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  • Puzzle Mega Bundle$8.99
None

Orbit Gravity Runner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Star Battle Go free?
Star Battle Go is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Gravity Runner free?
Orbit Gravity Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Star Battle Go or Orbit Gravity Runner have ads?
Orbit Gravity Runner shows ads; Star Battle Go does not.

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