Gimme Space vs Rats N' Lasers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gimme Space
Pilot a spaceship through increasingly challenging rounds of space debris. Upgrade your ship's health, speed, and reload capabilities, and collect power-ups for temporary boosts. Enjoy cooperative multiplayer with friends via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
- Survive space debris
- Upgrade ship stats
- Collect power-ups
- On-device multiplayer
- Bluetooth multiplayer
- Wi-Fi multiplayer
- Game Center leaderboards
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Survive in Space! You're the pilot of a spaceship deep in outer space. But space is a dangerous place! Can you keep your ship in one piece as it is pummeled by comets, meteors, rockets, and more through progressively harder rounds? Upgrade your ship! Shoot obstacles to gain "Upgrade Power," which can be spent on increasing your spaceship's health, reload, or speed. Grab Power Ups! Find these powerful objects deep in space that give your spaceship unique boosts and force fields! Play with Friends! Find a buddy to play with through on-device, Bluetooth, or Wifi multiplayer! Work together to see how long you can last! Compare your top scores with others' on Game Center! Send challenges to show your superiority! Gimme Space was built by a 17-year old High Schooler and his father.
Rats N' Lasers
Navigate a deadly laboratory as a rat, dodging lasers and breaking crates. Use powerups and collect cheese to escape increasingly difficult experiments. Test your reflexes and see how far you can go in this challenging arcade game.
- Dodge lasers
- Break crates
- Use powerups
- Collect cheese
- Escape laboratory
- Increasing difficulty
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In Rats N' Lasers, you are a rat trapped in a series of experiments by a group of mad scientists! Outsmart them by dodging lasers, breaking crates and using powerups to escape this deadly laboratory! Collect as much cheese as you can and swipe your way through increasingly harder tests! How far can you go? Download Rats N' Lasers to find out!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gimme Space at none against Rats N' Lasers's 6. Rats N' Lasers's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 38 months). On price, review sentiment, 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. Rats N' Lasers sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Gimme Space asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rats N' Lasers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Gimme Space ships an update every 38 months, Rats N' Lasers every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gimme Space | Rats N' Lasers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | MangumLabs LLC | Studios Sketchy Coin Inc |
Customer experience
Gimme Space
Rats N' Lasers
In-app purchases
Gimme Space
No in-app purchases
Rats N' Lasers
- 10 Ratbucks$0.99
- 60 Ratbucks!$2.99
- Remove ads!$3.99
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- 130 Ratbucks!$4.99
- 210 Ratbucks!$7.99
- 300 Ratbucks!$10.99
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