Polygon Wars vs Void Drifter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polygon Wars
Engage in a retro-style arcade twin-stick shooter. Navigate your ship, blast enemies, and upgrade your arsenal. Compete for high scores and unlock achievements.
- Twin-stick shooter gameplay
- On-screen controls
- External controller support
- In-game shop for upgrades
- Game Center leaderboards
- 16 unlockable achievements
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Enemies come in all shapes and sizes in Polygon Wars! Polygon Wars is an arcade twin stick shooter with a retro feeling. Use the on screen controls, or connect an external controller to move around and shoot your opponents. How to control your ship is up to you. Get a speed boost or weapons upgrade from the shop to help you reach new heights! Compete with your friends for the highest score with the Game Center leaderboard. Earn up to 16 different achievement, can you collect them all? The game is in active development, and will receive updates on a regular basis Keep coming back for new features! Songs: “Open Sore” (menu), “Final lap” (game time), "Phobos" (at boss time) Music provided and produced by LonePeakMusic
Void Drifter
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One thumb. One ship. One hundred sectors of hostile void. VOID DRIFTER is a neon space survivor: drag anywhere to fly and your ship fires on its own. Release your thumb and time dilates while you drift — thread the swarm, line up the next move. EVERY RUN MAKES YOU STRONGER Enemies drop energy shards. Shards become level-ups. Level-ups become builds: split cannons, piercing rounds, orbital drones, tractor fields. Max out a matching pair and it EVOLVES — the Nova Lance that carves the whole screen, the Plasma Storm that detonates around you, the Drone Swarm, the Aegis Field. Every 30 seconds you are meaner than you were. A CAMPAIGN WITH A BOTTOM The void is 100 sectors deep, split into ten biomes — the Crimson Nebula, the Verdant Drift, Cobalt Deep, all the way down to The Singularity. Every tenth sector is guarded by a named warden. Kill it, and choose: extract with your haul, or push deeper and risk it all. Greed is a strategy. So is dying. BREACH. REFIT. REDEPLOY. Breaching a gate saves your exact build as a checkpoint — deploy straight back to the frontier next run. Spend salvage in the hangar on 25 levels of permanent ship systems and new hulls. The campaign fuels the hangar; the hangar cracks the campaign. HONEST BY DESIGN • No ads. None. • No consumables, no currencies to buy, no energy timers. • Sectors 1–20 free forever. One single purchase unlocks the full campaign. • Offline from takeoff — no account, no tracking, nothing collected. • Haptics, reduced-effects mode, and one-handed play built in. Runs are 10–15 minutes. Sessions end when you say so — pause anytime, abandon a run and keep most of your haul. The void will be here. How deep will you drift?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Polygon Wars at none against Void Drifter's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Void Drifter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Polygon Wars asks for nothing beyond the download.
Polygon Wars ships an update every 10 days, Void Drifter fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polygon Wars | Void Drifter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Wesley Jacobs | Thomas Lynghøj |
In-app purchases
Polygon Wars
No in-app purchases
Void Drifter
- Full Campaign$4.99
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