Wind Wings (Premium) vs Apex Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wind Wings (Premium)
Engage in thrilling space combat as a soldier transported to the future. Pilot powerful warships, battle alien monsters, and protect Earth in this immersive shoot 'em up experience. Upgrade your aircraft and customize your fleet to overcome challenging missions across the galaxy.
- Futuristic space combat adventure
- Pilot multiple unique aircraft
- Battle diverse alien monsters
- Upgrade and customize warships
- Assistants to boost combat ability
- Diverse missions and rewards
- Immersive visuals and sound
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Wind Wings: Space shooter, Galaxy attack (Premium) is the advanced version of free one. Players will have more experience. At the same time, players will be awarded items as bellow: • Free Premium package • Free Trooper craft. • Premium Version without advertisement. ADVENTURE STORY: The game is developed based on a fantasy story about a soldier who accidentally went through a time gap to the future. In the future, people have developed to an advanced level of science and technology and began searching for distant planets in space. They created many modern and powerful warships to fulfill that dream. The soldier once again joins the army to join the journey to find the promise land and their fleet encounters many warlike monsters in space. They not only attacked spaceships but also headed straight to invade the earth. In the face of that tense situation, the commander ordered the soldier to come to fight against enemy’s attacks. A real war has begun. You will play the soldier who takes control of the entire spaceship, protects the earth and leads other space scrafts. Destroy and break the enemy's plans. Wind Wings: Space shooter, Galaxy attack (Premium) is a shoot’em up game genre with many new and modern improvements with lots of impressive points. - Players will bring two types of aircrafts into battle, each has a unique property. Players will use suitable aircraft from time to time. - Many types of monsters are sophisticatedly designed with different types of attacks. - Many rounds are constantly updated with many different challenges for players to experience. - Many warships, each has a different design and use of a different type of ammunition. Players can optionally customize and combine. - Besides the main spaceship, there are 2 assistants to increase the combat ability. - Upgrade your attack power, aircraft speed with Laser missiles, mega-boms and magnets. - The game has a good balance of difficulty, suitable for both beginners and hardcore gamers. - Many support equipment to help aircraft increase combat ability. - Diverse tasks and attractive rewards - Diversify the map from the earth to remote places in the universe. - Images and sounds combined harmoniously will give players a great experience. HOW TO PLAY: - Touch the screen and move to avoid enemy’s attacks, shoot back and destroy them. - Click to change the aircraft in accordance with each type of enemy. - Collect bullets and equipment to upgrade the aircraft. - Use support features during an emergency or when facing strong enemies.
Apex Drift
Experience a neon-geometry roguelite shooter where your ship auto-fires, allowing you to focus on dodging and strategic upgrades. Navigate through hundreds of stages across five sectors, facing challenging bosses and collecting unique build combinations. Save your progress at every stage and continue your run later.
- Auto-fire combat
- 15 in-run upgrades
- 100 stages across five sectors
- Ten multi-form bosses
- Two retries per sector
- Save progress at every stage
- 9 unlockable ships
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Apex Drift - a neon-geometry roguelite shooter. Fly the Triangle and drift through a hostile cosmos toward the Apex. Five sectors. 100 stages. Ten bosses. Hundreds of build combinations. Your ship fires itself. Everything else is you - where you move, what you dodge, and which upgrade you keep when the game offers three and lets you take one. THE RUN • Auto-fire combat - focus entirely on movement, dodging and positioning • 15 in-run upgrades: Spread, Multishot, Piercing, Bouncing, Homing, Orbital Shards, Phase Dash and more • Every run draws a different hand. No two builds play the same. THE CAMPAIGN • 100 stages across five sectors, each with its own hazards and escalation • Ten bosses - one every tenth stage - transform through three forms as you break them down • Drifting asteroid fields, splitting hazards and elite waves • Per-sector mastery with 3-star ratings ONE MISTAKE WON'T COST YOU AN HOUR • Two retries per sector, each with a head start scaled to how deep you'd got • Your run saves at every stage — close the app mid-fight, come back tomorrow, and CONTINUE returns you with your level, your build and your hull intact BETWEEN RUNS • 9 ships - 6 standard hulls plus 3 Prime hulls with exclusive weapons • A permanent Armory that carries across every run • Earn a pilot rank from what you actually build - Pro Pilot, Veteran Defender, Elite Gunner, Legend Compete on Game Center leaderboards - global, friends and weekly. Earn achievements. Chase the Apex. Designed for one-handed portrait play. No ads. No energy timers. No forced waits. Optional purchases available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Wind Wings (Premium) at 43 against Apex Drift's 1. Wind Wings (Premium) also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Apex Drift's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Wind Wings (Premium) sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Apex Drift sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wind Wings (Premium) holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wind Wings (Premium) has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Wind Wings (Premium) ships an update every 2 months, Apex Drift fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wind Wings (Premium) | Apex Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (43 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 244 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gcenter | Veratus Group Limited |
Customer experience
Wind Wings (Premium)
Apex Drift
In-app purchases
Wind Wings (Premium)
- DISCOVERY PACKAGE$0.99
- GCOIN X20$0.99
- BEGINNER PACK$1.99
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- Special Pack 3$2.99
- BATTLE PASS$4.99
- BOSS VICTORY$4.99
- COMBO$4.99
- GEM 3650$7.99
- GALAXY VICTORY$9.99
- NEW BATTLE PASS$9.99
Apex Drift
- XP Pack — Small$0.99
- Vanguard — Rail Lance Ship$2.99
- Tempest — Plasma Storm Ship$3.99
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- XP Pack - Medium$4.99
- Seraph — Swarm Hive Ship$4.99
- XP Pack - Large$9.99
- Zeus Cannon$9.99
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