Comparison

Day Repeat Day vs Star Survivor

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

Head to head
About

Day Repeat Day

Experience a life simulation through engaging match-3 puzzles. Navigate relationships, career choices, and existential questions in a satirical, interactive narrative. Discover the meaning of the daily grind and life's mysteries.

Highlights
  • Interactive life story
  • Match-3 puzzle gameplay
  • Relationship management
  • Career progression
  • Satirical narrative
  • Existential themes
Features
Currently charting
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Day Repeat Day is an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through the years in a life of an average person. You're hired to do a job. You try to manage your relationships. But you're never really sure where it's all leading to. It's a story about living, the daily grind and what it all means in the end, topped with a sprinkle of satire and mysteries. After doing a lot of action games, I wanted to do something much more intimate and personal and Day Repeat Day is what came of it. Press: - It takes some serious ingenuity to subvert a genre as entrenched as the mobile match-3 game, but somehow developer Kimmo Factor, probably most well-known for the awesome hack ‘n slash game Barbearian, has done exactly that - Game of the Week / Touch Arcade - It turns out to be much, much more than this, than either genre, a whole, complicated and unique creation, that speaks truth about life, about work, about hierarchies and about mistakes. It’s stunning. - Kotaku

About

Star Survivor

Engage in a sci-fi roguelike bullet-heaven experience where you pilot a lone ship against overwhelming alien swarms. Upgrade your vessel with a crafted deck of equipment and power-ups to survive endless waves and conquer challenging sectors. Test your reflexes in this intense offline action shoot'em up.

Highlights
  • Survive endless alien swarms
  • Upgrade ship with equipment and power-ups
  • Create unique builds each run
  • Select from multiple ships
  • Build and customize upgrade decks
  • Campaign adventure mode with sector conquest
Features
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SURVIVE the swarm in this rogue-lite + survivors + asteroids bullet heaven mashup! Exterminate as many space invaders and alien drones as you can. Upgrade your ship from the crafted deck of equipment and power-ups. You are the Last ship against the Endless... Will your choices be enough to overcome the thousands hunting you in this offline action shoot'em up game? 【One vs Thousands】 You are the last ship, survive the endless swarm with every overpowered weapon and upgrade the fleet has to offer. 【Slaughter the Endless with Unique Builds Every Run】 In this rogue-lite survival asteroids game, select from a variety of weapons and upgrades to create fun run-worthy, overpowered builds every run. Carefully control your ship with Newtonian physics past the swarm of thousands of enemies. Each kill will gain you resources to upgrade your vessel, unlock new ships, or stack the odds in your favor. 【Select Your Ship】 Choose from a selection of ships that offer a variety of unique gameplay experiences and equipment synergies. 【Build Your Deck】 Turn the odds in your favor with Challenge Mode. Unlock new cards each run, purchase, and add new cards to your deck that is drawn when you level up in combat. Upgrade them to increase your power and customize your upgrade deck for strategic builds. A space shooter twist to the randomness of rogue-lites. 【Choose Your Path】 In Campaign adventure mode, choose your path wisely and build your ship as you conquer each sector on your way to slay the Endless Queens in an epic space war. Immerse yourself in the thrilling arcade-style battle, and test your reflexes in this intense shooting game! 【Contact Us】 Discord:@Erabit or join via https://discord.gg/P6vekfhc46 Twitter:@erabit_studios Facebook:@Star Survivor Email:support@erabitstudios.com

Screenshots

Day Repeat Day4 screens
Star Survivor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Day Repeat Day at weekly against Star Survivor's fortnightly. Day Repeat Day also leads on chart position (#187 vs unranked). Star Survivor's advantage is ratings volume (189 vs 55) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Day Repeat Day costs $3.99 and Star Survivor $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Day Repeat Day against 4.6 for Star Survivor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 189 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Day Repeat Day's written reviews are positive against 73% of Star Survivor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Day Repeat Day ships an update weekly, Star Survivor fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Day Repeat Day versus Star Survivor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDay Repeat DayStar Survivor
Price$3.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.5 (55 ratings)4.6 (189 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews73.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55189 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#187 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size560 MB535 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKimmo Factor OyQI YU SG. PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

Day Repeat Day

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative23.3%

Star Survivor

All ratings187 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral5.3%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral16.8%
Negative9.7%

Bugs and requests

Day Repeat Day

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Star Survivor

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Game crashes around 23 minutes in fast mode or 1 hour in regular mode
  • Controller support broken in gameplay (only works in menus)
  • iPad Pro screen shifts 1/2 inch lower, cutting off bottom
  • Magic Keyboard triggers text entry in shop menus
  • Upgrades don't apply unless app is restarted
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  • Sound levels inconsistent (deafening or inaudible)
  • Meteorites spawn directly on player location causing instant death
  • Screen visibility issues with dark backgrounds
  • Enemy AOE attacks are too faint to see
  • Missile and fire build effects obscure visibility
  • Level-up menu distracting and causes deaths
  • Xbox controller doesn't respond for movement
  • View Items button easy to press accidentally during stage completion

Requested features

14 requests
  • Full controller support with analog stick movement
  • Additional ships beyond the first one
  • Colorblind mode for better visibility
  • Longer campaign or campaign length options
  • Endless mode with proper deck building
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  • Weapon combo reference page
  • Moveable and resizable joystick and buttons
  • Improved visual contrast for enemies and asteroids
  • More weapon options in level-up cards
  • Manual weapon firing controls
  • Faster experience pickup mechanics
  • Larger virtual joystick size
  • Graphics settings to reduce battery drain
  • Better explanations of game mechanics and upgrades

In-app purchases

None

Day Repeat Day

No in-app purchases

None

Star Survivor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Day Repeat Day free?
Day Repeat Day costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Star Survivor free?
Star Survivor costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Day Repeat Day or Star Survivor?
Star Survivor is rated higher. Day Repeat Day averages 4.5 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Star Survivor averages 4.6 from 189 ratings.
Do Day Repeat Day or Star Survivor have ads?
Neither Day Repeat Day nor Star Survivor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Day Repeat Day or Star Survivor?
Day Repeat Day ships an update weekly, and Star Survivor fortnightly. Most recently, Day Repeat Day was updated on November 3, 2026 and Star Survivor on November 7, 2026.

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