Core Crasher vs AfterBurn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Core Crasher
Defend your Crystal Core from waves of alien attackers using a powerful arm cannon. Enhance your weapon with energy and survive as long as possible in this action-arcade combat game.
- Arcade-style defense gameplay
- Defend Crystal Core
- Fight hoards of aliens
- Use powerful arm cannon
- Enhance weapon with energy
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Defend your Crystal Core from hoards of vicious aliens in Core Crasher, an exciting, arcade-style defense game. Use your powerful arm cannon to blow away foes coming from all sides in a game perfect for those who love action-arcade combat. - Use a powerful arm cannon to defeat foes - Fend off a hoard of hostile aliens - Enhance your weapon with crackling energy - Defend your Crystal Core as long as possible Core Crasher is waiting for you to join the defense and blast away your enemies.
AfterBurn
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Two thumbs. One rocket. An endless climb. Afterburn is a neon physics climber built around one simple, brutal skill: flying a real rocket with two thumbs. The left and right sides of your screen each fire a thruster. Hold both to lift straight off the floor; ease off one to tilt and steer. No autopilot, no second chances — just you, gravity, and a tower of landing pads stretching up into a synthwave sky. HOW IT WORKS • Touch the left and right of the screen to fire each thruster independently. • Lift off, climb, and set down gently and upright on the next platform. • A clean landing refuels your tank and pays out points — then the next pad appears higher up. • Burn fuel to fly; land with fuel to spare for a bigger bonus. • Come in too fast, too tilted, or run the tank dry, and your rocket goes up in a shower of debris. EVERY LANDING COUNTS Each pad you reach is worth 1,000 points, plus up to 1,000 more for the fuel still in your tank. The cleaner and more efficient your flight, the higher your score. The climb never ends — how far up can you get before one bad touchdown ends the run? CLIMB YOUR CITY UP THE RANKS Every run is automatically posted to a five-tier leaderboard — your city, region, country, continent, and the whole world. See exactly where you stand locally and globally, search any city to scope out the competition, and fight to put your hometown on top. FEATURES • Pure two-thumb, differential-thrust controls — easy to grasp, hard to master • Real SpriteKit physics: momentum, tilt, bounce, and tumbling debris • An endless vertical climb with pads that shrink as the stakes rise • Worldwide-to-city geo leaderboards • A hand-tuned synthwave look: neon grids, a chrome sun, a glowing HUD • Fuel management, satisfying landings, and explosive failure • No ads. No in-app purchases. Just the climb. Fire up. Climb high. Land clean. Afterburn.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Core Crasher at none against AfterBurn's 1. Core Crasher also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). AfterBurn's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 9 months). On price 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. AfterBurn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Core Crasher asks for nothing beyond the download.
Core Crasher ships an update every 9 months, AfterBurn every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core Crasher | AfterBurn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (21 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adknown | Carlos Andre Rodrigues |
In-app purchases
Core Crasher
No in-app purchases
AfterBurn
- Remove ads$1.99









