Bullet Hell Heroes vs Gigabull
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bullet Hell Heroes
Experience a challenging vertical scrolling shooter that blends classic arcade action with RPG elements. Choose from 25 unique heroes and master intricate bullet patterns to defeat over 100 enemy types and formidable bosses. Customize difficulty and enjoy endless replayability.
- 25 unique heroes with special abilities
- Adjustable difficulty modes
- Over 100 enemy types with complex patterns
- Boss battles with intricate bullet patterns
- Intuitive touch controls for movement and abilities
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Are you a tired unchallenging arcade space shooter and alien shooter games? Try Bullet Hell Heroes! It is a challenging, free, vertical scrolling shooting game that combines the best elements of Touhou, alien shooter, space shooting, Shmup and RPG games! Bullet Hell Heroes is a fantastic option if you're a fan of classic retro arcade shooting like space-shooter, airplane games or alien-shooter games. It is an excellent choice if you love vertical shooting games like of the STG and Shmup genre, or if you enjoy the unique style of Touhou games. Features: · It's not an easy space shooter or an unchallenging alien shooter. With no stamina limitations, you can keep challenging yourself until you conquer the game. · Play as one of 25 different heroes, each with unique abilities like jumping, time manipulation, and teleportation. · Tailor the difficulty to your liking with Easy, Normal, Hard, Maniac, and Lunatic modes, and face off against formidable bosses, memorizing intricate bullet patterns to emerge victorious. · Encounter over 100 types of enemies, including dragons, slimes, ghosts, and orcs, all with challenging bullet patterns. Playing bullet hell heroes is simple! · Move and shoot bullets by touching and dragging! · Touch the screen with another finger to activate special abilities!
Gigabull
Embark on a retro-style space shooter adventure synchronized to an original soundtrack. Reclaim sacred thumb drives containing songs from a debut album to defeat a nefarious villain and save your home planet.
- Retro-style pixel art
- Original soundtrack synchronization
- Bullet hell gameplay
- Space shooter adventure
- Planet reclamation mission
- Hand-crafted enemies and backgrounds
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Gigabull is unveiling one song/month from their debut album, Ox Send, each paired with a level in their video game. In this adventure, Gigabull, the band's namesake and the universe's most nefarious horned villain, has seized 10 sacred thumb drives. Each drive contains a piece of the cacophonous puzzle to defeat him: a song from the album. Your mission: reclaim them all. Take on the role of a G.N.A.R. (Gigabull Nebula Attack Reserve) pilot, fighting through the lunar system to reclaim your home planet from Gigabull. Become immersed in hand-crafted pixel art enemies and backgrounds synchronized to the original soundtrack. Become a legendary pilot in this retro-style, bullet hell space shooter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Gigabull at none against Bullet Hell Heroes's shown. Gigabull also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Bullet Hell Heroes's advantage is ratings volume (112 vs 32) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Bullet Hell Heroes sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Gigabull sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gigabull holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 112 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Bullet Hell Heroes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gigabull's.
Bullet Hell Heroes ships an update every 2 weeks, Gigabull weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bullet Hell Heroes | Gigabull |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (112 ratings) | 5.0 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Nanami Shindi | Gnarhard |
Customer experience
Bullet Hell Heroes
Gigabull
In-app purchases
Bullet Hell Heroes
- Andrius$1.99
- Gold!$1.99
- Fria$1.99
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- Serena$1.99
- Almant$1.99
- Erinoa$1.99
- Hero+12 variants$1.99
- Luliela$1.99
- Genba$1.99
- Elba$1.99
- Erase all ads$1.99
- Unlock all heroes$7.99
Gigabull
- Arcade Audio Mode$4.99
- Remove Revive Ads$4.99
- Ox Send$9.99
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